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Fred, I totally agree, but can I also add Bristol & Leeds to your map of British musical importance? Often ignored, but certainly incredibly influential. Manchester & Glasgow truly are hot beds of musical cool. One of the best groups to ever come out of the UK must be The Stone Roses, but they were only a small part of what Manchester managed to give to the World at that time - please, just don't say Inspiral Carpets!
Scottish music should be my forte, but living in Glasgow I am more than aware of the the importance of Strathclyde region in particular. I struggle to think of many bands other than perhaps the Soup Dragons (Dundee) and The Shamen (Dundee) and The Rezillos (formally the Revillos) and Goodbye Mr McKenzie (both from Edinburgh) from other Scottish regions that have managed to capture the imagination.
Start listing Scottish groups and you end up realising that the vast majority of them come from within a 20mile radius of my front door. The reason being that frankly the support, clubs and venues in the West are much better than anywhere else.
I realise the point was that Thom has never produced Pop music, I was arguing the same point as you.
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