Clearly being unaware of some (okay in my case 99%) of the bands on this weekend’s bill was part of the fun for a number of people. Sitting in The Vestry early on Sunday afternoon the conversation immediately behind me centred on the quality of Niall McCamley's moustache and his banter and how Spook School records needed to be obtained forthwith. Having found the band’s existence hard to avoid over the past year or so it’s easy to forget that everyone can’t be aware of each group as they appear. Up until the end of this summer I’d no idea Dundee was home to Make That A Take records or BYAF, it all depends what you’re exposed to through the various types of media.

Logistical issues came to bear on the festival today, requiring some swift rescheduling and the vagaries of the diy tour schedule were highlighted with Lenin Death Mask having to drive for nine hours from the final night of their tour in Newport so as to make their slot. Given the rescheduling and my need to skip out and eat dinner the odd band or two may in fact not have been who I thought they were but you can definitely hear a track by each of the acts who played across the three days on the event’s bandcamp playlist which is attached below.

Showing that a lot of those involved don’t let the grass grow under their feet today also saw a few bands featuring one or more player from the other two days. Fair play, if you’ve an urge to emote in a different style then find some compadres and do it.

Band of the day were Elk Gang, not least for the comedic moment when their drummer was accidentally forced off the vegetarianism wagon with a mouthful of Greggs sausage roll. Days on site without accident – Zero. Copenhagen’s Forever Unclean were also an intense live prospect, whilst Shitgripper added some variety to things with the inclusion of samples and the laying down of hefty instrumentals. The Vestry played host to mainly bands today, with Slowlight being promoted to Buskers to maintain timings there, and for me this didn’t work as well as the solo or dual acts on Saturday. Brendan Dalton's heartfelt work was the most impactful of the day down there with Dave Hughes, Edgarville and The Shithawks not really reaching me at all.

Lenin Death Mask, Robot Doctors, Slowlight and Please, Believe! were variously emo, screamo or generally players of a thin kind of sound and so none of them really grabbed me. Riven with gig fatigue I buggered off before the final acts of the night. The bottom line though is that this was a very well organised international event that must have presented plenty of issues during the planning and preparation yet which went off with only a couple of minor hitches at the very end, at least to my knowledge. All concerned can be rightly proud.

It's snowing in Dundee and my fire lighting skills are proving non-existent as I look down towards the city where, for the past two nights, I've been in the audience for what is possibly the best value for money punk/diy festival in the UK - Book Yer Ane Fest (a second festival in the space of a week which is almost at the decade mark). Take into account that the ticket monies go to the Safe Tay charity and you're looking at an event with even more heart.

That it's got a good team behind it in the organisational, social media and sound engineering areas has been evident from when it first came across our radar & that's only been reinforced since Friday as the main Buskers venue and the downstairs Vestry have had exemplary sound across the board, with the engineer lad upstairs nipping about to sort minor issues practically before they occur (when not also kicking off the stage diving or playing in Maxwell's Dead).

Friday night was a riotous, inflatables-and-balloons, hearts on sleeves and emotional night with a great sense of the familial aspect of the scene being catered to and the love within it. Saturday was no less inclusive but more down to the business of getting the bands on and off again. Sunday I'll cover tomorrow.

As you'd expect it's been a mixed bag of acts on off and, having seen 20 out of 31 performances so far (the worst of which infact came during my afternoon at Tannadice watching Dundee United lose yet again) this would become a far too longwinded piece if I detailed them all. Links where possible will let you hear what you want anyway.

So, at the upper end of the scale and in no particular order were The Spook School, Get It Together, The Exhausts (bring to mind The Stupids), Maxwell's Dead, Uniforms (manfully dealing with some band name theft for their final show), Tim Loud (epically overcoming handcramps to complete 'I Don't Care What Everyone Else Says About You, I Think You're A Cunt') and Make War (getting the better of UK Border Control to make it along). Comfortably in the middle were Shatterhand, Veto, Good Grief, Tim Holehouse, Will Wood, Broken Stories, The Kimberley Steaks, The Murderburgers (who last time I saw them were three wee Scottish guys but now comprise one of those & 2/3s of Rational Anthem. New album out in 2016 on Asian Man Records anyway) and Great Cynics. Those not quite reaching me being PMX, Rational Anthem, Lachance & Cavalcades. Catholic Guilt deserve a mention too for having soap for sale in their merchandise, surely a first.

21 more acts on offer on Sunday so time now to get geared up for those as that fire's not looking any hotter and they like to start performances early around these parts.