York: Not a big Rock and Roll town?
The Grauniad’s Dave Simpson searches for the least musical city in the UK and doesn’t seem to get it.
I’m struggling with York. Ex-Seahorse Chris Helme still treads the boards, there was a tipped but flop band called the Ya Ya’s a while back (I think managed by the same guy that brought us the Stone Roses) and at least one of Nine Black Alps hails from the town. But otherwise, it’s full of former Zoot and the Roots types.
If York really is such a cultural desert, why have I travelled to or will be travelling to that city no less than five times during 2007 purely to go to gigs? Presumably he doesn’t acknowledge the existance of anything other than NME-approved four chord indie rock.
On the other hand, perhaps Steve Jones can tell me if this description of his home town is remotely accurate:
Nothing can beat Telford in Shropshire for being a cultural desert, It’s not a city yet, but it’s already the been voted the Chav capital of the U.K.
The only good thing to ever come out of this place is the road out of it.
Only thing in its favour (besides the road out) is that people here avoid going to Church and the C.o.E have had to draft in a Vicar to try and get the locals along to worship.
It’s main features are industrial estates, council estates and a population of binge drinking drug addicts.
I was once told that if the U.K. was to be given an enema they would stick the pipe in Telford.
It even has the lowest rate of lottery winners in the U.K.
Avoid !
