Terri Hooley is a very important figure in Belfast and did more for Northern Ireland than most people there. I remember visiting his most famous shop in Great Victoria Street many times - and his other record shops. He is what we would call in Belfast "a fucking rocket" lol. Sadly he has recently moved out of Belfast to Bangor because of "social problems". Terri changed people's lives. The Undertones along with Them are in my view the greatest bands to come out of NI. There is still a lot of great bands springing up there today. I've never seen this before - fantastic stuff! Thank you.
Ah Stevee, shit was real. Had an aunt from Belfast, my dad couldn't go to his brother's wedding because of it. Upside was I was able to call bullshit on religion by the age of 12. Back to the important stuff, the music, brilliant!
@@playlist9980 hehe I don't think you understand. Also look into Island Records and Chris Blackwell. Also look into IRS records and the CIA influence, the CIA created Punk rock movement btw for the same reason. I know it's hard to accept particularly if you're like me and you love all of these groups you can still like them but understand culture creation is a thingThe Police, Dead Kennedys etc. Culture creation. Why do you think Culture Club were called Culture Club. Groups are the way you give heroes to kids that will potentially be radicalised particularly in places like Northern Ireland, same reason they gave us great bands like the pogues
@@utredutredson1686I do think that you are on to something as certain groups/ideas get pushed by the media and record companies. But all bands that come from the grassroots are part of culture control/creation? I don’t agree with that. Social engineering by institutions like the Tavistock Institute have certainly steered society. I suppose it goes back to “are our thoughts really our own?” - we are subjected to propaganda from the moment we are born.
Undertones are about as punk rock as Boomtown Rats, in other words complete bandwagon jumpers cashing in. Even that Larry the Lamb vocalising of Sharkey, he copied, Marc Bolan was doing that even before he formed Tyrannosaurus Rex, in 1966.
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Great days. I saw the Undertones at Hemel Hempstead Pavilion. That venue was demolished years ago, but the music lives on!
Great, saw SLF on st Patricks day 92 in glasgow wonderful gig
I love Teenage Kicks!
Memories...❤
Stiff Little Fingers is one of the best bands for me in 1978. Nice little documentary.
Terri Hooley is a very important figure in Belfast and did more for Northern Ireland than most people there. I remember visiting his most famous shop in Great Victoria Street many times - and his other record shops. He is what we would call in Belfast "a fucking rocket" lol. Sadly he has recently moved out of Belfast to Bangor because of "social problems". Terri changed people's lives.
The Undertones along with Them are in my view the greatest bands to come out of NI. There is still a lot of great bands springing up there today.
I've never seen this before - fantastic stuff! Thank you.
Brilliant video. Thank you
I wish The Undertones could have been Green Day-huge here in the US. "Teenage Kicks" is one of the few perfect songs ever!
Up the rebels. Cheers STV!!
Ah Stevee, shit was real. Had an aunt from Belfast, my dad couldn't go to his brother's wedding because of it. Upside was I was able to call bullshit on religion by the age of 12. Back to the important stuff, the music, brilliant!
All good bands but missing in my heart are the Pogues.
Undertones as punk rock, you must be kidding.
Culture creation by the British state.
More of a side effect maybe.
Yeah, Maggie ghost-wrote all the Undertones songs
@@playlist9980 hehe I don't think you understand. Also look into Island Records and Chris Blackwell. Also look into IRS records and the CIA influence, the CIA created Punk rock movement btw for the same reason. I know it's hard to accept particularly if you're like me and you love all of these groups you can still like them but understand culture creation is a thingThe Police, Dead Kennedys etc. Culture creation. Why do you think Culture Club were called Culture Club. Groups are the way you give heroes to kids that will potentially be radicalised particularly in places like Northern Ireland, same reason they gave us great bands like the pogues
@@utredutredson1686I do think that you are on to something as certain groups/ideas get pushed by the media and record companies. But all bands that come from the grassroots are part of culture control/creation? I don’t agree with that. Social engineering by institutions like the Tavistock Institute have certainly steered society. I suppose it goes back to “are our thoughts really our own?” - we are subjected to propaganda from the moment we are born.
Undertones are about as punk rock as Boomtown Rats, in other words complete bandwagon jumpers cashing in. Even that Larry the Lamb vocalising of Sharkey, he copied, Marc Bolan was doing that even before he formed Tyrannosaurus Rex, in 1966.