sleazy hovel that it is....
James, Oasis, The Fall, The Chameleons,Buzzcocks,Northside, The Smiths,Hermans Hermits, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Badly Drawn Boy,New Order,Inspiral Carpets, Joy Division, Puressence,Dub Sex, The Charlatans, M People, Simply Red, Take That, Black Grape, 808 State, Durutti Column, Easterhouse, Elkie Brooks, Roy Harper, John Foxx, Magazine, The High, The Bee Gees, Doves
Theres many more Mancurian tarts for the list....tsssh

Simon,
No doubt it's an impressive list. But are you sure Easterhouse were from Manchester and not Glasgow?