More than just Derry Girls: The northern city's cultural contribution
The Undertones, Seamus Heaney and Stephen Rea, Derry Girls.
The best Irish band ever? For a cohort of people who came of age around the New Wave scene of the late 1970s/early '80s, the quintet fronted by Feargal Sharkey would have to feature in the conversation. As well as a slew of brilliant punk-tinged pop songs that still stand up today, the Undertones were also an important reminder that there was more to life in the North than the Troubles. Teenage Kicks was John Peel's favourite ever song, Here Comes The Summer became an anthem of the age, and 'My Perfect Cousin' gave us some of the best lyrics of the era: “He's got a fur-lined sheepskin jacket; My Ma said it cost a packet.”
