| Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @smallard Hi mate, nope, I grew up in NI during the Troubles conflict there, and a "suspect device" was any concealed object which might be a bomb. The termin originated in N Ireland during the Troubles. It was commonly used in news reports of the period in N Ireland, e.g., "The centre of X town was sealed off by the army while attempts were made to defuse a suspect device". Jake Burns' deliberate stammering was just something done for effect, in the best rock tradition of e.g. The Who's deliberate stammer on "My Generation" | |
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