Stiff Little Fingers - Gotta Getaway

Stiff Little Fingers - Gotta Getaway

[@1098sdaz]

SLF made my youth a better place to be. Every bus stop, every bottle of cider, every pair of martains, every bike jacket and every girlfriend. It was good being 15 years old.

[@1098sdaz]

Fukk me, 54 years old and just bumped into this 8 years down the line. We get old quick.

[@bemorecheetah]

You should write songs

[@rodinvanleuteren1868]

Same here in Holland, 3 bands in a weekend, shit wanna be young

[@endless2804]

@@1098sdaz ditto...

[@steve261brown]

Agree with that bloody great band.

[@iamspartacus6713]

when Jake was at his brilliant best,raw vocals,amazing guitar playing and lively on stage!

[@evelynmcadam7669]

Irelands greatest band ever by a mile

[@howdydeloo2112]

Damn right

[@conallmartin1452]

thin lizzy is up there

[@charliecroker6445]

Thats a bold statement

[@graemepirie5977]

It's hard to choose a favorite slf song because they are all equally brilliant

[@thewatcher7267]

Jim Reilly is an exceptional punk drummer. These lads are easily in Top 10 bands of the genre. Jake Burns voice was made for Punk.

[@SimonS_94]

Man, i just love Jake's singing. It really feels like it's coming from the heart. In my opinion one of the best (if not the best) frontman of punk ever.

[@timothymccormack1937]

ratatatata500

[@peterrbetts]

Your right Jake is up there with the best

[@lilibombin6667]

100% . You don’t get many singers like Jake these days , gravel voice and believing in what he’s saying

[@nikkielittlejohn8638]

Saw them last Nov 2021 un jakes singing is still tops

[@addicktedtocharlton1167]

@@nikkielittlejohn8638 Saw them two nights ago, March, 2023. Jake's still got it.

[@andymurdoch1346]

Wish I was 17 again. SLF were my favourite band. Seen them many times live. Brilliant song.

[@steve261brown]

Need a tardis don’t we. 😂

[@vinnyclarke5860]

There still going ,I'm going to see them at the roundhouse next month for the 42nd time I can't wait

[@adrianshare4372]

❤

[@jamesloughrey1653]

Always my best live band..Glasgow Apollo 1978/79..proud my son now going to see SLF in Barrowlands.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

no no no not all these years later not for me mate let sleeping dogs lie ffs 🐕🐕🐆🐆🐩🐩🐩😎

[@rob4146]

I first saw SLF in 1980 on a school trip to Poole Arts Centre, when school trips were school trips...it changed my life for sure... I just wish that I could sent my daughters on such an educational trip.

[@gaudd]

First SLF gig I was at was in 1980, seem them many times since and grew up with their songs. As as kid in a mining town that I wanted to escape with a passion this was the song of my childhood. Hanx guys, you made a dark time better.

[@summerbell3330]

what’s the name of them all ?

[@philipmahon3543]

Best band ever to come out of this country period. Saw them twice play live absolutely fabulous live band.

[@garyfaulkner1480]

Those great days of punk rock..glad i was there..long live the 70s..long live rock and roll.!!

[@rupowell2821]

Every second kid in Ireland in the 80s loved the fingers..the best!

[@RaySLF]

Best Punk band Ever...Listen to Hanx album gotta be one of the best live albums ever produced

[@ianatkinson5591]

Best band ever, never mind best punk band!

[@PayminatorX]

Couldnt agree more. Classic album

[@Sean-ce1hu]

@@ianatkinson5591 Wouldn’t go that far.

[@stav3295]

Back in 1980 my mate said you've gotta hear this track.. Johnny Was on Hanx was THE first Fingers song I ever heard. I bought the LP and it's still one of my fav albums today. Seen them a few times over the years in Boro, Manchester, Leeds, London, and twice at the legendary St Patrick's Day @The Barras in Glasgow. Still touring and still a great band today

[@gmantramp404]

Ever heard of Chelsea . Their debut album is class 👍👍

[@ellenmeilee]

Best thing about SLF is the loveliness and braviness of their internet fans who really get it.

