― dave q, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andy K, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Flowersdie, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Lincoln was a little more promising with a couple of members of B- Movie coming straight outta Sincil Bank, and 'John Peel favourites' The Cigarettes (well he played their singles).
Hometown since 1990, Twickenham, is, of course a hotbed of music. Pete Townshend has lived here for yonks, 'tho he's from Shepherds Bush. Ross MacManus lives three streets away from me, and still gigs round here, as do sixties freakbeat heros The Downliners Sect (see Nuggets 2 box set) and The Strawbs still play in various configurations (incl Dave Lambert also of The Fire of 'My Father's Name is Dad' fame). Robin Guthrie lives and has a studio here. Ian MacLagan of The Small Faces is from Whitton, which is strictly Hounslow, but learned how to bunk off college and drink in The Albany by Twickenham railway station, upon which Rod Stewart was reputedly 'discovered'. I'm not sure if that's true. Also from TW1 - appalling transit van indie fools The Senseless Things. Good name chaps.
― Dr. C, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fritz, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Subhumans (punk band from nearby Melksham) recorded their first album there. That's about it.
Peter Gabriel comes to buy his paper from the newsagents. Does that count?
― Zanny G, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm now in Bristol...which people always assume to be a really happening place, musicwise - Massive Attack, Portishead etc. etc., but these people don't actually do anything locally. Indie labels Subway (Flatmates, Groove Farm etc.) & Sarah were also Bristol-based.
As for bands, Pigbag & The Brilliant Corners spring to mind.
Carmel (erm, from Carmel) hails from Brigg, believe it or not...
― Jez, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also from Grimsby - Steve Currie from T-Rex
― Andrew L, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Johanna, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
dave, as -if- you post here. :) arcade fire is the shit, and they kick leonard cohen and GYBE!'s asses, twice. arcadefire.com for some muffled live stuff. glories will be heard in the coming months.
sean [kyla says hi]
― sean, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
What's wrong with prefab sprout?
― Julio Desouza, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DJ Martian, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Clarke B., Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nathalie, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I currently live in Costa Mesa, CA, home of Supernova (yay!) and, erm, Sugar Ray. Trust me, I'd do something about that if I could. However, to make up for it, my cross-the-street neighbors Chris and Scott are better known as Papa Byrd, being both good DJs and musicmakers.
Dom, you seem to have some problem with the fact that the gloriously wonderful Bauhaus comes from Northampton.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
there was a band called American TV Cops who got played on the radio a bit in the early 90s, and a much better band called gloy, who didn't.
just down the road tho: tamworth....home to julian cope, wolfsbane and birdland.
that part of the midlands is a cultural wilderness. i'm glad i dont live there any more. whinge.
― dbini, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rw, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel --, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
my hometown is too small to have contributed anything. my birth town contributed, doh, slipknot.
― Josh, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex Linsdell, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Let's see...hmmm. New York City: Kiss, The Velvet Underground, the Fugs, the New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the Heartbreakers, the Plasmatics, Agnostic Front, Murphy's Law, Cro-Mags, Kraut, DNA, Mars, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Pussy Galore, Swans, Sonic Youth, Heart Attack, D-Generation, Helmet, Band of Susans, the Toasters, Urban Blight, the Dictators, Prong, Missing Foundation, Rat at Rat R, Live Skull, Cop Shoot Cop, the Undead, the Black Snakes, Firewater, Skeleton Key, the Lounge Lizards, Suicide, Anthrax, the Beastie Boys, Run-Dmc, LL Cool J, Kurtis Blow, Laurie Anderson, the Strokes, Interpol...oh, fuck, and a bunch more.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
10 minute drive (the singer) 20 minutes drive (also the singer - we're proud of this)
― Keiko, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Timothy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
San Diego itself is another matter entirely. I didn't live THERE, after all. ;-)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hoboken's done pretty well for a small town, methinks.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matthew james, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
not that anyone will hear them, probably.
― Andrew, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DG, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jack Cole, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― your null fame, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
Indiana as a state has also spawned Michael Jackson (actually all of the Jacksons), Axl (as noted above), David Lee Roth & Johnny Cougar which is a pretty odd lot.
― earlnash, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― phil, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
And then there's my 'other' home town of Penarth, the other side of Cardiff, where I lived for 18 years, whose twin claims to fame are the Paget Rooms (see Man's "Live at the Paget Rooms, Penarth" live album) and being the birth place of Christian rocker Martyn "Dolphins make me cry" Joseph who used to come to our school and play Cliff Richard songs in our assemblies, and hand out signed LPs to teachers who promptly binned them (I know, I saw them do it).
