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The Undertones: the Famous Five go to Finland
Profile by Johnny Black, Smash Hits, August 1981
IN JULY in Helsinki, Finland, the only darkness you can find is inside buildings with no windows. Buildings like the "Travastia Klubi" where the Undertones are ...

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The Undertones: Queen's University, Belfast
Live Review by Gavin Martin, NME, 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 ...

Crash Course in Corruption with The Undertones
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, November 1978
Their record's bubbling under...
...so why aren't they bubbling over? ...

The Undertones: Putting On The Anti Style
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, March 1979
...are the Undertones, Derry's nosethumb to the star system. HARRY DOHERTY helped them bury a few rock myths. ...

The Undertones: The Undertones (Sire).
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, May 1979
FOR SOME reason, this album reminds me of a scene in Kate Bush's live show, the part where she plays a rifle-toting trouble-shooter on 'James And ...

Consuming Passion: The Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers
Profile by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, June 1979
IT seemed like they were the last gigs of the year. Summer’s coming. Exam requests for DLT, college partings for Anne Nightingale, End of the Old ...

The Clash/Undertones/Sam & Dave: The Palladium, NYC
Live Review by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, November 1979
THIS REVIEW is being turned in weeks late, and I know why. After all these years and all these bands, all the disappointing second albums and ...

The Undertones: Hypnotised (Sire)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, July 1980
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING special about the Undertones. They're a motley gang of Irish kids with typical imperfect faces and no visible charismatic presence as individuals; ...

A Better Mousetrap: The Undertones Beat A Path To America’s Door
Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, September 1980
Back in the primordial '70s, a rash of groups moved into the British 45 charts to occupy the places formerly inhabited by the Beatles and the ...

Black Uhuru, Mink De Ville, The Undertones: Roackpalast, Essen, West Germany
Live Review by Richard Cook, NME, October 1981
THESE BIENNIAL all-night Rockpalast bloat-ons are comically close to the idea of a festival mentality geared to Germanic efficiency: You vill be entertained! The groups appear ...

The Undertones reissues
Review by Susan Compo, Mojo, July 1994
The Undertones/Hypnotised/Positive Touch/The Sin Of Pride /The Peel Sessions Album ...

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