What's Your Hometown's ContributionTo Music?

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Frank Sinatra, the Feelies, and Yo La Tengo.

Hoboken's done pretty well for a small town, methinks.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Al Green

― Curt, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Batley, Yorkshire. i think the drummer from terrorvision, Robert Palmer and Black Lace. aaa-gaaa-do, do, do...

― matthew james, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hobart, Tasmania: The Philisteins, The Legends of Motorsport, The Frustrations. It's one of those places that's really isolated and doesn't even have an indie rock store. Consequently, there's a weird little band scene here that really doesn't sound like much else, when all the stoned idiot musos get out of their bedrooms to play a gig once every six months. Best current bands: Avoidable Droid, The Gentlemen, Karaoke for my Shadow.

not that anyone will hear them, probably.

― Andrew, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

All I can remember about Romford's contribution to music are Underworld and, er, Five Star.

― DG, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Avalanches.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Andrew: you forgot the Paradise Motel! and 1927! (or was that Bang The Drum, I can never remember). and the Sea Scouts!

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

DG, im shocked and disappointed! what about suburban base records? werent they based in romford - sonz of a loop da loop era, is he a romfordian?

― gareth, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Wipers

― Jack Cole, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

oxnard and ventura california have released various and sundry groups upon the world: cirith ungol (true metal!)...that's it for ventura, really. oxnard had it's own semi-popular punk scene and even an album compiling it ("nardcore" on ultra-dodgy mystic records), with bands like aggression, stalag 13, ill repute, and most essentially dr. know, who started as a project of the kid from "the courtship of eddie's father", turned into an amazing punk band that inspired the "crossover" bands like DRI (not their fault, really), went full metal, did some dodgy industrial/metal demos, broke up, and are once again a project of the kid from "courtship of eddie's father"...

― your null fame, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wes & Monk Montgomery, JJ Johnson, Babyface, Freddie Hubbard, & John Hiatt...pretty much that is it other than Elvis' last concert.

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

Nearest anywhere would be south Croydon. Allegedly Captain Sensible used to live round there. Croydon might have been a bit of a punk hotbed ... wasn't there a Siouxie and Adam Ant connection?

― phil, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Depends on what my definition of 'hometown' is... if I'm saying it's where I live now, then that's Newport, South Wales, which is home to the 60ft Dolls (hi Carl), and the legendary TJs (where Kurt proposed to Courtney, and I was recently in the next bed to the owner of TJs in the Royal Gwent Hospital), and the supposed 'next Seattle' of nowhere bands. And the Cloud Minders, like anyone cares.

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

Zen Guellia, and Boy Sets Fire, But I have a feeling in the near future You'll be hearing of some other great bands from Newark, DE. Also Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell and Billy Fica went to school 'round here, and the Decendants drummer (I Think) and George Thorogood

― A Nairn, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah, and Steve Kilbey from the Church lives in DE and I know Beck's cousin, but she lives in philadelphia (I Think?)

― A Nairn, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Steve Kilbey's from Adelaide originally though. Which is where Ben Folds now lives!

― electric sound of jim, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Croydon North here... yes, Captain Sensible was from Norwood, or somewhere. I think. We also get to claim St Etienne, Eternal, and Des'ree. Oh, and Dane bloody Bowers.

― Mr Swygart, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dunc out of Blue. *So* cool.

― Tim, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

York = Rick 'smells of piss' Witter from Shed Seven and that's it.

― RickyT, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Surely the other members of Shed Seven too, though, including Alan 'Women, they're crap, they are' Leach?

― Mr Swygart, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

and some of The Seahorses were from York as well IIRC

― RickyT, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shirley Manson, Idlewild, Fire Engines (and associated bands), Rezillos, Bay City Rollers.......

― Leigh, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well home town heroes are few in the East Anglian cultural wasteland - Wisbech - there was a great band called the Traceys, but other than that there was a bloke who once played drums for one gig with Eddie & the Hot Rods & a crap bloke who used to drink in our pub who was in The Fixx.

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

Rashaan Roland Kirk, Electric fucking Eels, Scrawl.

― Dave225, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark I: Dunc from Blue! Sidmouth! Much better than Thom Yorke's Exeter band the Headless Chickens! One of the people in Loop lived in Exmouth for a while! Yawn!

― Tim, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

...and one of the Pretty Things lived in Sidmouth for a while, he used to drink in the Dove when that was the best pub in the world.

