Help me make a list of regional tribute-cum-satire bands

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Bands or acts with subject matter, exaggerated accents or injokes only understood by their locality. Along the lines of:

Pitman (Yorkshire)
Hard Skin (London)
Goldie Lookin Chain (Newport/South Wales)
Gorse (Cornwall)

British ones would be good, inasmuch as I'm British, but ones from anywhere are cool. Then maybe I'll make a compilation of them or something.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

In Richmond, there's Brown Sabbath (obviously a Black Sabbath cover band) and a Guns'n'Roses cover band called Rocket Queen, who have a black singer named Blaxyl Rose.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That's quite good. But I was thinking more of tributes to the area they live in really. Cheers tho

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Again, not quite what you're looking for, but amusing nonetheless: Here, and here.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahaha that book was brilliant [NB when I was 15]. Gutted I don't have my copy anymore...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wurzels!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Turn On 45 Pints!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Fountains of Wayne!

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Macc Lads?

― dave q, Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not from there, but there is a good blues/punk band from Wisconsin called "The Milwuakee Talkies."

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the kenn firpo rent explosion (who i've now had the chance to mention twice on ILM in the past month!)

if you don't spend quality time in williamsburg, you don't know what the hell they're talking about.

oh, also every rapper from brooklyn, queens or the bronx to thread.

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Southern Culture on the Skids

Is this type of band what you mean?

― earlnash, Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

In minneapolis, we have Bernie the Trailer Park Queen, a, um, quite large woman who does Wierd Al-type parodies of rock songs (Soul Asylum's Frustrated Inc. become "Frustrated and Constipated - years before Wierd Al did the same joke to Avril Lavigne's Complicated), also has a song called "Screw Lilith Fair"

Also, we have the pleasure of being home to Cal Hopkin's Amish Armada, a punk/metal band that, natch, dresses Amish and has lyrics about how technology is evil. They sometimes beat up auto mechanics and others that are in league with technology on stage. Very funny stage banter, and a pretty good metalcore band to boot.

http://www.amisharmada.com/

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

764-hero is specific to Seattle, or wherever they're from. It's a highway safety phone number or something.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

hayseed dixie- bluegrass take on ac/dc.

But that's probably not what you're talking about.

― Will (will), Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, I totally didn't get the regional part of this at first....sorry, but here's a good one:

Da Yoopers, a comedy musical group from the Upper Peninsula on Michigan (Da Yoo-Pee as they call it up there, and Da Yoopers is a play off that)...They have songs about rural michigan stuff, like deer hunting, snow, etc..

http://www.dayoopers.com/

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

There are tons in San Francisco, but the only one that comes immediately to mind is AC/DShe.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Menswear (Camden)

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 3 October 2003 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Pitman's more Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire than Yorkshire.

Good call on the Macc lads, there was another band from Chesterfield way who did songs in over-strong accents, I can't remember their name but they did a song called "here comes Jesus(can he play the keyboard?)" and the bloke who ran the indie record shop in town was in them, another song by them was "Harry Secombe" which just repeated the name over and over with a thrash backing. Yes, they were crap.

― chris (chris), Friday, 3 October 2003 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god yeah, The Macc Lads! I guess their stupidity is kind of universal, their name aside...

Do they have pits in Derbyshire?

That Amish band sound awesome. I take it they're pioneering acoustic metalcore then?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 3 October 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

not any more, but there used to be loads

The Macc lads did get very local though with songs like "no sheep til Buxton"

It's driving me mad trying to remember the name of that band from Chesterfield, there's a copy of the (terrible) album at my Mum's house somewhere.

― chris (chris), Friday, 3 October 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Glasgow has the Hector Collectors who are a bit like a Scottish Half Man Half Biscuit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Group in Liverpool called Beatallica. Covers of Beatles songs in Metallica stylee, absolutley, positively spot-on.

I think that satisfies on every count.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Friday, 3 October 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Pitman's more Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire than Yorkshire.

What I'm not... is a miner from Newcastle, Manchester, Barnsley, Manfield, and Derby "What I Am" Pitman

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 4 October 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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