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Manchester's biggest popular music venue is the Manchester Arena, which seats over twenty thousand one of the largest arena of its type in Europe (largest being Paris La Défense Arena with forty thousand seats), with the Etihad Stadium and Old Trafford's cricket grounds also providing large ad hoc open air venues outside of the sporting season.
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 This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
17 November: Children in Need Rocks Manchester charity music concert is held at the Manchester Arena; The Ritz is taken over by HMV and given a £2 million refurbishment; 2013 3 April: Blossoms play for first time at the Night and Day Cafe, Oldham Street, Manchester; 2015 The Ritz is acquired by Live Nation Entertainment and re-branded as O 2 ...
The music scene in Manchester immediately before the Madchester era was dominated by The Smiths, New Order, and The Fall, who became significant influences on the Madchester movement. The opening of The Haçienda nightclub in May 1982, an initiative by Factory Records , was also instrumental in shaping Manchester's popular culture.
Rock music groups from Manchester (1 C, 64 P) Pages in category "Musical groups from Manchester" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total.
The newly-christened group changed their image and sound to align themselves with the punk movement and released the single "I Ain't Been to No Music School" / "Fascist Pigs" on Rabid Records. It sold 10,000 copies [2] but failed to launch the band to success (possibly due to management issues). The group appeared on the television program ...
The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Royal Northern College of Music. The University of Manchester is the second largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom, [211] created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester, founded in 1904, and UMIST, founded in 1956, [212] having ...
Manchester Digital Music Archive (MDMarchive) is an online community archive founded in 2003 by Matthew Norman, Alison Surtees, Abigail Ward, CP Lee and Dave Rofe. It was created as a way of celebrating and raising awareness of Greater Manchester's musical heritage and protecting collections of material held by individuals and institutions relating to the subject. [1]