Derry legends The Undertones took to the stage in the Spirit Store on Friday 20th Dec for another sold out show of their current tour.
With a set list long enough to not need a support, they got stuck right in and by the end of the first song had the whole crowd dancing and singling along.
They may be most well knows for their massive hit ‘Teenage Kicks’ (John Peels all time favourite song), but they have a lot more aces up their sleeves than that, with a career that has spanned almost 50 years!
Despite being around for that long, they played their set with more energy than I have seen many younger bands play, showing off the fact that so many of their songs are timeless, as well as them being a band who have played together for a long time.
They also did the most punk rock thing I’ve ever seen, asking a room full of hardcore Dundalk punk rockers if they all came from Drogheda.
Now it’s a testament to how loved these legends are that this statement resulted in laughs, as from anyone else I suspect it would’ve ended in some not so teenage kicks…but then again, anyone else wouldn’t have been The Undertones.
The Undertones photos & set-list:
Set-list:
Jimmy Jimmy
Girls Don’t Like It
The Love Parade
Thrill Me
Nine Times out of Ten
Tearproof
Male Model
You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It?)
Wrong Way
It’s Going to Happen
Crisis of Mine
Teenage Kicks
True Confessions
Smarter Than You
Emergency Cases
Wednesday Week
When Saturday Comes
I Gotta Getta
I Need Your Love the Way It Used to Be
You’re Welcome
Family Entertainment
(She’s a) Runaround
There Goes Norman
Girls That Don’t Talk
Hypnotised
I Know a Girl
Listening In
Get Over You
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Mars Bars
More Songs About Chocolate and Girls
Jump Boys
Really Really
Here Comes the Summer
My Perfect Cousin
Photos – David McEneanery @experimentzero