All the pretty good bands are from my area.

Having lived in Liverpool and Devon I can safely say no decent music has come from either of those places.

I did briefly live in Sheffield so I will take Def Leppard

Wakefield: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

What about Black Lace?

Garry Glitter’s from the town I live in. Not sure that qualifies as good though.

Off the top of my head:

Where I was (Essex/Suffolk border):

The Prodigy.
Cradle of Filth.
Blur (Damon’s dad was my head of art school)
Suzi Quattro
Steve Harley

Where I am now (IoW):

Mark from Level 42 lives pretty nearby…

Where my folks are from (west London – Ealing/Greenford/Perivale):

The Who (Dad’s best mate at school was Pete Townsend’s neighbour)
Elton John
Gary Numan
Jamiroquai
Brand New Heavies
The Stones weren’t too far away either

When you gooooo will you send back a lettur frooooom america….

Went to my school did the proclaimers.

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

the delays. ace band.

artful dodger.

Leeds – so pretty much the 80 goth scene. Sisters of Mercy, Mission and others. Quite a few of them were from the surrounding towns as well so it wasn’t really a Leeds thing it’s just it was a good night out. There was stuff going on around Leeds, like Futurama Festival in Bradford, but Leeds had The Phono, Chocolate Factory and The Faversham.

Used to see a few of the band members turning up for a pint in the Fav on a Friday night, even afetr some of them had minor success with US stadium tours.

I ran past the Barlow family farm just this week. It’s on the Cheshire Stars and their Tractors celebrity trail.

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Edinburghs finest although I’m guessing I’m in the minority.

Born in Liverpool. Did we have any bands?

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It Bites, West Cumbria’s finest.

Francis Dunnery, the lead singer, did alright for himself after they split up as well.

A few Mercury prize winners and shortlisters from Brizz and the surrounding area.
Portishead, Roni Size/reprezent and Massive Attack.

Lame Claim to fame

a, I sold Grant from Massive Attack a North Face down jacket XXL special order, the shop manager thought he was on the rob and he wore the jacket to accept an award in New York..
b, I used to work next door to the recording studio that New Forms was written in, I used to pop in for a smoke on my lunch break. Never saw Roni, though.

This may not surprise but Milton Keynes has a poor history for decent bands…. saying that I’m off to watch Jesus jones (remember them) tonight at my local a minute walk from house.

Best we had were:
Cap-down
Hactavist
Tesseract
Heart of a coward (also working in my local)

Also I would put Jim Marshall of amplifier fame in MK not London as he was here for years and built all his kit here.

A lot of metal here in mk.

Leeds – so pretty much the 80 goth scene. Sisters of Mercy, Mission and others. Quite a few of them were from the surrounding towns as well so it wasn’t really a Leeds

I think the thing about the Leeds/West Yorks ‘scene’ in the early ’80s was that it was pretty cohesive and mutually supportive (similar to some of the ‘scenes’ that came out of the likes of Manchester & Liverpool) – contrast this with Sheffield which has ‘nurtured’ loads of great bands over the years, but they tend to develop in isolation from each other.

Jarvis Cocker apparently attributes this to the supportive workforce culture of the docks and mills in Liverpool and West Yorks etc compared to the small independent ‘little mesters’ of the Sheffield steel industry. It’s an interesting anecdote anyway …

I did briefly live in Sheffield so I will take Def Leppard

Clearly you didn’t live here long enough … 😉

Cabaret Voltaire
Drenge
Heaven 17
Arctic Monkeys
The Human League
Pulp