Jimmy Jimmy Here Comes The Summer My Perfect Cousin The Undertones in ttt 142

Hello Hello to all you wonderful Hivians and music lovers

There's always an Undertone

In keeping with finding something that piques my interest and has a music theme to it, this week for ttt it is a brilliant band The Undertones.

Which got me thinking that I have not played on threetunetuesday before.

I am sure some of you will recognise the first song if not the band!

Anyway back we go and I bring you the Northern Irish punk/ indie rock band The Undertones!

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It is Tuesday and that of course means that it's #ttt or #threetunetuesday and so it's time to share some tunes with you!

As you know I love drawing in inspiration from many places for my three tune tuesday post.

@ablaze started #ttt 142 weeks ago! Go check out what it is all about on his latest post Thomas Chambers for Three Tune Tuesday - Week 142 - 11 HBI shares to be won!

Do go support @ablaze as without him we would not have this mental fun musical activity that you can win HSBI from! I am happy to be one of the ELEVEN sponsors and it is kinda fun checking out music from all over this global village of ours!

Long live #ttt 😁🎼 and #threetunetuesday

Today we are going back to Northern Ireland in the late 70s and early 80s.

The Undertones were formed in 1975 in Derry in Northern Ireland.

The Undertones inspired ttt

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

Probably their most famous was their first song released in 1976.

Fun fact

This is John Peel's favourite ever song... To many John Peel was one of the best ever old school DJs along with Annie Nightingale who passed away recently.

Play it loud and feel free to pogo -- you know you want to.

Actually there is a reason why we are listening to The Undertones apart from they are a band I like!

The Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy

Beginning in February 1976 the group, at this stage still unnamed, began playing gigs at various minor local venues, including schools, parish halls and Scout huts.

Scout huts because their lead singer, Feargal Sharkey, was a local Scout leader.

It is because of Fergal Sharkey that we have this ttt.

He has become a bit of an activist. The water companies here are in the news because of the huge bonuses the CEOs are getting. Yet they have sewage leaks into our water supplies.

Fergal has been voicing all our concerns!

The Undertones - Here's Comes The Summer

The UK and weather, it is February and yes I wish it was the Summer, oh well at least we have our music!

And just like the British Summer, Here Comes The Summer is fluffing short!

Like so many good bands they disbanded in 1983 apparantly Sharkey didn't like the direction they were goin...

So he had a solo career the other band members formed That Petrol Emotion who had a fairly decent career too.

I hope that you enjoyed these The Undertones tunes.

Bonus Track ~ The Undertones - My perfect cousin

Which was your favourite (if any) ?

Note: The three four YouTube videos that I have shared are not owned by me, I am simply spreading great music on Hive.

I wish that you all have a brilliant rest of your week, and until we meet again enjoy your tunes 🎶🎵🎶

All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated. Lead Image generated by pixlr AI generator from my prompt.

DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND DO IT OFTEN

Haste Ye Back!

@tengolotodo February 13th 2024