Originally shown 8th Jul 2000 see also [Fleadh 2000-06-10] in gig guide

• ITV - Julie Ocean
• VH1 - Interview
• Jimmy Jimmy
• My Perfect Cousin
• Male Model
• Teenage Kicks

Interview - part 1

Full shot of band left to right Jules Carling - Damian O'Neill - Michael Bradley - Paul McLoone - Gideon Coe - Billy Doherty - John O'Neill

Gideon Cole
Well I've waited a long time to say this - Ladies and gentlemen "The Undertones"

Jules Carling
Hang on can we have a formal introduction - everyone say their name

Damian O'Neill
Damian

Michael Bradley
Michael Bradley

Paul McLoone
Paul McLoone

Billy Doherty
Billy Doherty

John O'Neill
Jon O'Neill

Gideon Cole
Welcome to All of you

Jules Carling
Yes - Thank you. I'm a little bit confused here co having been a fan of The Undertones many moons ago and then it all went apart in the early 80s ?

Damian O'Neill
83

Michael Bradley
83

Jules Carling
So what's the deal - what's happened

Damian O'Neill
Well we've decide to get together to do sporadic concerts like this

JC DN MB shot

Damian O'Neill
Festivals. Well basically it all stemmed from last year. We were invited to play in Galway with an Irish band called the 'Saw Doctors' just to do a couple of songs and that went quite well. We just did 2 songs wasn't it - yes 2 - with 'Saw Doctors' singing. And because that went well and was good fun so we thought we'd get a singer. So we found Paul - Paul McLoone here.

Jules Carling
So your the singer Paul

Paul McLoone
Yes

Jules Carling
What do you

Paul McLoone
Well not a lot I just do as I'm told

Interview - part 2

Michael Bradley
Feargal didn't want to have anything to do with the band for a long long time - and up until now we says that's OK. Then we thought four of want to do it and he doesn't that's OK No problem. so we got Paul who we knew from Derry a long time ago. We tried him out - we never sort of auditioned him we asked him to sing and it sounded OK. Its a bad idea in theory but its actually quite good in practice.

Pan to PM

Paul McLoone
We're making the unworkable work

Full shot

Michael Bradley
We're squaring the circle

Gideon Cole
The great thing about the shows you've been doing - for many people who have been fans of your music

GC BD shot

Gideon Cole
Just have never got an inkling they'd ever get to see you live. So they'll be a lot of excited people out there today and you've 70 minutes with which to thrill them. What are you going to do

Billy Doherty
Well its more less all the hits and most of the tracks will be from he first album. We did a warm up concert in the Mean Fiddler last night and it was amazing and it went extremely well for us - so we should be able to replicate that tonight hopefully.

Full shot

Gideon Cole
A lot of your tunes were 'perfect pop' in the way that they were very - very short - under 3 minutes as well. Do you make them more expansive for the festival crowd ?

Billy Doherty
No we just more or less stick to the original songs. I think the longest is only 3 minutes so its under the speed limit if you know what I mean. The songs are generally about 2 minutes - 2 minutes 30.

Gideon Cole
No fiddley guitar solos inserted

Billy Doherty
No

Gideon Cole
No prog rock moments

Billy Doherty
No - not at all we couldn't manage that - its difficult getting through 2 and half minutes.

Full shot

Gideon Cole
What about the idea that people are going to be introduced to your music who weren't even around in the late 70s early 80s ? That's a good thing for you isn't it

John O'Neill
Hopefully - music's sort of gone retrogressive - before punk you know. It'll be nice to remind people you can have good pop sounds that are under 2 and half minutes - nothing over 3 minutes. So that what you'd like to remind people - you can do that.

Full shot

Jules Carling
What's on the set then

JC DN MB shot

Damian O'Neill
All the hits

Michael Bradley
All the singles - I wouldn't say they were all hits - but all the singles - all the easy to play singles

Jules Carling
Well we can sing along - enjoy the show - nice to talk to you guys

Gideon Cole
bye Jules - see you later - don't be a stranger

Jules Carling
Yeah

Gideon Cole
Ladies and gentlemen - 'The Undertones'

---------
TheUndertones.net/fleadvh1.htm