[@sSnicklefritz]

I remember playing this song on guitar for my music assesment when I was 14. Great riff :)

[@user-wp8vy8le3y]

I saw Stiff Little Fingers play twice when I was a student at the University of Leicester in the early 1980s. A very good live band; and their first two albums - particularly the first one - a great commentary on the 'Troubles' in Ireland at that time. 'Suspect Device', "Barbed Wire Love' and 'White Noise' are all great tracks - and really show the reality of growing up in Belfast at that time in 1978 when the album was released. I always preferred the band's second album 'Nobody's Heroes' - I think it's more melodic than the first - and there are great tracks like 'Gotta Getaway', 'At The Edge' and the cover of the Specials' 'It Doesn't Make It Alright'. Love the state-of-the-art barcode album cover - from 1980, too. The dawn of the digital age we all now inhabit in 2024 !

[@disorder51]

First and greatest band I ever saw live. Aged, 14, 1981 Bradford St. George's Hall

[@davescholefield3574]

Me too, I was 3 years older.

[@jonstern7511]

And me too. 1978 I think. Supporting the Skids. They were superb

[@gaz4840]

me too, st georges hall, 1980, ticket £2... life changing gig

[@digitalboxjellychironex3605]

Left N. Ireland in 1978 for Home Counties England as a 12 year old and discovered SLF as a teenager… a connection to my origins and the angst of a teenagers will always make this and inflammable material part of my history. Finally saw them in Stockholm and Edinburgh before COVID. Epic.

[@deanjarvis8441]

Great live band. Saw them in Brum again last year still brilliant. HANX is my Favourite album 🤔 along with the Crack by the Ruts 😇.

[@victorottosson5638]

this is rare. love, raw anger, power and punk at its absolute best. this is music when its alive.

[@simeonneads1235]

Seen them for the last 45 years .superb .Xslf with reilly and cluney called me on stage too sing alternative ulster,ended up doing 5 songs whilst he went too the bar.

[@xuprider]

Great song...Great band....AND the best live clip out there of the original band!!!

[@user-im4mz4ev7z]

For forty something years that song has resonated,my personal favourite punk band,when I'm in the o.a.p home i will still wig out to this.

[@1098sdaz]

Im with you 100% mate.

[@Cestrian64]

SLF were ace. First punk band I saw live, think it was the Royal Court, Liverpool, 1981. Absolutely brilliant!

[@patagia]

saw this lot in 77 and 78 still playing it loud in the car now!

[@johnnyhall3942]

Seen them again in’24! Bangin!

[@stuartmcfadden2818]

One of the first basslines I learnt ...and created my own punk band at 14 🎉

[@andrewmckay4870]

Saw them in brixtom academy,1990.brilliant.I was the skinhead in chino,s with tatts on neck as close to the stage as I could get,in amongst the troops,will never forget that night.thank you all. Tich from glenrotten,fide,Scotland.

[@DAREALAndyRampage]

"Beautiful!" miss Seeing these Guys...SOOO FuuuuKING MUUUCHH! ~for my days living back in Chicago!! Jimmy, YOU ARE My *NEW* BEST friend!! Uh Oh!

[@Cruzeiro75]

Inflammable Material !!! we were listening tjis LP in Paris long time ago, great band! vive l'Irlande vive la France

[@Chrisamusic1]

Ace bassline, great song to get pissed and lose yourself to. Love this band.

[@stacyblue1980]

this song makes me cry. dunno why. just does. love it. thanx.

[@1098sdaz]

Me too, youre not alone.

[@stacyblue1980]

@@1098sdaz Thanks so much. 💓Means a lot. Wow.

[@1098sdaz]

@@stacyblue1980 Just gave me another throat stopper 2 years on.

[@Mod-rw9cw]

The three greatest frontmen of all time are ,Paul Weller,Joe Strummer and Jake Burns. What a time to have been a teenager. We were so lucky.

[@seamusheaney123]

ah they're great. such guts. passion. saw them live in brighton in 1980. superb.

[@stuartmcfadden2818]

Big influence to us punks here in N Ireland and one of many bands that influenced me to start my own punk band...Phobia [ see n.irelands a-z punk bands ☘️😎✅️🎸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@greendayforever2k9]

Those guitar tones 😍.

[@kevin285]

Jakes playing great and the tones courtesy of the never to be surpassed yamaha sg2000

[@jakeburns7331]

Definitely the best line up of the band. And this is the speed that this should be played. Raw as fuck. See you up there 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@charlesbull6188]

Hanx the greatest live album of all time so much passion

[@jasonjason9907]

An Old an Wise Tradesman introduced me to this band so long ago while doing my apprenticeship, he was also a drummer, they did cover's in the smallest shittiest Country pubs of SLF, great memories, no one had heard of them in Australia :) Such a Unique Sound

[@msturiani]

I saw them last week, in Brasil. Fantastic !!!

