The Undertones Hit The Road On Rescheduled UK Tour

The Undertones have confirmed a run of rescheduled UK live dates throughout March and April, the band will be supported by Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) and Neville Staple (The Specials). The Undertones will also be playing further UK, European and Irish dates later this year, including festival appearances at Glastonbury, Rebellion and Putting The Fast In Belfast as well as a show at The Devil’s Arse in the UK’s Peak District.

The Undertones emerged from Derry in 1976, even by the standards of that decade Derry was not the rock and roll capital of anywhere. With no live bands worth watching, they learned by listening to mail order records, reading one of the few copies of NME that made it to Derry but most of all from listening to John Peel on BBC Radio One. Practicing in their bedrooms eventually led to the band recording Teenage Kicks in 1978 and releasing the single via Terri Hooley‘s Good Vibrations label.

The Undertones signed with Sire Records and Teenage Kicks was re-released, resulting in the band’s first appearance on Top Of The Pops. Over the next five years, they released a number of pop gems such as Here Comes The Summer, Jimmy Jimmy, You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It), Wednesday Week and My Perfect Cousin as well as four acclaimed full lengths. In 1983 Feargal Sharkey left the band to pursue a solo career and the remaining members decided to call it a day and remained silent for the next sixteen years.

In 1999 The Undertones reconvened, without Fergal Sharkey, to once again perform their two-minute, three and a half chord songs to a new generation of fans in Derry. Fellow Derryman Paul McLoone replaced Sharkey on vocals and his vocal prowess and electric onstage presence soon convinced any doubters that he was more than capable of doing the job. After much consideration the band released Get What You Need, an album of brand new songs that showed that the art of writing short, sharp songs had not been lost over the previous two decades. Still going strong 46 years after they first emerged from their bedrooms, The Undertones continue to bring Teenage Kicks to crowds acrosss the world.

You can purchase UK tour tickets here and view all tour dates here