List of music artists and bands from Manchester
Appearance
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
A–D
- A II Z
- A Certain Ratio
- A Witness
- Barry Adamson
- Addictive
- Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
- Alfie
- Alpinestars
- Amplifier
- Audioweb
- Autechre
- The Answering Machine
- Badly Drawn Boy
- Barclay James Harvest
- Beecher
- The Bee Gees
- Beau Leisure
- Big Flame
- Billy Ruffian
- Black Grape
- Blak Twang
- Blue Orchids
- Buzzcocks
- Tim Booth
- Brassy
- The Bygraves
- 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
- Chapter & The Verse
- The Clint Boon Experience
- Cohesion
- The Colourfield
- The Courteeners
- John Cooper Clarke
- Crispy Ambulance
- The Dakotas
- Daddysmilk
- Day For Airstrikes
- Delphic
- Dirty North
- The Distractions
- Doves
- The Durutti Column
- Dutch Uncles
E–G
- Easterhouse
- Egyptian Hip Hop (band)
- Elbow
- Electronic
- Everything Everything
- Mangled After Dinner (band)
- The Fall
- Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
- Fear Of Music
- Fifth Of Heaven
- Fingathing
- Findlay (rock band)
- 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
- Fyza
- Glue Ear
- David Gray
- Greetings
- A Guy Called Gerald
H–M
- Peter Hammill
- Happy Mondays
- Harlem Spirit
- Herman's Hermits
- Help Stamp Out Loneliness
- The High
- Tom Hingley
- Tom Hingley and the Lovers
- The Hollies
- The Home Front
- Hurts
- I Am Kloot
- Inca Babies
- Ingested
- Inspiral Carpets
- J-Walk
- Jacknife Holiday
- James
- Janice Graham Band
- Denise Johnson
- Jan Johnston
- Jazz Defektors
- Jim Adama
- Davy Jones
- Jon the Postman
- Joy Division
- Kid British
- Kill II This
- Kinesis
- King of the Slums
- Kirsty Almeida & The Troubadours
- Lamb
- Little Avis
- Lonelady
- Lovefreekz
- Loveland
- The Longcut
- Longview
- Lucid
- Ludus
- Luxuria
- Liam Frost
- M People
- Magazine
- Magdalen Walks
- MC Tunes
- Man From Delmonte
- Marcus Intalex
- Marconi Union
- Matt Ahern
- The Marivaux
- 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
- Money
- Monomania
- Morrissey
- The Mothmen
- Mr. Scruff
- Mutineers
- Morphine Ghost
N–R
- N-Trance
- National Forest
- New Order
- Nine Black Alps
- Northern Uproar
- Nate Nostalgia Whittaker
- Jim Noir
- Northside
- The Nosebleeds
- Oasis
- Oceansize
- The Oldham Tinkers
- Omerta
- The Other Two
- Our Innocence Lost
- Paris Angels
- pixie lot
- The Passage
- Peter Noone
- PLANK!
- Politburo
- Possible World Theory
- Puressence
- Queered Science
- Quando Quango
- Rae & Christian
- The Railway Children
- Eric Random
- Revenge
- Revenge of the Psychotronic Man (band)
- Lou Rhodes
- Rufus ish
S–Z
- Sad Café
- Salford Jets
- Salford Media City
- The Scrotes
- The Seahorses
- Sex Hands
- Shamyra
- The Shirehorses
- Frank Sidebottom
- The Madding Crowd
- 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+
- STB
- 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
- Throwing Stuff
- Tiny Phillips
- Tractor (band)
- Twang
- Phil Platt and The Ride Band
- Twisted Wheel
- The Unexpectable
- Van der Graaf Generator
- The Verve
- V2
- Wadeye
- The Waltones
- The Warning
- We Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists
- Well Wisher
- When in Rome
- The Whip
- Winterfylleth
- Wonky Alice
- Working For A Nuclear Free City
- World of Twist
- Wu Lyf