Your top 5 Manchester bands/ solo artists are?

Just for fun, a few others from the prolific 80s, that have not been mentioned yet, some of which would make it into my Top 10-20. Pretty sure I’ve seen all of these live at least once.

The Blue Orchids
The Passage
Big Flame (or rather, bIG fLAME)
Twang
Tools You Can Trust
The Bodines
A Guy Called Gerald
MC Tunes
Dub Sex
Ruthless Rap Assassins
Barry Adamson
King of the Slums
 
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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 Buzzcocks
No MC Tunes or Meany?
 

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