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Old 08.15.2008, 06:56 AM   #21
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^^^Are they still going? I can't work out whether they've split up or not...
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Old 08.15.2008, 07:03 AM   #22
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They released a new CD last month.
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Old 08.15.2008, 07:05 AM   #23
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Ah good - must keep an eye out for that, then.
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Old 08.15.2008, 08:34 AM   #24
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Old 08.15.2008, 08:37 AM   #25
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Bum Gravy. Still pushing the sonic envelope after all those years.
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Old 08.15.2008, 08:47 AM   #26
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Broadcast (not so much on record, but certainly they're a rock band when they play live)
Ectogram
Electralane
Skill 7 Stamina 12
AMP
The Go! Team
Movietone
The Bevis Frond


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Old 08.15.2008, 08:47 AM   #27
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Bum Gravy. Still pushing the sonic envelope after all those years.

Are they still around?
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Old 08.15.2008, 08:56 AM   #28
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Old 08.15.2008, 08:58 AM   #29
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Old 08.15.2008, 09:06 AM   #30
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Are they still around?

Yeah, I saw a poster for them a month or so ago, playing at the Walthamstow Standard I think. A double headliner with Dumpy's Rusty Nuts. You can't argue with a bill like that.
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Old 08.15.2008, 09:12 AM   #31
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[quote=blunderbuss]This is a tough one, seeing as I wouldn't consider any of the bands in the original post to be rock.
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thats fair enough. I meant guitar rather than electronic as the British electronic scene is pretty fucking impressive
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Old 08.15.2008, 09:16 AM   #32
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saying something is indie rock but not rock doesn't make sense. surely indie
rock is just a sub-genre of rock?
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Old 08.15.2008, 10:25 AM   #33
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Yeah, but there's rock and there's RAWK!!!!!!!

More importantly, Demonrail, did you really see a poster advertising a gig for DRN? I saw them in about 1987 - they were brilliant!
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Old 08.15.2008, 10:29 AM   #34
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ssuming youre looking for rock bands, and not noise, etc..:

note: how can you have trouble looking for brit bands? theres thousands
hawkwind (possibly the best british band ever)
roxy music
swell maps
big flame
king crimson
the art bears
henry cow
slapp happy
robert wyatt
soft machine
spacemen 3
early pink floyd (piper-unmagumma)
slowdive
mbv
the jesus and mary chain
essential logic
the ceramic hobs
the damned
the fall (well, actually the these guys are the best british band ever, sorry hawkwind)
swervedriver
wire
pil
the pop group ('y' could be the best british album ever)
PRE
joy division
the smiths
t rex
siouxie and the banshees
godflesh
napalm death
the kiling joke
black sabbath
gang of four
the rolling stones
led zeppelin
stereolab
deviants
the stranglers
x ray spex
the slits
XTC
cabaret voltaire (kinda industrial, but to me, not really)
soft cell
the teardrop explodes/julian cope
the homosexuals
loop
yes
emerson lake and palmer
elo
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Old 08.15.2008, 10:30 AM   #35
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Yeah, but there's rock and there's RAWK!!!!!!!

so 'express way to yr. skull' does now RAWK!!!!!!!!! because i would beg to differ
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Old 08.15.2008, 10:32 AM   #36
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I'm finding hard to think of good current British Rock bands.
Obviously we've had loads in the past but right now we're looking bleak


help me out? i'm not exactly on the pulse these days so what am i missing

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ssuming youre looking for rock bands, and not noise, etc..:

note: how can you have trouble looking for brit bands? theres thousands
hawkwind (possibly the best british band ever)
roxy music
swell maps
big flame
king crimson
the art bears
henry cow
slapp happy
robert wyatt
soft machine
spacemen 3
early pink floyd (piper-unmagumma)
slowdive
mbv
the jesus and mary chain
essential logic
the ceramic hobs
the damned
the fall (well, actually the these guys are the best british band ever, sorry hawkwind)
swervedriver
wire
pil
the pop group ('y' could be the best british album ever)
PRE
joy division
the smiths
t rex
siouxie and the banshees
godflesh
napalm death
the kiling joke
black sabbath
gang of four
the rolling stones
led zeppelin
stereolab
deviants
the stranglers
x ray spex
the slits
XTC
cabaret voltaire (kinda industrial, but to me, not really)
soft cell
the teardrop explodes/julian cope
the homosexuals
loop
yes
emerson lake and palmer
elo

Well done!
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Old 08.15.2008, 11:23 AM   #37
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i dont know how, but i forgot these:

crass
discharge (those two are in my top 5 brit bands for sure)
venom
bolt thrower
amebix
iron maiden
motorhead
extreme noise terror
electro hippies
carcass
fairport convention




these bands are not rock in the slightest, but they do indeed RAWK, and there too good not to be mentioned:
whitehouse
throbbing gristle
coil
nihilist spasm band
nurse with wound
current 93
the halfler trio
evan parker
derek bailey



i really love british music. for some reason, even thier most simple straight ahead rock bands, are somehow interesting, creative, and a little more wild than thier peers (the beatles anyone?).
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Old 08.15.2008, 01:18 PM   #38
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we're talking about current bands dude


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i really love british music. for some reason, even thier most simple straight ahead rock bands, are somehow interesting, creative, and a little more wild than thier peers (the beatles anyone?).

you need to listen to the pigeondetectives/wombats/mysteryjets seriously theres nothing but shit as far as i can see
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Old 08.15.2008, 01:59 PM   #39
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