Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Right, I'm going to try it and see whether I live to regret it. An authoritative and objective assessment of the musical legacies of the major urban areas of the UK outside of London.
The rules: we start with a list the biggest non-London urban areas of the UK, per Wikipedia. First we'll list the artists, clubs, DJs, labels, soundsystems etc that define their musical legacy, for good or for ill. Once we've done that, I'll collate post the full list, and everyone can pick the 20 overall that they'd save from a burning building, plus the ten that they'd launch into the sun. The first list will count +1 each for the relevant city, the second counts -1. I'll tot up scores and then rank the cities.
Full list, per the ONS definition of an Urban Area is here:
en.wikipedia.org
The biggest are:
Greater Manchester (incl Oldham, Stockport etc)
West Midlands (Birmingham + the Black Country)
West Yorkshire (Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield)
Greater Glasgow
Liverpool
South Hampshire (Portsmouth + Southampton)
Tyneside (Newcastle + Gateshead)
Nottingham
Sheffield
Bristol
Belfast
Leicester
Edinburgh
Brighton and Hove
Bournemouth / Poole
Cardiff
plus I'll take write-ins for places not on this list.
I'll be accepting nominations for artists, DJs, clubs, bands, record labels, sound systems etc, but it has to be individual concrete entities, so no genres, scenes, types of people etc. For the sake of my sanity, please try to keep nominations to stuff that someone might plausibly put on one list or the other, so I don't end up having to unnecessarily copy-paste a list of every boring indie band ever to come out of Manchester.
Go!
The rules: we start with a list the biggest non-London urban areas of the UK, per Wikipedia. First we'll list the artists, clubs, DJs, labels, soundsystems etc that define their musical legacy, for good or for ill. Once we've done that, I'll collate post the full list, and everyone can pick the 20 overall that they'd save from a burning building, plus the ten that they'd launch into the sun. The first list will count +1 each for the relevant city, the second counts -1. I'll tot up scores and then rank the cities.
Full list, per the ONS definition of an Urban Area is here:
List of urban areas in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
The biggest are:
Greater Manchester (incl Oldham, Stockport etc)
West Midlands (Birmingham + the Black Country)
West Yorkshire (Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield)
Greater Glasgow
Liverpool
South Hampshire (Portsmouth + Southampton)
Tyneside (Newcastle + Gateshead)
Nottingham
Sheffield
Bristol
Belfast
Leicester
Edinburgh
Brighton and Hove
Bournemouth / Poole
Cardiff
plus I'll take write-ins for places not on this list.
I'll be accepting nominations for artists, DJs, clubs, bands, record labels, sound systems etc, but it has to be individual concrete entities, so no genres, scenes, types of people etc. For the sake of my sanity, please try to keep nominations to stuff that someone might plausibly put on one list or the other, so I don't end up having to unnecessarily copy-paste a list of every boring indie band ever to come out of Manchester.
Go!
