Unclear but may have
been something like the following:
SUSPECT DEVICE; JUST
FADE AWAY; LOVE
OF THE COMMON PEOPLE; FOUGHT
THE WAR; MR
FIRE COAL MAN; TWO
GUITARS CLASH; SILVER
LINING; BITS
OF KIDS; PRICE
OF ADMISSION; JOHNNY
WAS; FALLING
DOWN; BARBED
WIRE LOVE; ONLY
ONE; LISTEN; AT
THE EDGE; FLY
THE FLAG; GOTTA
GETTAWAY; ALTERNATIVE
ULSTER; 2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY (with Tom Robinson)
band line up
Stiff
Little Fingers/Wingnuts
Jake Burns (vocs/guitar) Ali McMordie
(bass) Henry Cluney (guitar)
Dolphin Taylor (drums)
Roddy
Radiation and the Tearjerkers
Roddy Byers (vocs/guitar) Mark Byers (vocs/guitar) Joe Hughes (bass) Pete
Davies (drums) Clive Pain (keys)
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gig poster and flyer (click to
enlarge flyer)
ticket
memories
Jake Burns in conversation
with Alan Parker in 2001 on recording Hanx at Friars Aylesbury
Friars was a wonderful
wonderful venue. I still have incredibly fond memories of the place.
It was one of those magical small gigs in a small town yet it was
run as if it was Madison Square Gardens. Nothing ever went wrong and
everything ran incredibly smoothly. They were such nice people
and on the Wingnuts.....
They (Friars) were such trusting
people...[we had bought some plastic masks].....we managed to
convince them we were a band from Ohio called the Wingnuts and we went on and
supported ourselves ! It was only when we started playing nonsense like
Tiger Feet that the audience realised who we were and stopped throwing
stuff at us!"
Autographed SLF flyer
from this gig
press
cuttings
what
happened next
if ever a band would be
welcome at Friars today, it must be this band and they came 'home' to Friars in
2009.
SLF split in 1983 and
reformed five years later. Although the line up has not always been stable
- Burns the only constant, they did feature Jam hero Bruce Foxton for 15
years. Ali McMordie rejoined the band in 2006 (when we saw them and they
were on cracking form as if it was this era all over again) and are still
making people of a certain age very happy in 2012. We were SO pleased they
came back 27 years later in 2009 and sold out Friars yet again.
It was no surprise that the
Hanx album was recorded at Friars given how much they felt about the
place.
Roddy Radiation's Tearjerkers split by 1987,
but now plays in Skabilly Rebels as well as a reformed Specials
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