Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material (Rough Trade)*****
Garry Bushell, Sounds, 10 February 1979
POOR OLD Stiff Little Fingers. They stormed across the Irish Sea last year and confused most people by talking loudly about being Ulster Boys without any recourse to redundant run of the mill 'remedies'.
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