In Teenage Kicks: The Undertones, veteran BBC radio DJ John Peel - a man who's interviewed practically every notable independent muso of the past thirty years - takes his first visit to Derry in the north of Ireland and discovers for himself the band that forged his favourite pop song, 'Teenage Kicks'.

Through use of interviews and exclusive footage - the cameras were granted backstage access on their recent reunion gigs - the film traces the band back to 1975, when The Undertones formed and created their own form of riot. Led by former choirboy and distinctively voiced lead singer Feargal Sharkey, the band rose amidst the grim background of political working-class Derry.

Peel takes trs on a journey of discovery in which he expresses his amazement at the band's innocence, the completely artless way in which they resisted all hype and packaging. The Undertones would play to packed houses of adoring fans and then go home to Derry, to parents who waited up for them. Nonetheless, despite their limited ambitions, or paradoxically because of them, they achieved a genuine cult status outside their hometown.