Whats the music scene in your home town like?
any decent local bands or badly haired zombie easylistening fans stomping on every new homespun act and keeping the youfs down?
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its like a party in an oven and my head's invited. i don't actually know. i've never been to a musical gathering local or otherwise.

I've been going to local gigs since I was about 13. In Lincoln it was the Labour Club every Friday night, the bonus being they'd serve me! Irresponsible socialists.

I used to sit on the stage and get drummers to walk me home, ahh those were the days.

Er...anyway the local gig scene in Nottingham is great, really varied and there's lots of decent venues.

Heroic Trio are a favourite of mine - that's because they're my friends.

Finally a band from Lincoln have got quite famous, the 22-20s are getting quite big now aren't they?

Here in sunny Medway the local music scene is pretty good. A bunch of my mates have a band called 'Nine Days to No One', particularly appealing to people who prefer their music of the metal variety, they have been played on Radio 1 and been featured in and appeared on cd's from magazines such as Metal Hammer. Another band also currently making waves is The Maths.

We have a fairly well know music venue called the 'Tap n Tin' which namely placed host to the Libertines come back gig.


Link to my mates band (thought I should give them a plug)

Nine Days To No One

i think they've gone from next big thing to yesterday's news without the exciting bit in the middle.

That's typical of my home town that is.

And named after an excellent film.

There's not much of a scene in Market Bosworth but Sheffield has a great music scene. The top band at the moment, or at least the one expected to be the most successful are the Arctic Monkeys. They've been mentioned in the NME a few times and they are decent lads. I'm not too sure about how good they are, i like one or two songs but i'd have to hear a bit more from them.

We have an ok scene in Milton Keynes. We spawned capdown , and we have various semi-famous bands playing.

One of the best is Thios.
http://www.thios.tk/

the occasional ska-punk band.

mostly shitty covers bands, but i've found a couple of cool reggae dj guys in my town. not proper toasting djs, but still cool. i myself am bringing a new wave of mr scruff-esque djing to my hometown well, to all those parties i'm playing at, anyway

I'm sure Birmingham has some great bands but I never get to see them. The place hasn't really got a scene because of petty jealousies, snobbery and arguments. It's so fragmented. There are some good bands. We do seem to have more bands who look like they could make it, at the moment, the Editors are doing well but they are depressingly now. Imagine Interpol and Bloc Party had a baby with learning difficulties. Nice enough tunes, average lyrics. Why they can't find their own sound, I don't know. A few tweaks here and there and it could sound great.

The local music scene up here is not bad for a small market town it could be worse.
Two bands worth shouting about, The Spiral, who are fantastic and grand and lovely The Spiral. They make extremely catchy tunes, hard to catagorize them, i suppose you could say dance rock (?) and my own band (shameless plug ) soma Soma. No famous bands have ever risen from here though...

We used to have two half-decent bands in York, Shed Seven (Rick Wtter is such a nice man it hurts) and the Seahorses (I used to smoke pot with Chris Helms at 6th Form).

Sadly, neither band exists now, which is a real shame.

hmm. back in scarborough the best you could get in the way of live music was karaoke at the gay pub on the esplanade. ocean colour scene played bridlington once, if that counts.

but Nottingham is fairly seething with live music, as zoe said. keep an eye out and you can pretty much see any of the up and coming bands in pretty small venues, which is good. but it is rather an effort to keep up with whats going on. me and zoe had it good for a while as we could pretty much walk into any sold out or otherwise gig for free due to well placed connections. alas, those days are gone.

Well I could say that the music scene in my area is thriving as I live in London. But if I'm more precise and say my hometown is Enfield, as far as I know the music scene consits of heavy bass sounds from souped up Chav mobile yereos. Though Enfield did give us the almighty 60's band The Creation (but on the downside apparently also gave us Cliff Richard and Abs)

A friend of a friend is the vocalist for a hardcore band called Beecher. And they sound rather good.

My hometown spawned Jon Anderson of Yes, other than that there's not much going on there.
I now live in Leeds, though, which has one of the best scenes in the country. My housemate is the singer in Attic Project, who could well be going places. I didn't know how else to link to both sites, really.

this could go in the dreams thread really...

i had a dream the other day where i went to new york ( not the real new york, of course, it was new york crossed with venice, with bits of tokyo and shanghai ) with robbie macintosh, once a member of the pretenders and part of paul maccartney's backing band, who lives in the town i grew up in.

apart from him, the closest we get to a 'scene' is the fact that pj harvey used to live nearby and i went to primary school with her cousin.

I think we have a couple of bands knocking round, definately rolling six, i would sit outside there practice thing with my mates, twas nice.

Beecher are good...

Leicester's local 'scene' is shit, full of indie and punk and metal type rubbish. There's Don's Mobile Barbers and Tired Irie who are great, Cousin Scampi are insane, Teen Amuteur are crushing in a good way. Thats about it.

http://www.cobragrande.com/

a really good Glasgow band. You all should check them out.

The music scene around North Yorkshire is really quite dire. My boyfriend (this man here) is in a band, and they're really quite good, they make good music. There's another good band called The Spiral around our way, who I went to see a couple of nights ago at a local pub. They make lovely music too. But apart from the said two, there's not really a lot to shout about, unless you like 15 year olds making a racket and singing absolute bollocks at you.

They're from over Pickering way...

The verve was from wigan, a band called Moco who just finished touring in the U.S and of course George Forby!

Theres a pretty decend music scene in Wigan all indie related thou, we have also started to get some major bands comin into town from the likes of babyshambles and selfish c**t

Million Dead came to play at Esquires in Bedford on Saturday, I didnt go, because I dont really like them.

Inme is coming to play here on August the 5th, but I dont like them either...