Richard Thompson is still good, although he's not a band. Also Cardiacs.

I haven't heard any good, new UK rock bands in years though; left-field UK bands seem more often than not to be feeble imitations of US bands. There must be at least a bazillion UK Shellac-bands and Slint-bands and Don-Cab bands, and don't even get me started on the currently swelling number of Lightning Bolt bands!!

Time a UK band started to borrow riffs from AC Temple perhaps, now they were a good band.

mackro wrote:

I was in the band that Clor became! Or some of Clor anyway. That's my old Westone in the new 'Good Stuff' video.

Why did you leave?? (heh heh)

Funny thing is.. last summer, I met a guy who left Franz Ferdinand before they became Franz Ferdinand.

I guess the lesson here is: if you're one degree away from me, and you're in a rock band in the UK, DON'T LEAVE IT! (that is, if you want to be in a hyped/popular UK rock band and deal with all that shit.)

I had made it clear to Barry that because I had become a father, and had a mortgage and was in a wonderful relationship, and had a decent salary, that I wasn't prepared to give all that up for a year or so's worth of frivolity. So I was not part of his new project, as he wanted to make a go of it. Good for him. And good for me, as I would not have made a good pop star. That's why. Ho ho.

Champion Rabbit wrote:I haven't heard any good, new UK rock bands in years though; left-field UK bands seem more often than not to be feeble imitations of US bands. There must be at least a bazillion UK Shellac-bands and Slint-bands...

Exactamundo.

Giddy Motors have split up. A real shame.

umm... i think kevin shields is working on the loveless follow-up right now... any day now....... yep...

pop will eat itself reformation.

COME ON

Mr Gareth Hardwick.

Sway, M.I.A., Kano, Dizzee Rascal....

Nectarine No9
Teenage Fanclub

si-maro!

I think we have an n-th degree of separation going on here for I know (sort of) Mr G Hardwick and his lovely droning in Economy Of Motion.

EA Poster Chris Summerlin! you fit into this scheme somewhere too.

tsk! for not mentioning Souvaris.

I would disturb you further by asking if you're going to see The Dead Texan this evening?

HUNTING LODGE, a band I recently discovered after another dude on this forum, Bartok, posted some shit about them, are a British band.

Judging by four mp3s i found by them on the internet, they are pretty damn good.

Here are the links:

http://www.hunting-lodge.org/Music.htm

http://www.myspace.com/huntinglodge