A famous Dundee landmark is to be immortalised in musical circles after a prominent city band decided to rename themselves after it.
Sinderins is now the new name for Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Fisher (and Barbour), a mouthful that has long been a bone of contention for fans, radio and TV presenters and journalists.
Despite three highly enjoyable and successful years of building the band initially AMWWF as they became known, later AMWF after bass player Robbie Ward left to be replaced by Tom Barbour the Dundee five-piece always knew they would have to get a new name.
The series of surnames was almost impossible to remember, as well as being something of a mouthful for radio presenters.
For non-Dundonian readers, The Sinderins is the five-way junction in the West End at the point where Perth Road meets Hawkhill, Blackness Avenue and Shepherd’s Loan, which handily reflects the make-up of the five-piece outfit.
Dave Webster from the band explained: “It’s with pleasure we reveal that our new name will be Sinderins.
“For us, this junction represents the different path we now find ourselves on roads that have split off into divergent paths.”
Emerging from 2014 with a new studio album recorded with Grammy award-winning producer Matt Lawrence, the band will be christening their new name with the launch of their own speciality ale, also titled Sinderins, by playing a selection of their new material at PJ Molloys in Dunfermline on March 7.
Signed copies of the new album, which is tentatively due for release on Monday, April 6, and includes various other bespoke promotional items can be pre-ordered through the bands campaign on Pledge Music www.pledgemusic.com/projects/amwf.