When the Stiff Little Fingers first album came out it was just as The Clash had released their second slightly disappointing (at the time) album "Give 'em enough Rope" Actually a bunch of the first wave of punk were turning out some rubbish and the newer punk bands like Sham 69 were just plain awful. The Stiffs were like a Godsend to punk lovers. Speed, politics and guitars with just enough melody to have you singing in the car on the way to a gig. I wore out Inflammable Material" and because of the strike rate of the punk heroes wasn't expecting the second album to do much. But I loved "Nobody's Heroes" which was heralded by this track Gotta Gettaway. It was just so damn exciting.
I had just got Little murders started and we had released our first single "Things Will be Different" I'd been laying low since the demise of my previous band The Fiction only venturing out to record the single. But when we released the single in August 79 we had a new name and new members in the band. We had the single out for the first gig of Little Murders at The Champion Hotel in Fitzroy. Anyway I was out of the house and if I wasn't playing gigs then friends of mine were starting to open small clubs in the backs of hotels. So I started doing a little DJing too. Of the records I played this was one of the ones that really stood out. I'd put the record on and run around the booth and on to the dance floor to jump around with my mates. Really trying to resist playing air guitar. And screaming at the top of our lungs "Gotta Gotta Getaway!" No that we wanted to really. In 1979 in Melbourne some of us were having the time of our lives.
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