Dundee music fans are being encouraged to raid their lofts and dig in their cupboards for photographs and memorabilia to accompany a new exhibition.
What Presence!, the Rock Photography of Harry Papadopoulos, is drawing the crowds at the McManus, and visitors to the exhibition are greeted by a wall of Dundee music posters stretching back almost 30 years.
The show’s organisers are now appealing for more local images for the Dundee Music Memories page on Flickr.
Rhona Rodger, McManus social history curator, said: “Whenever people look at these exhibition images, conversations spark up among the visitors.
“It’s nice to get people to share these memories somewhere.
“The usual way is to have a space for people to write on in the gallery. With social media, we wanted contributions that way, so people further afield can use it as well.”
Pictures submitted so far range from vintage photos of Associates singer Billy Mackenzie to contemporary images from gigs at Dundee’s Kage nightclub.
Rhona said: “People didn’t always carry cameras the way they do now, so these things many years ago weren’t always recorded. They are much fewer and far between.
“But we want anything from the music scene and pubs and clubs people’s social lives over the last 40 years. We want to record this, so it is a legacy from the exhibition.”
The local memorabilia that accompanies the McManus exhibition was supplied by Groucho’s owner Alastair “Breeks” Brodie and Dundee musician Mike Kane.
Rhona said: “When we were planning the exhibition we wanted to be able to have things from the local scene from that time.
“Alastair had all this material and he said he would be willing to share this with us. I ended up in the attic digging through all these posters and it was good fun.
“Mike brought in a whole load of other material, including fanzines, and we are hoping to put some of these out in display cases.”
Rhona said the What Presence! exhibition, which runs until August 11, had been “very busy” over its first fortnight.
She said: “We had 370 on the opening evening and we doubled our visitor figures on the first Saturday. It does take people back and they start talking about the first gig they went to and who they were into at the time.”