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So if the UK was to produce a COOOOOL version of Eurovision with acts from pop history representing an area, who'd be the groups/artists performing?

The regions:

South West
London
North West
North East
East Midlands
South East
East Anglia
Scotland
N Ireland
Wales
West Midlands
Yorkshire

I'm going to have to give this some thought. For example my immediate reaction is to nominate Dexys for the west midlands... but are they better than the Specials, or in the grand scheme of things... <spit> Led Zep? In my mind they are but should it be about influence, impact, innovation...?

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Alas, not actually Gryff Rhys Jones...

"Little Jack Horner sitting on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This aint funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose"

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Alas, not actually Gryff Rhys Jones...

"Little Jack Horner sitting on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This aint funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose"

Will have changed my mind about half of these by morning, but here goes...

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 Voltaire

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

I forgot Billy Childish for the South East. But how the hell do Eater get an honourable mention for London? Apart from the half-decent Thinking of the USA single, weren't they just famous for beng young?

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Alas, not actually Gryff Rhys Jones...

"Little Jack Horner sitting on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This aint funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose"