Hanx! is a live Punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 album by the band Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...

, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music

1980 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980.-January–March:*January 1**Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Elizabeth II.**The Zorros audition drummer Greg Pedley....

). Originally intended for the American market to introduce the band before they toured there, it was subsequently released at a budget price in the UK as the band were concerned that a lot of their fans would insist on buying the album on import anyway for a higher price. Jake Burns remarks on the sleeve notes for the CD reissue that only "Johnny Was" came from the Rainbow Theatre show with the remainder recorded at the Aylesbury

Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...

 gig.

The title "Hanx!" is simply "Thanks" in the dialect of the part of Northern Ireland the band hail from.

Track listing

1. "Nobody's Hero" (Burns/Ogilvie) – 4:03
2. "Gotta Gettaway" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:23
3. "Wait and See" (Burns/Ogilvie) – 4:19
4. "Barbed Wire Love" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:25
5. "Fly the Flag" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:28
6. "Alternative Ulster" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:01
7. "Johnny Was" (Bob Marley
   Bob Marley
   Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
   
   ) – 10:09
8. "At the Edge" (Fingers) – 2:38
9. "Wasted Life" (Burns) – 3:28
10. "Tin Soldiers" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 5:02
11. "Suspect Device" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:17

The CD reissue has added tracks: "Running Bear

Running Bear

"Running Bear" is a song written by J. P. Richardson sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959. Preston first sang the song in 1959 with background vocals by Richardson and George Jones, who do the Indian chanting of "UGO UGO" during the three verses, as well as the Indian war cries...

" and "White Christmas

White Christmas

A white Christmas refers to the presence of snow on Christmas Day. This phenomenon is most common in the northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere...

", both B-sides of their "At The Edge" single; plus a further part of a Jake Burns interview with Alan Parker

Alan Parker (author)

Alan Parker is the author of several books about musicians and their lives. Parker is best known for his extensive research into the life and death of Sid Vicious, bassist for the UK based punk band the Sex Pistols...

 recorded in 2001.

Chart Position

Chart (1980)	Peak position
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	9

Personnel

• Jake Burns
  Jake Burns
  Jake Burns is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.-Career:...
  
   – vocals/guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Jim Reilly
  Jim Reilly
  James G. "Jim" Reilly is the second drummer for the Northern Ireland based punk band Stiff Little Fingers, with whom he played from 1979 to 1981. He played on the LPs Nobody's Heroes, Go for It and Hanx. In 1981 he moved to the United States, where he played in two bands, Red Rockers, followed by...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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• Henry Cluney
  Henry Cluney
  Henry Cluney was a guitarist in Highway Star, the school band that became Stiff Little Fingers in 1977...
  
   – guitar
• Ali McMordie
  Ali McMordie
  Alistair Jardine "Ali" McMordie is a bass guitarist, who made his name with, and was a founding member of, Stiff Little Fingers...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Doug Bennett – producer
• Bill Gill – engineer
• Andi Banks – tour manager
• Arthur Kemish – equipment
• Bazz Ward – Livewire PA
• 'Side' Phil Wilkie – Livewire PA
• Colin Phillipps – Livewire PA
• Alan Espley – light and sound design
• Steve Ruisling – light and sound design
• Mike Carter – road transport
• John Ferguson – security
• Wally Grove – security
• Dave Jupp – Keedwell Trucking
• John Jackson – cowbell agency
• Pete Greenslade – The Manor Mobile
• Dave Chapman – The Manor Mobile
• John "Teflon" Sims – sleeve design
• Dave Storey – sleeve design
• Brian Cooke – front cover pictures and colour effects
• Ian McKell – back cover picture