Strange...

good UK bands :'""""""(

But they aren't British either.

The only English bands I like at the moment are:
The Sticks
The Rebel/Country Teasers
Black Time
The Hipshakes
Dan Melchior und Das Menace (He lives in America though)
Shit + Shine
Epideme
Lovvers

The smallness of our country, where bands cannot develop in enough space.

the press and media coverage, always looking for the next big thing, build them up and knock them down.

The Misplaced belief that Rock and Roll was invented in this country. It has bred a certain sort of insular arrogance. I know as soon as a band lists its influences as Beatles, Kinks, Weller, Smiths and Clash exactly how dull and formularic they will be without even hearing them.

The links between fashion and music that continually grow stronger. Being fashionable does not make your music any better, it only ensures you will soon be out of favour.

Dues to these factors I think the uk music scene has got increasingly stagnant

check out

buttonhead (sound a bit like deerhoof)
kite season (a mix of animal collective and jamie t!)

they where pretty good.

because they appeal to a narrow spectrum and when you have less population that spectrum's narrowness translates to lack of fans who can fund your endeavours.

I'd second choices like Bilge Pump and Buttonhead from those listed above.

Have a look here:
http://www.myspace.com/silverrocketclub

Pretty much every one of the bands on their friends list are worth listening to. Or you could by a SR 100 triple CD thing. 71 amazing bands and then we're on there too.

There are actually no bands in the UK anymore.

Ever since the NME started writing about the inaudible sound wave scene every band in the country has split up in an attempt to make even less noise than their rivals.

Typically the NME have moved on and are now hyping negative inaudible soundwave where bands actually commit suicide in order to avoid never making any sound ever again. The trendy scene bastards.

?

TheSoundofBarstewards + Sapdunk's band.
That band that meths was in.
Royworld
The Daves

Listen to:
The Exploits of Elaine, Hreda, Eduard Soundingblock, Shield Your Eyes, Silent Front, Theo, Mirror Mirror, Perhaps Contraption, Geisha, Astrohenge, The Naciente Quartet, Three Trapped Tigers, Akira, Falenizza Horsepower, Queen of Swords, Stig Noise Soundsystem, Roll Call for the Second Site, Instruments, Fighting Kites, Charlottefield, Exit Calm, Lakes, Twocsinak, Bilge Pump, Trencher, CPWK, Hey! Colossus, Liberez, Alexander Thomas, Tropics, Cove, Mirimar Disaster, Rolo Tomassi, Epic 45, Vessels, Freeze Puppy, House of Brothers, Immune, Palehorse, Manatees, Glissando, Xmas Lights, Pocus Whiteface, Cyril Snear, Wait For Coniston, All Dark Mornings, Shit and Shine, We Are Carnivores, Action Beat, Crowns on the Rats Orchestra, 50ft Panda and (shady JAGGGG alert) Nitkowski.

Work through this lot and you'll have a broad (but biased and incomplete) picture of what's going on in t' cuntry's indie underground. Also if you decide you unequivocally hate all these bands you are dead to me;~)

i must have missed the original post on that camden crawl thing.

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