The View: From ‘brilliantly shambolic’ Dundee scallywags to international rock stars
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An early photo of Dundee rockers The View
It’s 15 years since Dundee band The View released their self-titled EP. Gayle Ritchie looks at the evolution of the rebellious rockers.
In 2005, a group of like-minded, shaggy-haired Dundee teenagers got together to form a band.
The lads, pupils at St John’s RC High School, started off doing covers of tunes by bands like Squeeze and the Sex Pistols.
The View, as they called themselves, soon began working on their own songs and performed them at school talent contests.
The View: From brilliantly shambolic Dundee scallywags to international rock stars
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THE Official Chart Company has been blasted after it scrapped the Scottish singles chart. For years, alongside the top 40 for the UK as a whole, the firm has produced a weekly rundown of what Scots music fans are listening to. But last month they quietly dropped the Scottish hit parade, with the last chart produced on November 27. Scottish bands and music fans have now signed up to a petition urging the industry body to think again. Journalist and radio broadcaster Jim Gellatly tweeted: “It s very disappointing @officialcharts seem to have ditched the Scottish Chart. “It was a great platform for acts like @TheSnuts @LukeLaVolpe and @joshua grantt to boost their profiles with No.1 hits early in their careers.”
It s very disappointing @officialcharts seem to have ditched the Scottish Chart. It was a great platform for acts like @TheSnuts@LukeLaVolpe and @joshua grantt to boast their profiles with No.1 hits early in their careers.https://t.co/6t8KUJopHh Jim Gellatly (@JimGellatly) December 21, 2020
It certainly seems a strange move, with the Official Charts having added genre specific rundowns - the Afrobeats Chart, the Folk Chart - earlier in the year.
So, what gives? One online query found the Official Chart company claiming that data limitations preventing them being able to continue with publication of the chart.
The Scottish Albums chart, though, will continue.
Ducky, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg: NCIS hero David McCallum was a gangsta rap star
NCIS hero David McCallum became an unlikely chart star 20 years ago at the age of 67 with the godfather of gangsta rap.
David McCallum, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg.
NCIS hero David McCallum became an unlikely chart star 20 years ago at the age of 67 with the godfather of gangsta rap.
Dr Dre included a swaggering sample from McCallum’s 1966 instrumental record The Edge on his 2000 single The Next Episode which featured Snoop Dogg.
McCallum, now 87, who has family links to Macduff, played Russian spy Illya Kuryakin in the hit 1960s series The Man from U.N.C.L.E and received more fan mail than any other actor in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s history including Clark Gable and Elvis Presley.
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