Oh and how could you forget Teignmouth's finest?

― Tim, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Norwich. Magoo! Kaito! uh, Katrina and the Waves! and Jyoti from Whitetown lived here for a bit, I think.

― what what, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Weren't the Farmer's Boys from Norwich? They were great.

― Tim, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

...and The Higsons. AND...

― Jeff W, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was born in Great Bookham as was ROGER WATERS!

― Tom, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Limerick-The Cranberries (eek!), Richard Harris, The Driven, The Hitchers, They do it with mirrors

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

no one famous, soulwork

― Chris, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

and the Curtain Society

― Chris, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Curtain Society is not too bad. One of the only local bands that I enjoy.

― Chris, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Orbital once said one of their tracks 'sounded like driving down a motorway in the rain to Preston', or something. Apart from that BUGGER BLOODY ALL (but it's still better than Blackburn apart from the Not Sensibles unless they were from Bolton or Bury, I can't remember now).

― Sarah, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sarah, I think From Chorley were from Chorley.

― Tim, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

If only they'd been from down the road(ish) Goosnargh.

― Sarah, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

West Fife: Ian Anderson out of Jethro Tull, Barbara Dickinson, Nazareth, Fay Fife (har geddit?) out of the Rezillos, The Skids, Craig Logan... and loads of local bands that I loved dearly and nobody else remembers (Ghost Train, Blazing Apostles, Dancing Pigs, The Subject etc etc etc).

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

Sarah. The Notsensibles were from Burnley and still live there as far as I know. Go onto Burnley market on Wednesdays and you'll see at least one of them every week.

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

Monroe Township, NJ contributed a couple of mod fanzines to the '80s scene (Stranger than Fiction by the late Rudie Rosinski, and a couple of different titles by William Luther). One of my high school classmates played with the Mad Daddys for awhile in the '90s. Currently, one of third-string Elephant 6 bands (King Sauce) is based in town. That's about it. New Brunswick (10 miles up the road) really has more going on.

― mike, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

TOM ROBINSON - 2,4,6,8 MOTORWAY COMES FROM HUNTINGDON - WHERE IM FROM - IM MOVING TO CAMBRIDGE WHICH BOUGHT US THE GREAT PINK FLOYD THEN LATER THE ARSE PINK FLOYD

― born clippy, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dunc from Blue is from Sidmouth: wow! IIRC they first broke through with "All Rise" around the time of the last election, just as 1950s veteran of the Macmillan government, Sir Peter Emery, was retiring as the East Devon MP. There's something *very* appropriate about that, as if culturally Emery (who had been around so long that he appeared on two BBC radio programmes in the same week of February 1961) *had* to go before a pop star from the area could emerge.

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

Some crummy Space-pop blokes almost made it down to the city of angels (though they wouldn't have a chance, seeing as Karma Police is no longer recieving heavy rotation on MTV). Multiple emo knockoffs are currently trying to make it up to Seattle, but you know they'll never get there. Lots of burned out jazz musicians. Cher once went to my high school.

― tyler, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Erm, we could have some difficulty defining "hometown" (birthplace or adopted place of longest residence?) but if we take the former, I BEAT YOU ALL WITH...

Cheshunt, Herts = CLIFF RICHARD!!!

And no dissing Bauhaus up there, ya hear?

― kate, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hm. I'm from a very, very small town (barely a town to speak of, actually) about two hours north of Melbourne. Nick Cave is from Wangaratta, about half an hour's drive from where I grew up. Brendan from Sandpit is from Benalla, where I went to school for a few years. Augie March are from Shepparton, where I also went to school for a while, as are No Idea, a pretty dodgy '76 style punk band w/ mohawks, etc.

― OCP, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Toowoomba = home of the Australian Gospel Festival. Also former home of former countdown revolution host Tanya Lacey. Also former home of Geoffrey Rush.

― Queen G of the onwards and upwards, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Erm, Smoking Popes, I believe.

― mmesker, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

the fucking cranes!!

not much cop down here in portsmouth you know...

saying that im actually friends with jim from the band and hes a top bloke.

note to self* "must not generalize band members as idiots if their music is bad"

― del a robbo, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Peter Tork, Rivers Cuomo - and if you count music critics, me and Tim Page.

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

fucking champs, beulah, third eye blind, metallica, blackalicious

i'm sure there are better answers, i am just not trying very hard

― jack, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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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

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