Show us the best band or singer that comes from your city/county/state.

I'm from Cumbria. This is probably the best band to come out of there.

Gram Parsons was a Floridian, he attended the same boarding school I did, 7 years before me. Lynyrd Skynyrd played at our high school dances. Then there's Tom Petty, Bo Diddly, The Allman Brothers, Jim Morrison, Molly Hatchet, The Outlaws, .38 Special, Ray Charles, Flo Rida, Miami Sound Machine, KC and the Sunshine Band, Mofro, The Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, Pitbull, Terence Trent D'Arby, Jimmy Buffet (we've adopted him, he was born in Alabama), Limp Bizkit, Florida Georgia Line, The Royal Guardsmen (Snoopy and the Red Baron), Slim Whitman, Mel Tillis. Lots of jazz guys, Cannonball Adderley and his brother Nat, Pee Wee Ellis, Fats Navarro, and a lot of session players.

Best? I'd go with The Allman Brothers. They were from my home town, Daytona, Greg used to show up regularly and sit in with local bands.

I'm from Bristol - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_from_Bristol

chairman bill wrote:I'm from Bristol - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_from_Bristol

In that case, the correct answer is Massive Attack.

Or Portishead.

I dunno where I'm from, so these are places I have lived with a few left out because no one who is anyone seems to have come from there.

Oakville, Ontario, the Barenaked Ladies come from Scarborough, Ontario.

Bristol, see Bill's page.

High Wycombe, Ian Dury, Young Guns, Howard Jones, Dusty Springfield.

Winchester, can't find any but there must be.

Eastleigh, Heinz Burt, apparently.

Oxford, Supergrass, Foals, Radiohead, Candyskins.

St Helens, The Loungs.

Liverpool, nope, can't think of any.

Wasn't there some boy band from Liverpool back In the 60s? Can't think of their name.

Must've passed me by completely.

Bono.

A few choices. Neil Young? Joni Mitchell? The Band? Cowboy Junkies? More recently, Fucked Up, Crystal Castles, The Weeknd. Oh I guess I should mention Rush and Drake, though neither of them are really my thing.

I'm from Manchester, so there's only really one choice:



Oh yeah, there was this band call The Smiths too, but I just couldn't take them that seriously.

Wasn't there that Manchester band that sung about wanting to be a door?

And foo-oo-oo-oo-ood's coooold, aye.

Fallible wrote:

Winchester, can't find any but there must be.

best i've got is that frank turner lived there in his childhood....and the drummer from razorlight....

You'd think there would be loads, wouldn't you.

i'm amazed, tbh....

anyway, pete burns was born about a mile or so down the road from me, albeit 14 years earlier....

From Utrecht/the West of the country:
Herman Van Veen


More serious/mature:


Also relatively famous in Germany (same song as above):


Ramses Shaffy:



Stef Bos:

Beautiful song about a son who realises how much he resembles his father.

Klein orkest, famous song about the Berling Wall (called 'On the other side of the wall')

This might be familiar to some of our non-Dutch members:

The only singer I know of to come from the place where I was born was...Craig David.

Would someone leave a Remington on my nightstand please? Thank you.

The Scots are pretty crap at contemporary music.

I could rattle off some folk names, but Silly Wizard probably top the list. Half the members used to live not too far away.
70s had the lead singer from The Sweet, and also Alex Harvey.

On the negative side we gave you The Proclaimers, Travis, Franz Ferdinand, Simple Minds, The Bay City Rollers.

No matter what he says, we are not responsible for Rod Stewart.