The Radio One Sessions is a compilation of performances by the Northern Irish punk band Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...

 for BBC Radio

BBC Radio

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, recorded between 1980 and 1982. Tracks 1–4 were recorded for the Mike Read

Mike Read

Michael David Kenneth Read is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.-Early life:...

 show on Feb 1, 1980. Tracks 5–8 were recorded for the Mike Read show in April 1981. Tracks 9–12 were recorded for the David "Kid" Jensen

David Jensen

David "Kid" Jensen , is a Danish Canadian-born, British radio DJ.-Early career:Born in a Danish family residing Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began his career in his home country at the age of sixteen playing jazz and classical music. He then joined Radio Luxembourg at the age of eighteen in...

 show on Nov 19, 1981. Tracks 13–16 were for Kid Jensen again in September 1982. The four sessions encompass songs from all four of the bands albums before they split up in 1983, although they reformed four years later.

Track listing

1. "Fly the Flag" {Jake Burns
   Jake Burns
   Jake Burns is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.-Career:...
   
   , Gordon Ogilvie) – 3:48
2. "At the Edge" (Burns) – 2:57
3. "Gotta Getaway" (Burns, Ogilvie) – 3:16
4. "Wait and See" (Burns, Ogilvie) – 4:32
5. "Just Fade Away" (Burns, Ogilvie) – 3:01
6. "The Only One" (Henry Cluney
   Henry Cluney
   Henry Cluney was a guitarist in Highway Star, the school band that became Stiff Little Fingers in 1977...
   
   , Ogilvie) – 4:10
7. "Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae" (Stiff Little Fingers) – 3:51
8. "Piccadilly Circus" (Burns, Ogilvie) – 4:38
9. "Sad Eyed People" (Burns, Ogilvie) – 3:56
10. "Listen" (Burns, Ogilvie) – 4:00
11. "That's When Your Blood Bumps" (Ogilvie) – 3:51
12. "Two Guitars Clash" (Cluney, Ogilvie) – 4:16
13. "Love of the Common People
    Love of the Common People (song)
    "Love of the Common People" is a folk ballad written and composed by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins and first released in January 1967 by The Four Preps...
    
    " (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins) – 2:31
14. "Stands to Reason" (Ogilvie, Brian "Dolphin" Taylor
    Dolphin Taylor
    Brian "Dolphin" Taylor is a British drummer.-Tom Robinson Band:His career started when he gave a friend a lift to an audition as bass guitarist for the Tom Robinson Band in 1976. As the band had no drummer at that point, Dolphin filled in...
    
    ) – 3:02
15. "Falling Down" (Burns, Ogilvie) – 3:15
16. "Touch and Go" (Cluney, Ogilvie) – 3:02

Personnel

• Jake Burns
  Jake Burns
  Jake Burns is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.-Career:...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Ali McMordie
  Ali McMordie
  Alistair Jardine "Ali" McMordie is a bass guitarist, who made his name with, and was a founding member of, Stiff Little Fingers...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Henry Cluney
  Henry Cluney
  Henry Cluney was a guitarist in Highway Star, the school band that became Stiff Little Fingers in 1977...
  
   – rhythm guitar, vocals, background vocals
• Jim Reilly
  Jim Reilly
  James G. "Jim" Reilly is the second drummer for the Northern Ireland based punk band Stiff Little Fingers, with whom he played from 1979 to 1981. He played on the LPs Nobody's Heroes, Go for It and Hanx. In 1981 he moved to the United States, where he played in two bands, Red Rockers, followed by...
  
   – drums
  Drummer
  A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
  
   (tracks 1–8)
• Dolphin Taylor
  Dolphin Taylor
  Brian "Dolphin" Taylor is a British drummer.-Tom Robinson Band:His career started when he gave a friend a lift to an audition as bass guitarist for the Tom Robinson Band in 1976. As the band had no drummer at that point, Dolphin filled in...
  
   – drums (tracks 9–16)
• John Sparrow – producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  
• Alan Parker – liner notes

External links

• Tracklisting/audio clips of the Radio One Sessions
• [ Album at Allmusic.com]