Is this the most underrated band ever?

[@peterspence3843]

Hi Danny ,I was the proud owner of your Rickenbacker ,I sold it to tony who then passed it on to you ,i bought it from a bankruptcy auction some years ago and Gordy from Rudy had played it but I can't confirm if Mickey would have ever used it ,it did come from an auction in England and was property of Kenny Jones estate at a time so I'm sure there's a lot of history behind it ,and if I could have put more proof behind it I probably would still own it ,hope this helps a bit ,ps undertones where and still are a great band along with SLF ,,regards pete

[@antoh07]

loving this

[@speedfreakjive8843]

This is so awesome. You're a legend Danny!

[@mdcjstc]

Thank you. Keep up the good work.

[@greybeardbass]

Thanks!

[@theMochaFiend]

I had so much fun watching this video. 5 stars. Bonus points for the cable knit sweater. Great video, Danny.

[@daleskidmore1685]

Danny, your talent is far deeper than maybe the vid shorts have shown. Nice to see you finally coming out from under the bushel. The Undertones are still performing and their songs are timeless.

[@harveylimpopo3042]

They are fantastic Totally underrated Brilliant songs

[@gringogreen4719]

The Undertones are a FANTASTIC hidden gem of a band! Even John Peel has a lyric in his tombstone from them!

[@lucybarney1]

I’m inquisitive what was written on his grave ?

[@cunninglinguist-hu1dz]

​@@lucybarney1Teenage kicks so hard to beat.

[@cunninglinguist-hu1dz]

He was the first DJ to play teenage kicks.

[@gringogreen4719]

@@lucybarney1 "Teenage dreams, so hard to beat." The first line of "Teenage Kicks."

[@kajiwe4776]

@@gringogreen4719 Bit unfortunate, now we all know about his tastes.

[@chrisinfidel]

Saw the Undertones with the Killermeters supporting them at Huddersfield Poly, in the great hall 1979. John Peel was standing next to me

[@StephenMarlow-t5o]

Thanks Danny, really enjoy the channel

[@skasteve6528]

I always think of the Undertones and the Buzzcocks as similar bands. Neither would be considered punk now, but I remember when punk wasn't defined by such a narrow vision. They are both punk bands to their core. Both could write a catchy tune and thoughtful lyrics that spoke to young people at the time (And I should imagine still do today). Great attempt to capture the spirit of the band. The Undertones were vital to the whole of Northern Ireland and opened the door for so many bands and musicians from there. It's good to see Fergal Sharkey still close to his punk roots. If river and waterway activism and caring about your environment isn't punk, I don't know what is.

[@xorpheous]

I love these type videos. 1) I love listening to you play, 2) I love learning about the history of punk. Keep up the amazing work, sir!

[@chikennuggies]

Please more longer videos !!!!!

[@DA-rz2dl]

Really hoping you get backstage!!! It will be rad to see a pic of you back there, even better if you can get some video! Good luck Danny!

[@mattbennett6141]

Love this video and love the Undertones. I always tried (and failed) to recreate that snare and kick sound on my own recordings. Not to mention the guitar tone from that album. Incredible stuff.

[@WillyMcCoy50]

Saw The Undertones at The Showbox on 1st Ave. in Seattle 1980. Just fantastic!

[@MrJambot]

A lovely tribute to a truly fantastic band who still sound fresh. More passion videos please!

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

The Undertones and The Buzzcocks crystalized what would become Punk Pop. I was a Kid at the time both were about in their original form. Unlike most music I loved at the time, I never fell out of love and fell in love again with their music, I always loved it.

[@sammihaka2056]

I didn't realise how closely the Undertones' and the Buzzocks' melodic, upbeat garage band style has been imitated by the modern UK indie and the USA Alt-Rock scenes.

[@cyan2257]

Please do more of these band re-views/ background videos Danny, absolutely love them

[@DavePorterBand]

Thanks for turning me on to The Undertones! Your channel is one of my favs. Keep playin the BEHS!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@Neakenator]

No worries, Danny, we love your cosplays! I personally would love to hear some original songs of yours one day!

[@stephenfoley1261]

They were OK, but no Wham.

[@glynnepritchard2526]

Undertones, love playing their songs. Playing in the ME introducing the locals to punk...

[@frankcarter6427]

first saw them around '77 and last time before covid - they were the best punk band by a mile and still have it

[@marksavage1744]

This band was a big part of my teen years all those decades ago. I still have the vinyl. Power pop/punk at it's finest!

