Rebecca Baird

1 week ago | thecourier.co.uk | Rebecca Baird

If you’re looking for the most exciting upcoming Dundee music-makers that you haven’t heard of, look no further. Here’s our round up of six of the best in unsigned artists who are on the verge of great things in 2025, with all of them already standouts at the city’s acclaimed grassroots venues like Beat Generator, Church and Roots. 1.

1 week ago | thecourier.co.uk | Rebecca Baird

The internet says it’s a myth that people drive more recklessly when the weather’s nice. I’m not so sure. The past fortnight has been glorious weather-wise, and as a total sun-worshipper myself, it’s lovely to see people taking advantage of it. Sometimes that looks like the Scottish classic of sunbathing anywhere, from main roadsides to concrete patios (I’ve seen both in Dundee in the last seven days). Taps aff knows no bounds.

2 weeks ago | thecourier.co.uk | Rebecca Baird

Even if you’ve never set foot in an art gallery, you might have walked right by Jeremy Deller’s work. In 2004 he won the Turner Prize for recreating the 1980s miners’ strike’s Battle of Orgreave as an enthusiast’s military re-enactment. More recently his bouncy, interactive model of Stonehenge premiered in Glasgow in 2012 and toured the country during that year’s London Olympics.

2 weeks ago | thecourier.co.uk | Rebecca Baird

This weekend, Dundee art students get to showcase their years of hard work at the annual DJCAD undergraduate degree show. As ever, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design presents a wide variety of talent with the care and attention of a professional art exhibition. From video, paint and sculpture pieces to imaginative textile design and skilfully-crafted jewellery, there’s a wealth of talent on show from the next generation of Dundee makers.

2 weeks ago | thecourier.co.uk | Rebecca Baird

Both the play and the star bite off slightly more than they can chew, and that’s part of the fun of Keli. What is it? The National Theatre of Scotland’s brand new touring play, which began in Edinburgh last week and will next be seen in Dundee and Perth. Set in a fictional Scottish ex-mining town halfway along the M8, a lot of people from similar towns and villages in Fife and across the Central Belt will recognise the setting.