stote007, you forgot to mention the lush green meadows, the warm hospitality and friendly banter, the excellent cuisine... I could go on forever.

My loudest eardrum splitting experience was actually at a soundcheck. The Ramones were in town so I crept into the Odeon and parked myself on the back row, hoping to catch a preview of da bruvvers in action. My apparent comfort was soon to be shattered by the sound engineer sticking a Motorhead album on and blasting it out at full volume (definitely at 11). After about half an hour of pain (my head was splitting and my ears felt like they were bleeding) I couldn't take any more - I just had to get out of the place. Stuff meeting the band. I like noise but this was way over the top. The gig later didn't seem quite so loud, but that was probably cos I was still in lip reading mode. In general, gigs seem to be not so loud these days.

Quietest gig was The Adverts at Coleraine NUU - cos they didn't turn up. They decided to do Top of the Pops instead. Very punk rock. Not my favourite band. However, due to their non appearance we got the 'disco' to end all discos, with every punk classic you could think of. A great night of pogoing, and no need to worry about having to ask a girl to dance. Great! Pogoing was the perfect adolescent male's dance.

New member just want to say HELLO.If the kids hadn,t wanted a P.C this year i would never have known about this site.Looking forward to see the Tones in concert again.Best concert seen has to be Glasgow Apollo 1980,ROCKED the place to its foundations,well it must have been good they knocked the place down shortly after.Anyway looking forward to see the Tones again,been telling my wife for years how good they are now she can see for herself.Looking forward to some Irish hospitality,hope its not to long to the next concert.If Billy D. reads this still got the sticks you sent me in 1995,my treasured possesions,CHEERS from LEWIS.

welcome lewis great to have you on the site.theres allso a chat room some us go in to l at pub32 bravenet.com/chat/show.pup/27316​10345] hope this is right.so were are you from .me i`m from derry the boys home town .you miss one hell of a xmas gig in derry.theres on in march we hope but dont know were yet tssy[talk soon see ya]

as you can see from the last posing i wirte very fast . have you look at the rest of the site theres some great stuff there tssy.so doninblack what age were at the time of the punk disco in coloraine.lewis do you have an e mail address

has anyone got anything by a dublin band the blades .vinny do you have anything

lindsay are you still able to get into chat room

wilke are you trying to beat Cliffs posting tally? I was ahead of you once- not any more! Did you see the teachers are having a moan again in the press? I had two local newspapers ring me today asking me to comment on why so many teachers are leaving. I told our secretary to tell them I'd left!

Alex I forgot to mention my eldest got a signed Celtic football off my dad at Xmas- he got it for £16 at a charity auction.

Wilke - the Blades have a double compilation CD that's recently been released.

Hullo Lewis - welcome to the site, you are in for a treat when you see the band again, tey're as good as they ever were.

Hullo Lewis - welcome to the site, you are in for a treat when you see the band again, they're as good as they ever were.

£16 for a Celtic shirt. Did one of their players not come with it. Of course Jackie your dad could have bought it when they decided to sample Newcastle hospitality in December. I got one of Billy's drumsticks at Rotterdam. In fact I got both but was asked by the bassist in the male support band for one. I found out the following night he had given it away to a female. I could have given it away to a female myself. I also have a signed Undertones drumskin as well. Can't remember who's signed it as it at my mams' house.

thanks arthur for the info.george £16for a celtic shirt thats not bad.

arthur try to find the blades cd on virgin but no luck you dont know the name of it do you

WILKE, have a wee look at this website. You may be able to order direct or try www.amazon.co.uk under music. I've ordered stuff recently and it was here in a week. Talk later. Welcome onboard Lewis.

thanks vinny got the name of the cd and the catalogue number . great stuff.

Over the New Year period I had a dream (a bit of a nightmare really) that I was at an Undertones gig. The venue seemed to be in south London somewhere. I didn't recognise it but it was a pain to get to. There were only about 50 people there and most of them weren't interested in anything except drinking by the bar in a room adjacent to the stage. Feargal sung the first song (didn't recognise it but it did seem to name the band in the lyrics several times). Paul was just standing at the side of the stage, looking bemused. After this first song the whole band walked off of the stage and into the (small) audience. No one looked very happy. Then they just left. No one seemd in a good mood or interested in what was going on. The floor was very slippery and the whole place wasn't very warm. What does this mean??!!

I need to get out more...