East Anglia's services to music...

Bucks, Herts, Beds

What did you get for geography GCSE?

I did history.

Are they not in East Anglia?

East Anglia is Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. Maybe Essex.

Anyway to answer the question I reckon is too fucking flat and dull to inspire any kind of art.

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what is herts/beds/bucks then?they get anglia tv.

wtf
they are just some of the home counties along with surrey, kent and essex

East Anglia is Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. Maybe Essex.

-- ledge, Thursday, 24 April 2008 11:11 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Northamptonshire is East Anglia, I'll go to my grave claiming that.

herts and beds are east england, but not east enough to be in anglia. bucks is south east.

xxp "home counties" doesn't necessarily preclude being in anglia too.

dom that's crazy talk

didn't know Cathy Dennis and Beth Orton were from Norwich.

dom that's crazy talk

-- ledge, Thursday, 24 April 2008 11:26 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I grew up watching Patrick's Pantry on local TV, it's in Anglia.

Anyway, Higsons, Farmer's Boys, any advance?

some of beds i'd call east anglia.

o god please don't make this one of those 'gareth defines london' threads though.

ok. can we make this thread about east of england, but not london.

Deep Purple were formed in Hertford
The Zombies were from St Albans
ummm... That one guy who did the soundtrack from War of the Worlds lives in Hertfordshire... errr... Hex Enduction Hour was recorded in Hitchin (and Iceland)....

the prodigy were from essex which is sort of like east anglia, almost.

the posh bits anyway.

i'd count Home Counties as incorporated within East Anglia personally. But that's mostly down to the TV region I admit.

Norwich was quite the hip indie place at the start of the decade with Bearsuit and Kaito and stuff.

Oh, sorry, you said "make it big".

The Bleach Boys were from Hitchin!

Might not meet "make it big" criteria, admittedly.

DJ Kool Herc was born and brought up, for the first 12 years of his life, in Hunstanton.

On the Suffolk count, there is of course Brian Eno.

Kings Lynn's contribution to music: Magoo.

Guys guys I LITERALLY just opened an envelope containing University Of East Anglia-formed Sennen's debut album!!! "Like Mogwai if they were fronted by Simon & Garfunkel. A good thing." - NME

Katrina and the Waves are based in Newmarket these days so I suppose they could count as East Anglians by default.

i'd count Home Counties as incorporated within East Anglia personally.

http://85.21.19.21/bcovers/alb12756.jpg

Catherine Wheel! Great Yarmouth, says Wikipedia.

Aren't the Darkness from Suffolk?

I was vaguely considering going to see Sennen tomorrow night. Should I?

You are all batshit.

East Anglia is NORFOLK and SUFFOLK and NOTHING ELSE.

OTM

Stupids!!!!!!!>>>>Frankfurter, Bad Dress Sense and Tommy Stupid's eventual berth in the surprisingly good D&B noodler, Klute

The Adicts

Higsons ,yes

Serious Drinking????

cambridgeshre is east anglia.

ely, which is in cambridgeshire, is kind of undeniably categorically part of east anglia.

That doesn't mean Joe Ely qualifies, however.

The Bleach Boys were from Hitchin!

And they still do (kinda)

Yeah I know I saw them a couple of months ago (albeit with a different singer)

When global warming gets going, Leighton Buzzard will be on the coast of East Anglia.

Modern Romance!

On the Colchester border: influential tastemaker who likes to visit the zoo but with records - Steve Lamacq.

I know i shouldn't be surprised, but "Lammo" played a Terris record last night :-(.

Sennen ?

I'm guessing that they are aren't they?

An admirer of footwear?

Little remembered DnB combo EZ Rollers hailed from Norwich.

I was vaguely considering going to see Sennen tomorrow night. Should I?

Not on the evidence of this first track. I think these guys might be the new Hope Of the States!!

OK, as an Ipswich boy I'd better weigh in with some of the 'swich's contributions to music:

Nick Kershaw
Plaid/two-thirds of The Black Dog
Extreme Nose Terror
Photek
The Stupids / Klute
Cradle of Flith
Certificate 18 Records
Vinyl Dialect
Ed, the drummer in The Editors
Kirk Degeorgio
Pixel8

Er, stuggling a bit now - can anyone else help?

I've had the dubious pleasures of knowing one or two of these characters over the years, and of course almost all of these had to leave to get anywhere in music. I left "town" myself a few years back, but that didn't seem to help my music dreams one bit however...

Everyone's favourite fence-walking Oi band Condemned 84 are from Ipswich, I believe.

Extreme Nose Terror

lol best band name ever!

Sounds like one of Skot's kid's band names

the new Hope Of the States

Lawks.

If we're including Essex, then Squarepusher. And if grozart's including St Albans, then Source Direct.

Just for you guys, I am trying not to mention Hirameka Hi-fi.

I made two more typos, points for spotting them.

"Cradle of Filth" should read "Cradle of Fish".

