More by accident than design, this has become the leading single non-profit making website that promotes the causes of the Dundee Music Scene across all genres and styles. For what it's all about, the sections below will tell you all that - but for now, I'd like to dedicate this to those very bands - without whom this wouldn't exist - and for every one of them, I owe a huge debt of gratitude for making some of the best music around and providing me with so much enjoyment - I only hope you feel the same way once you've heard and seen these bands and artists!
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Alto Elite - band who sound just fantastic live with soaring songs of huge depth and emotion delivered by an electrifying indie band and a sensational vocalist.
The Boy Orchestra - Powerful dual-guitar fuelled indie intricacy, dynamic, addictive, with more twists than Hampton Court Maze
The Brogues - unique take on commercial indie-punk-pop with set of songs most bands would kill for.
Colour Coded - strong, flowing songs with ringing guitar, soaring heartfelt vocals and solid arrangements
Dave? - Trio with a kind of electrified Dylan injected with a dose of Television adrenaline and topped off with a contemporary indie hunger
- classic and catchy indie anthems, stunning dual guitar work and hotly tipped.
Descartes - Expressive indie songs with Cure-esque dramatic vocal, driving guitar work, anthemic power and dynamic invention
Dirty Wee Middens - Visually stunning, tight catchy and memorable songs from Dundee's goth-horror-punk sensation
The Floor - electrifying energy as massive guitar riffs scythe through surging rhythms, songs with a nuclear core, taking no prisoners
- incl a keyboard player, laid-back indie songs with a heart of folk, a soul of blues and a body of rock
Grace Emilys - Glorious mix of lead and harmony vocals wrapped up in a myriad indie rock-pop-Americana disguises
Hanney - Mighty industrial-punk hybrid for the dancefloor
Hazey Janes - Quality songs with a touch of Americana and strong folk-rock.
Hennisi- Taking indie rock into new dimensions of excellence
The Heralds - Fiercely passionate punk-indie crossover with a songwriting sensibility like early Oasis
The Joots - catchy songs, guitars with a sixties-meet-contemporary indie ring and driving rhythms
- Stunningly catchy songs from powerful indie folk-rockers ft Zara on vocals
Isis Myspace
Kalel - Inventive, multi-directional indie complexity with a heart of album-style seriousness and a hint of rock excitement.
King Thing - Indie rock's intelligent-songwriting trio.
Paula Knight Myspace - For the new Paula Knight Band + her own acoustic solo gigs
- The nu-Beatles for the modern generation
The Living - Duo of acoustic guitar/vocals and drums with heartfelt and impassioned indie-folk.
Insanely catchy, unique indie-folk band ft the incredible vocals of Dave Webster
Make Sparks - Formerly Secrets We've Told and now back with an energetic set of solid indie songs
- Contemporary indie with hints of '70's and distinctive vocals - bit like "Mott-meets-Eddie & Hot Rods in 2007"
Native Alien - on CD a mix of reflective and harmonious songwriting; in concert, the songs spark into life with 10,000 volts running through them
Non Zero - driving indie grunge rock with a melodic heart and angst-riden vocals
- passionate, powerful and melancholy songs with twists and turns
Peg And The Bouffants - with two female lead singers, a jazzy blend of pop, funk, dance, reggae and indie
Peski Kings - good time indie with a country rock-meets-power pop flavour
Pretty Species - catchy if riotous punk rock with charged electric guitars and a totally in your face attitude
The Rise - Irresistible riff- and rhythm-rockin indie band
Rush Hour Soul - solid, instant Oasis-esque songs from powerful indie trio
Rush Hour Soul (alt website)
Spankys Heroes - anthemic melancholia for a lovelorn generation
Sugarhouse Wynd - Hard hitting young indie band with a electrifying bluesy feel
The Twist - worthy muscial successors to The View - simple as that, really
Valentine Project - mixing emo, indie and rock in a powerful song-based brew.
The View - The nu face of contemporary catchy indie rock-pop
The Weekend Pickups - driving indie songs with infectious riffs, great vocals, memorable hooks, solid guitar work and powerful passion
- fast rising surging mix of stoner, metal and hardcoreFake - hardriving rock with emphasis on songs and strong cohesive band playing
For My Next Miracle - sort of soft rock & AOR with distinctly early Bonjovi-esque leanings
Goom
Indica - champions of stoner rock
Khoda - dynamic and powerful band founded on stoner rock but taking it into way more ear catching realms.
Paula Knight - Dundee's leading female multi-instrumentalist/vocalist in AOR, Morissette influenced guise or solo.
- yet to take to ther stage, new breed of industrial metal out of the ashes of Self Made Man and Serotonin
Mothers Ruin - Instrumental classic rock with a metallic melodic attack.
