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JurekB
Calling the What Exists Outside London hive mind.....
One of the reasons we moved to London back in the day was for the music scene. But we are old and Mr B, the musician of the partnership, is finding the London band demographic has little interest in a 52 year old bass player even if he does look, as one review famously pointed out, like a white Snoop Dogg.
In Newcastle, where we are from, it's possible to form bands and keep gigging pretty much forever as long as you don't mind that most of the time you'll be playing tiny venues where the audience is the band's significant others and 3 random smackheads from Blythe, which Mr B is totally fine with. But I'm not sure I can face the North East again. We've also ruled out Totnes, Bristol and Brighton, for reasons, but we are wanting a town not a city because if you are going to live in a UK city we already live in the best one.
(To be honest I don't really want to leave London at all, but Mr B does so I'm entertaining the possibility.)
Are there any small/med towns outside of London with a decent live music scene that should be on our radar? He's not looking for an audience of adoring fans, just the possibility of finding a bunch of aging goths and former indie kids to play with and a few bars to play in.