Concert: The Undertones @ Kleiner Elserhalle

Obviously I don't know this band.
Only really really really old people born waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before me would know this band.
And the Irish.
But still, it's the bloody Undertones?!?
Here Comes the Summer.
Teenage Kicks.
My Perfect Cousin.
Blimey.
18,95€ plus agency costs is a bargain for a trip down memory lane* I guess. Borrowed memories that is, I mean, people of a suitable age will be home with their cocoa, right?
MünchenTicket (not yet on sale), Propeller Music Promotion info.

*No Feargal and his fine fringe tho

Feargal Sharkey must be 15 years old by now...

Has to be just about the best name ever, that.

This looks like fun. Last saw them in 1978 in a pub. They were fuckin' great too. One of the best 25 pence's I ever spent on a gig.

Well I am supposed to be at a party but I am sat at home reading Toytown, so I think I qualify pretty well for the cocoa-sipping brigade. This night is therefore a must for me. I have never seen the Undertones but did see That Petrol Emotion once and they were great. I remember being completely in awe as two (former) Undertones walked past me.

Somebody get me a ticket on account of me being out of the country for nearly all of November. I'll sort you out on the night.

is he not joining them?

If you'd read the link to Propeller Music Promotion info in the opening post, then you'd know why no Feargal.

Do you know if they'll go on to Vienna?

Don't think I know them either. I have an uneasy feeling I might have been born waaaaaaaaaay before the really really really old people who would know this band. Should I go to this, or better to stay home with my cocoa?

I saw them opening for Byran Adams in 2001 (I think it was Belfast). Inspired my brother enough to buy the CD.

Nah! Let's pogo for a few seconds until we're knackered and then mount our zimmer frames and throw slippers and spit cocoa at them while coughing our lungs out.

NURSE!

Oh well, I'll think about it. It's over my side of town - could probably manage it in the wheelchair.

Bugger. Why didn't I see this earlier. Excellent excellent music from way back when.
What's cocoa anyway.

Something the whippersnappers and ankle-biters think us distinguished, experienced rockers drink, but it's got no alcohol content, so it's obviously not for the likes of us.

lovely -"my perfect cousin","mars bars", "here comes the summer", "its going to happen"...John Peel of Radio One wanted "teenage kicks through the night" on his headstone, if thats not reason enough to go, i dont know what is

The Undertones Teenage Kicks



Just had to post this...

Anyone meeting up for this? I shall aim to drop by at Juleps in Haidhausen around 7-ish for a quick one, as the Friday Beer Garden crowd will be there. Will depend what time I escape from work though.

Bit late to be posting this (I was offline for a few days), but just in case anyone was wondering how it went...

The gig was in the small Elserhalle. I got there a bit late, around 8:30. On the stage were four 40-something year-old teenagers, one bashing away on a drum kit, and the others seemed to have just picked up electric guitars and a bass for the first time in their lives, and were discovering that you can make a hell of a noise if you whack the strings with full force in a rhythmical fashion. One of them was also uttering words in a completely atonal manner which I hesitate to describe as singing. Whatever. At any rate they seemed to be having a good time. Not so sure about the crowd though. Well, "crowd" is maybe not the right word. People standing around in twos and threes with plenty of breathing space in between, most of them riveted to the spot like stone pillars in true Teutonic fashion.

It was as I feared. I am waaaayyy too old to know this band. Listened to a few numbers, then suddenly the guy was saying, "This is our last song for tonight". What? It's only 9 p.m. Only one hour? Oh well, I'd listened to enough anyway. As I left they were starting an encore, but cocktails at Juleps was more enticing. Dunno what to make of this kind of music. Far too sophisticated for me. Or, as someone said later at Juleps, "You had to be there in the UK at the time". Somehow, I don't have too many regrets that I wasn't.