The Performing Rights Society of Britain named the top ten most musical cities in the UK are:
1. Bristol
2. Cardiff
3. Wakefield
4. Glasgow
5. Cheltenham
6. Edinburgh
7. Manchester
8. Paisley
9. Doncaster
10. Londonderry
Manchester came after Cheltenham? What?? Let’s take a look at Bristol: Portishead, Massive Attack, F*ck Buttons and Tricky. Good bands all.
Now how about Manchester?
10cc
808 State
A II Z
A Certain Ratio
Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
Alfie
Amplifier
Badly Drawn Boy
Band(ism)
Barclay James Harvest
Beecher
The Bee Gees
Big Flame
Billy Ruffian
Black Grape
Ian Britt
Ian Brown
Buzzcocks
The Chameleons
The Chemical Brothers
Cohesion
The Courteeners
The Dark Matter Society
Day for Airstrikes
Dead Fluffy Duck
Dead Men Win Fights
The Distractions
Domino Bones
Doves
The Drones
Dub Sex
The Durutti Column
Easterhouse
Eskimos and Egypt
Elbow
Electronic
Everette
The Fall
Fear Of Music
Fingathing
Freddie and the Dreamers
A Guy Called Gerald
Happy Mondays
Herman’s Hermits
The Hollies
I Admit Defeat
I Am Kloot
Inspiral Carpets
Intastella
Isobel Heyworth
James
John Cooper Clarke
Joy Division
King of the Slums
Lamb
Last Chance To Dance
Ludus
M People
Magazine
MC Tunes
Man From Delmonte
Marconi Union
Microdisiacs
Mr Scruff
New Fast Automatic Daffodils
New Order
Northside
Oasis
Oceansize
Omerta
Paris Angels
The Passage
Pictures Of Jimmy
Polytechnic
Puressence
Rae & Christian
Red Brick North
The Red Orchestra
Ruthless Rap Assassins
The Seahorses
The Secret Seven
Simply Red
Slaughter & The Dogs
The Smirks
The Smiths
Son Of The Mourning
Sonic Boom Six
Space Hopper
Spherical Objects
John Squire
Studio Monkeys
Sub Sub
The Stone Roses
Sweet Sensation
The Swifts
Take That
The
Waltones
Waltones
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
Victor Brox Blues Train
What? Noise
World of Twist
Working For A Nuclear Free City
The Worst
Sure, I’m partisan, I admit it. But the PRS list is pathetic.