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!
Concert Reviews Forthcoming Concerts Winter Warmers 2006 - Concert Reviews In Brief
Summer Shorts 2005 - Concert Reviews In brief Autumn Leaves 2005 - Concert Reviews In Brief
The Full Reviews of Emergenza Battle Of The Bands 2006 Scottish Finals! Autumn 2007 - concert reviews in brief
The Doghouse Venues - Dundee (& Beyond...) Essential Dundee Music Scene Links - (media, places, publications, etc)
Dundee("and beyond"....)Bands'CD Reviews What this site's all about Andy G & Electra's Leith FM Radio Show
Your guide to the Dundee bands & Artists Dundee Bands News Our Favourite Myspace Tracks
SAZ
Potentially the most addictive metal-punk crossover band in Dundee. Including the unique frontline of two female lead singers and female bassist, they are visually mesmerising with immediate hard-rockin'songs.SAZ Myspace
The Brogues - unique take on commercial indie-punk-pop with set of songs most bands would kill for.
Dave? - Put Beefheart's Magic Band, Nirvana and Television in a blender, shake it up and out somes something resembling Dave?
Descartes - Expressive indie songs with Cure-esque dramatic vocal, driving guitar work, anthemic power and dynamic invention
The Floor - electrifying energy as massive guitar riffs scythe through surging rhythms, taking no prisoners
The Getdowns - Scorching commercial fast-paced punk-rock with a psychedelic twist and a stunning sense of originality
Grace Emilys - Glorious mix of lead and harmony vocals wrapped up in a myriad indie rock-pop-Americana disguises
Rush Hour Soul - solid, instant Oasis-esque songs from powerful indie trio
Rush Hour Soul (alt website)
The View - The nu face of contemporary catchy indie rock-pop
- classic and catchy indie anthems, stunning dual guitar work and hotly tipped.
- incl a keyboard player, laid-back indie songs with a heart of folk, a soul of blues and a body of rock
Hazey Janes - Quality songs with a touch of Americana and strong folk-rock.
storm-force, irresistible song-based indie guitar-rock
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.
- The nu-Beatles for the modern generation
Insanely catchy, unique indie-folk band ft the incredible vocals of Dave Webster
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
Peski Kings - good time indie with a country rock-meets-power pop flavour
Spankys Heroes - anthemic melancholia for a lovelorn generation
- huge sound that crosses rock and indie with emotive songwriting and powerful playing
Colour Coded - strong, flowing songs with ringing guitar, soaring heartfelt vocals and solid arrangements
Cole Appleyard - fast paced indie-punk with purpose and cohesion
The Fever - snarling indie songs with big riffs, huge choruses and sizzling leads
Hennisi- Taking indie rock into new dimensions of excellence
Juliet Kilo - soaring songs with complex time changes, lush harmonies, dense guitars - chilled-out indie hardcore intensity
Limber - anthemic, driving indie rock with bluesy touches and stirring guitar work.
Non Zero - driving indie grunge rock with a melodic heart and angst-riden vocals
- passionate, powerful and melancholy songs with twists and turns
The Rise - Irresistible riff- and rhythm-rockin indie band
- mix of early Who and Flamin Groovies as modern day indie band with jangly guitar leads, great vocals and glorious harmonies
The Weekend Pickups - driving indie songs with infectious riffs, great vocals, memorable hooks, solid guitar work and powerful passion
The Frets - capable of playing acoustic with passion and electric indie rock with energy - great vocalistThe 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
The Living - Duo of acoustic guitar/vocals and drums with heartfelt and impassioned indie-folk.
- Contemporary indie with hints of '70's and distinctive vocals - bit like "Mott-meets-Eddie & Hot Rods in 2007"
Pretty Species - catchy if riotous punk rock with hardcore electric guitars and a totally in your face attitude
- New young supercharged indie band making waves on the scene after handful of gigs
- Stunningly catchy songs from powerful indie folk-rockers ft Zara on vocalsThe Leatherettes - wild and raw duo of male guitar/bass, female singer/guitar plus drum programms - awesome!
Peg And The Bouffants - with two female lead singers, a jazzy blend of pop, funk, dance, reggae and indie
Mr Spider - Electric trio playing mid-paced blues originals and classic blues coversSugarhouse Wynd - Hard hitting young indie band with a electrifying bluesy feel
- fast rising surging mix of stoner, metal and hardcoreFake - hardriving rock with emphasis on songs and strong cohesive band playing
Indica - champions of stoner rock
Khoda - dynamic and powerful band founded on stoner rock but taking it into way more ear catching realms.
