Effective period / Period of releases: 1996 - 1997

Members: Alan Moffat, John Eslick, Chris Miezitis

The Diggers are a Scottish post-Brit-pop power-pop band with a 1997 debut album, Mount Everest.

Members Miezitis and Moffatt had attended school together and began playing as an acoustic duo in the early 1990s. In 1991 they moved to Glasgow and added members Eslick and Ross. After a 1993 car crash, the group was noticed by Martin Carr of The Boo Radleys, who got them signed to Creation Records. They opened for Super Furry Animals on tour in 1997 and released their debut for Creation, Mount Everest.