Your top 5 Manchester bands/ solo artists are?

Big shout for the Chameleons. Loved Doves and from further back, The Railway Children. Of current crop Slow Readers Club are very good. Anyone remember the short-lived Wu Lyf? (Saw them live at the Roxy, I think it was.) The Ting Tings? (Yes, I’d rather not, as well!)
 
BlueMoonRisin' said:
As title says. You can include bands and solo artists from Gtr Manchester, and we're second only to London in amount of artists from one city.

Here's a list of more famous artists to choose from, but small bands that didn't make it big is ok, your choice. Quite an impressive list, some bands I've failed to mention. Sorry if your faves aren't on list.

10cc, 808 State The 1975, Audioweb Badly Drawn Boy, Beady Eye, Bee Gees, Black Grape, Blossoms, Elkie Brooks, Buzzcocks, Chameleons, Courteeners, Doves, Elbow, Freddie and the Dreamers, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, David Gray, Gary Barlow, Happy Mondays, Herman's Hermits, High Flying Birds, the Hollies, inpiral carpets, James, Joy Division, Lisa Stanfield, M People, Magazine, Morrissey, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, New Order, Northside, Oasis, Puressence, Railway Children, Sad Cafe, the Seahorses, Simply Rag, Slaughter and the Dogs, the Seahorses, Slow Readers Club, the Smiths, Take That, the Verve.

1 Stone Roses
2 Joy Division
3 Oasis
4 James
5 New Fads
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Just to add to your list:
Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seager, The Dakotas, The Toggery Five, Georgie Flame and the Blue Flames, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, St Louis Union, The Monkees, CrosbieStillsNash&Young, John Mayal and the Bluesbreakers, Barclay James Harvest, Brian and Michael, Stack Waddy, John Cooper Clarke, A Certain Ratio, Section 25, Quando Quango, The Durutti Column, The Fall, Frank Sidebottom, Mike and the Mechanics, Swing Out Sister, The Bodines, The Mock Turtles, Paris Angels, The High, Intastella, King of the Slums, Electronic, Monaco, K-Klass, The Charlatans, D:Ream, N-Trance, Urban Cookie Collective, Diane Charlemagne, The Future Sound of London, Amorphous Androgynous, The Chemical Brothers, Lamb, Northern Uproar, Mr Scruff, Jim Noir, Starsailor, Ian Brown...... even the original line-up of The Coral had a lad from Withington in it.

And probably many many more!

All Mancunian artists or bands, or bands with Mancunians in, or bands part of Manchester scenes, or bands from close to the city.

When you look at our lists and think we haven’t even exhausted it! And things like the Royal College of Music is here, we started the Northern Soul scene at the famous Twisted Wheel, TOTPs was filmed here, the famous Lesser Free Trade Hall gig, Factory Records, the famous Haçienda, Madchester, psychedelic Baggie, warehouse parties, Sankeys Soap (in 2010 voted #1 club in the world by Mixmag), the busiest indoor arena in the world and another on the way, to little places like The Boardwalk that started bands off; how we don’t have a Manchester Museum of Music is criminal!
 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
Just to add to your list:
Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seager, The Dakotas, The Toggery Five, Georgie Flame and the Blue Flames, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, St Louis Union, The Monkees, CrosbieStillsNash&Young, John Mayal and the Bluesbreakers, Barclay James Harvest, Brian and Michael, Stack Waddy, John Cooper Clarke, A Certain Ratio, Section 25, Quando Quango, The Durutti Column, The Fall, Frank Sidebottom, Mike and the Mechanics, Swing Out Sister, The Bodines, The Mock Turtles, Paris Angels, The High, Intastella, King of the Slums, Electronic, Monaco, K-Klass, The Charlatans, D:Ream, N-Trance, Urban Cookie Collective, Diane Charlemagne, The Future Sound of London, Amorphous Androgynous, The Chemical Brothers, Lamb, Northern Uproar, Mr Scruff, Jim Noir, Starsailor, Ian Brown...... even the original line-up of The Coral had a lad from Withington in it.

And probably many many more!

All Mancunian artists or bands, or bands with Mancunians in, or bands part of Manchester scenes, or bands from close to the city.

When you look at our lists and think we haven’t even exhausted it, how we don’t have a Manchester Museum of Music is criminal!
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Criminal indeed!

I could have added many more bands mate but it was late and my sausage fingers were slowing down typing; )

Quite a lot on your list I haven't heard of or heard tracks of tbh though. Shows how musically talented this city(and Greater Manchester; ) really is!
 
BlueMoonRisin' said:
Criminal indeed!

I could have added many more bands mate but it was late and my sausage fingers were slowing down typing; )

Quite a lot on your list I haven't heard of or heard tracks of tbh though. Shows how musically talented this city(and Greater Manchester; ) really is!
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Someone could cone along and add as many again from the last couple of decades because I’ve probably missed loads out too.

When this is over I might try and get in contact with someone (who, I have no idea at the moment!) and suggest maybe National Lottery funding or investors, or both, and try and get a Music Museum. I might contact other museums and see how they got up and running. Unfortunately I’m a pauper so can’t really get one going myself haha

Music is up there with any of our big achievements as a city as being what we are iconic for.
 
Magicpole said:
Glasgow has always loved the Manc bands. I have always loved them. And still do. Keep it up.
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There must be something in the water here mate. Bands coming out of our ears.

Unfortunately nowadays, because of the way popular music has changed, a lot of bands go unsigned and never make it. The signing of unknown bands has gone dramatically backwards this century.

There are a few Scottish psych bands I quite like: Kundalini Genie from Glasgow, and Ghost Dance Collective and The Durty Wurks from Edinburgh.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
There must be something in the water here mate. Bands coming out of our ears.

Unfortunately nowadays, because of the way popular music has changed, a lot of bands go unsigned and never make it. The signing of unknown bands has gone dramatically backwards this century.

There are a few Scottish psych bands I quite like: Kundalini Genie from Glasgow, and Ghost Dance Collective and The Durty Wurks from Edinburgh.
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We have and always have done a great music scene too. Long may it continue.
 
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