The Undertones, True Confessions. Old Grey Whistle Test 1979

"This is the last good song on the programme..."
www.theunderton...

[@bobbaldwin3572]

15 seconds into this when the guitar kicks in is the most exhilarating thing on KZbin

[@kuusiokulma]

Yeah, it makes you instantly go bonkers! I love Undertones! :D

[@derekcorton9163]

100%

[@dizzydolly722]

O'Neill brothers ? ''Pretty Vacant'' has a good intro too.

[@derekcorton9163]

1000 per cent

[@tjwilson2424]

Correct

[@HmmmmNiceBike]

great punk band, I love how they didn't attempt to have some hardcore punk rock image but still kicked ass regardless

[@celticoverall]

Early punk was more just not having long hair, Punk progressed visual wise slowly, 1979 it was all mohicans and sid clones.. best of times though

[@davepostma6736]

still looked like Bootboys here. Bootboys are more hardcore as punks

[@rodeoruz]

All the boys seemed to have a parka like that in the 1970's and the unexpected surprise of seeing a groups frontman/singer wearing one somehow made it very 'punk'. Cool to behold! It's the last thing you'd think someone would wear on stage. Those parka's were two a penny at most provincial town open air markets and were light years away from Vivienne Westwood Seditionaries' 'designer' SW10 Kings Road Chelsea clothes. A rather UN-punk middle class price range there, and by comparison?.... You could swear there was some form of punk statement of intent wearing a parka like that? Great performance!

[@E.C.2]

They were probably cold and needed protection from the weather.

[@elbenni8786]

I had one 😂

[@rodeoruz]

@@elbenni8786Loved parka's, now most kids only want designer brand-ware. A very profound "that was then this is now" comparison of changing times and attitudes.

[@mreokeydokey]

I was a skinhead in 68 69 and the mods wore parkas on their scooters with tiger tails on the back and spot lights on the front. Best days ever😂😎👍

[@rodeoruz]

@@mreokeydokey EVERY boy had a parka during my school days in the late 1960's and 1970's. And they seemed to be affordable to families on the council estate that I lived. Simpler times with close knit communities..... and yes "best days ever" stuff.

[@stevebowness9435]

Wonderful magical band

[@jimirvine5865]

This is the last good song of the programme! Class !

[@cliffcrancher4474]

I like the way he looked slightly embarrassed as he said it, like a naughty schoolboy.

[@E.C.2]

He was busting balls.

[@brucemcelroy134]

Who was on afterwards?

[@thursoberwick1948]

​@@brucemcelroy134Supertramp, Tubeway Army (Gary Numan's band) and the Gordon Gilman band. A bit unfair on Tubeway Army, Numan's decent!

[@TobcioccLeyton]

fantastic band

[@sratus]

Up the Derry boys

[@brucemcelroy134]

If anyone asks me what punk rock sounds like, I point them in the direction of this...

[@carslosmombiela7156]

Simplemente perfectoo!!

[@andreaprodan4432]

Samurai-slashing guitar attack is ORGASMIC!

[@stevewilson9479]

Fantastic..nowt else to say!

[@woodsie2740]

Great performance this,how music should be,live raw energetic enthusiastic from the boys over the water, brill….

[@offroad3607]

Punk, without a doubt.....👍

[@rodneyhull9764]

brill

[@bloodboughtbigphilr8266]

Pioneers of pop punk along with The Buzzcocks but being Irish, I'm going to prefer these boys.

[@nevetsgnil1962]

Awesome band

[@anthonyporter4497]

Cracking song. Right good wee band. This is what music was like before Simon Cowell, crappy Boy Bands and idiotic dance routines spoilt everything.

[@arianrhodhyde7482]

weren't the bay city rollers big in the 70s? trends come and go but crappy music is eternal

[@anthonyporter4497]

Arianrhod Hyde The Bay City Rollers were put together by a Simon Cowan like person. They were TOLD what to wear, what to sing and what to say....they were exploited. The story of the Rollers is in print. Have a read. What I like about bands such as The Undertones is the humour and the doing it themselves punk ethic projected. The Ramones were great too. Probably the best. Regards.

[@E.C.2]

Diversity and feminism killed rock n roll.

[@katelennon6869]

Great song!!!

[@tonynesbit9673]

Proper

[@MinskUK]

No one needed to discus what they would be wearing. 🙂

[@deedeesplectrum9924]

Tremendous stuff.

[@guttersnippeesmithers3905]

Straight of a council estate 👋👋👋

[@justnotrelevant]

❤

[@andygordon3384]

123 GO! 😎

[@leedonnelly6217]

Ah, the halcyon days when creativity and intellectual ideas, rather than fear-porn and sowing seeds of division, were priorities of the BBC. I'd still pay a license fee, if shows like this were still around.

[@rodeoruz]

The BBC was a world leader during its "halcyon days" it was respected, impartial and brilliant at making TV programmes. Now its woke-joke and alas now an appalling/mere imitation of its former self.

[@thursoberwick1948]

There's never been a "TV license", since "license" is the American spelling. Americans don't have TV licences either. American spellcheckers, eh?

[@thursoberwick1948]

​@@rodeoruzHaven't had a licenCe in over fifteen years. Especially not over their scummy treatment of Scotland. (At the time this would have been recorded, the BBC was busy providing biased coverage on the Undertones' native Northern Ireland.)

[@leedonnelly6217]

@@thursoberwick1948 How very pedantik.

[@thursoberwick1948]

@@leedonnelly6217 The best bit is that Americans would never put up with a TV licence.

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

OGWT for the win.

[@dannywlm63]

Probably the first time I saw someone smoking on telly. Great album

[@dogshowish]

New wave music

[@andeez4663]

In the days before wardrobe stylists!

[@francislea4700]

Best ever ? Got to be a bit close IMHO.

[@davidgoodfellow2384]

Brilliant band 🎉undeerrated they didn't wear the punk uniform

[@roomeleven7024]

Graham coxon of blur obviously ripped of John O’Neill’s guitar work here.

[@thisyearsgirl3687]

need to look "cool" for your punk show? Wear your feckin coat.YOU CAN LEAVE AT ANY TIME

[@E.C.2]

Much too young to see em live but they were kick ass. Diversity and feminism killed rock n roll.

[@23715]

Great band idiotic remark.

[@E.C.2]

@@23715 Thank you.

[@garydrew9791]

wernt a punk band

[@FFM0594]

LOL, lived in a city torn by daily riots. More punk than any fakers.

[@BoudicaJ]

Who wasn't? The Undertones? Lol think you'll find you're wrong, Sir.

[@davidstokes5905]

Don't make a fool of yourself with stupid statements.