Entering its 7th year, T on the Fringe continues to go from strength to strength with a month-long conveyor belt of talent sure to attract scores of Dundee and Tayside music fans on the trip to the capital city at least once or twice.

Here are Grapevine’s recommendations for the ones for which you need to beg, borrow or sell your granny to get tickets!

First on the agenda are baggy beat merchants Kasabian who visit the Corn Exchange on August 14. Surprise headliners at T in the Park their fringe show promises another opportunity to hear tracks from their forthcoming longplayer Empire.

Capable of fusing cool, electronic futurism with the rock and roll swagger that all young boys wish to emulate, Kasabian are the self-proclaimed kings of all that they purvey.

Next up on August 17 at the wonderful sweat pit that is The Liquid Rooms come Glaswegian trio The Fratellis.

Despite claiming to trade in the world of myth and make believe, anyone who has been present at any of their million-miles-an-hour live shows or been fortunate enough to have come into contact with their incendiary sounds so far will be more than aware that the Glaswegian trio are a living, breathing entity.

But it’s what they create that is from another world entirely, a fantasy world born of their own fervent imaginations. The fortunate few hundred at this show are sure to discover fantasy is much better than reality.

On a much grander scale this year’s T on the Fringe offers two triumphant shows at the Meadowbank Stadium starting with Muse and their overblown pretensions of alien ancestors, giant meteorites and cod-classical pomp rock on August 24.

With latest offering Black Holes and Revelations receiving a long overdue Mercury Music prize nomination this will be their first visit to Scotland since the Big Weekend in Dundee.

Frontman Matt Bellamy’s passion for overblown, grandiose gestures usually promises a visual feast with My Chemical Romance providing able support.

Within 24 hours Dundee’s adopted heroes Snow Patrol will play their largest Scottish show of the year at the same venue.

Contractually obliged to festivals in England this summer they were sadly missed from the T in the Park bill, but on a sunny August night (fingers crossed) this could be one of the fringe’s highlights.

Recent album Eyes Open appears to have almost slipped unnoticed in this year’s hype machine, but that won’t stop thousands of fans enjoying one of those proud to be Scots moments, joined in union with swaying arms and the person next to you murdering the song in your ear.

u Finally, with all your pennies dispatched and your granny still waiting in the pawn shop, the hangover blues of the month-long Fringe fun can be banished when The View visit The Liquid Rooms on September 1. Not affiliated to T on the Fringe, it promises, like their stunning performance at Balado, to be one of those moments to remember.

Lead singer Jon McKellan comes across as modest and struggles to contain his enthusiasm for their current tour of the UK talking more passionately about the music and his fans than he does about having a handful of cash and a small crowd of underage groupies wearing expensive band merchandise.

“It’s going really well at the moment, we just launched our EP in Glasgow last week and had a massive party. It was jumping and we had a great time, the reaction was just amazing,” beamed McKellan.

Futuro appear to have made a rapid rise when in fact they’re born of the ashes of their former guise Driverdown.

Signed to Glasgow label Dicelines Records they had produced one album, which failed to inspire the trio and left them to regroup and return with a new musical direction.

Jon explained, “Driverdown had a kind of experimental trip-rock feel, a bit like Portishead and Massive Attack. We got a good reaction but we just reached a point where we thought it was never going to go any further to so we went away for a bit.

“We started listening to other bands like Maximo Park, Bloc Party, We Are Scientists and took a lot of inspiration from them.

“Futuro sounds completely different, a bit more indie mainstream but we feel really comfortable in this kind of format. We don’t use as much programming but there is still some of the electronic feel coming through.

“It’s very much a different band and attitude.”

With jagged guitars, solid bass lines and scientific drumming, Futuro wear their influences on their sleeve but have some altogether more unique takes on promoting their music.

Realising that you have to give away a lot of freebies to get your name known they have become famed for giving away CDs and icing-coated cookies. Although Jon admits life on the road might prevent them from fulfilling their baking aspirations in Dundee.

Futuro play at The Westport Bar on Sunday August 6 with doors open at 8pm.