- between driving indie and intense grunge rock with hi-flying guitar leads and classic rock-styled vocal
- yet to take to ther stage, new breed of industrial metal out of the ashes of Self Made Man and Serotonin
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
- single handedly furthering the causes of sleaze-rock
Splatterhead - Rapcore metal mayhem from structured unit that rocks and roars
Victorius - Hard edged molten metal with scorching guitars
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
Vaarstraat 66 - their varied musical world from Zappa to dub to progressive rock influences and beyond
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 concert
The Electrolites - Two guys destroying the dancefloors with synths, samples and mighty electric bass
Ergo - funk rock with heart and soul
Hanney - Mighty industrial-punk hybrid for the dancefloor
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
Esperi - acoustic songs and instrumental excursions
Mr Gavin McGinty - Ex Magdalen Green lead singer/guitarist with strong and emotive story-telling songs
Shoshana - Powerful voiced singer who oozes strong songs, confidence and passion
Uncle Fritz - the king of acoustic melancholy
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
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
- indie rock but not as we know it
The Draymin - soon-to-be huge, modern day potential best selling indie band that's up there with the likes of Fratellis, Killers, Kaiser Chiefs and similar.
The Front - solid, hard driving punk with seventies overtones from Pistols and Upstarts to Fall & Bowie
Gravity Graced - pasionate electric and electro-acoustic indie songs with a psychedelic twist
Healthy Minds Collapse - Indie band with grungy, Nirvana-esque only UK, tendencies who write shit hot songs and perform stunning concerts
Hi 5 Alive - multi-textured, catchy mix of indie, pop and folkish-rock with surging songs and tight ensemble playing
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
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
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 123's - raw indie-rock with stirring arrangements, hot guitar and throaty vocals
The Paranoid Monkeys - magical mix of Radiohead and Coldplay with intricate arrangements
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 Skinflints - mighty indie-rock band with almost industrial strength, allied to full-sounding songs with power and passion, like mix of Hawkwind and Hanney
Soul City Shakers - Fife's hard-edged indie-blues band/Stones-Who infl with modern punk feel
The Suspects - driving indie songs with passion and fire
The Technophobes - Devo-esque indie band
The White Light - powerful and strong indie-rock songs
Blackout - Fast and furious hardcore metal
Estrella - sensational '80's influenced rock-metal from Aberdeen
Fed On Fear - Montrose's finest thrash merchants with a seriously strong vocalist, incendiary guitar work and excellent dynamic writing and arranging.
15 Times Dead - Paisley's kings of straight ahead, no frills, guitar driven classic rock/metal
Firebrand Superrock - fiery female fronted Classic metal
Gamble, Gamble & Drever - Glasgow Classic Rock trio bringing the seventies back to life on their awesome live concerts
Jack Glass - heavy metal with a mixed '70's and '90's style from all-round quality rocking band
Paula Knight - Glasgow's leading female multi-instrumentalist/vocalist in AOR, Morissette influenced guise or solo.
Paula Knight Myspace - For the new Paula Knight Band + her own acoustic solo gigs
Late Night Access - arguably the finest Australian rock band on the planet right now!!
Open Air - Aberdeen hard-rockers
Phantom Riffage - solid indie-stoner metal rifferama
- sleazy, bluesy hardrockin metallers from Glasgow
Sol Diablos - Strong, straight and streaming hard rock of a Classic variety from powerful and commercial Glasgow band
- Iron Maiden-esque metal from Arbroath's finest
Syth(Split 2007) - ultra hard-rockin metallers from Glasgow
Twin Atlantic - seriously intense mix of rock and punk 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
Broken Records - wondrous mix of Dundee's A Forest, The Levellers and ELO with more intesnity and an indie-rock base
Electra Myspace - the most quality vocal in female rock and song
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
Capstin Pole - a band with two sides - fiercely danceable and mesmerising indie songs
RBRBR - chilled out 'n' bluesy progressive dancefloor
Root System - Fife's finest ska band guaranteed to get the floors shakin'
Beth Wilmshurst - Pure , powerful and sultry voiced singer-songwriter
Other Dundee Scene bands I'll catch sooner or later are listed here
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
Read the extraordinary story behind how we
discovered this sensational new Australian band.
Late Nite Access Myspace
Dollarsent- England's most electrifying new biker metal band and a must for anyone into Motorhead and similar. Sensational in concert.
Hot Mangu