[kj] OT Headcount supporting SLF

[Neil Perry]

To be honest I mostly lost interest when Go For It came out (fickle fan
wanted
another Inflammable...) and only ever saw them once, around the time of Now
Then
(82/83?). Always cursed the fact I never saw them earlier. And yes Foxton
would
put me off!

On 22 March 2011 16:13, Brian Whitehead <bawhitehead at gmail.com> wrote:


> Thanks for that, I loved SLF but didn't realise that. It meant nothing to

> me either as a 16 year old.

>

> Thing that annoyed me about SLF is the amount of final, as in last ever,

> shows they did. I hitched down from Manchester to London for at least two

> before I gave up. Turned me off SLF a bit.

> Another was the Bruce Foxton on bass thing. I'd be watching SLF with Town

> Called Malice going through round and round in my head.

> A guy I know was in the room when the sacked Foxton and told me is was a

> unanimous vote by the rest of the band as he was too big for his boots.

>

> Having said all that I'll be there at Manchester Uni next week.

>

> Brian.

>

>

>

> On 22 March 2011 14:19, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> I had to go and look all this up again as I couldn't remember the details,

>> it's been a while!

>>

>> Gordon Ogilvie, who was their manager for a while, was a Daily Express

>> journalist (on Wikipedia he is a described as a "Marxist journalist on the

>> Daily Express",

>> which seems unlikely!)

>> It was he who apparently suggested to the band in their very early days

>> that they sang about

>> the Northern Ireland troubles - and he and Jake Burns wrote the songs

>> together,

>> with Ogilvie credited for many of the lyrics.

>> Of course when this was discovered by the music press back in the day they

>> had a right go (god I miss the music papers), as this suggested that SLF

>> were somehow not "authentic", or

>> were being controlled by this shadowy journo character with a hidden

>> agenda.

>> All this meant nothing to me as a 13-year-old fan, of course.

>>

>> In this 2009 interview Jake Burns said:

>> "Gordon was like a fifth member of the band. We wrote songs together and

>> he took

>> care of the day to day management. It's impossible to over-estimate

>> Gordon's part in the band's story."

>>

>>

>> http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1377/stiff-little-fingers-make-inflammable-material

>>

>> N

>>

>>

>> On 22 March 2011 14:30, Brian Whitehead <bawhitehead at gmail.com> wrote:

>>

>>> "And yes I know about all the lyrics being written by an ex-Daily Express

>>> journo"

>>>

>>> Really? I didn't know that - please elaborate.

>>>

>>> Brian.

>>>

>>>

>>> On 22 March 2011 13:12, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>

>>>> I was looking for something else in a box of, er 'nostalgic' items over

>>>> the

>>>> weekend and rediscovered some signed postcards of Jake Burns, Ali

>>>> McMordie and

>>>> the rest, which I got after I wrote off to the SLF fan club around the

>>>> time Inflammable

>>>> Material came out, when I was 12 or 13 I guess. There was also an

>>>> Inflammable Material sticker which I'd obviously

>>>> decided was so precious I never stuck it on anything (it's not sticky

>>>> anymore.)

>>>>

>>>> In terms of what it meant at the time, how much I played it to death and

>>>> how it got me into so much more music,

>>>> I think that album is my all time favourite record. I played some a

>>>> while back and it

>>>> still rocks. (And yes I know about all the lyrics being written by an

>>>> ex-Daily Express journo

>>>> or whatever he was, and I still don't give a toss!)

>>>>

>>>> n

>>>>

>>>> On 18 March 2011 17:28, Rob Moss <rob.moss at gmx.com> wrote:

>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>> Just been asked to support SLF at the O2 Academy Oxford on Wednesday!

>>>>>

>>>>> Anyone wanting to go can come along for just £6 if you email me for

>>>>> details.

>>>>>

>>>>> Now, better learn the songs proper!!!!

>>>>>

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