Music Cities

Newport Gwent all at the legendary TJ's, Stow Hill Labour Club , where bands like Green Day , Butthole Surfers, Husku Du , Hole Therapy, Big Black , Offspring Bosstones , Misfits , and many more applied their fine sounds in their young informative years .

Cardiff
Amen Corner
Love Sculpture
Dave Edmunds
Andy Fairweather-Lowe
Maureen Evans
Shirley Bassey
Shakin’ Stevens

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Originally Posted by life on mars

Newport Gwent all at the legendary TJ's, Stow Hill Labour Club , where bands like Green Day , Butthole Surfers, Husku Du , Hole Therapy, Big Black , Offspring Bosstones , Misfits , and many more applied their fine sounds in their young informative years .

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Those are mostly bands from outside of newport

I used to go to tjs all the time , saw some great bands there , sick of it all , stuck mojo

Would love to have seen big black , love albinis work , shellac were a great band

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Originally Posted by Nelsonca61

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWEI...O&index=6&t=0s

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One of my favourite bands ever.

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Originally Posted by jeepster

One of my favourite bands ever.

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Ted McKenna on drums , later joined micheal schenker group

He was a great drummer , schenker was a great guitarist but msg were crap

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Ted McKenna on drums , later joined micheal schenker group

He was a great drummer , schenker was a great guitarist but msg were crap

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Zal Cleminson was a great front man good guitarist.

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Originally Posted by jeepster

Zal Cleminson was a great front man good guitarist.

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Were they a scottish band ?

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Originally Posted by TISS

Manchester

10cc
slaughter and the dogs

the buzzcocks
warsaw/joy division
new order
the smiths
the chameleons
the wedding present (shared with Leeds)
the happy mondays
the stone roses
the fall
808 state
the mock turtles
wu lyf
the courteeners
badly drawn boy
BC Camplight
Beady Eye
Twang
Oasis
northside
Paris Angels
The Bee Gees
space Monkeys
black Grape
Blossoms
Delphic
Lost Under Heaven
Maitlands
Verve
A Certain Ratio
The Chemical Brothers
James
Inspiral Carpets
The Charlatans (with Wednesday)
The Durutti Column
Doves/sub Sub
delphic
elbow
FSOL
The High
I am Kloot
M People
Slow Readers Club
The Membranes
Ting Tings
Molly Half Head
Money

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pedantic I know but the twang are not from Manchester.

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Originally Posted by GL1Blue

pedantic I know but the twang are not from Manchester.

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Nor are the inspiral carpets , they are an oldham band

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Originally Posted by City123

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard are supporting Noel Gallagher as well. Its hardly on the scale of Manchester, but South Wales has plenty to be proud of

https://youtu.be/gqPvO__2Hdg

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Are they from Barry?

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Originally Posted by GL1Blue

pedantic I know but the twang are not from Manchester.

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And Verve are from Wigan.

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Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef

Cardiff
Amen Corner
Love Sculpture
Dave Edmunds
Andy Fairweather-Lowe
Maureen Evans
Shirley Bassey
Shakin’ Stevens

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Young Marble Giants
Budgie
The Oppressed
Super Furry Animals and Catatonia formed in Cardiff?
Under The Driftwood Tree
Tigertailz
Future Of The Left

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Detroit (Motown) wins. The Stooges, The MC5, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, Suzi Quattro, The White Stripes, Madonna, Eminem, Kid Rock, Stevie Wonder, Aretha, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes etc etc

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Seconded by San Francisco. Some the 60s bands that came from there are mind blowing: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Blue Cheer, The Charlatans (the original band, not the indie band from the 90s), Flamin' Groovies, The Great Society, Hot Tuna, t's A Beautiful Day, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Moby Grape, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Sons of Champlin, Steve Miller Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and my least favourite of this phenomenal bunch being The Grateful Dead

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Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68

Seconded by San Francisco. Some the 60s bands that came from there are mind blowing: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Blue Cheer, The Charlatans (the original band, not the indie band from the 90s), Flamin' Groovies, The Great Society, Hot Tuna, t's A Beautiful Day, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Moby Grape, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Sons of Champlin, Steve Miller Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and my least favourite of this phenomenal bunch being The Grateful Dead

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Grace Slick was beautiful

Most of these bands were totally off their heads on drugs

As bill hicks said the best music ? All made when high

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

And Verve are from Wigan.

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I can see how Oldham and Wigan may get put under a 'Manchester' umbrella. The Twang are from Birmingham!!

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

They're not influential though. They're not even interesting.

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Hold on a second, the Manics are many things but they certainly aren't uninteresting!

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Are they from Barry?

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Not sure, any mention I've seen of where they're from is Cardiff

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Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68

Seconded by San Francisco. Some the 60s bands that came from there are mind blowing: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Blue Cheer, The Charlatans (the original band, not the indie band from the 90s), Flamin' Groovies, The Great Society, Hot Tuna, t's A Beautiful Day, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Moby Grape, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Sons of Champlin, Steve Miller Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and my least favourite of this phenomenal bunch being The Grateful Dead

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Nobody has even mentioned Detroit being probably the most important city when it comes to techno and house music.

Underground Resistance
Jeff Mills
Juan Atkins
Kevin Saunderson
Octave One
Omar S
Moodymann
Theo Parrish
Carl Craig

And loads loads more...

Liverpool/Merseyside - The Beatles, Echo and the Bunnymen, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black, The Coral, The La's, Circa Waves, The Wombats, The Boo Radleys, OMD, Half Man Half Biscuit

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Cardiff and south wales in general ?

Not very many

Budgie , Badfinger , manics , stereophonics , Catalonia, dub war

Apart from the manics not big hitters

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If you want an underwhelming music scene then look no further than Nottingham, Bruce Dickinson and someone from Depeche Mode are from Notts and that's pretty much it

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Those are mostly bands from outside of newport

I used to go to tjs all the time , saw some great bands there , sick of it all , stuck mojo

Would love to have seen big black , love albinis work , shellac were a great band

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I posted it as it said music cities , thinking that Newport was a great music city and opromoted so many first time visits to our shores for bands like Big Black to showcase themselves , didn't realise it was bands from cities oops.

Cardiff never really embraced that scene or opportunity. Cheap Sweaty Fun and TJ?'s did

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Nor are the inspiral carpets , they are an oldham band

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Big man city fans, used to have young guvnors etched into their vinyl.

Actually from Ashton, not Oldham

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Nor are the inspiral carpets , they are an oldham band

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Originally Posted by GL1Blue

I can see how Oldham and Wigan may get put under a 'Manchester' umbrella. The Twang are from Birmingham!!

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They are, my train of thought had stalled at the station on that one

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Originally Posted by City123

If you want an underwhelming music scene then look no further than Nottingham, Bruce Dickinson and someone from Depeche Mode are from Notts and that's pretty much it

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Always been good for gigs though. Some decent smaller venues.

Jesus, Stoke are 3-0 up already!

Oops. Wrong thread.