Anyone else here from South Wales? I was interested in who you all thought were the best local unsigned bands?
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My friend
plays guitar in an awesome band called Lights to Lead Us. They play quite a lot in Cardiff - you can find them on Myspace (though they didn't have much stuff up last time I checked). Best go see them live. They're a kind of an epic post-rock with vocals thang. And like I said, they're awesome.
we're definitely not the best, but...
my band are welsh and unsigned- www.myspace.com/zissoumusic
the mams are cool-
www.myspace.com/themamswambam
not a band really, from my hometown-
http://www.myspace.com/telegramfromthequeen
stray borders-
www.myspace.com/strayborders
there's a load of good ones, i just can't think of them right now.
Some are...
Truckers of Husk (they're signed now, but they're still ace)
Zail
Gindrinker
Sweet Baboo
Spencer McGarry
Cate Le Bon
Stray Borders
Heck
Cymbient
Circa Regna Tonat
King Alexander
I'd like to think the bands I'm in are quite good too, but I shall not name them for now. I'll let Monpot or Joe Totale do it for me. :)
yeh
I like spencer mcGarry and circa regna tonat, not that big a fan of gindrinker. Havnt heard of the others.
My personal favourites are;
StopMotion Men (imo one of the best bands around, period!)
The Donde Stars
Mea
People in planes (signed, but seemingly unheard of by a lot of people around here!)
People in Planes
I saw them just before Christmas, I thought they were truly awful. I think they're mainly based in the USA these days, they've got a bit more success over there...
I used to really like them when they were called Tetra Splendour too, so it came as a big surprise!
ah...
I missed that show, suppose im glad I did now! Ive seen them a few times and in all honesty they are a bit hit-and-miss. On record they are a great band, but I find that they could try a bit harder live. I saw them at the barfy in cardiff last year supporting (the awful) amusement parks on fire where they were really good though.
Seeing as Monpot and Joe Totale aren't here
and I've realised I actually AM in the business of promoting my own South Wales unsigned music enterprises...
Vito
myspace.com/vitotheband
Right Hand Left Hand
myspace.com/righthandlefthand
Broken Leaf / Ratatosk (both different solo efforts)
myspace.com/brokenleafmusic
myspace.com/ratatoskisnow
I play in more bands too, but they can take care of themselves. Jag jag jag jag jag jag jag jag........
my,
your a busy man!
Well,
it beats staying in.
yeh
better then just sitting around on message boards :p
heh
I'm watching you young man...
the south wales police
are great... they had a song called accident emergency which was phenomenal... listen here
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=100820850
havnt they
broken up?
you
should definitely check out starsnostars
http://www.myspace.com/starsnostarsband
good shit imo
more..
agreed on Truckers of Husk and Gindrinker.
Plus I think Kutosis are pretty special, they seem to play with Gindrinker quite a bit. They have an awesome poster for a gig in welsh club in march.
I'm with everyone else on
The Spencer McGarry Season. Surprised no one else has mentioned Attack + Defend though.
attack + defend
are alrite, nothing special though.
a lot of
twisted by design's compilation from 2006 is pretty darned good, but i'm sure lots more has come up since then! quench (is that right? i forget the name) put out a good cd with gair rhydd, i'm assuming something to do with myfirstmine...
and i really do like attack+defend
Gindrinker
<3 covered in bugs! + lil dave is fun. I miss Cardiff and Clwb and Barfly and the Rummer and Dempseys and Callahans and the City Arms.