[@howdydeloo2112]

Wow cool,I'm gonna see them soon

[@Absraction]

Met Jake last night, awesome guy. Very nice and extremely humble.

[@theart8039]

My ex punk dads favorite band (he doesnt think hes ex punk) bit like an ex hippie is always a hippie at heart

[@mattsandilands6380]

That’s the way it is. I was always a punk even before punk came along, I think there were lots of us just waiting for something to happen and then 1976 came along.

[@bk948]

Saw them twice in one year in the 2 hemispheres of the world in 2018. Brisbane Australia my home at the Triffid and Blackpool England at Rebellion. Soooo good.

[@delstrain8590]

One of the best live bands in the world. since i was 10 now 53 still Punk and a outlaw.

[@summerbell3330]

what’s the name of these people.

[@delstrain8590]

@@summerbell3330 SLF Stiff Little Fingers from Northern Ireland Punk 79 originals.

[@summerbell3330]

@@delstrain8590 u knwo the names of them all

[@delstrain8590]

@@summerbell3330 Jake Burns the singer the line ups changed over decades. Google it.

[@summerbell3330]

@@delstrain8590 ok

[@camoflash7621]

My godmother is Jake's sister. I've only just started getting into their music but I love it and the family connection makes it even more special!!!! I've never met Jake but I saw my god mother last week at a wedding and told her to tell him he was a legend!!!! My mum was one of their groupies and said they all used to eat sandwiches together backstage! i LMAO at that!!!!

[@robg7197]

If it wasnae for these I would've had a great job, education and career, thank you SLF, I listened to my heart xxxx

[@justinevans1894]

Brilliant sound quality, amazing song

[@tomford5416]

aw the peace gesture at the end HANX is an absolutely brilliant album =) !

[@lucrullybully6048]

Absolute bliss ; A cool vid of the most sincere punk band in the world, since the Clash split...

[@edcarson3113]

Superb ....Jake Burns .....a voice like someone gargling glass.

[@colintough6031]

Jake Burn's I saw you years ago and you I was overawed at sound of you. At the time listening to you live was like slipping a c'd in the car. Love a night crashed out listening to you on vinyl 🔥🔥👍👍

[@divintcha1]

Still kicking version, almost 40 years later sounds exactly the same

[@Yorksbloke]

Better, if anything

[@DAREALAndyRampage]

"Beautiful!" miss Seeing these Guys...SOOO FuuuuKING MUUUCHH! ~for my days living back in Chicago!!

[@malligemange]

That energy!!

[@Lewdromantic]

That's what I call the truest punk of all times.

[@user-de6io5fh6b]

absolutely the way i feel now great song great band been into these since 1986 x

[@noelkreutzmann1654]

the STRANGLERS wednesday 7/2/2018 ,, , 2 weeks later this brilliant band both live in Brisbane , you bloody ripper

[@graemepirie5977]

When I was in my twenty's I had a bug fort traveling to work and live in Europe s biggest cities gotta get away was always on my walkman head phones when I left my home town,I've been a slff fan since I was 10, they are absolutely world class

[@christopherbruce8466]

Jakes words😳.... ..F-ing brilliant,so underrated....he probs like that,up there with the best of them for me 🙌

[@jakeburns7331]

Ali McMordie. One of the great bass players. Vital part of SLF. Hanx!

[@neilbillybob3065]

I met Ali in 1982 at Wembley conference centre before a jam gig. With I kept that autograph

[@ericcartier3715]

best punk rock !!!! tout une époque 1976 1980 !!!!!!

[@enricamel]

Masterpiece ‼️🎸💥💥💥🤟

[@brunocolin9495]

Super soirée à écouter les morceaux des stiff. Grosse defonce !! Souvenirs lampaulais de 1981!!

[@mckaos666]

what a song i was only kid when this was out my older brother got me into these and the clash the damned the pistols sham 69 etc this is music !!!!!!!!

[@sherbert500]

even now the fingers rock the house when they go into the old stuff........fucking legends......

[@LouLou-bl7lw]

Mighty mighty band

[@ef58jnr]

Amazing! The good ol' days! Thanks!!

[@darryltimmo3448]

I'd like here now to thank the band for a teen life that made me the man I am today ..see you up there.

