A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, New Order, Mike Pickering, Alan Wise

G-MEX

Adventure Babies, Buzzcocks, The Durutti Column, Electronic, Happy Mondays, New Order, Martin Hannett

Ruthless Rap Assassins

That Uncertain Feeling

The High

Yargo

Take That

The Creepers, Marc 'Lard' Riley, Marc Riley & The Creepers

Denise Johnson

The Fall

To Hell with Burgundy, Barclay James Harvest

Manchester University (see Academies)

The Stone Roses

Yargo

New Fast Automatic Daffodils

The Fall

Buzzcocks

Eastern Bloc

A Certain Ratio

Morrissey

Inspiral Carpets

The Other Two

Intastella