"Alternative Routes" – Viseu Garage's Rock Echoes from the 80s and 90s (2026)

"Percursos Alternativos" - Ecos de Garagem: o Rock em Viseu nos anos 80 e 90

Across Portugal in the 80s and 90s, garages traded their cars for drum kits, bass amps, and electric guitars. Long before professional studios took over, countless bands were born—and quickly died—in these makeshift spaces, often with little skill and no real plan. The only thing that mattered was the music. Every decade leaves its sonic fingerprint, and for those two decades, that fingerprint was alternative rock in all its raw, varied forms. This is the untold story of Viseu’s garage bands: some remained local legends, while a few broke through to the national stage.