Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device [7” RARE] SRD-1

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$ 115

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Aug 26, 2009 Sold Date

Aug 19, 2009 Start Date

£ 50 Start price

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Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device [7” RARE Single] (Rigid Digits SRD-1)

Stiff Little Fingers' music has resonated for some 25-plus years because their songs meld personal experience with political ire. The members of Stiff Little Fingers, Jake Burns, Henry Cluney, Gordon Blaire (replaced by Ali McMordie) and Brian Faloon, hail from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They were a New Wave cover band called Highway Star until one fateful night when they saw the Clash play live. Taking their name from a Vibrators' song, the band reinvented itself as Stiff Little Fingers and started doing punk covers. Journalist Gordon Ogilvie saw them perform live one night and liked what he heard enough to approach Burns. Ogilvie encouraged the band to write original material and Burns took the advice to heart, penning "Suspect Device" and "Wasted Life" in the days that followed. Ogilvie helped the band start their own label, Rigid Digits and together, they pressed up 500 copies of the single, one of which went to legendary British DJ, John Peel. Peel played the single every night on his BBC Radio 1 show and the demand for it grew so profoundly that Rough Trade stepped in to distribute it.

Side A: Suspect Device

Side B: Wasted Life

The vinyl is in excellent condition with the catalogue number on the right. I believe that this is one of the original hand made picture sleeves as it is one piece of paper, folded at the bottom and the wings cut roughly (inside edges) and stuck together leaving an inner ‘flap’ on either side. It is in very good condition with a bit of wear to the open edge and the white is starting to tan with age.

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