[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]T[/dropcap]here may have been a river of grey hair through the auditorium but the boots were still black, freshly polished and stomping as hard as they ever had to a band with far more relevance than The Sex Pistols or The Clash.
– Carl Byron Batson, reviewing Stiff Little Fingers at the Kentish Town Forum, March 2016.
Photos by Carl Byron Batson. Not to be reproduced without express prior permission.
Photographer, published poet, former party animal, body builder, grave robber
to the stars and renowned chainsaw juggler, Carl can often be spotted on his
Harley Davidson pretending to be in Terminator 2. He is also frequently seen in
the press pits of old London town, camera in hand, avoiding being hit by bottles
of wee and crippling his opposition with secret Kung Fu moves.