The Undertones: Queen's University, Belfast
Gavin Martin, NME, 7 July 1978
ON A NIGHT when one of the world's top bands, Ireland's favourite sons Thin Lizzy, were packing them in at the Ulster Hall, it was no mean feat that a bevy of local talent could draw 500 to Queen's University across the far side of town for a night of raw rock and roll debauchery.
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