The Undertones - It´s Going to Happen!

Live, this might be in Munich, 9-30-81. Please inform me if you know for sure the date and locale.

[@Fratoue]

Incredible tune and passion

[@loicorrado]

One of a few songs that I can listen a lot of times in a day and never bored.

[@pbsteamatspeed7683]

"Everything goes when you're dead, everything empties from what was in your head".....genius lyrics, wonderful music, different times but never forgotten.

[@pauldunneska]

It was about the H-Block hunger strikers.

[@texluh]

​​​​@@pauldunneskait indeed was. And it had been written explicitly about the hunger strikes - and the chorus was unchanged - but not only was the writer unhappy with the directness of the lyrics but the quality of them. So he gave the lyrics to his brother to improve. And he wrote them and said, in a 2000 or 2002 documentary which is on KZbin (two docs similar lengths and titles but different) that he made each verse about a 'person vaguely in trouble' Since in fact they implied the initial lyrics weren't very good, perhaps even the scraps of paper can't be found. I took the liberty today of imagining what the lyrics (verses) may have been instead : Watching from his cold window Waiting and feeling and thinking his heart through No change of heart nor of mind Go through with this and they'll pay you in kind Watching it all waste away Each day expecting he might get a stay Deternined to change all that's wrong Hungry and tired and you're taking them on Everything goes when you're dead Everything empties from what was in your head No point in taking the dark Without fighting and freeing and making your mark

[@pauldunneska]

​@texluh alot of effort put in that comment. Thanks.

[@AnetteRoller]

Hey there. Yes, it is Munich and it is...was the 30th of September 1981. Alabamahalle. And I missed it as I only was 8 at that time.....I still could cry, thinking about it... Greetings from Munich!!!

[@cathalmacsiurdain7762]

Classic track from The Undertones. Always fancied John O' Neill to write lots and lots of songs. That track is taken from a wonderful Undertones album.

[@leejoliver]

Great record this - always liked it - had no idea it was originally about the hunger strikes

[@anneliamohara2842]

Yes it was , fair play to them .

[@johnallen4176]

Great feargal sounds great live.

[@christophermagill3935]

Fuckin great tune, like a reggae enthused Smiths

[@inanortherntown]

a reggae enthused Smiths lol im picturing morrisey with dreads

[@whipsmartchris]

God this is just so fucking great!!

[@brianmackie8480]

It's about the 10 hunger strikers in the maze prison that Maggie Thatcher let starve to death. Aimed at the British government.

[@pauldunneska]

Exactly!

[@RMSBraves95]

He fell and kept singing...awesome

[@patrickcollins8926]

Feargal!!

[@SteveRes]

awesome clip

[@JavierLopez-vs9yz]

Undtns forever

[@modernmartyr]

feargal the class

[@jtsotherone]

2:47 - did he know THAT was going to happen?

[@moochcassidy202]

I'm a fan so I love this. But... look at the hack of them

[@dermot51]

Their fucking 'stylish' here not a Doc Marten ,' 'three star' jumper or pair of Wrangler 'parallels' in sight

[@broadband0118]

Better than the Beatles!

[@siriusstarz4794]

Talk about double edge sword.

[@peterjongeneel8223]

Fan fuckin tastique !

[@johnfeehan7502]

Tiocfaidh ar la

[@pauldunneska]

Tiocfaidh ár lá.

[@siriusstarz4794]

It's gonna happen or not, gonna suck either way. :-\