Ad from ZigZag Magazine, 1979
 
In November 1979, BBC Northern Ireland aired the premiere of Green Rock, a six-week TV series devoted to Irish groups. The first act on the show was not, pace broadcaster Mike Edgar, Celtic rockers Horslips, but Derry’s mighty punk five-piece, the Undertones.

Captured mid-hurtle between their 1979 debut and 1980’s Hypnotised, the ‘tones blasted through their lovesick juvenilia with maximum pain and pleasure. The set includes two of their “girls talk” songs (“Girls That Don’t Talk” and “The Way Girls Talk,” though not their cover of the Chocolate Watchband’s “Let’s Talk About Girls”) and the single I personally find more affecting than “Teenage Kicks,” “You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It).” All that’s missing is “Male Model.”
 

At Creggan in Derry, 1977 (via Aural Sculptors)
 
The reunited Undertones—minus their original tremulous voice, Feargal Sharkey, who says he only sings to annoy his children these days—have UK dates booked through November. A remix of “Get Over You” by Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine will be released as a seven-inch in October.

The set list:

Interview (1:05)
“Family Entertainment” (3:55)
“I Gotta Getta” (6:30)
“Girls That Don’t Talk” (8:25)
“Whizz Kids” (10:35)
“See That Girl” (12:50)
“Nine Times Out Of Ten” (14:40)
“The Way Girls Talk” (16:53)
“You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It)” (19:20)
“Get Over You” (22:00)
“True Confessions” (25:15)