Foreign bands that bigger in the UK than their homeland
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Miss Caphat
I want it that way
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Bush were HUGE here (that sounds a bit wrong)
Didn't Gwen Stefani marry one of them? That's all I know about them, in my head they're just packed away into the big box marked 'horrid grunge bands: do not touch' but I don't actually know if they're even a grunge band.
e2a: I listened to almost a whole minute of one of their songs and came to the conclusion they can safely be done without.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
The Frank Chickens
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
There is definitely a difference between the two countries wrt pop culture stuff.
I think we just have so much of it here, that it's rare for everyone to like the same things, and things can be very popular despite the fact that only a handful of people you know have ever heard of it.
In the UK I was very surprised at how much similarity there was in people's tastes and interests. It seems like you ingest culture as more of a collective experience, whether you accept it or reject it. Here people are much more individual in their tastes and even in simply what they know exists as far as bands, tv shows, etc.
I think we just have so much of it here, that it's rare for everyone to like the same things, and things can be very popular despite the fact that only a handful of people you know have ever heard of it.
In the UK I was very surprised at how much similarity there was in people's tastes and interests. It seems like you ingest culture as more of a collective experience, whether you accept it or reject it. Here people are much more individual in their tastes and even in simply what they know exists as far as bands, tv shows, etc.
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
yes, so it's maybe like your Posh & Becks, as I'd say Bush were actually more popular than No Doubt at the height of their fame...now, not so much though No Doubt/Gwen Stefani continues to be successful.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
At least No Doubt had that one tune. This Rossdale chap appears to have made a career out of copying Nirvana songs badly enough to pass them off as his own work.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Consolidated and the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy both struck me as being bigger here than there, based on nothing in particular.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
I seem to remember that their/his first album was embraced a lot more quickly in the UK than it was in the States, maybe that's what they were referring to. Although that would have been way back when...Foo Fighters are, and have been very popular here too since they formed.
Serotonin
history of all hitherto existing society is BLANK?
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Only in Germany was the musical genius of David Hasselhof truly recognised.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I'm not sure they count in the way you mean. They have always lived and performed in england.
Are cornershop bigger in england than they are in their `home' country of india??
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
ETA
The internet indicates higher chart placings in Ireland
skyscraper101
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Conversely, David Gray was a lot bigger in Ireland than he was in the UK for a long time.
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
Blondie were/are bigger in the UK, & same could be said for northern soul stuff.
souljacker
innit
Why do you refer to India as their home country? Tjinder's from Wolverhampton.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Because that was the point I was making. They are not from india they are from the UK.
Look back at what I was quoting.
souljacker
innit
Its a daft comparison though. Frank Chicken are Japanese who live and work in London. Tjinder Singh is an English musician who lives and works in India.
Neither fit in to the threads requirements anyway.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I did not know he lived and worked in india.
The frank chickens live and work in england and have made no attempt to do anything in japan as far as I know.
The other bands listed lived and worked in england but got bigger in other countries.
Cornershop were an english band that as far as I knew lived and worked in england.
I took home county as the country they called home. Where they lived.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
So, in your rather confused reckoning, a british band who relocated to the US and became successful there whilst making no impact over here wouldn't count as an example of a UK band who were bigger in another country than the UK? Or Rich Hall moving to the UK becoming massively popular here wouldn't count as him being more popular here than the US where he is pretty unknown?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Well yes I agree that this is a tricky one but also, no.
The Frank Chickens formed in the UK after already living here. There was no Frank Chickens in Japan.
In your example I suppose that would count if a band went to another country after not making it here. I guess it is not easy to define. It is no surprise that Frank Chickens (and Bo Ningen?) never made it in the country they were born in considering they never lived there when their bands existed and never made an attempt to push their band in the country they were born in.
I don't know who Rich Hall is.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Oh is he that guy on that american satire show?
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
The Birthday Party, and probably Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds too
One of my favourite artists, brilliant singer song writer, composer, director, author, the bloke can't put a foot wrong.
The Cuban Brothers
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
Indeed, an American who understands irony.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
He resurrected her though - I saw her sing with him once at the Albert Hall.But he murdered Kylie
