ROOTS, RADICALS AND ROCKERS: JAKE BURNS OF STIFF LITTLE FINGERS

Stiff Little Fingers’ tour is going “Fantastically well,” according to frontman Jake Burns. Photo: Ashley Maile

It’s been busy year for Stiff Little Fingers—they’ve completed their latest album, No Going Back, toured the world, played the Rebellion Festival, and are about to hit the salty shores of Salt Lake City as a part of Offspring’s “Smash 20th Anniversary” tour. How are things going for the gang? Well, according to Jake Burns, “Fantastically well, actually. Everyone’s been incredibly helpful—very, very friendly. We started at a bit of a disadvantage, in so much as our backline guy had a problem with his visa. He’s actually still stuck in England. We haven’t managed to get him across. When we turned up, in our first show in Florida, suddenly the guys from Pennywise, who we know (we had toured with them earlier this year in Australia), their crew just all jumped in and said, ‘Oh, we’ll help out.’ In fact, every night, I’ve been in the slightly bizarre position of having my guitars tuned by Jay Bentley of Bad Religion, which is kind of weird….”

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