Ice Hockey, Rugby & Pop music

Ice Hockey

Dundee is home to the Dundee Texol Stars ice hockey team which play at the city’s Dundee Ice Arena. The team participates in the Scottish National League (SNL) and the Northern League (NL) as well as in various cup competitions.

Rugby

Dundee is represented at rugby by Dundee High School Former Pupils (DHSFP) (Est. 1880). The 2005/2006 season celebrates the club’s 125th anniversary.

Pop music

Dundee has a true claim to pop fame, having produced one of the defining soul-funk bands of the 1970s — the Average White Band. 1980s pop outfits The Associates and Danny Wilson were also Dundonian. Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue attended the High School of Dundee, trained at Dundee College of Education and taught briefly at a high school in the city. Current pop festival-headliners and Mercury Music Prize nominees Snow Patrol are Irish but have been adopted by the city because they were formed at the University of Dundee. The Dundee band Spare Snare were recently voted one of the fifty best Scottish bands of all time in a recent poll for The List magazine. KT Tunstall attended the High School of Dundee for a large portion of her education, as well as Madras School in nearby St. Andrews.

It was announced on February 8, 2006 that the One Big Weekend music festival put on by BBC Radio 1 would be coming to Dundee’s Camperdown Park. The dates for the 2006 festival are May 13 and 14.