― Rob M, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
US politics gets everywhere >:(
― Captain Beeftweet (Tom D.), Friday, 5 June 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
LOL @ me failing to mention Momus and mentioning Kenneth McKellar instead - twice!
― Captain Beeftweet (Tom D.), Friday, 5 June 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
Crazy House, Subhumans (anarcho band), members of The Bolshoi, Jeff Keen (hey he made sound art).
Or alternatively, my birthplace (and where most my family are from): Tears for Fears, Propellerheads, DNA of Tom's Diner fame
(For bonus, the town between them: Jesus Jones)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 2 September 2023 03:45 (nine months ago) link
Oh and Dave Dee went to school here too.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 2 September 2023 03:49 (nine months ago) link
From my neighbourhood of Toronto, Drake. Supposedly also Rik Emmett, the guitarist for Triumph, though I can't confirm this.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 September 2023 03:55 (nine months ago) link
Depends on what you mean by "hometown." I was born in Detroit, which has contributed as much to popular music as any other American city, probably more than most.
I grew up in Denver, whose greatest contribution may be . . . Judy Collins? Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats? The Fray? The fucking Lumineers? I did finish high school in Pueblo, Colorado, which if I remember correctly had some connection to Tommy Bolin.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 September 2023 13:57 (nine months ago) link
my hometown sent ambassadors to the american south in the 1890s to teach them slide guitar
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 September 2023 14:44 (nine months ago) link
Dave Matthews BandPavement, pretty muchBella MorteHappy Flowers
(Charlottesville VA)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 2 September 2023 14:48 (nine months ago) link
I mentioned Gerry Rafferty upthread but forgot to mention his sparring partner, Joe Egan. My hometown seems to have produced more actors than musicians though.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:04 (nine months ago) link
I spent mny first 6 months in Ladbroke Grove which had initially an undergrounnd scene followed by a pub rock scene after I left and eventually punk. Moved to Richmond, couldn't forment revolution as a babe in armsMoved to Kenya where Benga and a few other sounds appeared.Moved to Woodford Green where Gnidrolog came fromThen Walthamstow which gave you the Vibrators and a bunch of other bands over the years I was there and was about the last cheapish place in London so had various bands move there and i think On U Sound. Moved to Dublin which had a good underground scene Then Galway which is where Sweeney's men formed years earlier.
― Stevo, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:07 (nine months ago) link
two jons. jon small, drummer of the hassles, lived two doors down from me. some other neighborhood kids and i used to watch them rehearse in the garage.
jon carin, six years my junior (his sister was in my grade), has played keyboards for pink floyd, roger waters, the who, bryan ferry, kate bush, etc.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:08 (nine months ago) link
carin was also in a new wave band called industry. jon small was also in atilla, and was married to / divorced from elizabeth webber before billy joel was.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:12 (nine months ago) link
Lisa Germano. I wish I'd known as a teenager there in the late 90s.
― cracked fixed view mire (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
My school gave the world Leyton Buzzards/Modern Romance and 2 members of Bark Psychosis but they lived in another local area.
― Stevo, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:17 (nine months ago) link
oh, and evan shore from muck & the mires! and mercury caronia, drummer for jon carin's industry, was in a prog band called cathedral whose self-produced lp goes for big bucks.https://www.discogs.com/release/2901414-Cathedral-Stained-Glass-Stories
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:18 (nine months ago) link
the boys from Brave Little Abacus (New Hampshire "midwest" emo band beloved by internet nerds) were a grade or two behind me at my regional high school. band/theater geeks iirc. I didn't really know them, but the lead singer's sister was valedictorian of my class, and the keyboardist and I were members of a myspace group called "The Boys Who Like Jokes" along with like five other members. their legendary live album was recorded at the senior center next to my high school. I wasn't aware of the band at the time so don't have any stories to tell
The Shaggs are probably the most famous band to come out of my home county. I have no idea what to do with this information.― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:17 PM (eight years ago)
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:17 PM (eight years ago)
I once dreamed of making a pilgrimage to The Shaggs' former home, but sadly
The Shaggs disbanded and sold most of their equipment. A few years later, Betty and Dot married and moved out, and their mother sold the family house. The new owner became convinced that the house was haunted by Austin's ghost and donated it to the Fremont fire department, who burnt it down in a firefighting exercise.
― urquelle surprise (unregistered), Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:29 (nine months ago) link
oops, clipped off a relevant part of that quote: "Shortly after the recording session, Austin died of a heart attack at the age of 47."
