RETRO DUNDEE

One of the local account holders at the bank featured in yesterdays item, was The Scrotum Poles. They may not have had much money to ...

On the occasions when you couldn't always find what you were looking for in Dundee shops (which was quite of...

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

Jute, The Jam and Journalism - here's an article from the NME mentioning the tour dates for The Jam. Included on the list is their gig ...

List-D cropped up on the local music scene in the late 70's. The band kinda started off as teenage punks music-wise, and as a result...

The 18th January 1980 saw The Clash rumbling into town for a gig at the Caird Hall. This was their "16 Tons Tour", the band arr...

Samantha's in South Tay Street was quite a short lived discotheque, on the go from 1976 to 78, so these...

Back in 1978 when Steve Grimmond and Craig Methven were still only in their mid teens, they started up this fanzine call S'PUNK (...

These 2 poems penned by Paul Weller, were published in Dundee fanzine, Cranked Up, in the early 80's. The reason they ended up ther...

The top item is a good example of what I was saying earlier about getting an idea down when it hits you. These are the original ly...

"Dundee's most original New Wave band" - yes that's how The Quick Spurts presented themselves in 1978. ...

Year - 1977. Venue - The Ambassador. Band - The End. Not sure how much of a crowd was there but what they were seeing was not jus...

The line-up of Glen Connell (Burt Spurt) - Craig Methven (Smeg Pole) - Colin Smith (Stripey Sleep) & Steve Grimmond (Sid Gripple), was t...

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...

It has been in circulation as a fact that, the Sex Pistols cancelled this 1st December Dundee gig "at the last minute" to appear...