# List of music artists and bands from Manchester

This is a list of music artists and bands from Manchester, and may also include some people or bands who hail from the wider area of Greater Manchester, in England.

## 0–9

* 10cc
* 52nd Street
* 808 State
* The 1975

## A

* A II Z
* A Guy Called Gerald
* Barry Adamson
* Stuart Adamson
* Addictive
* AIM
* Airship
* Aitch
* Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias
* Alfie
* Alpinestars
* Amplifier
* The Answering Machine
* Richard Ashcroft
* Audioweb
* Autechre

## B

* Badly Drawn Boy
* Bandit Queen
* Barclay James Harvest
* BBC Philharmonic
* B.C. Camplight
* Beady Eye
* Norman Beaker
* Beau Leisure
* Bee Gees
* Beecher
* Bez
* Big Flame
* Billy Ruffian
* Bipolar Sunshine
* Biting Tongues
* Black Grape
* Black Rivers
* Blue Orchids
* Blossoms
* The Bodines
* Tim Booth
* Brassy
* Brian and Michael
* Brigade
* Brix & the Extricated
* Elkie Brooks
* Ian Brown
* kyla Brox
* Victor Brox
* Mark Burgess
* Tim Burgess
* Bugzy Malone
* Buzzcocks

## C

* Cabbage
* The Cape Race
* The Caretaker (musician)
* Elsie Carlisle
* Carmel
* A Certain Ratio
* The Chameleons
* Diane Charlemagne
* The Chemical Brothers
* Cherry Ghost
* John Cooper Clarke
* Cleopatra
* The Clint Boon Experience
* The Colourfield
* JP Cooper
* Courteeners
* Brian Cox
* Crazy P
* The Creepers
* Crispy Ambulance
* Crywank

## D

* The Dakotas
* Daley
* Dare
* Delphic
* Demdike Stare
* Samantha Depasois
* Diana Vickers
* Dirty North
* The Distractions
* Doves
* The Drones
* Billy Duffy
* The Durutti Column
* Dutch Uncles

## E

* Easterhouse
* Egyptian Hip Hop
* Elbow
* Electronic
* Emergency
* Everything Everything

## F

* Factory Star
* The Fall
* Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
* Graham Fellows AKA Jilted John
* Findlay (musician)
* Fingathing
* Floating Points
* George Formby
* Frantic Elevators
* Freebass
* Freddie and the Dreamers
* Freeloaders
* The French (later, The French 8083)
* The Freshies
* Stephen Fretwell
* Liam Frost
* Martin Fry
* The Future Sound of London
* Futurecop!

## G

* Liam Gallagher
* Noel Gallagher
* Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
* Geko
* Andy Gibb
* Andy Gill
* David Gray
* Godley & Creme
* GoGo Penguin
* Goldblade
* Jimi Goodwin
* The Guest List
* A Guy Called Gerald

## H

* Matthew Halsall
* Peter Hammill
* Happy Mondays
* Mike Harding
* Ren Harvieu
* Herman's Hermits
* Robert Heaton
* Henge
* The High
* Tom Hingley
* Tom Hingley and the Lovers
* The Hoax
* The Hollies
* Hotlegs
* Hot Milk
* Mick Hucknall
* Hurts

## I

* IAMDDB
* I Am Kloot
* Inca Babies
* Ingested
* Inspiral Carpets
* Intastella
* Ist Ist

## J

* Martin Jackson
* James
* Jan Johnston
* Jon the Postman
* Danny Jones
* Davy Jones
* Joy Division

## K

* Kalima
* Jay Kay
* Kevin Kennedy (actor)
* Kid British
* Kill II This
* Kinesis
* King of the Slums

## L

* Lamb
* The Lathums
* Lavolta Lakota
* Edward Lisbona
* Lonelady
* The Longcut
* Longview
* The Lottery Winners
* Lovefreekz
* Loveland
* Love to Infinity
* Ludus
* Luxuria

## M

* M People
* Magazine
* Bugzy Malone
* Man from Delmonte
* Mangled After Dinner
* Mani AKA Gary Mounfield
* Marconi Union
* Marion
* Johnny Marr
* Maruja
* John Mayall
* John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
* MC Tunes
* Meekz
* Militia
* Pip Millett
* The Mindbenders
* Mint Royale
* Minute Taker
* Misha B
* Mr. Scruff
* Mock Turtles
* Molly Half Head
* Monaco
* Money
* Monomania
* Morrissey
* The Mothmen
* Muslimgauze

## N

* Graham Nash
* N-Trance
* New Fast Automatic Daffodils
* New Order
* Nine Black Alps
* Jim Noir
* Peter Noone
* Northern Uproar
* Northside
* The Nosebleeds

## O

* Oasis
* Oceansize
* Omerta
* The Other Two
* The Outfield
* Owl Project

## P

* Pale Waves
* Paris Angels
* The Passage
* Ben Pearce
* Politburo
* Genesis P-Orridge
* Proud Mary
* Puressence
* Push Baby

## Q

* Quando Quango

## R

* Rae & Christian
* The Railway Children
* Vini Reilly
* Reni, born Alan Wren
* Revenge
* Revenge of the Psychotronic Man
* Lou Rhodes
* Marc Riley and The Creepers
* Rivers & Robots
* Ruthless Rap Assassins

## S

* Sad Café
* Salford Jets
* Dave Sharp
* Shirehorses
* Frank Sidebottom
* Simian
* Simply Red
* Sixty Minute Man
* Peter Skellern
* Slaughter & the Dogs
* The Slow Readers Club
* The Smirks
* The Smiths
* Solstice
* Sonic Boom Six
* Space Monkeys
* John Squire
* Stack Waddy
* Lisa Stansfield
* Starsailor
* Stay+
* Stockholm Monsters
* The Stone Roses
* Andy Stott
* Sub Sub
* Suns of Arqa
* Sweet Female Attitude
* Sweet Sensation
* Swing Out Sister
* Swiss Lips

## T

* Take That
* TCTS
* Theatre of Hate
* The Ting Tings
* The Toggery Five
* TOKOLOSH
* Tractor
* The Trend
* Turrentine Jones
* Twang
* Twisted Wheel

## V

* Van der Graaf Generator
* The Verve
* Virginia Wolf
* Victoria Wood

## W

* The Waltones
* Shayne Ward
* The Warning
* Warsaw
* Russell Watson
* When in Rome
* The Whip
* Laura White
* Melanie Williams
* Winterfylleth
* A Witness
* Wode
* Working for a Nuclear Free City
* WU LYF

## Y

* Yargo
* Paul Young (singer,born 1947)