RETRO DUNDEE

From yesterdays royal visitor to the Tay, to todays royal worker on the Tay - the Tay Queen. This ad, from a 1981 Courier, lets it be kno...

Scottish folk duo, The Petermen, were Mike Petrie from Glasgow and Vic Peterson from Dundee. They formed in 1967 when Vic was only 17, not l...

Entertainment in Crieff back in 1982... First there is a Friday night disco - £1:00 to get in. Four days later, Dundee's TV and Radio st...

Dundee accordionist, John Huband, was highly regarded on the folk circuit, a reputation which was enhanced when he teamed up with the illust...

Admit it. You're dying to hear another Dean and Dawn delight! Well you're spoilt for choice here with this EP they released ...

To coincide with Rag Week 1978, the University brought out this LP to help the fund raising campaign. "Dundee Folk" is an album of...

2 items relating to the release of Lowland Folk's single - "Discovery". The top one is a review which appeared in the ...

The main members of Lowland Folk were - Stewart Brown, his wife Anne, and brother, Ramsay Brown. They originally started off in the ...

An ad from 1982 for Inner City Sound recording studios in Dens Street. It lists the gear on offer for all your recording needs & requir...

25 years ago today, the Bonar Hall was the venue for an evening with John Martyn, singer, songwriter and guitar maestro. His laid back sing...

Ken Hyder took up drumming when he was still at school (Harris), and has basically, stuck to it ever since. He is one of the origi...

Son of Russ Paterson (see previous post), multi-talented Don has been involved in the creative arts straight from leaving school in the 70...

Russ Paterson started playing guitar and harmonica with a Dundee group called the Inn Folk back in the early 60's. Around the same ti...

I thought I'd end the Tay Road Bridge sequence by having a wee sing-song! Dundee folk band, The Wally Dugs, were on the go i...

If you ignore the old fogies in the foreground, you'll be able to spot something more worthwhile taking place at the Caird Hall in the...

I was flicking through an old Courier I have, dated 11 April 1970, and I spotted this review of a concert that had taken place in Dundee th...

The photos of Steeleye Span on stage at the Caird Hall were taken by my brother on 28th October 1972. The band was probably ...

This is taken from the Radio Times, dated 17th August 1966. A 40 minute documentary on BBC1 featuring an unusual Dundee double act... music...

These 3 ads for Andy Lothian's ALP Records were all published around summer / autumn in 1966. The releases were kind of split int...

To coincide with the opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966, Dundee duo Peter & Alison, released a single called "Highway O...