― 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. ;-)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― 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
― A Nairn, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Swygart, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RickyT, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leigh, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Now I live in East Devon & it isn't much better, apparently the woman who danced with Hawkwind is from Exeter. Oh, and Eddie and the Hot Rods play the pub down the road from me on Friday (but aren't they from Southend ?)
― Mark l, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave225, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh and how could you forget Teignmouth's finest?
― what what, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've now moved to the west end of Glasgow and can't even pop out to the local newsagent without tripping over a (very) minor celebrity. But it doesn't seem quite so exciting as the time in 1978, sitting on the train from Dunfermline to Edinburgh and Fay Fife said hello to me because I was carrying the Atlantic records 'This is Soul' album. She said it was cool that young punks were into Soul and that this was one of her favourite records. I was so thrilled she thought I was a 'young punk' that I didn't tell her it was my only soul album at the time.
― Alexander Blair, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
The only other band I can think of (apart from a few dodgy 2nd generation punk bands) was "The Milltown brothers"
― Kris England, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mike, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― born clippy, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Erm ... I used to live just outside Dartford where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards came from. I think that counts.
― Robin Carmody, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tyler, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Cheshunt, Herts = CLIFF RICHARD!!!
And no dissing Bauhaus up there, ya hear?
― kate, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
i think another friend played (plays?) bass for Lynks Afrikka
― tremolo, Monday, 25 September 2023 10:54 (seven months ago) link