[@Fester_]

Cornmarket bandstand throwing bread baps back at the Hari Krishna's that had just given us them, music blaring. Belfast town centre mid 1980's.

[@johnbarry1965]

@rockingthevillage I LOVE THE CLASH.THEY WROTE ABOUT IT BUT SLF LIVED IT ON THE STREETS OF BELFAST!

[@McQchop]

Just about my favorite song from my favorite band from High School days. Suppose that makes me old.

[@Turbotonthefly]

Gotta Getaway and now I'm in Cornwall, Ansum!

[@ellenmeilee]

Superb, thank you. Saw them play in Reading when I was about 14, nearly shit my pants! People were gobbing as I clung to some punks shoulders.

[@lauranewberry6520]

Heart flipping band. The best. No doubt

[@Mod-rw9cw]

Love them !

[@kaitiunoriginal]

I adore this band.

[@fl4426]

Ce groupe est GÉNIAL !

[@jimgracie5821]

1978 Glasgow Apollo 🔥

[@garymacmillan6401]

Most people have a windpipe. Jake has a drainpipe. I fucking loved the Fingers.

[@johnnyhall3942]

Great observation. Spot on!

[@dereklaidlaw6445]

Seen this band 3 times and they are one of the bands you'll no get bored with there rule punk and sing about the troubles of what happend in that Thatcher years but a still love them pure class and always will be played and never get bored with them there songs mean a lot for what happend in that era top class band to come out Ireland one of the best bands of that decade 💯 pure punk love them got all the album's love them

[@ICArt2005]

Saw this band in 1979 in my home town. They still sound so good. Some of the others from back then sound really dated.

[@danielsaan1749]

What can I say? Most of the comments here pretty much sum it up so there is not that much point in me chiming in there because I can see we all love this and PUNKS NOT DEAD! All I will say is that you are a LEGEND for uploading this priceless page of the growing chronicle of punk rock, cemented in history. If our current generation had much more sense we would maybe see a new wave of punk, I guess that might be a possibility for the future. Who knows. "The future is Unwritten"- Joe Strummer "Go easy, step light, Stay Free..." - Mick Jones

[@ClassicTrialsChannel]

brilliant song

[@rockyroad332]

The sneeze at the end - I giggled a little

[@IvanaFidersek]

these guys made me survive...

[@1098sdaz]

Im with you on that.

[@bigboyblue1964]

That is so awesome.....brings back so many happy memories of my youth. Love SLF, a really great live band with so many surprisingly good songs with top lyrics!! Saw them a few times as a teen in the 70s/80s. Cheers guys

[@woodycfc3429]

I'm down the front somewhere at this gig.

[@davesymon6489]

I think I was next to you.

[@grendeljack]

First heard this on the Driver trailer WAAAY back in '99. Still rocks. Shoulda been a much bigger hit.

[@ColRocknRoll]

@Finbarbarfin Never mind the Clash... Of course Jake talks about the clash being an influence BUT... Jake Burns was a big Black Sabbath fan so he must have combined some Sabbath influence into his music too..! Which is probably why I FECKIN LOVE Stiff Little Fingers... I was brought up on Sabbath, Queen, Rush, Thin Lizzy.....etc (I'm supposedly an old fart at 45..). I just seen SLF at Glasgow Barrowlands, again... And they still ROCK! SLF are a Classic Rock band in their own right!

[@digitalboxjellychironex3605]

Who is going to Custom House, Belfast in August? Can’t wait 😊

[@1098sdaz]

Booked flights hotel and tickets last night after bumping back into this video. Buzzing me cock off.

[@WillBabbitt]

Truly magnificent

[@danielscissorhands]

This is one song that does NOT need more cowbell! :) lol

[@s2theb258]

Still listening 2021

[@1098sdaz]

24

[@BATPUBLICNUISANCE]

many years of this and that NYC punk rock hardcore and the like i always revert back to SLF the only punk rock with a vibe you cant get away from BAT!

[@jmc0075]

Great vocals great drums great bass great lead guitar great lyrics fucking great band.

[@buddygretsch]

real originals, really good sound

[@summersky13]

saw them 2 nites ago first time!! loved them since 84 they fn rocked !!!! all the money i wasted catching the stones ac dc and other over rated crap!!! phew!!! they were waaaay worth it oi!

[@redone311]

Brings me back to that Driver commercial in the late 90's that used this song,

[@mikailola2614]

In top 10 of my favourite punk songs