Bands or artists from where you live or were born

journolud said:
Easy enough if you are from Manchester or London or even Liverpool to point to your musical heritage but what if you are from one of the hundreds of smaller towns around. Macclesfield has been my home for over 30 years and we don't do too bad, starting with Joy Division, even if all the members didn't originate here Ian Curtis was a local and I believe that one or two of the surviving members live in the villages around.

Macclesfield was also the birth place of John Mayall, not my cup of tea but a musical heavyweight all the same.

Nowadays the Virgin Mary's attract a lot of good press. I've never listened to them to be honest, I expect I should



Years ago I used to write the music column for the local rag and produced a fanzine for a while. My favourite band of the time were the Big White Stairs whose peak was a couple of very good live reviews in the NME for their Syd Barrett/ Pink Floyd influenced sound and light shows. Having failed to make headway though they evolved into a sub Coming Up era Suede pop band although I'm not sure that they would have claimed Suede as an influence. Anyway, a couple of their better efforts





Around the same time the apparent heirs to the Smiths were Marion who made it onto Top of the Pops and had one of their tracks on a Peugeot advert. I think that is as good as it got. Guitarist Phil Cunningham went on to work with Electronic and New Order as a touring member.

Before moving to Macc I lived in Burnage. Don't think any successful bands came from there but I did know Max Beesley, slightly, who besides being an actor has played a bit, apparently. Robbie Williams, Take That and Brand New Heavies amongst his credits.
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You didn't even mention a band that actually come from Macclesfield and they are the Macc Lads. Not everyone's cup of tea but i think they're funny as fuck.
 
Kind of knew of quite a few as our kid was heavily into the music scene and in various bands when I was growing up, would often see Johnny Marr knocking about, black mop of hair, same burgundy jumper and faded jeans,, proper tramp, always had a guitar with him though.
Dougie Thomas/James (RIP) and the soul train (knew his brother quite well, Barry, as him and our kid were good mates for many years, brilliant guitarist in his own right, big Blue too btw), Slaughter and the Dogs, and I remember a bloke I knew who’s brother had drummed for Echo and the Bunnymen, oh and Malcolm Pitt went on to be one of the best Lionel Ritchie tribute acts around if that counts, dirty red though.

Also later on, as mentioned, lived round the corner from The Blossoms pub when they used to play there, oh and Martin Fry of ABC was from Bramhall, there’s a shit load tbh, but those I remember from the top of my head.
 
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