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  • Bands from your area that were embarrassing
  • redmex
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    Im from north of the border and heard a Runrig tune on the radio and they were bad, not sure if they ever got past Gretna Green to inflict earache to the rest of the uk. Marrilion with lead singer Pish were bad too

    chewkw
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    Sting … the teacher and bloke from The Police.

    Not really sure the language he is singing with … 😯

    aP
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    Babylon Zoo. I win.

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    gobuchul
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    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1urq4Vb0XM[/video]

    EOT

    fadda
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    Wurzels, anyone…?

    honeybadgerx
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    Someone from Runrig used to live in my village, does that count?

    JoB
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    The Levellers

    gobuchul
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    The Levellers

    What’s wrong with the Levellers?

    I saw them at a festival a few years ago and they were great. 🙂

    the-muffin-man
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    Early Marillion were awesome!

    john_drummer
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    Home town Wakefield – Black Lace

    Live near Bradford now – Smokie

    RustySpanner
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    Northside.
    🙂

    The best ‘local’ band were probably the Chameleons.

    Malvern Rider
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    Take your pic anytime from 1984 onwards. Especially any I played in. There were what seemed like 1000s of local bands on the West Mids thru the 89s/90s, many I’ve just read yet not head of. This band list sacred document may spark a few memories for fellow Midlanders of a Certain Age. Or even further afield? JBs seemed to bring a lot of people in. Good times 🙂

    JBs Dudley entire booking list by year

    I don’t like naming names, so AFAIR any local band was super-great yeah alright 😉

    bikebouy
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    From Ironbridge, in Shropshire… I give you…

    CANCER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Not actually embarrassing, but quite an odd name don’t you think ? They had quite a lot of success in Europe and the US, gathered a following that was larger than you’d realise.
    Good musicians, solid theme and a drummer that would quite literally break kit per song.

    P-Jay
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    Lost Prophets .

    What do I win?

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    Nothing, you’ve lost all your profit!

    jimbobo
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    Kaiser Chiefs, the biggest average band ever! My dad was a big Runrig fan and I remember going to see them a few times. They weren’t bad, just not particuarly great. I think the singer left to be a MSP?

    Rubber_Buccaneer
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    john_drummer – Member 

    Live near Bradford now

    Next door to Alice?

    kcal
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    “from your area” – hm, not sure anyone from Moray really made it big at all!

    Edit – Charlie McKerron from Capercaillie possible exception. hmm, maybe not ‘big’ then..

    To be fair, I saw Runrig quite a lot in the mid late 80s, maybe not the strongest songwriters and crafters of tunes but as a show band for young Scottish folk, they weren’t half bad, first gig I went to was at Glasgow Tiffanys ballroom, sprung dance floor that felt as if it was about to take off.. great times..

    redmex
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    Jimbobo you must have been a bad child getting punished like that, some folk make nice vids of their epic walk up a jaggy munro and then make it un watchable because of the runrig music blaring away.
    It should only be heard on the royal mile beside the see you jimmy wig and shortbread tin and not forgettin the piper

    kcal
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    Donnie Munro stood for Parliament – both Holyrood and Westminster – for Labour. Pete Wishart is an MP.

    aa
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    Jive Bunny

    dannyh
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    This twunt.

    loddrik
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    Most Liverpool bands are shite. Everything I hate about music. Floppy hair. Twangy guitars. I look at the music scenes in places like Bristol with envy. Most Liverpool bands sound similar and are resolutely stuck in the past.

    sc-xc
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    Malvern Rider – that JBs list is great.

    From Sep 89 I was at pretty much every tue/thur/fri gig…local venues now just play tribute acts 🙁

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Next door to Alice?

    Who?

    thehustler
    Free Member

    Altern8
    Climax blues band

    docrobster
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    Leicester’s finest…
    Showaddywaddy.
    Engelburt Humperdink
    Kasabian. (After I left so may not count)

    Garry_Lager
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    From Ironbridge, in Shropshire… I give you…
    CANCER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Not actually embarrassing, but quite an odd name don’t you think ? They had quite a lot of success in Europe and the US, gathered a following that was larger than you’d realise.
    Good musicians, solid theme and a drummer that would quite literally break kit per song. Weren’t napalm death from Brosely across the river? Breeding ground for death metal.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Brought up near Peterborough.

    Cola Boy ftw?

    Lifer
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    CaptainFlashheart – Member
    “Next door to Alice?”
    Who?

    What’s the matter?

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Nicely done, Lifer.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    You are absolutely right Sir, Napalm Death.. noted at being 25th best metal band “in the world” from Broseley, Shropshire (over the Ironbridge itself)

    The drummer from Cancer I used to play Bass for, the big bushy haired guy in ND used to come watch us practice.. by the way I was shite and had absolutely no interest in Thrash Metal.

    copa
    Free Member

    The Alarm

    andytherocketeer
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    erm… The Rolling Stones

    iainc
    Full Member

    Have been a Runrig fan since the early days. They are huge in Germany and very comfy millionaires now. I remember going to see a new Glasgow band in my local pub in Glasgow south side in, I think, ’88 or so. They were good but a bit ragged……done ok now though… Texas 😀

    MrOvershoot
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    Rusty Spanner – Member
    The best ‘local’ band were probably the Chameleons.

    No probably Pete, best band from my teens 🙂

    loddrik – Member

    Most Liverpool bands are shite. Everything I hate about music. Floppy hair. Twangy guitars. I look at the music scenes in places like Bristol with envy.

    Yes often gets overlooked does Bristol, I was at school with Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack. Though he was in the year above me.

    DezB
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    Ooh, good one copa – The Alarm even looked bloody embarrassing.
    I thought Smokie were from down here, must be thinking of someone else.
    One of Tears For Fears was from Leigh Park where I grew up.
    For some reason South Hampshire doesn’t produce many bands (Renaldo & The Loaf and Pusherman were too good to be called embarrassing and my band, The Flatulent Brothers were amazing)

    Pook
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    as – Rotherham lad?

    RustySpanner
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    MrOvershoot – Member
    … best band from my teens

    Still a lot of love for them locally.

    Lodders, you must have gone to Quadrant Park?
    Big scene in Liverpool from what I remember, all the same big names as Manchester, often on the same night.

    But yeah, Bristol sounds like fun.
    🙂

    jonnyboi
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    Ooh, good one copa – The Alarm even looked bloody embarrassing

    That was the 80s for you, but at least they could belt out a bloody good tune. And they cracked America iirc

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