ISTD Brief Research

List of Bands that hail from Manchester and the surrounding area

10cc 52nd Street 808 State A II Z A Certain Ratio A Witness Barry Adamson Addictive Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias Alfie Alpinestars Amplifier Audioweb Autechre Autokat The Answering Machine Badly Drawn Boy Mark Baran Barclay James Harvest Beecher Bette Davis and the Balconettes The Bee Gees Beau Leisure BigFinn Big Flame Billy Ruffian Black Grape Blak Twang Blue Orchids Buzzcocks Tim Booth Brassy Brown Brogues Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds Elkie Brooks Ian Brown Victor Brox Mark Burgess Tim Burgess Cargo Cult (musician) The Chameleons The Chemical Brothers Cherry Ghost Cleopatra The Clint Boon Experience Cohesion The Colourfield The Courteeners John Cooper Clarke Crispy Ambulance The Dakotas Daddysmilk Daniel Land and The Modern Painters Day For Airstrikes

Deadtapes Deaf to Van Gogh's Ear Delphic Dirty North The Distractions Doves Dub Sex (band) Duke and the Darlings Dumb (band) The Durutti Column Dutch Uncles Easterhouse Egyptian Hip Hop (band) Elbow Electronic Everything Everything Mangled After Dinner (band) The Fall Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames Fear Of Music Fingathing George Formby Factory Star Frantic Elevators Frazer King Freddie and the Dreamers Freeloaders The Freezing Fog The Freshies Futurecop! Stephen Fretwell The Future Sound of London David Gray Greetings A Guy Called Gerald Happy Mondays Herman's Hermits The High Tom Hingley Tom Hingley and the Lovers The Hollies Hurts I Am Kloot Inca Babies Ingested Inspiral Carpets J-Walk James The Janice Graham Band Jan Johnston Jazz Defektors Jim Adama Davy Jones Jon the Postman Joy Division Joy Formidable Kinesis

King of the Slums Lamb Lonelady The Longcut Longview Ludus Luxuria Liam Frost M People Magazine MC Tunes Man From Delmonte Marconi Union Matt Ahern Mayhew (band) Johnny Marr John Mayall John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers McGuinness-Flint The Mindbenders Mint Royale Minute Taker Mock Turtles The Mockingbirds The Modern Weepers Molly Half Head Monaco Monomania Morrissey The Mothmen Mr. Scruff N-Trance National Forest New Order Nine Black Alps Northern Uproar Jim Noir Northside Oasis Oceansize The Oldham Tinkers Omerta The Other Two Our Innocence Lost Paris Angels The Passage Peter Noone PLANK! Puressence Queered Science Quando Quango Rae & Christian The Railway Children Eric Random Revenge Lou Rhodes Rufus ish

Sad Café Salford Jets Salford Media City The Scrotes The Seahorses Sex Hands Shamyra The Shirehorses Frank Sidebottom Simply Red Sista Ray And The Jerkin Tears Slaughter & The Dogs The Smirks The Slow Readers Club The Smiths So Shush Sonic Boom Six Space Monkeys St Louis Union John Squire Stack Waddy Starsailor Stay+ Sub Sub Subway Collective Super 8 Cynics The Stone Roses Sweet Sensation Swing Out Sister T-Coy Take That The Cygnet Ring Theatre of Hate The Ting Tings Tiny Phillips Tractor (band) Twang Phil Platt and The Ride Band Twisted Wheel The Unexpectable Van der Graaf Generator The Verve The Waltones The Warning We Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists Well Wisher When in Rome The Whip Winterfylleth Working For A Nuclear Free City World of Twist Wu Lyf

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Brief timeline of the music scene is Manchester over the 20th Century.