RETRO DUNDEE

Now that Christmas time is closing in on us all once again, some of you will no doubt be wondering what to buy off the record tokens you ...

Parades were a new wave/alternative pop act on the go in Dundee in 1981-82. Line-up : Steve Knight, bass - Mike Knight, guitar - Sand...

Elsewhere on Retro Dundee you'll find features on The Megazones single and a gig review, so now it's time to unveil the guys in...

Time to catch up with a few gig reviews at various venues from the first half of the 80's. Sta...

Formed in 1979, Saint Andrew & The Woollen Mill were regulars on the Dundee music scene by the time these 3 articles were writ...

This rather clear-headed account of a Vex gig, appeared in an issue of Voice fanzine in 1982. You may recall in an earlier item when...

I reckon the graphic at the top of the page on the first item is based on a Gibson Firebird, and so from that you may guess Dundee b...

Time to bring the retro pub crawl to an end now, so I thought I'd finish the sequence with an amusing quote by Tayside Bar manager, Bria...

The Soul Kiss Club used to put on music events along at the Tayside Bar on the first Sunday of every month, and to let everyone know wha...

The Tayside Bar was the place to be on 19th June 1981, as this was where the Scrotum Poles played their final gig. As well as the b...

Did ya get a good wee buzz scrolling through that lot? This impressive cascade of ...

Dundee's electronic explorers, Altres, sparked into life in 1983. The band in full back then was - Kevin L Guthrie - Jeremy Bryning - ...

And now the moment you've all be waiting for...Dundee's very own, television, radio and recording stars, the classiest duo ever to...

Retro regulars will be aware that I have put up quite a few air shots taken by my brother around 1974/75. Well there were half a dozen or s...

Another Dundee fanzine that cropped up in 1982 was called, The Voice. Covering similar topics as Cranked Up, it touched on the loca...

Here is a review from 1981 of The Blush playing their 3rd gig at the Tayside Bar. The constructive Cranked Up critique, once again, is Jock...

  You may have noticed the media like to look back over past events when the year ends, and so from the pages of a Cranked Up festive i...