- Music
- 01 May 09
They've been asked to record 'Teenage Kicks' for a new documentary.
As the Counting Crows get ready for their brace of Irish dates, Adam Duritz has been telling Hotpress.com that they’ve been asked by the makers of a new Undertones documentary to cover ‘Teenage Kicks’ .
“My tour manager – Jimmy Doherty, who’s from Cork – wrote me an email yesterday,” he explains. “It’s been 30 years since The Undertones’ first album, and they’re making a documentary film and they want Counting Crows to record a version of ‘Teenage Kicks’, which blew my mind. I couldn’t believe they asked us. I’m totally chuffed, as you guys would say! I’m a little intimidated though, because I have to sing something Feargal Sharkey sang, but I think I’ll get over that and do it our own way. It’s one of the best songs ever. I was a little nervous when I first heard the news, but then I was talking to Gemma Hayes about it and I said ‘I’m not a teenager anymore’ and she said ‘it’s not about being a teenager, man – it’s about life. It’s not like you’ve grown up anyway – just sing the damn song.’”