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Gig Review: Stiff Little Fingers + Support
Oxford Carling Academy
Sunday 9th March

I only went to this gig because I wanted to go to a gig this month, and I am always up for listening to new music, even though this band is hardly ‘new’! So basically, I had no idea what they sounded like or any preconceptions on what the gig was going to be like.

Well first of all, let’s review the support band. I don’t even know their name, the guy mumbled when he talked, and pretty much mumbled when he sung. Basically, they sucked. They had no timing at all, I couldn’t exactly be classed as a musical genius or anything, but quite a fair few times, I was thinking “ooh that didn’t sound right at all” and I am pretty sure most of the other people in there were thinking the same, and glancing at each other, silently saying “WTF is this?”.

Stiff Little Fingers were quite good. I liked how catchy they were. But I have to admit, I am not a great fan of bands that talk over and over again about politics, but to be fair, they formed in 1977 in Northern Island, so have more of a reason to be ‘Political’.

One thing that did annoy me quite a bit though was the extremely long time (about an hour) between the support band and Stiff Little Fingers finally getting on stage. I don’t know if they were waiting for someone to turn up or it could have been that wanted to just wait until 9pm to start, but in my opinion, it is pretty rude. There was no explanation either, would have taken 2 seconds to say “sorry we’re late people”.

All in all, given that the support band sucked, a long wait, and a lot of ‘Politics’ talk, I did quite enjoy their music. Have a listen to them on their MySpace page.

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