No Ohio - More AOR rock in a kind of early Bonjovi vein only harder with an indie edge.
Pariah - intelligent hardcore eruption that fires out thrash, Classic Rock and metal at the same time.
The Rebelhearts - straight ahead heavy rock with electrifying frontman and lead guitarist
Room 2 - exciting new trio with grungy riffing, stoner-esque metal and steamroller rhythms
SAZ
SAZ Myspace
- single handedly furthering the causes of sleaze-rock
Splatterhead - Rapcore metal mayhem from structured unit that rocks and roars
Box - the "out there" electronic music project of Neil McIntee
K Fox - Electronic indie songs in a kinf of Depeche Mode-goes-indie vein
Reverbaphon - Ambient complexity and melodic/rhythmic songs from avant-guitarist/vocalist
The Wildhouse -"A space-rock Velvet Underground-meets-Krautrock" for the now generation"
- With reeds, guitar, bass, computer drums and vocals, mix of rap, ska, reggae and dance that's irresistible in concertComa-Toast - band that mixes rock and dance and clever arrangements sort of like a cross between Funkadelic, Frank Zappa and The Levellers
The Electrolites - Two guys destroying the dancefloors with synths, samples and mighty electric bass
Page 6 - Tight and tasty funk-rock with stunning songs and consistent live performances
Rachel Anderson - the unique and wonderful voice, songs and guitar playing that is Rachel!
The RachelAndersons - new trio formed by Dundee singer Rachel Anderson
Arkanna - diminutive female with "out there" attitude to singer-songwriting
Sarah Coloso - mid-range vocalist with great delivery on intelligent and well executred songs.
Esperi - deeply introspective acoustic songs and instrumental excursions
Mr Gavin McGinty - Ex Magdalen Green lead singer/guitarist with strong and emotive story-telling songs
Uncle Fritz - the king of acoustic melancholy
A list of some of the finest Dundee bands who are sadly no longer with us (or simply in hibernation) are listed here
Any Colour Black - red hot duo of electric guitars with programmed backing and a stunning female vocal that blazes a solid indie inferno of Jesus and Mary Chain-meets-pop rock in a hurricane.
The Apple Scruffs - between Ramones and restrained, indie tearaways with red-hot guitars and insanely catchy songs
The Arguments - relaxed and strong songs from rhythm 'n' soul band
Be A Familiar - Sort of mix of Bjork, ELO and Broken Records
Beatnic Prestige - mix of mod a la Jam, punk and modern day indie, with insistent and consistent songs which are instant and long-lived enjoyment
Come On Gang! - Edinburgh trio playing driving indie pop-punk with a female drummer who's lead singer and a voice so pure and strong, it'll take your breath away!
- indie rock but not as we know it
Fed On Fear - fiery mix of rock and punk
The Front - solid, hard driving punk with seventies overtones from Pistols and Upstarts to Fall & Bowie
Ghosts Of Progress - amazing duo of electric guitars and vocals, the vocalist playing kick drum and cymbal with his foot. Play this massive balst of indie, blues and rock with awesome guitar work and irresistible rhythms.
Healthy Minds Collapse - Indie band with grungy, Foo Fighters-esque tendencies who write shit hot songs and perform stunning concerts
The Hedrons - Glasgow answer to Girlschool with more of a contemporary indie attack.
Hello Pirates - sensational female fronted band with inventive arrangements, addictive songs and a solid strength
Hi 5 Alive - multi-textured, catchy mix of indie, pop and folkish-rock with surging songs and tight ensemble playing
The Hype
The Janes - Female singer fronting band that crosses '90's AOR, 21st century indie and '80's styled punk-pop with addictive songs
The Korovas - hi-octane indie roar to intense shimmering ballads with ringing guitars and churning riffs on strong song base
Little Kicks - strident indie-rock with a taste of Americana & Talking Heads, real strength and direction
The Longest Line
Magma Child - bluesy indie-rock with guts and funk
The Manikees - horizon-stretching indie anthems and Foo Fighters-esque rockers in good-time, uptempo indie-pop vein
Maya 29 - female fronted band standing between rock and indie
My Fallen Idea - Young indie band with a sound that belies their age, songs and arrangements that verge on the mature and confident in concert
The Number - Formerly Our Nasme Is Legion - female vocal led hybrid of space-rock psychedelia and contemporary indie songwriting
The 123's - raw indie-rock with stirring arrangements, hot guitar and throaty vocals
Panda Su - female acoustic singer songwriter somewhere between Esperi (musically) and Pearl & The Pupets (vocally)
The Paranoid Monkeys - magical mix of Radiohead and Coldplay with intricate arrangements
The Ray Summers - reinventing the sixties Woodstock era in a contemporary indie setting
Ricoshay - Indie with a slight element of sleaze rock of hi-intensity proportions
Ringfinger - Emotional indie anthems with passion and strength
Saints And City Lights - Arbroath rockers withfierce mix of indie, punk and emocore with some strong songs and intense playing
Sergeant - Fife's perfect indie-pop band
The Shermans - Stirling's finest exponents of higly energised indie songwriting of quality and consistency
The Skinflints - mighty indie-rock band with almost industrial strength, allied to full-sounding songs with power and passion, like mix of Hawkwind and Hanney
The Technophobes - Devo-esque indie band
The Trade - Forfar band with strong, catchy solid indie songs
Val Verde - Dunfermline's sensational mix of contemporary indie, songwriting passion and Americana-esque guitars
The White Light - powerful and strong indie-rock songs with a distinct vocalist and a hi-octane band capable of blowing your head off
The Wyre - seventies influenced band with quality songs and lots of instrumental excursions, brought up to date.
