Label: Parlophone

Reissued 11/21/2025, Originally released 1979

The iconic Stiff Little Fingers debut album is presented as a 5-disc set (4CD+DVD). Along with a new remaster of the core album, it includes the band's earliest demos (never previously released), an unreleased 1979 concert from Troon and a swathe of BBC John Peel sessions. The set's DVD includes the legendary Rough Trade 1979 SLF promotional film (unreleased and un-circulating) along with concert footage from Friars in Aylesbury originally broadcast on BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test  in 1980 and a rare clip of 'Alternative Ulster' from the 1979 film Shellshock Rock. The booklet features rare memorabilia and images from the time with 9,000-word liner notes from former NME journalist Stuart Bailie (author of Trouble Songs: Music and conflict in Northern Ireland) including fresh interviews with original band members and manager/lyricist Gordon Ogilvie. The last word on a classic album - a must have for SLF fans!

Track listing:

1. Suspect Device
   
2. State of Emergency
   
3. Here We Are Nowhere
   
4. Wasted Life
   
5. No More of That
   
6. Barbed Wire Love
   
7. White Noise
   
8. Breakout
   
9. Law & Order
   
10. Rough Trade
    
11. Johnny Was
    
12. Alternative Ulster
    
13. Closed Groove
    
14. Suspect Device (Single Version)
    
15. Wasted Life (Single Version)
    
16. '78 RPM
    
17. Gotta Gettaway (Single Version)
    
18. Bloody Sunday

BBC John Peel Sessions

1. Wasted Life
   
2. Johnny Was
   
3. Alternative Ulster
   
4. State of Emergency
   
5. White Noise
   
6. No More of That
   
7. Johnny Was
   
8. Law & Order
   
9. Barbed Wire Love
   
10. Suspect Device

1978 Demos Island Records Demos Recorded 20th & 21st May 1978

1. '78 RPM
   
2. Johnny Was (Short Version)
   
3. White Noise
   
4. Alternative Ulster
   
5. Law & Order (No Vocal)
   
6. State of Emergency

Outlet Studios, Belfast Demos September 1978

1. Revenge
   
2. Here We Are Nowhere
   
3. Rough Trade
   
4. No More of That
   
5. Breakout
   
6. Barbed Wire Love

Live Album 1979 Troon May 1979