Ah, yes. Punk did that. I used to read about all these Kursal Fliers and Racing Cars and Kokomo in MM & NME (and Sounds - I'd forgotten that one) and, and...

...and then I moved from Aberdeen to London - within a few hundred yards of The Nashville, and walking distance of The Greyhound, The Red Bull, The Golden Lion, all of whom would have decent bands seven nights a week. Just as punk was starting to wreck it all. Did see some great bands tho' for the first six months or a year or so.