Local bands that SHOULD have made it

[Carl I.]

I like the Jacobites, but are they a "local" band? I bought a few of theirs from a tiny record shop in Indiana, which tells me they are broken out of the "local" band thing. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

I prefer Kusworth singing, and his stuff outside of the Jaco's though. But "Silver Street" is one of the greatest songs ever written.

[chrisdamien]

They released a couple of Jacobites albums in the 90's too. Howling Good Times a useless waste of time, but Old Scarlett is quite possibly their best album... next to Robespierre's Velvet Basement.

A couple of others that were quite good too. They are working on a new one now and judging from some of the demos it'll be great.

The Tenderhooks were cool, but broke up... 2 of my favourite Kusworth songs "Tell Me 'Bout Your Love" and "Street Inagery" is on the last Tenderhooks record you'll like them. He has a couple of amazing songs coming up on his new record too. "Running After You" most notably.

I don't know if they can be considered "local" I mean what is "local" on the net? I'm sure if there are anyone from Birmingham or London here they would consider them local at least...

To me the best local band that should have made it is the Backstreet Girls who are also from Oslo

[Carl I.]

To me, especially back in the day, a "local" band is a band that had NOT been signed to even a true Indie label. Orphan Punks, though they had a very nicely done CD and toured all over, remained a "local band" due to the fact that all of it was done on their own. Once you can buy a bands CD in a foriegn country, or even in a Best Buy across the country, they no longer are "local" but rather they now belong to the world. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[chrisdamien]

Ahhh...ok, then I guess I was a bit off with that:-)

Thought you meant bands from your erea who recorded demos or released some albums but never "made it"...

Then I gotta take away Heart Throb Mob too cause I could get those CDs in normal stores here for a split second when they were released.

[Carl I.]

You're kidding? You could get HTM??? I believe they only pressed 1,000 of each of those, and they were done all by themselves. That would probably mean that whatever you saw were filtered to that area via a fan of some sort.

I didn't start the topic, so I'm not sure what the specs were for a "local band", so you may very well be right. I was just saying what I considered a "local" band. HTM is definitley more of a "local band" than Jacobites though, IMO.

[chrisdamien]

Yeah, there were a couple of shops here who had HTM.
They probably ordered directly from the band though, but I remember I got both of them from stores and it was your typical chain-stores too. No indipendent glam rock store either:-)

But I guess they would still be local as they weren't signed to a true label, I think.

Ok... I'll keep them!:-)