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
- Beady Eye
- Beecher
- The Bee Gees
- Beau Leisure
- Big Flame
- Billy Ruffian
- Black Grape
- Blue Orchids
- The Bodines
- Buzzcocks
- Tim Booth
- Brassy
- 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
- The Clint Boon Experience
- Cohesion
- The Colourfield
- Common Faces
- The Courteeners
- John Cooper Clarke
- Crispy Ambulance
- The Dakotas
- Daddysmilk
- [DeLix]
- Delphic
- Dirty North
- The Distractions
- Doves
- The Durutti Column
- Dutch Uncles
E–G
- Easterhouse
- Egyptian Hip Hop (band)
- Elbow
- Electronic
- Emergency
- Everything Everything
- Mangled After Dinner (band)
- The Fall
- Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
- Fear Of Music
- Fingathing
- George Formby
- Factory Star
- Foreign Press
- Frantic Elevators
- Freddie and the Dreamers
- Freeloaders
- The Freezing Fog
- The French (later, The French 8083)
- The Freshies
- Futurecop!
- Stephen Fretwell
- The Future Sound of London
- David Gray
- Greetings
- A Guy Called Gerald
H–M
- Peter Hammill
- Happy Mondays
- Herman's Hermits
- 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
- James
- Denise Johnson
- Jan Johnston
- Davy Jones
- Jon the Postman
- Joy Division
- Kid British
- Kill II This
- Kinesis
- King of the Slums
- Lamb
- Lloyd Almighty
- Lonelady
- Lovefreekz
- Loveland
- The Longcut
- Longview
- Ludus
- Luxuria
- Liam Frost
- M People
- Magazine
- MC Tunes
- Man From Delmonte
- Marconi Union
- Johnny Marr
- John Mayall
- John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
- MDNGHT
- The Mindbenders
- Mint Royale
- Minute Taker
- Mock Turtles
- Molly Half Head
- Monaco
- Money
- Monomania
- Morrissey
- The Mothmen
- Mr. Scruff
- Mutineers
N–R
- N-Trance
- New Order
- Nine Black Alps
- Northern Uproar
- Jim Noir
- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
- Northside
- The Nosebleeds
- Oasis
- Oceansize
- Omerta
- Onions
- The Other Two
- Paris Angels
- The Passage
- Peter Noone
- Politburo (Manchester band)
- Puppet Rebellion
- Puressence
- Quando Quango
- Rae & Christian
- The Railway Children
- Revenge
- Revenge of the Psychotronic Man (band)
- Lou Rhodes
- Rory Wynne
S–Z
- Sad Café
- Salford Jets
- The Seahorses
- The Shirehorses
- Frank Sidebottom
- The Madding Crowd
- Simply Red
- Slaughter & The Dogs
- The Smirks
- The Smiths
- So Shush
- Sonic Boom Six
- Space Monkeys
- John Squire
- Stack Waddy
- Starsailor
- Stay+
- Sub Sub
- Super 8 Cynics
- The Stone Roses
- Sweet Sensation
- Swing Out Sister
- Take That
- The Cygnet Ring
- The Dead XIII
- Theatre of Hate
- The Tapestry
- The Ting Tings
- The Toggery Five
- Tractor (band)
- Turrentine Jones
- Twang
- Twisted Wheel
- Van der Graaf Generator
- The Verve
- Wadeye
- The Waltones
- The Warning
- We Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists
- When in Rome
- The Whip
- Winterfylleth
- Working For A Nuclear Free City
- World of Twist
- Wu Lyf
- Y-Key Operators