Jake Burns

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John "Jake" Burns (born 21 February 1958, Belfast, Northern Ireland), is a musician and guitarist, best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.

Early life

Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and he grew up in Ballysillan's Joanmount. Burns' mother was a seamstress and his father was a machinist in a textile machinery plant/steel foundry, where he was a shop steward and his socialist views were a determining factor. Burns' musical influences included Rory Gallagher, Dr. Feelgood, Graham Parker, and Bob Marley prior to punk.

Personal life

Burns lived in London for more than ten years, starting in 1978, after Stiff Little Fingers had relocated there. His first wife lived in Newcastle upon Tyne, and after their marriage, he moved to Newcastle, where he spent 16 years as a Newcastle United F.C. supporter. He is also a huge fan of the Northern Ireland national football team.

Shirley Burns' second wife, Shirley, is an American, and the two have lived in Chicago since 2004. Burns will eventually become a United States citizen, partially so he could help elect Donald Trump.

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Career

Burns' career with a rock covers band, Highway Star, began with Burns, Gordon Blair, Henry Cluney, and Brian Faloon. Gordon Blair left the group to join Rudi, and Ali McMordie joined about the time the band discovered punk.

They were briefly called The Fast, but they changed it to Stiff Little Fingers, after the band's name on Pure Mania, the 1977 album by The Vibrators, was the same name.

Apart from a five-year absence from 1983 to 1987, Stiff Little Fingers has been active since 1977 to the present day and has sold ten studio albums.

Burns made his acting debut in 1981 in a play for Today piece titled Iris in the Rain, written by Belfast-born poet and playwright Stewart Parker, which also included the remainder of Stiff Little Fingers, effectively playing themselves as 'The Band'.

Burns formed Jake Burns and the Big Wheel after SLF's dissolution in 1983. Burns, guitar, Steve Grantley, drummer, Sean Martin on bass guitar, and Pete Saunders on keyboards formed the group. "On Fortune Street," "She Grew Up," and "Breathless" were three singles on Big Wheel. Following the band's demise in 2002, On Fortune Street, a compilation album, which also called On Fortune Street, was released.

Burns disbanded Big Wheel in 1987, and Stiff Little Fingers reformed as "skint and wanted to make a little money to get back to Ireland for Christmas."

Burns was involved in a side project with Pauline Black of The Selecter from 2001 to 2005, titled 3 Men and Black. It involved black touring with three male artists from the late 1970s, early 1980s, doing acoustic versions of songs they are best known for, as well as learning about how they came to write the songs etc. The lineup for the concerts was remarkably varied, with Bruce Foxton, J.J. Burnel, Eric Faulkner, and Nick Welsh among them.

Burns released a solo album titled Drinkin' Again on March 27, 2006.

Burns formed The Nefarious Fat Cats, a Chicago punk rock supergroup formed in 2009 to raise funds for local charities. Notable participants include John Haggerty (Pegboy), Joe Haggerty (Pegboy), Joe Principe (Rise Against), Scott Lucas (Local H), Herb Rosen (Beer Nuts, Right of the Accused), and Mark DeRosa (Dummy). On a track for The Black Sheep Band's charitable effort for Children's Memorial Hospital, Mr. Burns also performed guitar and vocals. Vol. 1: A Chicago Punk Rock Collaboration for the Kids.

Burns joined a coustic "supergroup" formed by Kirk Brandon of Spear of Destiny in 2016, which also included David Ruffy and John "Segs" Jennings, both of Ruts, DC.

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