What have Cardiff ever done for R'n'R?

Alan Holmes.. Ankst... nuff said

Where's Cardiff....Wales?

I'll take Welsh rockers for a thousand, then: Gene Loves Jezebel, the Alarm, the keyboard player from Kula Shaker, Tom Jones, ummmmmmmm.....one-time Killing Joke bass player - Taif, the Stereophonics, ummmm....aren't the Manic Street Preachers from Wales too?

I guess leeks and silly accents don't always sprell rock'n'roll splendor.

Sprell?!? I must be drunk.

Answered in the voice of Peter Prescott:

Young Marble Giants!! Whoo!!! Scritti Politti -- well, Green Gartside anyway!!! The Darling Buds!!!!!!!!

I lived in Cardiff for 4 years between 1988 and 1992. There were no rock bands of note that made any impact during my time in the city. The best local band The Third Uncles released an ep that sold in the local indie record store Spillers and that woz it.

None of the bands that Alex in NYC mentioned are from Cardiff.

Young Marbe Giants came from Cardiff.

but after that No Cardiff band of note made it - not even in the indie charts. In the 80s Welsh rock music had a very low profile - [the only Welsh bands to make any sales impact during the eighties were North Wales, Rhyl band The Alarm, and Gene Loves Jezebel were from Port Talbot.]

Rick & Karl (from later Underworld fame) attented Cardiff University in the early 80s and formed Freur.

There is the naff Shakin Stevens with his Elvis impersonation.

For a capital city of Wales and a key regional city of the UK - Cardiff's contribution to rock music has been abysmal.

[Darling Buds were from Newport, Gwent and as Andy mentioned Green Gartside woz born in Wales - somewhere in Gwent/ Monmouthshire I think - indeed in the 90s he moved back to Wales]

1991 - went to see two local bands play in a back yard on a sunny afternoon in kardiff - 1st was kool spacerock [with casio keyboard thru mondo fx] but the second - they had a drummer 2 bassists and two guitarists - who played one riff per song [nicked riffs like purple haze] - the singer was attempting an Iggy, the only lyrics i made out were 'i hate you, you're so beautiful, gonna defecate upon your face tonight' - there were 30 people in the back yard and it was one of the funniest gigs ive ever seen - the sound churned around wonderfully and they were both so much better than the brit-grunge later that year.

Cardiff figures into "Bells of Rhymney".

What about Dave Edmunds, Andy Fairweather-Low and the one and only Shakin' Stevens??! Shirley Bassey too.

Cariff's Greatest Contribution: BUDGIE!!

yeah i was gonna say that.

Sorry but Wales and rock always reminds me of the Smugglers tour diary Europe01