RETRO DUNDEE

Many of you will have had a Viewmaster as a kid, the plastic toy binoculars you put card discs into to view 3D images. Probably not so ma...

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...

Boo Hooray have made a couple of appearances on Retro already, those tracks having been taken from the early 80's Dundee Compilati...

Street Level were a band who emerged on the local music scene at the start of the 80's. Their style of energetic pop combined with a go...

Friction weren't a full-on ska band, as their previous track up on Retro Dundee demonstrates, but on some of their songs, they definitel...

Elsewhere on Retro Dundee I have mentioned the various musical escapades of 2 local musicians who often worked together - keyboard pl...

In March 2009, I put a record up on Retro Dundee by Andy Lothian. This was a traditional Scottish tune that featured his violin skil...

There is already a track by The Blush up on Retro Dundee which was taken from the "Dundee Compilation Cassette" and so was no...

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

This kinky wee publication called "Sweet TV Times" was given out at gigs when The Junkies were entertaining the masses. Needl...

  Can't remember this on Top Of The Pops - a tribute record to Oor Wullie. DC Thomson trying to get into the singles charts with a song ...

  Tony Vincent was actually born in London but moved to Dundee aged 11 in 1952. He started singing aged 17, doing turns in local dancehalls....

Part of the fun of collecting vinyl records is that moment when you come into possession of a rare recording, and this one here is so rare,...

Around about 1985ish, St Andrew & The Woollen Mill brought out a cassette that chronicled the history of the band. Done in the style of ...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a demo track by Colossus that featured Gordon Band on vocals, dating from the late 70's. Well this is an...

When John Moran began singing in Dundee in the early 60's, he opted to have a pop star kind of name, and became known as Johnny Hudso...

Rockpile, in Westport, was a popular Record Exchange shop that cropped up on the scene in the early 80's. In the mid 80's, I...

When I posted a feature about The Megazones on Retro last November, I mentioned that they had released a single in 1980, but I didn't ha...

It's good fun looking back at "first issues" to get a reminder of how they once looked before they became more establishe...