Does anyone know where Swell Maps is from?

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Every bio I find just says "Britain". I ran a search on Google and on ILM and I'm not having much luck. Anyone wanna take a stab at this?

― - (smile), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Leamington Spa

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

Or Cambridge, don't remember

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Croydon, I think.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

Too London, I think

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

It's Leamington Spa, I'm pretty sure. Croydon is the Damned, Loop, Wizz Jones, and uh...

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

They're from the Midlands definitely. Leamington Spa sounds right. I was going to say Birmingham area.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

Go me!

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

Leamington Spa also being notable as the home of Aleister Crowley. For a spell anyway (ho ho ho!).

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh and Cambridge is where Spaceward studio (where they did most/all of their studio work) is, so that's what I was remembering there.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

i thought they were from solihull

― jhjhdfg, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

Leamington Spa....

― hector savage, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

It's Solihull.

― snotty moore, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

solihull, but recorded in leamington spa

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

ARE from. ARE.

― deliver me from irony, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Supergrass Is 10

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

twenty years pass...

Solihull School has a pretty impressive list of former pupils:

Nikki Sudden
Michael Buerk
Richard Hammond
Stewart Lee
Simon Mayo
Phil Oakey
Johnnie Walker
John Curry
Genesis P-Orridge

... and Bert Millichip

― I Didn't Always Agree With What He Said But... (Tom D.), Friday, 19 September 2025 09:06 (six months ago)

notable amount of people named after foodstuffs

― Reggaeton Sax (NickB), Friday, 19 September 2025 09:50 (six months ago)

Curry, Mayo and Millions of chips...

― Mark G, Friday, 19 September 2025 10:37 (six months ago)

Oh yeah, and P-orridge with NutMegs on.

― Mark G, Friday, 19 September 2025 10:38 (six months ago)

Lol @ howfar downthread someone guessed Sollihull
Was google not invented before 2005?

― Cock A. Doodledoo (Deflatormouse), Friday, 19 September 2025 10:44 (six months ago)

Hammond mayo sandwiches

― I Didn't Always Agree With What He Said But... (Tom D.), Friday, 19 September 2025 11:00 (six months ago)

Jowe Head is from Kidderminster. I know this because he messaged me on FB and asked me if we're related (we are not, as far as I know)

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 September 2025 11:30 (six months ago)

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