The Bristol Wave
The biggest amount of musicians in the UK was born in the city of Bristol according to some recent study done by PRS For Music, said The Daily Telegraph. No other city in Britain gave birth to as many people of music than Bristol. Organization which is dealing with collection of royalties for artists had analyzed sixty five thousand of it’s clients and compared it with the amount of people in each city were they live. Practically, PRS list looks like this: 1. Bristol, 2. Cardiff, 3. Wakefield, 4. Glasgow, 5. Cheltenham, 6. Edinburgh, 7. Manchester, 8. Paisley, 9. Doncaster, 10. Londonderry, 11. Halifax, 12. Sunderland, 13. Swindon, 14. Blackpool, 15. Wigan, 16. Brighton, 17. Leicester, 18. Liverpool, 19. Wolverhampton, 20. Stoke. Actually, Liverpool went number eighteen despite the fact that the most famous British band The Beatles had originated in there. The biggest amount of musicians lives in London, but strangely that city took twenty sixth spot in the list; surely most of them came from the cities and towns listed above. “Cultural atmosphere in the city of Bristol was always good for the development of the electric music”, noted the head of PRS Ellis Rich. Bristol gave birth to such famous groups as Tricky, Massive Attack and Portishead and generally speaking it’s considered to be the birthplace of trip-hop which is also called the ’Bristol wave’ or ‘Bristol sound’.