Dundee My Dundee by the Scrotum Poles

A short trip round some of the beautiful scenery of late '70s Dundee with a soundtrack from seminal DIY band, the Scrotum Poles!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dundee
• Scrotum Poles
• derelict
• shithole

[royalbridie]

Hard to imagine this is Dundee when you see how re-generated it now is but a great video to show the way it used to be. Now with the new university buildings and brand new houses the city is unrecognisable

[theonlytruepunk]

This is brilliant.

[soulhoney56]

Just been listening to Ice Age by Warsaw (later to become Joy Division) - so many similarities. Oh, and just for the record this is tremendous stuff !!!  My granny lived in Lochee and a lot of this vid seems to be what was a the back of her house (4 Fullerton St - end house) - I am sure that is the side of the house at 2.34 to 2.39 ? I recognise so much of this as it reminds me of the 60's & 70's Lochee. It bloody haunts me and makes me feel so sad but at the same time happy x

[saschiver]

wonder what ara it is. hilltown??

[juliajoobjoob]

i love this song i live in dundee were is this ? it looks like lochee

kisses julia

[BillDFC]

@royalbridie In many ways it is worse.

[WoodRatGirl]

lol @ the tag "shithole"

Despite that, what a great song this is!

[hornstreet]

New elpee of old recordings coming out October 20th 2009 called "Auchmithie Forever"

[locheelad2]

I was a boy, pletties better than schemes, canna find David Phillips..Lichty Nichts

[gished100]

yeah man this is some good stuff. I wasn't alive at the time and this is a bit of a double whammy for me cos I recently bought all the messthetics cds which the band were on a lot of, but also cos I lived in Dundee for a few years. Ace

[theonlytruepunk]

That is hilarious. I wouldn't doubt it, if someone has the original masters. That is funny. As I recall, someone went to a garage sale in New York and found something very rare from the Velvet Underground. I can't recall if they were masters or what...but people were ecstatic about the find.

[roddy76to86]

Well, yes and no. Punk has had more than it's fair share of this happening, but it has happened to other groups as well. I seem to recall a big fuss because a bunch of "Beatles" masters got lost. And you being in the US maybe won't know about the astonishing BBC policy of wiping video tapes of classic TV serials like "Doctor Who" and "Dad's Army", where the BBC have even made public appeals, and material has been found in garden sheds, attics, foreign TV stations, skips, etc, etc !