RETRO DUNDEE

This image of Craigiebank Post Office in Arbroath Road appeared in the local press in February 1983. The reason it was receiving attentio...

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

3 local ads from the 70's. Top one is dated 1973 and is for Drydens, the frozen food specialists. They were located in ...

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...

This is the time of year a lot of oldies go for their winter jab, so I thought I'd get involved and inject a Boo Hooray track into you...

Back to Dundee's post punk days we go and to a band whose sound reflected the era very well, Severed Arm. The line-up was - JIM LOW, vo...

When Pigs Are Cute recorded 3 tracks down at Inner City Sound studios in 1981, 2 of them ended up on the Dundee Compilation Cassette the fol...

Around 1980, local band, Grey Approach, started to make inroads into the Dundee music scene. The original trio of Jim Low, Colin Warden and ...

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...

Although The Associates had only been in existence for a year or so at the time, in 1980 Billy MacKenzie got involved in a little side proje...

It all started back in 1977 when young tearaway, RT Ripper aka Rat The Ripper aka Ewen, walked out of school aged 15, and never went back. H...

I already have the first & final issue of Cranked Up on Retro, so thought I'd show you the rest of the covers in between. There are ...

This First Day Cover was issued on 15th April 1968 to mark the start of the Dundee Students Charities Campaign - or "Rag Week" as...

Formed in 1981, Erasmic Superfoam had a base above the Tav in Hawkhill where they practiced their post punk mash-ups of well known tunes. Af...

Early 80's fanzine, Deadbeat, covered the alternative Scottish music scene in the main, so the Dundee stuff was competing with Edinburg...

This is typical of the kind of image you'd see splattered up around town on the multitude of boarded up windows, which was a common sig...

Here's 2 different Vex performances that took place in 1981. The first review is seen from the audience's perspective, and ...