Manchester artists

that are more deserving of attention than the vapid cultural non-event from Burnage, an utterly non-exhaustive list:

808 State | Autechre | Gescom | Bola | The Future Sound of London | The Chemical Brothers | Mr Scruff (Stockport, but close enough) | Rae and Christian with Veba | Aim | Only Child | Others: Badly Drawn Boy (pre-being-famous) | Dakota Oak Trio and everyone else on early Twisted Nerve | The Durutti Column | The Chameleons | Joy Division | New Order | The Hollies | The Stone Roses | The Fall | Happy Mondays | Inspiral Carpets | The Charlatans | Lamb (only Gorecki really, but what a track) | 10CC … countless others from club nights: Fat City | DUBism | Havok | Counter Culture | One Tree Island | Friends & Family > everything else from the 90s and 00s I was too young and irresponsible to remember, and everything more recent I’m too out of touch to know about.

Addendum

As I write this there’s news stories about people paying over £800 for two tickets that were initially listed at £270 due to ‘dynamic pricing’.

More artists, from responses to this post elsewhere: Marcus Intalex and his legacy Marcus Intalex Music Foundation | John Cooper Clarke on Burnley | Bee Gees (hailing from Keppel Road, Chorlton)