Stiff Little Fingers / Jake Burns Interview ( 2003)

[@rickardlowstedt3257]

My God what a genius. Look at the old video clips. SLF looked like regular guys. Not styled like the english punk bands. Then you hear the music 100% pure dynamite. If you listen to Inflammable Materiel you hear the punkiest of punk. On their mission they had to face two opposing paramilitary sides as well as their present messed up society being youth growing up. That takes a whole lot of guts. The songs are masterpieces. Guitar work with riffs and comping with bass and drums is just great. Arrangements with intros verses choruses and breaks is just spot on all the time. All this with the punky edge. Next the singing. Ok Jake is putting on the raspy adolescent screaming but he is really doing it well. Finally the lyrics. Is it coming from good old solid Irish poetry ? I dont know. But its got all the rebellion, awareness of truth and reality hitting the mark every time. SLF career back then had to be short. No human could keep on delivering all this more than a few years. Great that Jake still is doing his music and doing it well. This is my opinion. Hope you all agree at least on some of it. God bless Jake and everyone else.

[@alanodwyer2203]

Nobody made Punk sound more organic, vital and necessary than this man ... Inflammable material is a work of genius, absolute perfection!

[@DateTwoRelate]

My god - he's morphed into a bloody accountant!

[@mrgennaro232]

Still cool as fucking fuck though.

[@sexobscura]

He's much like Mick Jagger in that respect