Alternative Ulster

He's already mentioned them.

From 1978, it's Stiff Little Fingers with Alternative Ulster.

So in the track, Jake Burns, I would say sings, but he barks about the changes that are needed in his province of Ulster.

Grab it and change it, it's yours.

So I saw Stiff Little Fingers last year in San Diego, and the song still brings down the house and still rings true a continental away and nearly a half century later.

So I would say that, that, uh, that's a win all the way around.

The number three, Stiff Little Fingers, Alternative Ulster.

Take a look where you're living.

Yeah

... our suggestion that they make Alternative Ulster their national anthem would, would get the players going even more, don't you think?

It would.

Yeah, it would, 'cause it's, you know, it's not, it's not supporting one side or the other.

Like, we tour so much that it's usually, like, talks in the van or something we'll end up listening to a lot.

Like, on the last tour we did, we were covering Alternative Ulster by Stiff Little Fingers, and we're all just little fingers.

So, like, it kind of seemed to make sense.

Or maybe we'll hear something sometimes and go, like, oh, you're going to be pretty good on this to either me or Andy.

They're actually one of my favourite punk bands.

I think they're deadly, you know, and... not so similar to Ten Lizzy in a way that some of their guitar licks and stuff sound like Irish music, you know, like the start of Alternative Ulster, like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, that like intro thing.

It nearly sounds like, like the start of a, a bit like a slow air or something like that, you know what I mean? So there's, I think there's a unique, Irish element to some of them punk bands from the north, like Rudy and Outkast and Undertones that Stiff Little Fingers have as well.

But I just think their songwriting is amazing in the Stiff Little Fingers songs and sonically they're amazing as well.