Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (Live At Rockpalast 1980)

55 love it up the Dubs

Never understood a word they've banged out over years ...Still love um....SLF

I'm 52 and won't bore you with who or what changed my life because it's irrelevant in a yt comment section, it's not like we are ever going to me. 🤣

Listen to the lyrics!! Great tune regardless but the lyrics are 🔥🔥🔥

I was 15 in 1980, from Holland,played this every Day,still great.!

Still have my 7" reel to reel recording of the SLF 1978 Peel sessions, a priced possession.

best generation ever!

The drummer is so swole

I'm 62 now i saw these guys at Victoria hall Stoke-on-Trent years ago and I'm still listening 😅

It’s Greenday back in the 90’s really is t it

Bloody brilliant. Best gig I’ve been to.

Balls of steel to sing about paramilitary groups

And live in Belfast.
In the 70s

Always had great respect for SLF.

THAT'S PUNK.

I COULD BE A SOLDIER.

SLF WE SALUTE YOU.

BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND

I remember going to my local record shop and buying this single....picture cover! Saw them twice at Malvern Winter Gardens in the late 70's. Great band, great times.

great band great song. I bought all their singles and albums back in the day. Inflammable Material is one of the all time great albums - similar to Berlin (Lou Reed) gave a depiction of a life at the time. Incredible.

when I first SLF in 1978 I put them right up with the clash, above the pistols and they should have been huge, I did read about mismanagement and money going missing and that caused the band to implode, this song is so relevant today but for a new reason,

Saw them in Berlin around 1980, lots of trouble between Punks and british Soldiers. Great gig.

Still the greatest punk band ever

Saw them again a few weeks ago here at home in Dublin, still a tight outfit and great sound - the buzz never ages and their message remains cos there is still strife in Northern Ireland to this day sadly, albeit on a much lower scale than back in the day - thankfully

Waelchi Overpass

Klein Lock

Bins Views

Love how the camera men can't seem to be able to focus on the bassist. The only time he was in a shot was when he walked into it.

I'm 59 nearly 60 . One of the best bands ever ,

I'm 59from Rome!! Stiff Little Fingers🔥✊

Steady diet of this in the 80's. The best!!

A classic punk rock anthem that has stood the test of time. Still rocks after all these years. 😊

Saw them for about 5 minutes and some idiot skinheads trashed the gig ,shame

brilliant record brilliant band still going strong in october 24

D A G B! D A G B!

Love it....I'll be 44 5 Nov and born 80...these lads are legends

Why didnt it start with that Famous riff ?

I was born in 1966 👌👌👌🎱🎱🎱🍺🍺🍺

Have an original master copy of the Band recorded in Belfast by John Peel in 1978, it is on reel to reel and still plays perfectly.

Stiff Little Fingers & the Inflammable material LP were immense.

When John Peel played the first 6 tracks of Inflammable Material side A, straight off, on the radio one night in 1979....I was gripped, mesmerised, fecking well impressed....& I knew then, that I was living in one of the best times on the planet to be a teenager, an angry & ignorant teenager.

Made a huge change to my life & helped me to find a freedom in life, when the way wasn't clear before.

That album, along with Another Music in a Different Kitchen by the Buzzcocks, were..and are, two of the best & most important LP records of all time.

A Life long, music lover, nothing much has happened to change that.

Still angry, still free...at 63.

Hanx.

I’m 71, they make me feel great about the future.

Saw them in 79 with the specials at malvern winter Gardens great memories

introduced to SLF when i was a junior leader in Colerne fantastic. Fantastic

seen em 40 times , nothing left to say.

christ

They burnt out after inflammable material.

No los había escuchado pero leyendo el libro de Sinéad O'Connor esta en su lista de preferidas

Saw them a couple of times in Edinburgh late 70's early 80's brilliant live band . Am now 72 and still alive and kicking.

SLF were great on the Rough Trade label but when they signed to Chrysalis they were never the same .

I just wanted to say that I've decided to listen to this song because I had a friend at my care centre. He died very recently of cancer, and he was a massive fan of this band. I miss him a lot and so to honour him, will be listening to this song.

There's nothin' for us in Belfast
The Pound's old and that's a pity
Ok so there's the Trident in Bangor
And then you walk back to the city
We ain't got nothin' but they don't really care
They don't even know, you know
They just want money
We can take it or leave it
What we need

Is an alternative Ulster
Grab it and change it—it's yours!
Get an alternative Ulster
Ignore the bores and their laws
Get an alternative Ulster
Be an anti-security force
Alter your native Ulster
Alter your native land

Take a look where you're livin'
You got the Army on the street
And the RUC dog of repression
Is barkin' at your feet
Is this the kind of place you wanna live?
Is this where you wanna be?
Is this the only life we're gonna have?
What we need
Is an alternative Ulster
Grab it and change it—it's yours!
Get an alternative Ulster
Ignore the bores and their laws
Get an alternative Ulster
Be an anti-security force
Alter your native Ulster
Alter your native land

And they say they're a part of you
And that's not true, you know
They say they've got control of you
And that's a lie, you know
They say you will never be free
Free
Free

Alternative Ulster
Alternative Ulster
Alternative Ulster
Alternative Ulster

Me in 2025 Ulster County NY:
"Wait, what's this"?
Better late never than never I guess.

What a time to be alive

The energy and raw emotion in this rendition is spinetingling.

Proper Punk because they didnt have a stylish look or chase money .Probably they regret it now lol 😂😮😢