Undertones


 * Related page: Teenage Kicks

Derry band whose Teenage Kicks is the song most closely associated with John Peel. Reformed in the early 21st century without original singer Feargal Sharkey, recorded a new Peel session and returned to the Festive Fifty.

Festive Fifty Entries

 * Get Over You (1979, #12; 1980, #17; 1981, # 20; 1982 all-time, #36)
 * Jimmy Jimmy (1979, #31)
 * Oh Please (2003, #22)
 * Teenage Kicks (1978, #10; 1979, #2; 1980, #7; 1981, #6; 1982 all-time, #8; 2000 all-time, #2)
 * Thrill Me (2003, #4)
 * You've Got My Number (1979, #29)

Peelenium

 * 1978: Teenage Kicks

Sessions
1. Recorded 1978-10-01. First broadcast 16 October 1978. Repeated ?


 * Get Over You / Top 20 / She Can Only Say No / Male Model

2. Recorded 1979-01-22. First broadcast 05 February 1979. Repeated 29 August 1979.


 * Listening In / Family Entertainment / Billy's Third / Here Comes The Summer

3. 1979-05-07. First broadcast 11 June 1979. Repeated 26 June 1979.


 * Nine Times Out Of Ten / The Way Girls Talk / Whiz Kids / Top 20

4. Recorded 1980-01-21. First broadcast 23 January 1980. Repeated 11 February 1980 / 10 March 1980.


 * Girls That Don't Talk / Tearproof / What's With Terry? / Rock 'n' Roll

5. Recorded 1980-11-16. First broadcast 09 December 1980. Repeated ?


 * The Positive Touch / You're Welcome / When Saturday Comes

6. Recorded 1982-11-08. First broadcast 07 December 1982. Repeated ?


 * Untouchable / The Love Parade / Luxury / The Sin Of Pride

7. Recorded 2003-05-14. First broadcast 14 May 2003. Repeated ?


 * Everything But You / Thrill Me / I Need Your Love The Way It Used To Be / Girl Like You

Featured in shows
(The list below is incomplete. Please add further details if known.)

1978


 * 12 September 1978: Teenage Kicks EP (all songs)
 * 14 September 1978: Teenage Kicks
 * 15 September 1978: Teenage Kicks
 * 25 September 1978: Teenage Kicks - played twice
 * 29 September 1978: Teenage Kicks (EP) Good Vibrations
 * 03 October 1978: Teenage Kicks Good Vibrations
 * 13 October 1978: Teenage Kicks (7”) Sire
 * 27 October 1978: Teenage Kicks Good Vibrations
 * 31 October 1978: Teenage Kicks

1979


 * 01 January 1979: Teenage Kicks F50 #10
 * 15 January 1979: Get Over You (7") Sire
 * 17 January 1979: Really Really (7” – Get Over You) Sire
 * 18 January 1979: Get Over You (7") Sire
 * 25 January 1979: Get Over You (7") Sire SIR 4010
 * 14 February 1979: Get Over You (single)
 * 19 March 1979: Teenage Kicks (7”) Sire
 * 16 April 1979: Teenage Kicks
 * 23 April 1979: Family Entertainment / Girls Don't Like It / Male Model / I Gotta Getta / Wrong Way / Jump Boys / Here Comes The Summer (LP - The Undertones) Sire (complete first side)
 * 24 April 1979: Billy's Third / Jimmy Jimmy / True Confessions / (She's A) Runaround / I Know A Girl / Listening In / Casbah Rock (LP - The Undertones) Sire (complete second side)
 * 30 April 1979: Male Model (LP - The Undertones) Sire
 * 08 May 1979: I’ve Gotta Getta (LP – The Undertones) Sire
 * 14 May 1979: Family Entertainment (LP - The Undertones) Sire
 * 13 June 1979: I Know A Girl (LP - The Undertones) Sire
 * 02 July 1979: One Way Love (single - Here Comes The Summer b-side) Sire
 * 02 July 1979: Top Twenty (single - Here Comes The Summer b-side)
 * 17 July 1979: Here Comes The Summer (single) Sire
 * 26 July 1979: Here Comes The Summer (single) Sire
 * 20 August 1979 Jimmy Jimmy
 * 29 August 1979: Jimmy Jimmy
 * 30 August 1979: Teenage Kicks
 * 30 August 1979: Get Over You
 * 18 September 1979: Girls Don't Like It
 * 24 September 1979: (She’s A) Runaround (LP – The Undertones) Sire
 * 25 September 1979: You've Got My Number (single) Sire
 * 25 September 1979: Let’s Talk About Girls (single – You’ve Got My Number b-side) Sire
 * 27 September 1979: You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It) (single) Sire
 * 08 October 1979: You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)
 * 09 October 1979: Let’s Talk About Girls (single – You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It)) Sire
 * 11 October 1979: You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It?) (single) Sire
 * 16 October 1979: You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use it) (single) Sire
 * 22 October 1979: Let’s Talk About Girls (single – You’ve Got My Number) Sire
 * 23 October 1979: Undertones: You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It) (single) Sire
 * 07 November 1979: You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)
 * 21 November 1979: (She's A) Runaround
 * 27 November 1979: I Gotta Getta (LP - The Undertones) Sire
 * 03 December 1979: Listening In (LP - The Undertones) Sire
 * 05 December 1979: I Know A Girl (LP - The Undertones) Sire
 * 06 December 1979: Billy's Third (LP - The Undertones) Sire
 * 13 December 1979: (She's A) Runaround
 * 13 December 1979: Girls Don't Like It (LP - The Undertones) Sire
 * 24 December 1979: Jimmy Jimmy F50 #31
 * 26 December 1979: You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?) F50 #29

