i'll just listen to all my Fall records.

simply in so far as that it has more bands than anywhere else so statistically there'll be more great bands there (and more shit bands too but you don't have to listen to those).

Glasgow'd be my second choice.

of course.

FOTL, Los Camps, Spencer, Sweet Baboo, that Pagan Wanderer Lu guy, Threaties, Truckers of Husk, and on and on and on the list goes. Plus you can duibiously claim Super Furries and Euros Childs.

And Charlotte Church.

I would chose Portland.

ESP / Brakes / BSP
Blood Red Shoes
Foals
80s Matchbox (?)
Help She Can't Swim
err... Andrej and Tim?

Brighton anyway.

personally i wouldn't go for the most of the current stuff.

but late 70s/early 80s is ace:

human league
heaven 17
cabaret voltare
pulp
artery
etc

David Thomas Broughton, iLiKETRAiNS, Benjamin Wetherill, Fran Rodgers, Paul Marshall, etc

Mogwai, The Twilight Sad, Aereogramme, Orange Juice, Biffy Clyro, Jesus And Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub.

If it was any in the world I'd choose Austin in texas: ...And you will know us by the trail of dead, Explosions in the sky, I love you but I've chosen darkness, Spoon....

Just because it would mean I could listen to Jonquil and Youthmovies all day.

Anywhere in the world though would have to be Chicago:

Make Believe
Maps and Atlases
Russian Circles
Chin Up Chin Up
Owen
Noyes (?)

Good times :-)

this should be proportional. As in you'd have to put the combined works of the bands of a city on shuffle and see which city ends up with the best crap:good ratio.

I reckon cardiff would come of that pretty well. there's not much round here that's genuinely shit.

..someone convince me that a good band have come out of reading ever. go on.

Sennen
Bearsuit
Oil Red 0
Beth Orton
Kaito
Cathy Dennis