Most underated British music Artist(s)

[Over The Hill]

In present day scene Rebecca Fergusson.
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View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViqCO35OfNU


She is a cracking singer/songwriter and her album is just full of great tracks all written by her. She probably has the curse of coming up from X factor to contend with.

 

[MontyVeda]

Tony Weston...

he used 'the cloud' in the mid-seventies!

 

[TVC]

The Rhythm Thieves.

XTC are damn fine, particularly the stuff after they slipped out of the singles charts.

 

[tyred]

Jimmy Nail

 

[vernon]

George Formby
Vashti Bunyan
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Beth Orton
The KLF
Martyn Bennet
Roy Harper

And my son's band: Treason Kings

 

[Fnaar]

Albert Timpkins and his Spoon Orchestra
(I just made these up... I bet they'd be underrated though)

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

These guys


These guys


Finally these guys who can do this


an chilled out stuff like this


and this

 

[Black Country Ste]

Threshold.

If you like Dream Theater, you'll probably like them. I don't, but I still like Threshold.

 

[MontyVeda]

George Formby
...
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
...
The KLF
...
Roy Harper

a man after my own heart.

The boy's band aren't bad either

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tindersticks.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=PjSxvv_0CdY

 

[accountantpete]

Strife ruled in the North West circa '74

 

[ceepeebee]

I don't think that HMHB are particularly underrated, no band that can generate quite so much love can surely? Maybe under-appreciated would be more apt?

In a similar vein - st etienne, barely a foot wrong in over 20 years.

 

[GIOS]

Richard D. James "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music".

 

[Peteaud]

3rd bloke on the left at the bus stop busking.

 

[Stringy Bob]

Poisoned Electric Head, or the 'Leccy 'Eds as they areknow in their native StHelens