Your Local Bands/Artists

[tristy]

I mean, let's not post shitty bar tribute bands that are in your town, but maybe some good stuff from wherever you live. I'm friends with some of these people, others are people/bands that they know, etc.

I went to high school with all of these guys, and they won a Battle of the Bands competition earlier in the year with the prize being a set at Bonnaroo. The guy in the yellow in this video, Taylor, had another band called Chalaxy....

 

He also plays music live with Molly Rocket...

And then there's PUJOL - he's put out stuff through Third Man Records and Saddle Creek, and played Bonnaroo before. Arguably the biggest success story to come from my little po'dunk town in Tennessee, if we're talking music.
 

Then for rap, there's Redneck Souljers but.... ehhhh, that's not my cup of tea. Same thing with Big Smo, who's from the town next to where I grew up.

[Monkey D. Lars]

This is the band of my old neighbour. We used to live next to each other when we were kids. And I used to work with him! They are winning all kind of prizes for upcoming bands here in the Netherlands. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Ooh! Ooh!
 

 

There's also Soul Embraced and Living Sacrifice, the two bands Rocky Gray was in before Evanescence, but they aren't really my cup of tea. They're christian death metal, and when Living Sacrifice reunited in 2008 it was a big deal in the local music scene because Gray's considered somewhat of a local legend. 

 

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

These are honestly the only one I can currently think of.

[Liam]

I don't listen to these, but they have got quite popular it seems. I live not a million miles away from Brighton, where there is the Musical Institute, so other bands that I don't know of will have also come out of that.

[GhostMachine]

 

[METALMAN]

 

[Bobfoc]

I think the most famous band that's local to me would be Saxon, but I imagine most people here don't like them.

[GhostMachine]

I can name exactly two Saxon songs I've ever heard, and that's it: Wheels of Steel, and Ride Like The Wind. And the latter is a cover of a Christopher Cross song. 

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I'm my local band.

We've played with some other Kent/London bands who I love muchly.

If I had to list a favourite ten we've played with and who are worth looking out for if you have time, in order of how many times we've played with them (as I'm working down a list):

 

Kill Rpnzl / Enid

Eat Me

Teal

Exoskeletons

Frau Pouch

Dust Bunnies

LAMO

Punching Swans

Ray Gun

Deary Me

I also loved Sleep Society when they were active locally. Driver's a top bloke anyway but he would come alive when he performed. He would be pretty wired though so half the time his set would end prematurely if he walked off due to breaking a string, or feeling like he'd made too many mistakes, or being unhappy with various things....but there was always a LOT to love.