From Winnipeg

The Guess Who

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8z1EzDouNs[/video]

Neil Young (and lest someone should he only went to school there, and that he was actually from Toronto, here he is performing ‘Prairie Town’ with Randy Bachman [from BTO] and Margot Timmins [from Cowboy Junkies])

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ewuZS49aE[/video]

Crash Test Dummies

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UUQOw-reV4&list=PL067381E9FA1F377B[/video]

Not everyone’s taste but growing up in Cambuslang the Jesus & Mary Chain were from about 4-5 miles away. I like them still.

I quite liked the Jesus & Mary Chain!

The Chameleons.

I live somewhere between Guildford and Woking. So I’ll offer The Stranglers and The Jam, both of whom are I think ‘above average’

Hhmm The Wurzels- not even that close really

I win..

Wings, Travelling Wiburys and Plastic Ono I recognise. Who’s the other guy?

back in the punk days…..
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU9_zSv3LP0[/video]

more recently…..
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-aTZ1Je0DY[/video]

I have very few.. Joe Jackson was pretty decent early on..
[video]https://youtu.be/5kSlXAeDO08[/video]

But I still listen to this band – didn’t know any of them, but mates did and a girl I know went out with the singer. 2 of them died young, but they managed to produce a pretty decent album.
[video]https://youtu.be/exnsD5ilVtE[/video]

I used to hang out at Freuds in Oxford when Radiohead were more or less the house band, apparently they went on to do quite well for themselves

[video]https://youtu.be/m8tbCTyyVZM[/video]

Perhaps not their best song, but certainly my fave. Damn shame, their label went busy and they never got the chance they? needed.

I’m from near Manchester

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

😀

The Verve !!!!!!

Not heard anything new from them for a while now, but OMD grew up in Meols (Wirral).

In Southampton, I can only think of Howard Jones and Craig David (not bands, I know).

Bad Beach.
Brilliant Leamington Spa based hardcore band from my youth.

[video]http://youtu.be/Dj9kO_HGjNI[/video]

The Joyce McKinney Experience
[video]http://youtu.be/jzweMiSbwOI[/video]

Visions of Change[video]http://youtu.be/OST4y60cxsE[/video]

Gary Barlow’s done ok for himself

None from my village… but a few from my uni city:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqVyeli5D7k[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cfUyIAIfak[/video]

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

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzLlwlb1PRI[/video]

Being a brummie I guess Led Zep and Sabbath would be a couple of pretty good bands 😀

The big guy from “goodbye mr Mckenzie” lived at the end of my street (Leith – Edinburgh)

Well, there was that little band from just across the river. Muse I think they were called. Currently the biggest band from the locale is probably Mad Dog McRae who do well on the festival circuit but there’s an up and coming group of teens called Ethyrfield who have what it takes to be a big thing in the next couple of years.

Wakefield: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Bradford: New Model Army, Southern Death Cult

Who’s the other guy?

The station master from Thomas?

From the general area where I live, mostly Bristol, there’s the Blue Aeroplanes, Goldfrapp, Tears for Fears, Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, XTC, Bananarama*, The Brilliant Corners, Climie Fisher, The Cortinas, **** Buttons, Glaxo Babies, Peter Gabriel, Nik Kershaw, The Korgis, Pigbag, Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra, The Pop Group, Propellerheads, Reprazent, Rip, Rig + Panic, Roni Size, Stackridge, Strangelove, The Wild Bunch, Robert Wyatt.
*Technically they were formed in London, but Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward are from Bristol and have been friends since the age of four and went to school together, so there’s a strong connection to the city.

This is one scouser who agrees with the Bristol choices. Best music city after London without doubt.

Hhmm The Wurzels- not even that close really

Tommy Banner the accordion player lives a couple streets away from me, really nice guy & always says hello.

Not a band but Joss Stone was pretty local too, her mum owned a music venue in the town I grew up in.

Joss Stone of course!!!!..doffs cap^^

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxbzFkNEfvU[/video] 🙂

[video]https://youtu.be/ZWmrfgj0MZI[/video]

Joy division’s front man lived just round the corner. The virgin Mary’s and Marion too

The guitarist from Judas Priest lived just down the road from where I grew up!!
Obviously The Wonderstuff, Neds and Poppies dont count as shit but anyo e remem er Fretblanket?

From hometown – Teenage Fanclub

From new place – Biffy Clyro

I used to deliver the paper to the drummer from Nazareth – he had a pool and everything !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDZBW-1P04

Locally also would claim

The Skids – keyboard player ended up being my music teacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9udxbvHiqGw

And of course the fine, mighty and exceptional Big Country who i had the absolute pleasure of playing with at a school concert (captured somewhere on VHS)

Went to secondary school with the bassist of the Dub Pistols, -Dave Budgeon, (Easingwold)
Went to college with all the guys from Shed Severn.(York)

Thomas the tank engine.

From hometown – The Verve. Starsailor. Kajagoogoo (well, Limahl anyway)

Back home:

Muse – Teignmouth. Same school while they were there, a few years below me.

Now live in Woking, so yeah, The Jam / Weller. Not much of a fan though. The Stranglers came from Guildford.

Not bands, but plenty of famous rock/pop people live in the mansions of Surrey.

The Jam.

I’ve delivered pizza to Paul Weller’s old house on Stanley Road.

Don’t think much has changed since he wrote Town Called Malice.

Eric Clapton was born in Ripley, but that’s the “posh bit” compared to where I’m from…

Rick Wakeman
Jay Kay
The Magic Numbers
Jim Marshall (of amplifier fame)

Theatre of Hate (Started as The Pack)
The Adverts
Having been born in London with family in Newport can i count The Clash/ Joe Strummer links?

Colin Vercombe from Black went to my school.
Where I live now it’s The Coral, still a great band.