The Undertones will always have a place in musical history if they never did another concert or release another record. Their legacy was secured with John Peel naming their song Teenage Kicks his favourite ever song and even his gravestone has the words from this wonderful song “teenage dreams so hard to beat” etched on it. The original line up, minus vocalist Fergal Sharkey, still tour with Paul McLoone on vocals and if they play near you go along as you get all the hits a

I had a look what Anthony Reynolds is up to now, the most recent news story was from two years ago telling us he was made homeless and a crowd fund page had been set up to help him, I am writing this the same week that Robbie Willaims has decided to be the sponsor of his beloved Port Vale because he has clearly made millions from music, and people tell me there is a God. Reynolds was the lead singer of Jack who are one of the many bands we have discussed that made critical

Warning this is one of my reviews where I do not actually talk about the record. The charts were released on a Tuesday lunchtime, so you came home from school then spent the afternoon talking about them at school, it was better than French. What we heard was how gorgeous George Michael was. I couldn’t stand him, he pranced about and all the girls I liked said how great he was, bloody George Michael. As I sat there with my teenage acne and too much gel how were they not noti