Talk:Stiff Little Fingers

message: I'm a big fan of Hiberno-English, and in fact, use it myself.  But I just had to say, I've never seen the phrase 'cos they were skint' in a Wikipedia article before.
Patrickbelton 13:45, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skinto 

message: What inspired them to write Alternative Ulster? I was in a nightclub tonight and it was being played, and what a great, great song it still is.
alternative ulster was inspired by the riots in norh ireland in belfest where they are from.
:hence "there's nothing for us in belfest","take alook where your liven' you got the army on the street, and dog of opression is barkin' at your feet" "ignore the bores and their laws" " be an anti-security force" "they say their a part of you but thats not true you know,they say they got control of you and thats a lie you know, they say you will never be free,free,free!" J.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.191.96.3 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have evidence to this effect?  The article for "Alternative Ulster" (the magazine) say the name of the magazine comes from the song, which seems to contradict the above.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.125.60 (talk) 16:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative Ulster

message: OK, so there's now a link to the Bruce Foxton bio where the 'banned in Britain' quote was taken from. In fact the exact phrase crops up all over the Internet. But it still doesn't give any clue what it means. Who banned it? Can you be arrested for owning a copy? In my experience, 'banned in Britain' is just a sensationalized way of saying 'not on Radio 1's playlist'. Grant 00:54, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Beirut Moon

message: regardless of record covers, is the common usage "the stiff little fingers" or just "stiff little fingers"? 67.172.61.222 22:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely not "The..."  Just "Stiff Little Fingers" or "SLF".  I had a school friend who used to refer to them as "Stiff", but he didn't like them much.  Devilgate 09:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  As Devilgate says definately not "The...", the name I've heard most often used is simply "Fingers". Jcuk (forgot to sign in---again!)88.107.128.123 09:28, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  the? 

message: Some of the apparently 'associated' acts in the Infobox are confusing me. Can anyone explain the inclusion of the following: Three days Later; The Trial; Johnny Cash; Larry Crane; Willie Nelson; George Porter? The  Infobox template gives the rational for inclusion of associated acts as "Acts from which this act spun off; acts which spun off a group act; groups with which an artist performs; other acts with which the act is associated." If no relevant link can be  found for these acts (and there are a few others that I've never heard of or which don't have internal links who may also be equally irrelevant) then shouldn't they be removed? Kevin Boyd 22:28, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Associated Acts?

message: Does anyone think "hardcore punk" is more accurate for their genre than "punk rock"? Tezkag72 20:30, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hardcore punk 

message: I've made the page for the live album Pure Fingers and I've posted on the talk page there that the sleeve notes for the album don't mention that it was released in 1995, only that it was copyrighted in 2001. Where did the release date of 1995 come from?--NotoriousTF (talk) 15:39, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pure Fingers

message: Given that most of their songs (or a lot anyway, most of the ones I've heard) have a political element, it would be interesting to add something about the inspiration for some of them (where there are reliable citations, of course).  For example, "Fly the Flag" seems to be condemning Thatcherite, take-what-you-can-get, 'I'm alright Jack', 80's culture.  Where as "Each Dollar a Bullet" deplores support for the IRA in the US (not the US government, just generally) it seems.  "Tin Soldiers" seems to be telling a story about young recruits joining the army (British, I assume) believing they were signing up, aged 17, for 3 years service, when in fact they were signing up for 5 years: "but they didn't tell him that the first two didn't count".  Does anyone know what the story behind this song is? 81.156.125.60 (talk) 16:10, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Explanation of the meaning of the songs

message: Why isn't this mentioned?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.146.159.187 (talk) 19:40, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention of band in high fidelity as inspiration of green day 

message: When did Gordon Ogilvie stop working with the band? --John (talk) 11:30, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ogilvie