Long-time Dundee friends Underground Heroes are back in Rocktalk country for a couple of gigs this weekend, starting at Fat Sams in Dundee tonight.
Influenced by their heroes The Specials, The Jam and The Clash, the band’s “youthful punk” has made them favourites among fans of The View over the past five years.
Brothers Aaron and Joe Dollimore, George Penfold and Jak Miller first got together in 2005 and, by the following summer, Underground Heroes branched out from Kent, supporting The View on a tour in Scotland, playing the smaller summer UK festivals and doing their first international gig Ibiza Rocks Festival.
By November that year the band got together their own tour, playing Club NMEs up and down the country.
Since then the boys have shared stages with the likes of The View, Towers of London, Little Man Tate, The Cribs, The Metros, The Holloways, Kate Nash and Lily Allen, as well as playing their first Glastonbury.
Looking forward to releasing their debut album, Aaron says the future holds “more carnage, more sweat, more screaming, more songs, more rock ‘n’ roll, more injuries, more laughs, more friends, more fun, more parties, more travelodges, more van journeys, more touring, more good times.”
Underground Heroes also play Arbroath’s Devitos on Saturday.