Good British Rock Bands
 

I'm finding hard to think of good current British Rock bands.
Obviously we've had loads in the past but right now we're looking bleak

I got
Mogwai
Super Furry Animals (sort of current)
PJ Harvey
Elbow (? i mean they've gone a bit funny now, but the 1st 2 albums were stunning. And everyone loves a fat cheery northerner dont they?)
Spiritualized

but other than that i'm blank
help me out? i'm not exactly on the pulse these days so what am i missing

Radiohead

Mogwai are Scottish.

Yet again... Scotland is a part of Britain.

wolves eyes
mezborw

oh wait... no

I'm pretty sure in the context it implied England.

not at all, thats why i mentioned British (SFA are Welsh)

cheers for Radiohead though, i completely missed them

I don't think it did.

Best smiley ever

Hahaha, the merozwb jokes are easily getting an instant classics here.
I'd rep you but I can't.

Ramleh
PJ Harvey
Radiohead
The Fall (still going strong!)
Godzilla Black

On the more metal/doom end:

Anaal Nathrakh
Moss
Electric Wizarrd (still good, if not as genius as they once were)
Jesu

I used to like Hood and Disco Inferno quite a lot. Both bands dysfunctional now.
Now I dig Rameses III and Gareth Hardwick much more.

I'd say that the Doom scene is the only place where British Rock seems to be making any kind of impact at the moment. And even there it seems to be becoming less and less interesting by the hour.

I hate this country.

The fucking Band of Bees.

It's happening now, you time capsul sluts.

I think you look American rather than English (link maybe ?).

Judas Priest

skullflower
the heads
the velvet velvet spicerack
corsano/flower
thought forms

T&B - Great call on The Heads - I totally forgot about them.

This is a tough one, seeing as I wouldn't consider any of the bands in the original post to be rock.

If asked for a decent British ROCK band, rather than indie rock, I'd nominate Capricorns.

^^^Are they still going? I can't work out whether they've split up or not...

They released a new CD last month.

Ah good - must keep an eye out for that, then.

Taint

Bum Gravy. Still pushing the sonic envelope after all those years.

Stereolab
Broadcast (not so much on record, but certainly they're a rock band when they play live)
Ectogram
Electralane
Skill 7 Stamina 12
AMP
The Go! Team
Movietone
The Bevis Frond


-Metal Bands-
Emit
Benighted Leams

Are they still around?

This Aint Vegas
Part Chimp
The Pastels

Trencher
Lovvers

Yeah, I saw a poster for them a month or so ago, playing at the Walthamstow Standard I think. A double headliner with Dumpy's Rusty Nuts. You can't argue with a bill like that.

[quote=blunderbuss]This is a tough one, seeing as I wouldn't consider any of the bands in the original post to be rock.
[quote]

thats fair enough. I meant guitar rather than electronic as the British electronic scene is pretty fucking impressive

saying something is indie rock but not rock doesn't make sense. surely indie
rock is just a sub-genre of rock?

Yeah, but there's rock and there's RAWK!!!!!!!

More importantly, Demonrail, did you really see a poster advertising a gig for DRN? I saw them in about 1987 - they were brilliant!

ssuming youre looking for rock bands, and not noise, etc..:

note: how can you have trouble looking for brit bands? theres thousands
hawkwind (possibly the best british band ever)
roxy music
swell maps
big flame
king crimson
the art bears
henry cow
slapp happy
robert wyatt
soft machine
spacemen 3
early pink floyd (piper-unmagumma)
slowdive
mbv
the jesus and mary chain
essential logic
the ceramic hobs
the damned
the fall (well, actually the these guys are the best british band ever, sorry hawkwind)
swervedriver
wire
pil
the pop group ('y' could be the best british album ever)
PRE
joy division
the smiths
t rex
siouxie and the banshees
godflesh
napalm death
the kiling joke
black sabbath
gang of four
the rolling stones
led zeppelin
stereolab
deviants
the stranglers
x ray spex
the slits
XTC
cabaret voltaire (kinda industrial, but to me, not really)
soft cell
the teardrop explodes/julian cope
the homosexuals
loop
yes
emerson lake and palmer
elo

so 'express way to yr. skull' does now RAWK!!!!!!!!! because i would beg to differ

Well done!

i dont know how, but i forgot these:

crass
discharge (those two are in my top 5 brit bands for sure)
venom
bolt thrower
amebix
iron maiden
motorhead
extreme noise terror
electro hippies
carcass
fairport convention




these bands are not rock in the slightest, but they do indeed RAWK, and there too good not to be mentioned:
whitehouse
throbbing gristle
coil
nihilist spasm band
nurse with wound
current 93
the halfler trio
evan parker
derek bailey



i really love british music. for some reason, even thier most simple straight ahead rock bands, are somehow interesting, creative, and a little more wild than thier peers (the beatles anyone?).

we're talking about current bands dude



you need to listen to the pigeondetectives/wombats/mysteryjets seriously theres nothing but shit as far as i can see

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