Best Band out of the West Country
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butchersapron
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El Jefe said:
Some of Dorset is west country and some isn't is at least an advance on your earlier position that the county as a whole isn't. Corscombe is comfortably within the WC bit surely?
kalidarkone
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I think we should start again with more choice in the poll. Out of the current poll I am torn between Massive attack who have done a lot of good stuff and porishead who have not done that much but what they did do was fantastic and touched me more than Massive attack....hmmm portishead then I guess.
breasticles
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polly harvey was born and educated in somerset, she's lived in bristol, and some of her vowel sounds are a bit funny. that's west country enough for me, if only on the basis that bath have claimed jane austen on much more tenuous grounds. my vote goes to PJ HARVEY.
breasticles
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she was born in yeovil hospital and attended yeovil art college. thats what the internet says, and i trust the internet implicitly.
Oh for fuck's sake. Yes, she was born in Yeovil Hospital, because it was nearer than any of the Dorset hospitals. She's from a Dorset village and went to school in Dorset. She went to Yeovil Art College? So what, I'm from Dorset and I went to a London uni. Am I from London now?
breasticles
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sorry, i'm taking the piss. i'll stop now.
butchersapron
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So what are we basing it on then? Not place of birth. Or else it would be somerset. Place spent formative years? Yeovil probably? First proper band, Bristol?
Which criteria do you actually want to use?
Which criteria do you actually want to use?
kalidarkone
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Yeh PJ FOR ME AS WELL.
fat Andy said:
it may do it may not...
Aphex Twin...Cornwall.
Geri said:
Bridport_ish..
butchersapron
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Pretty fucking far from bridport in fact.
butchersapron said:
are you walking or riding a bike?
Who's that teenage totty from Totnes that the Oldes & Country types in Seppoland wank on about?
butchersapron
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Beki was in Vice Sqaud so covered. RR&P shouldn't really be mentioned.
butchersapron
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Kid Carpet should be though.
Paulie Tandoori
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Gosh! That takes me back a bit. I remember them and Clive as well.story said:
Helston's punk scene at same time had One Helluva Buzz, Village Idiots, Slaughterhouse, Yellow Van and Stop the World were even big in London!! Cripes...
I played a 2-string bass guitar for One Helluva Buzz, so they still get my vote as best band out the west country 
fractionMan
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lol at Dorset being in the westcountry.
When I grew up in Plymouth we considered Bristol to be "up north" and Dorset another country entirely.
When I grew up in Plymouth we considered Bristol to be "up north" and Dorset another country entirely.
Current Bristol artists worthy of attention: Fortune Drive, Kid Carpet, Gavin Thorpe.
Old Bristol artists worthy of commemorating: The Cortinas, Smith & Mighty, Vice Squad, Pop Group, Talisman, Black Roots, Pigbag, Rip Rig & Panic, Nellee Hooper, Lunatic Fringe, Milo, Shara Nelson, Monk & Cantella, Fresh Four, Wilks, Disorder, The Seers, Claytown Troupe, The Moonflowers, Tricky, Martina Topley Bird, The Insects, X-Certs, Portishead, Way Out West, Brilliant Corners, Blue Aeroplanes, Strangelove, Lupine Howl, Chaos UK, Halo, Crashland, Roni Size/Reprazent, Glaxo Babies, Breakbeat Era
Other west artists: Reef, The Propellerheads
Old Bristol artists worthy of commemorating: The Cortinas, Smith & Mighty, Vice Squad, Pop Group, Talisman, Black Roots, Pigbag, Rip Rig & Panic, Nellee Hooper, Lunatic Fringe, Milo, Shara Nelson, Monk & Cantella, Fresh Four, Wilks, Disorder, The Seers, Claytown Troupe, The Moonflowers, Tricky, Martina Topley Bird, The Insects, X-Certs, Portishead, Way Out West, Brilliant Corners, Blue Aeroplanes, Strangelove, Lupine Howl, Chaos UK, Halo, Crashland, Roni Size/Reprazent, Glaxo Babies, Breakbeat Era
Other west artists: Reef, The Propellerheads
butchersapron
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3_D said:
You've just made geri's day
Another old band who never made it as big as they should was The Royal Assasins, fantastic band who released a couple of singles and an LP on Fire back in the early 90s.
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