[@samhaines8228]

Feargal Sharkey has such a distinctive voice.

[@TomTomicMic]

Yes it can be best described these days in the upper echelons as "Rent a Gob"!?!

[@Madmax-rz5hz]

His brother Nazgul was better......

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

Fear GAL!

[@petermcgivney2556]

Fergal

[@motorbrads]

Class tribute to a class band. Good stuff. Well played fella.

[@zappasmoustache23]

Brilliant stuff Danny, big love for the undertones. I was a little nipper when they hit big, all the other punk bands were a bit scary but Jimmy JImmy was the talk of the playground when they did it on top of the pops. Was blown away when I rediscovered them in my teens. So many great songs.

[@Camila-c3z]

This just made what I needed today!

[@AmiGuitar]

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[@Mr.CheeseCow]

@@AmiGuitareveryone being a bot today I guess…

[@Melo7849]

Spiky leather jacket gag was hysterical 😂 Good work

[@skidcaesar]

Sapko is the most legit bassman on YT. CHEERS from the American Midwest.

[@pedruxxo]

Good afternoon,Danny,congratulations by your video,cheers and have a nice weekend for you and #BEHS4ever!!!!

[@hegemonycricket2182]

Great vid! Love the longer vids, deep dives, great bands... How about a deep dive on The Zutons? Day one of asking for a video on The Zutons

[@TheGibby3340]

Undertones and Stiff Little Fingers make for an interesting study in contrast of that moment in History & Music.

[@shannonbilger5301]

Definitely

[@luiszuluaga6575]

In times of great social unrest come solutions from opposite sides of the coin. 😁

[@trevorsmith9220]

Brought a tear to my eye and took me back to messing about on the streets . Cool vid Mr Sapko

[@MikeBracewell]

I could not agree more. They were first rate players with great and, often really funny songs, and Fergal was the icing on the cake. Brilliant band. John Peel knew a goodun when he saw them.

[@danmanns2923]

Nice one Danny! I love The Undertones, especially 'It's Gonna Happen.' which I'm convinced I remember being played as an eight year old when it came out in 1981...keep up the good work mate 👍🏼

[@HoboHike]

Brilliant video Danny! Love the Undertones! Perhaps a Protex video should be in the works?

[@BellsCuriosityShop]

Always thought they were like Buzzcocks. Loved the Mars Bar song. Wore a Rudi t-shirt to SLF/Damned/Skids show in Belfast last week.

[@unclemick-synths]

Mars Bar - great song! Unfortunately I had to switch to Twix IRL because Mars bars rotted my teeth 😭

[@tac0_brax]

these long form videos really are something to behold! great playing and i love your yamaha 😍

[@joelythgoe4973]

Yes they are! Brilliant stuff Danny, this 65 year old enjoyed your article very much, I loved them then and I love them still. My favourite tracks are too numerous to mention but 'Let's Talk About Girls' and 'You've Got My Number' are totally riffalicious. It's also worth a shout to say how completely brilliant 'That Petrol Emotion' were. For me, absolutely one of the best bands in the late 80's and the 90's, especially "End of the Millenium Psychosis Blues'. 😁

[@clairegresswell]

I used to live on the border between Holmfirth & Scholes. Glorious countryside in a house that I literally helped to build, which led to a career in Project Management. I hope you enjoyed the gig 😊

[@willtupholme378]

Great review and also great band! I remember digging through my pop's record collection after finding an old record player in the trash and seeing them. They look liked a bunch of dorks with cut off bellbottoms, red docs and knitted sweaters. After hearing them though I grabbed a pair of bellbottoms cut them at the shins and went searching for some red docs.

[@FreakyRufus]

I really like your videos where you do your own full versions of your favorite songs.

[@scottbubb2946]

I was watching a video earlier and, as I read the comments, I saw this from some random dude and I wrote it down... "Punk isn't about using your brain. It's about using your heart to make music, just like the Blues."

[@RobScenity]

Great quote! My favorite quote - "If you say you used to be Punk, then you never were."

[@amnas69]

Good enough for John Peel, good enough for me.

[@spotcatsteve3752]

Music or the school girls ?😮

[@vinnieramone4818]

Your singing makes me want to hear a Yorkshire version of Slade

[@SD_UK]

SLEHD

[@NuVibes.]

Cum'on feel't'noize.

[@kimmern999]

@@SD_UK This made me giggle. 😊

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Oh that would be awesome! 👍🏻 I'll second that motion.

[@I-Libertine]

I was JUST thinking of Slade!!!

[@elom44]

Always quality content.

[@eddienothing9610]

Wednesday Week was the first song I'd heard by them (bought the single when it was still fairly new just cause I liked the cover art lol). Still my favorite song by them

[@kevinturvey8213]

there i've monetised you !

[@rankenfile]

Great video. Thanks for putting the work in on this.

[@klauswagner2909]

Danke!

[@seanmeisner3190]

I'd never heard The Undertones until Bob Dylan played "Wednesday Week" on one of his radio show episodes. I immediately introduced that song to my bandmates, and we still often perform it. I've been a fan of their music ever since, and I agree that they're an underrated band.

[@andreasmortensen6809]

I’ve never heard of this band before, but they sound really great. Kudos!

[@martynjoyce2431]

Great video Danny - more of this please!

[@kenmearns6164]

Danny, that was brilliant. You're a paragon of talent👍.......... I'm just back from the pub, so 'paragon' was the only word I could conjure up☺️

[@Yardbird1968]

I just love this band❤❤❤

[@KSacki]

Spacemen 3 - "Losing touch with my mind" Behs tone please! loving that longer video. entertaining and great playing

[@solidsneakie]

Saw the Undertones supporting the Saw Doctors in Manchester this year. What a night!

[@sniffrat3646]

Would you believe I also couldn't suss out that chord? Solved now!

[@LeftyPem]

100% agree. These guys need so much more recognition.

[@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023]

I attended a lot of Rush and Van Halen concerts, among others, way back in the fun 1980s. The Bee Gees concert was incredible and I have to consider them one of the most underrated bands in history.

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

is that an SG1000? love them

[@davidmiller6504]

I remember discovering this band on the Peel show. Simple sounding but impossible for me to break down the parts on my Woolworths electric guitar (the family radiogram was 'modified' to serve as an amplifier). Your skill and passion shine through sir.

[@gavinw5784]

They were looking back almost a 1960s garage punk band, later even bringing in a farfisa organ sound. First band I ever saw. I ripped their first lp sleeve off the wall of Tiffanys Coventry and got Feargal's autograph the rest of the band scurried past me before I could ask anyone else. The only autograph I EVER asked for.

[@johnmontgomery157]

As a lifelong UT fan that was quite special, thank you ❤ Can you do The Damned next🙏

[@NessieJapan]

Smashing cover of Hypnotized, which has a real Buzzcocks feel. Wednesday Week and Julie Ocean are also outstanding songs, as well as You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).

[@gerardmclernon8149]

Thanks

[@daverice2426]

I have a friend who grew up in Denmark and as a kid loved the song "I'm Terry the Lobster", didn't know it was "Alternative Ulster" until she was well into her 20s

[@johnhodgetts2111]

They were great, but the band that the guitarists were involved in afterwards was also great, and criminally underrated: That Petrol Emotion. Check out 'big decision' or 'under the sky'. Great songs.

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

Hi Danny I'll be there on Wednesday been a fan since I heard the "hypnotised" album aged 9 in 1980. Never seen them. Really looking forward to it

[@tonydalton459]

If any of you haven’t heard the O’Neill brothers follow up band, That Petrol Emotion, they are also well worth checking out. Their song Sensitise, for example, would have been a smash chart hit in a sane world. Then there’s A Natural Kind of Joy, It’s a Good Thing, Cellophane, Big Decision, the list goes on.

[@michaelpfogerty]

They certainly were one of the BEST DRESSED bands out there. Ireland must have had some killer department stores. Slick dudes 😎

[@williampaquet6573]

I discovered them in 1980 while listening to a bootleg tape of an interview with SQUEEZE where they mentioned the Undertones new record being produced by Roger Bechirian who also worked with SQUEEZE. I immediately sought out their records (not an easy feat in 1980 US suburbs). They became and remain one of my favorite bands from the period.

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

The second song you played _really_ made me think of a number of 'They Might Be Giants songs', notably 'Twisting'.

[@olivierlusseyran]

Thank you Danny for this great post.

[@yokosomike]

Wednesday Week … my best punk rock friend in the 80s was named “Wednesday”… she was almost homeless and I would let her hang out at my place while I was studying design in Denver. When I got home, she always vacuumed and washed the dishes. We always played “Wednesday Week” as her theme song. Today nearly forty years later, she is still one of my best friends… married with kids living in Italy… me married and living in Tokyo. Life is funny!