― urquelle surprise (unregistered), Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:30 (nine months ago) link
Not sure I wish to claim DC proper (Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye).
But I do live a few blocks from Dischord, and recorded at Inner Ear, so I think I can claim about one degree of separation from the Teen Idles/Minor Threat/Fugazi axis, plus the Scream/Grohl/Foo agglomeration. I have played with Skeeter from Scream and with Don Zientara. So.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:36 (nine months ago) link
Will always rep for our DIY scene but nobody ever makes it big here. The only 'famous' acts I can think of are: Tindersticks, Jake Bugg, Ronika, Paper Lace, Sleaford Mods.
― emil.y, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:41 (nine months ago) link
Also home to Earache Records, for you metalheads.
― emil.y, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:42 (nine months ago) link
Earache My Eye
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 September 2023 17:34 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c32JxwQeyJs
― jaymc, Saturday, 2 September 2023 17:37 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qpv-lGNXAQ
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 September 2023 17:54 (nine months ago) link
I'm from a small village in the hills, outside Edinburgh, which gave the world
Boards Of CanadaThe Scars (well, 50% of them)Christ. Nina Nesbitt
― stirmonster, Saturday, 2 September 2023 18:16 (nine months ago) link
Real hometown (Toronto), many. Current hometown (St. Marys), Emm Gryner, sort of.
― clemenza, Saturday, 2 September 2023 18:18 (nine months ago) link
depending on which london suburb counts as my actual hometown it's either iron maiden, stormzy, or a certain fascist "bluesman"
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:17 (nine months ago) link
They call Alabama the Crimson Tode. Call me fascist blues.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:32 (nine months ago) link
*Tide, gah.
I don't know of any notable musicians from Silver Spring MD, though Stevie Nicks immortalized the town/city in song in Fleetwood Mac's "Silver Springs", which of course has nothing to do with Silver Spring but was named for it. My current address about a 10 minute drive from Silver Spring is a block away from where John Fahey attended high school (and also Jim Henson and Len Bias).
― Lee626, Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:36 (nine months ago) link
didn't Half Japanese have some connection to Silver Spring (I knew the Fair brothers grew up in Union Bridge, MD). The town I lived in until last year gave the world Lester Bowie.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:51 (nine months ago) link
David Byrne grew up in Arbutus, Md., which is sorta between Columbia and Baltimore. The Fairs lived in Carroll County, near Frederick. My wife is from Mount Airy. South Carroll.
Not helpful for Silver Spring, but in the ballpark.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 September 2023 20:43 (nine months ago) link
This reminds me that I was in a grade-school class with Rebecca Gibb, later drummer for Harlow, and Pat Smear's wife.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 September 2023 21:03 (nine months ago) link
i'd tell y'all but then you'd be able to figure out my hometown, which isn't big, and i'm clinically paranoid. i just find it endlessly amusing that my hometown has actually contributed to music and not just to pablo escobar's retirement account
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 September 2023 21:07 (nine months ago) link
Same. There’s a major pop star from my hometown but I don’t wanna talk about it
― Josefa, Saturday, 2 September 2023 22:19 (nine months ago) link
XP to Tom D - this is very obscure but Paisley was home to this guy also -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOniGvP4eCE
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 September 2023 22:25 (nine months ago) link
Specific neighbourhoods are typically hard to pin down within this sprawl but the interweb tells me that Percy Grainger, Daevid Allen, Kylie Minogue, J G Thirlwell, Dame Nellie Melba, Helen Reddy, Flea and various members of Air Supply and the Birthday Party were born somewhere around here, for starters. (This game is less interesting if thinking in terms of largish conurbations, admittedly, but there's also little risk to anonymity lol.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 3 September 2023 01:19 (nine months ago) link
Mine's where Colin Meloy grew up and got his first Replacements album, and where Charley Pride played baseball and first started performing. A truly formative town.
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Sunday, 3 September 2023 02:44 (nine months ago) link
Both Taylor Hawkins and Jon Davison of Yes would have been surfer kids around Laguna Beach when I was in high school. Ty Segall also comes from Laguna but a generation later.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 September 2023 10:35 (eight months ago) link
i'm from east dulwich in london. nitin sawhney and glenn tillbrook are both from here, and king krule spent a lot of time in east dulwich growing up
a good friend i went to primary school with is in a band called curser who seem to be doing well :)
― tremolo, Monday, 25 September 2023 10:47 (eight months ago) link
i think another friend played (plays?) bass for Lynks Afrikka
― tremolo, Monday, 25 September 2023 10:54 (eight months ago) link