just meet me in st louis and the stranglers I think.

notice there is a tendency for bands from around here to describe themselves as “London based”

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It’s called “The Seaplane Works”. :+1:

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This is where my parents live now! (In Polkemmet Country Park. :slight_smile:)

Absolutely no artists of note from where I’m originally from, other than some pretty tight ceilidh and pipe bands.

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I remember GuilFest (RIP) always seemed to have loads of local bands on the lower rungs of the bill. What I can’t remember however is who any of them were…

Remember Brian Wilson coming on stage on the 2009 Saturday night and announcing ‘Hello London!’.

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They’re good! Think they are brother and sister - at any rate the artist Alpha Steppa is described as son and nephew of Alpha & Omega. All three of them do records together as Dub Dynasty, who are also excellent

Croydon

Nosferatu D2
Benga
St Etienne
The Damned (i think?)
Stormzy

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Sunderland also gave us the wonderful Martin Stephenson

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Skream (and lots of other early dubstep types) are from Croydon

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Cov

The Specials
The Special AKA
The Selecter
The Enemy
The Primitives
Bolt Thrower
King

Fields of the Nephilim (Stevenage)

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Basildon

Depeche Mode
Yazoo

Searched long and hard for Yate and came up with Josie Gibson of Big Brother fame who released a Christmas single with the Cornish Wurzels in a bid for Christmas number one 10 years ago .

There is no YouTube video available.

Wikipedia used to say Wayne Hussey from The Mission was from Yate but that’s now been changed to Bristol and I can’t find any evidence online that he is indeed from Yate.

he’s from Winterbourne (read his autobiography a while back, very weird to see him discussing places I know well)

Oh yes - there used to be quite a few from there, but it was based around a record shop or two rather than clubs or a ‘scene’.

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Damn it I was hoping to claim him for Yate!

About as good as it gets for Southport and surrounding area:

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Luke Abbott

Let’s eat grandma

Bearsuit

Sennen

Sink ya teeth


Broads

All norwich based

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I understand you have the second largest Tesco in Europe, that’s something

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I remember Snoop Dogg asking “what’s up Edinburgh?” at T in the Park one time. I think a lot of acts just assume they’re performing in the same place as the airport they arrived at.

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