Why aren't there any hugely successful bands from London?

I don't know where any of these bands like Editors or The Kooks or whatever come from, or Coldplay

razorlight?

johnny douchebag is from muswell hill anyway.

Borrell - the most hated man in British pop-rock these days? maybe it's because he's a Londoner. i didn't know two of the band were from Sweden.

Doherty's a Londoner isn't he? Though admittedly he's more successful as a media construct than a musician.

borrell is hated, but a lot of people *seem* to like his music.

"london" popstars like doherty don't seem to be londoners cos they went to school in the countryside maybe.

There's been loads in the past tho: Kinks, The Who, Sex Pistols... Iron Maiden!

MIA

lol

bloc party formed in london, kele is from essex i think, coldplay met and formed in london, art brut are from london,

this is an odd question

do you mean bands where all the members grew up in london or bands which came together in london?

How many members of Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal are Londoners?

art brut are from london

Check thread title

kele is from essex i think

Liverpool, actually.

because no one in london is from london

liverpool is in essex

art brut were pitchforks no 3 best album of 2005

That constitutes hugely successful?

because no one in london is from london

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i was going to say this initially because it's sort of true. then i realized it's totally untrue.

if liverpool is in essex

xp

Aha!

... no, they're from Norway

Okereke (nicknamed "Rowly" as a child) was born in Liverpool to Catholic Nigerian parents, though he grew up in London. His mother was a midwife, and his father a molecular biologist. He has one sister. He went to school at Ilford County High School, until, but switched to Trinity High School for sixth form at age 16. Growing up, he would regularly visit Nigeria. However, he lived in Bethnal Green, and it was there in 1998 that he became friends with his new schoolmate at Trinity: Russell Lissack. A year later, when Okereke met Lissack at Reading Festival, the pair formed a band called Union. In 2000, they recruited bass player Gordon Moakes, and the band proceeded to tour with various drummers. In 2001 (aged 20), Okereke moved out of his parents' home. Two years later, he met Matt Tong who became the band's permanent drummer. In 2003, the band changed its name to Bloc Party.

I thought Coldplay started off in Exeter or nearby? Maybe they went to posh boy school there. I could look it up but y'know

they got together at UCL.

because no one in london is from london

hardly anyone you or i know/hang out with is even from zone 5/6 like me let alone further in that that - but there are big social/status divides that keep a lot of us apart from those either 'above' or 'below' us (i don't wanna use the C word).

ok well i work with a lot of 'below' people from london and just last night drank with an 'above' person from teh north london. there are people from london!

(i don't wanna use the C word).

Coldplay? Somebody beat you to it.

yeah we know there are people from london but i don't know that many of them at all and i don't feel like i am in a minority here. depends on your job a lot perhaps.

Chris Martin's from just outside Exeter, but the other dudes aren't.

Yeah, they were assembled in South Korea I think.

Chris Martin from just outside Exeter, just like Katie Hopkins.

Yes, but I bet he doesn't have sex with Met Office employees in a corn field.

Why are we dragging Lembit Opik into this?

As the Cheeky Girls said last week, boom boom.

cant believe kele went to ilford county high school!