Cruddle Bog Shit

Just remembered there are also a number of mediocre DIY punk and power-pop bands from Ipswich as well, but the only name I can remember is Red Flag '77

has nobody else got a Gee Mr Tracy record then?

most of east anglia is too close to london to have something separate going on + its biggest cities are still tiny compared to other regional centres. norwich can't have more than like 200,000 people right?

i know a guy who earns a living as a musician here in cambridge, but he plays basically all of his gigs (3-4 a week) in london. and the biggest band "from east anglia" (pink floyd) formed in ldn.

norwich can't have more than like 200,000 people right?

Half that, even.

the biggest band "from east anglia" (pink floyd) formed in ldn.

I was always told they formed at a certain boys school in Hills Road?

Coming from Herts though, I know that along the line between London and Cambridge there is a very fertile (local) music scene whihc has been blooming for za long while now. Is it simply because labels are more likely to sign bands from larger cities? Many of these bands play regularly in London.

they 'formed' as a bunch of friends, but also i think only one of them was at the perse, two or three were at (what is now) hills road sfc, but syd didn't actually join the band till they were in london.

The Stupids were so great, thought they had a bunch of aliases/offshoots too, but maybe they weren't from the East.

dj harvey is from the EA

and thomas bullock from wicked crew/are weapons/map of africa

a star-studded cast then at the MOEAO Awards then...

one half of groove armada is from cambridge

would it be fair to say that East Anglia suffers from a dearth of venues for its fertile music scene to play in?

I think you're spot-on there. Ipswich usually hovers between 1 and 2 small live music venues which rarely pu on bands from outside the county. When I lived there I had to travel to Colchester (15 miles away - Arts Centre) Norwich (40 miles away - Waterfront or Arts Centre) Cambridge (45 miiles away - The Junction and The Boat Race - RIP) or even Chemlsford and Harlow to see any decent bands, and even then a lot of bands go to neither on tour.

Norwich can't have more than like 200,000 people right?

200,000 sounds about right, there are at least 150,00 in Ipswich and Naaaridge folk are always saying how much bigger Norwich is.

ahem, 150,000

the govt, on whose behalf i used to distribute sacks of gold on a regional basis, considers East Anglia to be Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. i hope that nugget of information helps frame this important discussion.

"would it be fair to say that East Anglia suffers from a dearth of venues for its fertile music scene to play in?

-- Grandpont Genie, Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:43 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Link"

"it's not a big college town, cambridge"

I would imagine Norfolk and Suffolk to have a thriving folk scene playing at county fairs, folk dance conventions and local pubs. Is this not in fact the case?

what is the point of suffolk?

Lowestoft.

I would imagine Norfolk and Suffolk to have a thriving folk scene playing at county fairs, folk dance conventions and local pubs. Is this not in fact the case?

-- Grandpont Genie, Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:05 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

they maybe do, but then again, probably not among the young people. i'm sure the west country and scotland also have big traditional music scenes but at the same time they have produced the pop music as well.

what is the point of suffolk?

Adnams and ITFC.

some of suffolk is v v pretty.

Patrick's Pantry

What is this?

Hey Chewshabadoo - coming down to your neck of the woods a week on sunday. We could do you a favour this saturday. You could be equally kind to us the following week

Can you get The Stupids to do a one off at half time. Cheers

Does Tommy still skate? I reckon he does

dj harvey is from the EA

Yup, so Map of Africa, "the sound of the fens" as they put it themselves.

Also, Nathan Fake.

And Pink Floyd, as noted.

suffolk in particular is hard done by in terms of music venues.

norwich does pretty well with the arts centre, UEA and music friendly pubs - helped i guess by a large (art) student population.

colchester at least has the arts centre - though having seen a turnout of 15 or so at the MV+EE gig in Feb i think the promoter there may find it difficult to continue putting on the less squaddie-friendly acts.

ipswich has a couple of pubs - local punk-pop. or the regent theatre - mick hucknall.

luckily a couple of bands have been receptive to coming to play in more rural locations nearby - so we've had Duracell playing in a forest before a screening of Holy Mountain under the stars and Trencher and I'm Being Good recently came and played a village hall in Blaxhall.

That reminds me Suffolk does at least now have the Lattitude festival, the BLOC Weekender and there is a "electronic music and visual" all-nighter around the time of the Snape festival too with people like Mira Calix - so it's greatly improved in that respect since I moved away.

Hey Chewshabadoo - coming down to your neck of the woods a week on sunday. We could do you a favour this saturday. You could be equally kind to us the following week

Can you get The Stupids to do a one off at half time. Cheers

Unfortunately I'm not around anymore otherwise I could have sorted that all out for you :-) Town also need to win both games to even have a chance of scraping into the playoffs, but good luck all the same with promotion.

Our promotion? Wish I could share your optimism. We have a badge of honour to preserve - biggest club in Europe to have never blah blah...

ITFC on the other hand have a history to be proud of.

Was thinking of the Lattitude this year . Looks like my sort of middle aged with kids, Uncut blast, I now must like.

Patrick's Pantry

What is this?

-- Raw Patrick, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:20 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/features/xmas_2003/kitchen_gadgets.shtml

Patrick's Pantry for Anglia TV became the world's longest running all year round food programme.

Great Yarmouth spawned Splodgenessabounds.

The Bleach Boys were from Hitchin!

Philosopher Simon Critchley was in an early version i think?