1980


 * 01 January 1980: Teenage Kicks F50 #2
 * 11 January 1979: Get Over You (7”) Sire
 * 11 January 1979: Really Really (7” – Get Over You) Sire
 * 11 January 1979: She Can Only Say No (7” – Get Over You) Sire
 * 15 January 1979: Get Over You (7”) Sire
 * 18 March 1980: My Perfect Cousin (Single) Sire
 * 20 March 1980: My Perfect Cousin (Single) Sire
 * 24 March 1980: My Perfect Cousin (Single) Sire
 * 31 March 1980: Teenage Kicks
 * 03 April 1980: Boys Will Be Boys (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 07 April 1980: Hypnotised (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 07 April 1980: What's With Terry? (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 07 April 1980: See That Girl (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 08 April 1980: Nine Times Out Of Ten (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 09 April 1980: More Songs About Chocolate And Girls (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 10 April 1980: The Way Girls Talk (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 14 April 1980: Girls That Don't Talk (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 15 April 1980: What's With Terry? (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 29 April 1980: There Goes Norman (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 08 May 1980: Wednesday Week (LP - Hypnotised) Sire
 * 29 December 1980: Get Over You F50 #17
 * 30 December 1980: Teenage Kicks F50 #7

1981


 * 11 May 1981: His Goodlooking Girlfriend (LP - Positive Touch)
 * 14 May 1981: You're Welcome (LP - Positive Touch)
 * 15 September 1981: 'What's With Terry? (LP-Hypnotised)' (Sire)
 * 29 December 1981: Get Over You F50 #20
 * 30 December 1981: Teenage Kicks F50 #6

1982


 * 14 October 1982: The Love Parade (single)
 * 21 October 1982: The Love Parade (single)
 * 15 November 1982: Jimmy Jimmy (7") Sire SIR 4015

1983


 * 09 March 1983: Valentine's Treatment (LP - The Sin Of Pride) Ardeck
 * 09 March 1983: Luxury (LP - The Sin Of Pride) Ardeck
 * 09 March 1983: Bye Bye Baby Blue (LP - The Sin Of Pride) Ardeck
 * 23 March 1983: The Sin Of Pride (LP - The Sin Of Pride) Ardeck
 * 13 September 1983: Girls That Don't Talk

1989


 * 09 November 1989: Family Entertainment (LP - The Undertones) Sire

1991

1992 1993 1994 16 August 1994 (BBC World Service)
 * 12 January 1991: Teenage Kicks
 * 16 May 1992: Teenage Kicks
 * 10 September 1993 (BFBS): My Perfect Cousin (single)

1997


 * 01 October 1997: Teenage Kicks

1999


 * 30 November 1999: Teenage Kicks Peelenium 1978

2000


 * 08 March 2000: Jimmy Jimmy (single) Sire
 * 14 September 2000: Jimmy Jimmy (compilation album - True Confessions (Singles=A’s+B’s))

2003


 * 21 May 2003: Thrill Me (7") (For Us) - played twice
 * 10 June 2003: Thrill Me (7") For Us

Links

 * www.theundertones.com: John Peel page
 * Wikipedia entry
 * BBC Peel site: Undertones page