Attica Rage - Dual guitar driven killer of a rock band with power, dynamics and seventies influences from Scorpions to Motorhead to Priest.
Blackout - Fast and furious hardcore metal
The Blessed Order Of Fallen Stars - that rare thing - a thrash band who can write and arrange stunning songs
Estrella - sensational '80's influenced rock-metal from Aberdeen
Falter - Hi energy punk-metal explosion
Falter Myspace - ferocious mix of hardcore metal and speed punk but with songs and playing of structure, dynamics and quality
Fed On Fear - Montrose's finest thrash merchants with a seriously strong vocalist, incendiary guitar work and excellent dynamic writing and arranging.
Firebrand Superrock - fiery female fronted Classic metal
Forevervoid - roaring metal band in a hinterland between classic metal and harder edged elements.
Full Metal Racket - Classic Rock covers band
Hand Canon - formerly Gamble, Gamble and Drever; classic rock with a proggy twist.
Heavy Mama - blues-rock covers band with red hot guitarist. Cream + Hendrix lives here!!
Jack Glass - heavy metal with a mixed '70's and '90's style from all-round quality rocking band
Late Night Access - arguably the finest Australian rock band on the planet right now!!
Open Air - Aberdeen hard-rockers
- sleazy, bluesy hardrockin metallers from Glasgow
Sol Diablos - Strong, straight and streaming hard rock of a Classic variety from powerful and commercial Glasgow band
Syth - ultra heavy Classic Rock metallers from Glasgow
Too Much Too Young - seriously tight classic rock and metal band with great songs and smokin' guitars.
Twin Atlantic - seriously intense mix of rock and indie delivered with passion, firepower and the commercial mix of emo and hardcore
Vantage Point - Iron Maiden/Judas Priest styled classic metal
Wired Desire - Classic Rock with an AC/DC twist from red hot metal band
Shock And Awe - Ramones-esque punk rockers from Edinburgh
We Were Promised Jetpacks - from all-out attack to solid shimmering sections with wide-eyed guitars, a veritable roar of vocal and guitar attack with attention to detail
Electra Myspace - the most quality vocal in female rock and song
Fit To Fly - blues rock from Fife with red hot lead guitarist.
Hamper - "UK answer to a more atmospheric 10,000 Maniacs"
Millsyeck - Combination of 1-man operation in the studio and live band on a tight and driving, unique brew of indie and rock
Modus - unashamedly sixties styled modern indie band with fantastic female vocalist.
Our Name Is Legion - Septet of mighty space-rock proportions with contemporary female vocals - sort of Hawkwind-meets-Garbage
Pearl & The Puppets - wondrous femsle vocalists that lifts you up snd lays you down on songs that are ethereal strength personified, backed by a flowing electro-acoustic band.
The Ray Summers - Falkirk band who've come straight out of '69-era Woodstock into the indie noughties keeping both worlds intact.
The Viragoes - fantastic dual female-fronted indie-folk-rock band from Glasgow who cover all emotions from hot rockin' to memorable pop, with an electric folk-rock sound.
Capstin Pole - a band with two sides - fiercely danceable and mesmerising indie songsModus - Edinburgh's finest '60's influenced soulful R'n'B band with a contemporary indie twist.
RBRBR - chilled out 'n' bluesy progressive dancefloor
Roots System - Fife's finest ska band guaranteed to get the floors shakin'
Shoshana - Powerful voiced singer who oozes strong songs, confidence and passion
Beth Wilmshurst - Pure , powerful and sultry voiced singer-songwriter
Website links for the Scottish rock, punk and indie bands
who I reviewed at the Emergenza Battle of The Bands
finals at Glasgow in 2006 can be found here
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discovered this sensational new Australian band.
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