The Undertones

...and an Audience Award. The deadline to submit is December 4. SXSW Music will welcome Feargal Sharkey, the former lead singer in The Undertones who, as Chief Executive of UK Music - the umbrella organization that brings together the...

In this article: Austin, UK, Feargal Sharkey, London, Texas, Spotify, Platinum, Academy Award, and UK Trade & Investment

...ensue over what has been sacrilegiously passed over. As far as I'm concerned, however, it was a thoroughly welcome decision to avoid The Undertones' 'Teenage Kicks'. Not that I have anything against the track itself, but the way it was...

In this article: John Peel, A Forest, Lazy Sunday, Teenage Kicks, Song Sung Blue, The Datsuns, Thin Lizzy, and Elvis Costello

...used to work at the music store of Good Vibrations, the Belfast record label which first signed The Undertones. He said: "Three of us in the band grew up in Belfast, and it means a lot coming from when we grew up. It was about the only band...

In this article: Snow Patrol, Jonny Quinn, Teenage Kicks, Belfast, Good Vibrations, Gary Lightbody, Good Vibrations, Jimi Hendrix, and David Bowie

...comes to those who steadfastly refuse to pay, hit them hard." Sharkey hit the big time in 1976 as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones, famous for the hit single "Teenage Kicks", discovered by John Peel, the late DJ. He...

In this article: Feargal Sharkey, Itunes, Teenage Kicks, John Peel, and UK

Later, Armstrong wriggles on the floor, mingling lines from 'The Saints Are Coming', the band's 2006 collaboration with U2, and The Undertones' 'Teenage Kicks' (having earlier played the opening bars to 'The Boys are Back in Town').

In this article: Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong, The Saints Are Coming, Longview, The Boys Are Back in Town, Teenage Kicks, Punter, Romeo and Juliet, and Mike Dirnt

...Blair said he had no idea and immediately apologised to Doyle." How very Ricky Gervais. Ding a ling. It's a phone call from The Undertones, ringing in to correct a story in last week's paper. They say that Feargal Sharkey's got it all wrong...

In this article: Tony Blair, Feargal Sharkey, John O'Neill, Charles Powell, Cherry, and Vatican

...31 years after its release. Speaking at a literary festival in Woodstock, Sharkey, founder and former lead singer of the 1970s band The Undertones, said the lyrics had to be changed because of censorship at the time. The line 'I wanna...

In this article: Feargal Sharkey, Teenage Kicks, Seamus Heaney, Orgasm Addict, My Ding-a-Ling, John Peel, Chuck Berry, Eminem, and Buzzcocks

Three decades after song's release, The Undertones founder reveals lyrics changed to dodge censors Hailed by John Peel as the "best pop song of all time", "Teenage Kicks" was originally about masturbation, its creator, Feargal Sharkey,...

In this article: Feargal Sharkey, Teenage Kicks, Seamus Heaney, Orgasm Addict, My Ding-a-Ling, Barney Hoskyns, John Peel, and Chuck Berry

...goal threat and slice of luck to trouble Arsene Wenger's visitors. Glasgow was full of song last night, hardly surprising with U2 and The Undertones in town, and Celtic fans were in full voice until Arsenal silenced them. Song -- Arsenal's...

In this article: Celtic, Arsenal, William Gallas, Tony Mowbray, Cesc Fabregas, Scott Brown, Marc-Antoine Fortune, Gary Caldwell, and Glenn Loovens

...can now be found in the Premier League's most famous art department. Glasgow was full of song, hardly surprising with U2 and The Undertones in town, and Celtic fans were in full voice for a while but the most important one was Alex Song,...

In this article: Celtic, Arsenal, Cesc Fabregas, Gary Caldwell, Tony Mowbray, Scott Brown, Alex Song, William Gallas, and Thomas Vermaelen