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That Time Oasis Played Dundee

Be Here Now or ‘Noel’s Going Under Tonight’. That Time Oasis Played Dundee! Oasis visited Dundee on 4 April 1994. Over the years I’ve heard so many people claim to have attended this show you’d have thought it occurred over 3 or 4 nights at the Caird Hall but the reality was that it occurred in a small venue, Lucifer’s Mill, in Session Street.

Lloyd Cole interview from 1998

Digging in the archives #1 Andy Wood from Dundee's Cool Cat Club ran an interview with Lloyd Cole back in July 1998 - it has never been published until now.

Mark E. Smith

The Fall are anti-nostalgia, always pushing against attempts to pigeonhole them. Fiercely working-class Smith was the white crap that speaks back.

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Brix and the Extricated

2016 saw the publication of Brix Smith Start autobiography, The Rise, The Fall and Rise. I bought it and devoured it in a few sittings. It’s a fantastic book, funny and heart-breaking and often deeply moving, writes Andy Wood from Dundee's Cool Cat Club.

Ben Vendetta

Looking back on Whipping Boy’s landmark second album Heartworm in 2015, the Irish Times described the song as being a song of ‘inebriating nostalgia’ and that feels like a pretty accurate way of how it was taken to be at the time of its release as a single in 1995.