More by accident than design, this has become the leading single non-profit making website that promotes the causes of the Scottish, in particular Dundee, "unsigned" 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
Venues - Dundee (& Beyond...) Essential Dundee Music Scene Links - (media, places, publications, etc)
Dead Earnest Myspace site Radio North Angus: Playlists for my Saturday Show"
Dundee("and beyond"....)Artist & Bands' CD Reviews What this site's all about Andy G & Electra's Leith FM Radio Show
Your guide to the Dundee bands & Artists
Scottish Unsigned: The best tracks reviewed here (coming soon)
Athletico Pop - hints of The Law and The View mixed with a sixties Flamin' Groovies twist.
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.
Cha Cha Heels - Sort of indie meets Rocky Horror Show cabaret with rock and pop overtones
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
The Daze - classic and catchy indie anthems, stunning dual guitar work and hotly tipped.
Dirty Wee Middens - Visually stunning, tight catchy and memorable songs from Dundee's goth-horror-punk sensation
The Final Stand - Stunningly catchy songs from powerful indie folk-rockers ft Zara on vocals
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The Floor - electrifying energy as massive guitar riffs scythe through surging rhythms, songs with a nuclear core, taking no prisoners
For My Next Miracle - on CD, fantastic indie-rock that spans the best of both genres with great singing and songwriting plus solid arrangements
The Goodnights - incl a keyboard player, laid-back indie songs with a heart of folk, a soul of blues and a body of rock
Hanney - Mighty industrial-punk hybrid for the dancefloor
Hazey Janes - Quality songs with a touch of Americana and strong folk-rock.
Hello Pirates - sensational female fronted band with inventive arrangements, addictive songs and a solid strength
Hennisi- Taking indie rock into new dimensions of excellence
The Heralds - Fiercely passionate punk-indie crossover with a songwriting sensibility like early Oasis
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 - For the new Paula Knight Band + her own acoustic solo gigs
The Law - The nu-Beatles for the modern generation
Luva Anna 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
Mason - stunning dual guitar fronted indie band with a sligly more languid approach than their cohorts The Floor but take in some red hot guitar work along a set of strong contemporary individually written and arranged songs
Maxwells Dead - primarily driving punk-rock songs with a wry lyrical talent
Millsyeck - Combination of 1-man operation in the studio and live band on a tight and driving, unique brew of indie and rock
Modern Culture - Contemporary indie with hints of '70's and distinctive vocals - bit like "Mott-meets-Eddie & Hot Rods in 2007"
Non Zero - driving indie grunge rock with a melodic heart and angst-riden vocals
Our Future Glory - 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
Rapture Of Vertigo - purveyors of short-ish tight, punchy songs with plenty of guitar breaks
Rush Hour Soul - solid, instant Oasis-esque songs from powerful indie trio
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Small Feet Little Toes - electro-acoustic trio feat Rachel Anderson with songs from heartwarming to quirky.
Spankys Heroes - anthemic melancholia for a lovelorn generation
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
Waylander - young trio with complex arrangements, a hot guitarist, a wild drummer and decent songs.
The Weekend Pickups - driving indie songs with infectious riffs, great vocals, memorable hooks, solid guitar work and powerful passion
The Wildhouse -"A space-rock Velvet Underground-meets-Krautrock" for the now generation"
Fake - 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.
Killer Angels - between driving indie and intense grunge rock with hi-flying guitar leads and classic rock-styled vocal
Paula Knight - Dundee's leading female multi-instrumentalist/vocalist in AOR, Morissette influenced guise or solo.
Masonic Abyss - yet to take to ther stage, new breed of industrial metal out of the ashes of Self Made Man and Serotonin
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.
SAZ
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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.
Shotgun Libido - single handedly furthering the causes of sleaze-rock
Swordmaster - instrumental metal of the highest quality.
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
Coma-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
Panda Su - female electro-acoustic singer songwriter somewhere between Esperi (musically) and Pearl & The Puppets (vocally)
Alfonzo - Glasgow indie band with solid, straight-ahead, memorable songs.
Annie Stevenson - bizarrely named Glasgow indie band with great bassist, strong songs and a solid sense of playing and arrangement
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!
Copy Haho - 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.
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.
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
Jocasta Sleeps - strong songs with memorable hooks and choruses from rising Glaswegians
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
Maya 29 - female fronted band standing between rock and indie
Louise McVey & Cracks In The Concrete - former Hamper vocalist's new band with warm, atmospheric and deep songs and arrangements
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 Name 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
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
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
Sonnet 65 - solid to tender, driving mix of indie, folk and prog-rock with violinist and strong songs
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.
The Xcerts - solid indie anthems with distinctive vocalist from hot Fife trio
Aggressus - hardcore metal carnage of brutal qualities.
Attica Rage - Dual guitar driven killer of a rock band with power, dynamics and seventies influences from Scorpions to Motorhead to Priest.
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
Ex Machina - mix of prog-rock, goth-rock and classic rock from St Andrews with strong female singer.
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
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!!
Here Lies A Warning - from all-out hardcore metal blitz to dynamic complex songs.
Jack Glass - heavy metal with a mixed '70's and '90's style from all-round quality rocking band
Lady Mercedes - solid classic rock with seventies Zep/Cult influences
Sol Diablos - Strong, straight and streaming hard rock of a Classic variety from powerful and commercial Glasgow band
Soul Remover - electrifying "classic rock" band that tick all the boxes
Storm In A D Cup - all female mix of classic rock and metal.
Supercharger - fiery mix of psychedelic metal and hard driving classic rock with storming riffs and red hot lead guitars
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
Gerry Jablonski & The Electric Band - Scotland's finest purveyor of electric blues-rock bringing new life to a tired genre
Modus - unashamedly sixties styled modern indie band with fantastic female vocalist.
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.
Modus - Edinburgh's finest '60's influenced soulful R'n'B band with a contemporary indie twist.
RBRBR - chilled out 'n' bluesy progressive dancefloor
Root System - Fife's finest ska band guaranteed to get the floors shakin'
Esther O'Connor - Glasgow's answer to Tori Amos
Shoshana - Powerful voiced singer who oozes strong songs, confidence and passion
Beth Wilmshurst - Pure , powerful and sultry voiced singer-songwriter
Late Nite Access - Read the extraordinary story behind how we
discovered this sensational new Australian band.
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