Today's Graun has a piece by Alexis Petridis looking at various music scenes in the UK that slip beneath the media's radar by virtue of being confined to various ethnic or religious subcultures. This includes everything from French-horn-wielding Polish new-wave punk rock to Islamic country and western to a thriving canto-pop scene.

Posted by: arthur | | Fri Dec 14 15:43:52 2007

I'm glad she didn't find out anything about canto pop. To give you an idea of the extent of manufacturing, the cantopop group Freeze features 3 surgically enhanced women who don't even speak cantonese.

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