Why did Stiff Little Fingers break up?

Now Then was the first album for former Tom Robinson band’s drummer Dolphin Taylor. In the face of low sales and concert attendances, they broke up in 1983, when Burns said: “Our last LP Now Then was to my mind the best album we have made. But it is also unfortunately the best I think we will ever make.

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Are Stiff Little Fingers Protestant or Catholic?

The band was made up of both Catholics and Protestants and we were always very open about that. We never made a point of taking sides.

What was Stiff Little Fingers first album?

Broken Fingers/Live in Aberdeen
Stiff Little Fingers/First album

Where did the band Stiff Little Fingers come from?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stiff Little Fingers are an Irish punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star (named after the Deep Purple song), doing rock covers, until they discovered punk.

What did the Undertones say about Stiff Little Fingers?

Peel later did the same with the first single by another famous Northern Irish band, The Undertones. There were a number of well-publicised arguments between the two bands; the Undertones accused Stiff Little Fingers of sensationalising the Northern Ireland conflict, while they retorted that The Undertones ignored it.

When did Bruce Foxton leave Stiff Little Fingers?

After Burns had moved on from Stiff Little Fingers, he had a short stint at a band with former The Jam bassist Bruce Foxton. They made a couple of demos, but Foxton received an invitation to make a solo album which ended their collaboration. In 1987 the band reformed.

When did Jake Burns leave Stiff Little Fingers?

In 1993, Henry Cluney was asked to leave the band, and the trio of Jake Burns, Bruce Foxton and Dolphin Taylor continued for the next four years, joined on live shows by either Dave Sharp or Ian McCallum . In 1994, they released Get a Life in the UK, releasing it in the US in 1996. By the end of 1996 Taylor left due to family commitments.