although underground music isn't really a genre, it's more like 'music without any genre'. Though the Shaggs are at least trying to be pop. The Monks on the other hand ... a world that has forgotten The Monks is a strange one indeed.
@chriss665: it's not just the planners. The place has lost most of the alternative character it had 20 years or so ago in favour of large commercial developments and making everything family-friendly. There are practically no pubs in the town centre and cultural life (apart from the Rose theatre)...
@dauntless111 you forgot Wales! That is not part of the UK and not Scotland either! (same goes for Norn Iron)