South West - Joe Meek
Honourable mentions – The Troggs, Daphne Oram, The Adverts, Ralph Vaughan Williams
London – The Kinks
Honourable mentions- The Pretty Things, T.Rex, Raincoats, Subway Sect, Sex Pistols, Eater, PIL, Slits, Wire
North West – The Fall
Honourable mention - Buzzcocks, Notsensibles, Distractions
North East – Somebody please tell me that there are better bands from the North east than The Angelic Upstarts and Toy Dolls
East Midlands – Struggling here too – quite like the first Bauhaus 12” just bought a split 45 by The Ludds & The No Brainers that's pretty good
South East – The Rolling Stones
Honourable mentions – Dr Feelgood, Milkshakes
East Anglia – Country Teasers (cheating by counting Hertfordshire as East Anglia and also ignoring the facts that The Teasers were formed in Scotland and later based in London; but The Rebel is from St Albans)
Scotland – Fire Engines
Honourable mentions – Rezillos, Revillos, Orange Juice, Josef K, Anteeks
West Midlands – Specials
Honourable mentions – Swell Maps, Slade, Nightingales, Killjoys, Delia Derbyshire, Prefects
Northern Ireland – The Undertones
Wales – The Velvet Underground (well one quarter of them anyway)
Yorkshire – John Barry
Honourable mention – Throbbing Gristle , Cabaret VoltaireStatistics: Posted by milchman — Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:16 am
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