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 ...

Well I've raided just about every tune from this cassette during the course of doing Retro Dundee, but I haven't actually don...

[THE PRINCIPAL PLAYER Throughout the ten-year DATA project, Pete Horobin used several names - Principal Player, Acrobat, Monty Cantsin ...

  The SP&S record warehouse opened in Coldside Road in 1975. It specialised in vinyl & tapes that had been deleted, but were all bra...

In '73, the Tayside Cassette Centre were in 73...Perth Road. So they specialised in music tapes, both cassette format and 8 track - d...

This Deadbeat mag review dates from May 1984 and is for Dundee's electronic whizz kids, Altres. This was a 7 track demo cassette called...

When you get an idea, get it down any way you can. Scribble it onto a scrap pad, whistle it into a Dictaphone, anything, as long as the...

The final AAGA cassette I have in my collection is this one here from around the 1983/84 period - "The New Saints Of Drab Intensity...

You may remember I put a track by Flux up last year which turned out to be a rare example of a tune connected to Mike Kane which everyone wh...

The AAGA "Whatalife" cassette dates from 1982 and only contains 2 tracks - "Illness" and the title song. I can't hel...

I've still got quite a few items of Mike Kane based material I haven't delved into yet, so ploughing on with a few more post punk go...

Dundee band, Brain Damage, recorded this cassette called "Death To Timmy Pop" in 1983. Drummer, Cody, has the actual original m...

This full page ad appeared in Cranked Up in 1982. A reminder that you can hear a track from this Waiter Waiter cassette in the September 200...

In contrast to the bright and breezy AAGA track I put up a couple of weeks ago, on this outing AAGA take us all on a trip to the dark side....

This is the Flux "In Flux" cassette from 1987. The guys involved in the recording were - KL Guthrie - M Kane & E McDougall. T...

From the 1973 to 1978 period, Tivvy were mostly a covers band, playing a broad range of styles from glam, rock, pop, soul, disco to punk. Th...

AAGA were another Dundee band who brought out cassettes of their work in the early 80's. This one here is their "Secret Pleasures...

Dundee indie band, Waiter Waiter, brought out a cassette in the early 80's called "That's No Way To Go-Go", featuring 6 ...