Foreign bands that bigger in the UK than their homeland

[Madusa]

The Cardigans, are they big in their home country?

yeah it's very cold in Sweden.


The Dandy Warhols

 

[trabuquera]

The Wailers and the Buena Vista Social Club - dusty antiques on their home islands, yet the only Jamaican/Cuba (*delete as appropriate) music that many Brits have ever heard.

 

[Wonky]

Kings Of Leon
The Killers
Foo Fighters

The bloody Foo Fighters filmed their last two live dvds at large venues in London but they can only draw a fraction of that crowd back in the US

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

Adam Green - proper superstar in Germany yet in the US he's a mid level indie guy.
Puressence - outside of Manchester nobody's heard of them here, yet in Greece they sell out stadiums.
Autokat - again, outside of Manchester nobody's heard of them in the UK but they were pretty big in Japan.

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

yeah it's very cold in Sweden.


The Dandy Warhols

i love the dandy warhols. went to see them a couple of years ago though and hardly anyone knew any of the songs, until they played bohemian like you and everyone went mental. then quiet again. well pissed me off that.


then again, they did make a fucking truckload of cash from vodafone from that song so they brought it on themselves.

 

[skyscraper101]

Foo Fighters

The bloody Foo Fighters filmed their last two live dvds at large venues in London but they can only draw a fraction of that crowd back in the US

That's proper odd. I didn't realise this. I kinda just assumed they were big everywhere being that Nirvana were.

On reflection though, Dave Grohl doesn't really do the all American hero rock beloved of their stadium audiences (see Metallica, Springsteen, Dave Matthews etc). He's style is much more British in that respect.

 

[Wonky]

Pavement...think they became big because Damon Albarn liked em'
Pixies..don't see wots the big deal
The Gossip...big fat lesbian

 

[clandestino]

Pavement...think they became big because Damon Albarn liked em'
Pixies..don't see wots the big deal
The Gossip...big fat lesbian

Thanks for that. I thought your Foo Fighters claim sounded a bit dubious. Now I know why.

 

[twistedAM]

Jeffrey Lewis is totally unknown in Brooklyn; I must have put on about 30 bands from brooklyn this year and only the guitar player from Crystal Stilts and Franz from the Hold Steady had ever heard of him.

 

[skyscraper101]

Gomez seem to be bigger in the US these days than in the UK if their chart success is anything to go by.

Opening for Dave Matthews last year must have got them a rather large set of audiences I'd imagine.

 

[stavros]

Bush were always touted as having made it in America, despite them never really taking off here.

Also, Abba and AC/DC have probably sold more records here than in Sweden or Australia, but that's more than likely due to their respective populations.

 

[Bakunin]

Scarily popular everywhere, despite being Americans playing under the monicker of 'Britain's Loudest Band.'

 

[Pat24]

Archive. They are British but huuuge in France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_%28band%29
A mate of mine used to play with them

 

[killer b]

Gomez seem to be bigger in the US these days than in the UK if their chart success is anything to go by.

Opening for Dave Matthews last year must have got them a rather large set of audiences I'd imagine.

poor fuckers.

pendulum? massive in the uk, possibly big in australia now, but it certainly took their uk success to break 'em if so...

 

[Bunjaj Pali]

Jacob's Mouse were massive in Eritrea I believe.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Funnily enough, they were the inspiration for this thread. I saw their new DVD 'Live At The O2' had come out. Seemed like an odd choice of title for a US band if their biggest market was in the US. Which I'm guessing it isn't?

But why 'Live At The O2?' it just sounds a bit crap, especially to anyone not from the UK. I'd be like calling it 'Live At the Nokia Theatre' and expecting everyone to know where it is.

Kings of Leon are pretty popular over here.

 

[david dissadent]

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, or just Rodriguez managed to be massive in two countries without knowing about it. He was huge in Australia after he quit music then about 20 years later his daughter discovered he had gone platinum in South Africa and was a huge cult classic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Diaz_Rodriguez

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/oct/07/popandrock1

 

[skyscraper101]

I heard the Psychedelic Furs coming over the in-store PA in the 99 cents store yesterday which intrigued me as I always assumed they were a purely Brit-interest thing. Then when I came home to read up on them it seems they're massive in the US to those who were about in the 80s, and they played the Hollywood Bowl earlier this year.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I heard the Psychedelic Furs coming over the in-store PA in the 99 cents store yesterday which intrigued me as I always assumed they were a purely Brit-interest thing. Then when I came home to read up on them it seems they're massive in the US to those who were about in the 80s, and they played the Hollywood Bowl earlier this year.

I would think Pretty in Pink would have helped them in the US. A few British bands from the 80s made it big in the US a few years later as the US caught up. Depeche Mode, for instance.

 

[rutabowa]

The Hives?

 

[William of Walworth]

Lazarus-bump of thread from post #48 alert .....

 

[Onket]

The Cheeky Girls.

Interesting to have a look and see why you are subscribed to a thread. I quite like this one.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Weird to have threads bumped where you've posted and have no recollection whatever of making the posts. It's like reading someone else.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Weird to have threads bumped where you've posted and have no recollection whatever of making the posts. It's like reading someone else.

That sounds like a get-out clause for embarrassing opinions you no longer wish to claim ownership of.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That sounds like a get-out clause for embarrassing opinions you no longer wish to claim ownership of.

Yeah, it does. Nothing embarrassing on this thread. But I have encountered some bad ones. I reserve the right to utterly disown my past opinions.

 

[clandestino]

Weird to have threads bumped where you've posted and have no recollection whatever of making the posts. It's like reading someone else.

What's weirder is to read a post and think "Yeah, I agree with that, good point!", before noticing that it's one of your own posts from way back when...

I did that twice when rereading this thread...

 

[Serotonin]

On the flip side I remeber going over to stay with some mates in Memphis in 1994. MTV and all the papers were raving over this band I had never heard of called Live, the biggest thing around at the time. Turns out they were British.
And then I went to a Throwing Muses gig that had about 200 people at in a bar off Beale St. If that had been the UK there would have been 3 times the crowd at that time.

EDIT: Hmm just hit up Wikipedia and Live werent the band I was thinking of. Fuck.

 

[twentythreedom]

Anvil

 

[Onket]

On the flip side I remeber going over to stay with some mates in Memphis in 1994. MTV and all the papers were raving over this band I had never heard of called Live, the biggest thing around at the time. Turns out they were British.
And then I went to a Throwing Muses gig that had about 200 people at in a bar off Beale St. If that had been the UK there would have been 3 times the crowd at that time.

EDIT: Hmm just hit up Wikipedia and Live werent the band I was thinking of. Fuck.

Bush?

 

[Left]

I don't think that Japanese noise stuff has much of a following within Japan