[@michaelschmichael3973]

Under hypnosis- so great! Still sounds great! Nice cover mate

[@timhebden-cl1yr]

Fantastic video. Can I suggest you check out The Chords. They supported The Undertones on occasions. Much underrated band, that should have been huge. Handful of singles and one fantastic album.

[@aaronstonebeat]

How about Glen Matlock? I think he deserves some recognition. Love your work. Good luck!

[@antoh07]

Undertones are still great, I never miss a Dublin gig when they play. Loving the iconic Yamaha SG, I'd love one..

[@charlesgrey8651]

Aaah, reliving it trough this vid, cheers Danny. Keep it Behs-ic✌

[@billybobbassman]

I loved that the drummer could never stop grinning while everyone else looked hard and serious. Great band 🤘 Btw, I thought he played an Azurglo Ricky?

[@MattyandtheMusic]

I was briefly in a band called Chord Undertone whatever that means. It was just a college project I was thrown into and the guitarists rarely turned up to rehearsal and didn’t play well. I didn’t even know the name of the band until we performed and I was thinking if the other members knew. The Undertones are great!!!

[@SD_UK]

Fkin' brilliant \O/

[@SomeWelshBloke]

Have you seen the film Good Vibrations? all about Northern Ireland punk scene well worth a watch for any 'tones fan

[@jacqueline1598]

The Undertones! Danny knows. 🔥😎

[@KingoRichie1990]

I've always preferred Stiff Little Fingers when it comes to Irish punk bands. The Undertones were amazing though.

[@SleepBeforeYouThink]

You beat me to it, although I like them both. I was going to leave a comment saying Stiff Little Fingers is another Northern Irish band who came out during the troubles and represented 70s Punk in an authentic way, and as much as I love bands like Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Clash, Ramones they couldn’t. because The Undertones and Stiff Kittle Fingers were living in a war zone (to be fair to The Ramones growing up in Queens NYC isn’t the safest either). Anyway The Undertones aren’t the only ones.

[@brimans3092]

The Undertones hated Stiff Little Fingers because SLF were told what to do by their dodgy manager...

[@SleepBeforeYouThink]

@@brimans3092 ok? I like SLF more, their music is heavier.

[@dankers12]

I enjoy your enthusiasm.

[@imaginecreate09]

Great to see you up the front in Holmfirth tonight.....hope u had a fun night

[@BIGJOHNEFFECTS]

Great work Danny!!!

[@dobs407]

so proud to be from the same city as them!

[@ralphwest8156]

Fantastic ' what a great tribute to such a great band ' ...you got Feargal off to a T '

[@nickjacobs1770]

Another underrated band is Squeeze.

[@unclemick-synths]

Especially the early stuff before they got too Beatlesy for my tastes. Cool For Cats is a perfect snapshot of the times, "The Sweeney's doin' 90 cos they've got the word to go. They get a gang of villains in a shed up at Heathrow..." So true, the missus always DID look the bleedin' same! Great show! 😎

[@willtupholme378]

Glenn Tilbrook is my favourite guitar player and Chris Difford is my favourite songwriter then they also had the most stacked band of all time with Gilson Lavis and Jools Holland not to mention the strangest bass playing of all time

[@gavinw5784]

Squeeze aint ever punk more pub

[@willtupholme378]

@@gavinw5784 who here said squeeze was punk?

[@HypnoNett]

The Undertones were all shades of awesomeness

[@bobgreen8142]

I loved the old Thunderbones back in the day, like Buzzcocks they had that pop sensibility and weren't bothered about their punk credentials. I will have to revisit their records. It's going to happen.

[@TheNamesGunk]

Such a good band. Feargal had a pretty interesting solo career as well.

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

Loved the Undertones!!

[@TFEnright5]

If you’re talking Irish punk bands, I would probably go for Stiff Little Fingers, but the Undertones are good too

[@curtbaracuda2848]

Your impression of the struggling, slighty disoriented Bassist is bang on. Bing like "what do they mean by 'count 4 bars and then change to C'? When it feels right I simply place my index finger over there and it sounds just fine" 👏😃

[@lamenzies]

Brilliant live act and perfect pop punk. They sit on the same shelf as the Buzzcocks for me.

[@allendean9807]

I think you’d really like a music project my childhood friend did a few years back, named The Losin’ Streaks. The crash meets Hendrix, with my buddy, Mike Farrell’s insanely stellar guitar work