Inflammable Material

LPA ORIGINAL ALBUM

1. Suspect Device 
2. State Of Emergency 
3. Here We Are Nowhere 
4. Wasted Life 
5. No More Of That 
6. Barbed Wire Love 
7. White Noise 
8. Breakout

LPB ORIGINAL ALBUM

1. Law & Order 
2. Rough Trade 
3. Johnny Was 
4. Alternative Ulster 
5. Closed Groove

LPC LIVE ALBUM TROON MAY 1979

1. You Can't Say Crap On the Radio
2. At the Edge
3. Johnny Was
4. Suspect Device
5. Nobody's Hero

LPD LIVE ALBUM TROON MAY 1979

1. No Change
2. No More of That
3. Gotta Gettaway
4. Rough Trade
5. Wait and See
6. Breakout
7. Straw Dogs
8. Wasted Life

Stiff Little Fingers iconic debut ‘Inflammable Material’ was one of the most important records of its era. Originally released in 1979 at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the album depicted volatile life in Belfast at the time and was met with critical acclaim.

These reissues can be pre-ordered now and comes in three formats:

The Five-CD set contains full discs of the original album, unreleased demos, an unreleased live performance from Troon in 1979 and BBC performances. There is an unreleased Rough Trade promo video from 1979 and an unreleased version of the track ‘Alternative Ulster’. Plus an interview from October 1978 originally from the film Shellshock Rock and a performance from The Old Gray Whistle Test from Friars in May 1979. Accompanying the music is rare memorabilia and photos and new liner notes from legendary journalist Stuart Baillie.

The double-LP and double-CD sets include the original album and the unreleased Troon 1979 performance with the latter containing rare images.

Formed in Belfast in 1977 at the height of The Troubles. Jake Burns, Henry Cluney, Brian Faloon were originally in a rock covers band before the rise of punk began to have an influence on them! With a change of direction, Ali McMordie joined them and they became Stiff Little Fingers and started to write their own material. Jake Burns would later go on and credit The Clash as “... giving me the confidence, through its lyrical subject matter, to realise it was OK to write about my own life and experiences."

The bands first single ‘Suspect Device’ was recorded in a radio jingles studio in early 1978, they initially released it on their own record label Rigid Digits and after support from John Peel on BBC Radio 1, they re-released it a month later with the support of Rough Trade and sold over 30,000 copies.

‘Inflammable Material’ was released in February 1979 through Rough Trade and it reached number 14 becoming the first independently released album to chart in the UK. It was met with critical acclaim with NME calling it “... the classic punk rock record” and Sounds saying it is "... a magnificent slice of vintage punk played fast and frantic, and loaded with powerful lyrics” and giving it 5/5. Rolling Stone and Q Magazine would also give it 4/5.

In just two years, Stiff Little Fingers had become one of the most exciting bands in the UK and Ireland with an uncompromising reputation that riled some but ultimately found them legions of fans. ‘Inflammable Material’ is now regarded as a seminal punk classic as important and influential as records such as The Clash’s and The Ramones self-titled debuts, ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ or ‘Raw Power’ by Iggy And The Stooges.