List of music artists and bands from England
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This is a list of notable bands/musicians from England, UK.
By cities in alphabetical order
- Abingdon
- Accrington
- Andover
- Anstey
- Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Ashford
- Aylesbury
- Banbury
- Barnsley
- Basildon
- Basingstoke
- Bath
- Batley
- Battle
- Beccles
- Bedford
- Bedworth
- Belgravia
- Berwick-Upon-Tweed
- Bewdley
- Bexhill on Sea
- Bexleyheath
- Billericay
- Bingley
- Birkenhead
- Birmingham
- Anaal Nathrakh
- Apache Indian
- Au Pairs
- Band of Joy
- The Beat
- Benediction
- Black Sabbath
- Blakfish
- Polly Brown
- Charged GBH
- Deluka
- The Destroyers
- Dexys Midnight Runners
- Duran Duran
- Editors
- Godflesh
- Electric Light Orchestra
- The English Beat
- Fashion
- The Fortunes
- Fine Young Cannibals
- Jahméne
- Judas Priest
- Johnny Foreigner
- Laura Mvula
- Magnetophone
- The Moody Blues[1]
- The Move
- Musical Youth
- Napalm Death
- Oceans Ate Alaska
- Ocean Colour Scene
- Offlicence
- Silent Jack
- The Spencer Davis Group
- Spunge
- Steel Pulse
- The Streets
- Superfood
- Swim Deep
- Toyah
- Traffic
- The Twang
- UB40
- Wizzard
- Bishop's Stortford
- Blackburn
- Blackpool
- Bolton
- Bolton-upon-Dearne
- Bournemouth
- Bradford
- Braintree
- Brentwood
- Brighouse
- Brighton
- Architects
- As It Is
- Beats International
- Black Peaks
- Blood Red Shoes
- Brakes
- British Sea Power
- Clearlake
- Conor Maynard
- Dead Swans
- Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
- Electrelane
- Frankie Cocozza
- Freemasons
- Gnarwolves
- High Tyde
- Huggy Bear
- James Marriott
- Johnny Truant
- Lovejoy
- Moulettes
- Passenger
- Peggy Sue
- Rex the Dog
- Rizzle Kicks
- Royal Blood
- Samantha Womack
- Squid
- Tall Ships
- TOY
- The Electric Soft Parade
- The Ghost of a Thousand
- The Go! Team
- The Kooks
- The Lambrettas
- The Levellers
- The Pipettes
- The Qemists
- Bristol
- Bromsgrove
- Burnley
- Burton-upon-Trent
- Bushey
- Buxton
- Camberley
- Cambridge
- Camden
- Canterbury
- Carlisle
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Cheshire
- Johnny and the Semitones
- Viola Beach
- David Gray
- Chester
- Chichester
- Chinnor
- Chorley
- Clacton-on-Sea
- Colchester
- Corby
- Cornwall
- Coventry
- Crawley
- Crosby
- Croydon
- Dagenham
- Derbyshire
- Doncaster
- Eastbourne
- East London
- East Tilbury
- Egremont
- Essex
- Exeter
- Folkestone
- Frodsham
- Glastonbury
- Gloucestershire
- Godalming
- Great Yarmouth
- Greenford
- Guildford
- Hackney
- dressmaker
- Halifax
- Hampshire
- Harrogate
- Harrow
- Hartlepool
- Havering
- Helmsley
- Hemel Hempstead
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Hertford
- High Wycombe
- Hitchin
- Holmes Chapel
- Hoylake
- Huddersfield
- Hull
- Hyde
- Ilford
- Ipswich
- Isle of Wight
- Islington
- Kendal
- Kensington
- Kent
- King's Lynn
- Kirkby
- Laindon
- Lancashire
- Lancaster
- Leamington Spa
- Leeds
- Alt-J
- Bonobo
- Boyracer
- Carolynne Poole
- The Chevin
- Chumbawamba
- Classically Handsome Brutes
- Club Smith
- Delta 5
- Dinosaur Pile-Up
- The Dunwells
- The Edsel Auctioneer
- Ellen and the Escapades
- ¡Forward, Russia!
- Gang of Four
- Hadouken!
- Hawk Eyes
- The Hollow Men
- Hood
- I Like Trains
- Jellyfish Kiss
- Kaiser Chiefs
- To Kill a King
- Luke Friend
- Mekons
- Mel B
- The Mission
- The Music
- Pale Saints
- The Parachute Men
- The Pigeon Detectives
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
- The Rose of Avalanche
- Scritti Politti
- Sigma
- The Sisters of Mercy
- Soft Cell
- Steve Phillips
- The Sunshine Underground
- The Wedding Present
- Utah Saints
- Various Cruelties
- Vessels
- Leicester
- Blab Happy
- The Bomb Party
- Chrome Molly
- Codex Leicester (band)
- Cornershop
- Crazyhead
- The Deep Freeze Mice
- Delicatessen
- Diesel Park West
- Easy Life
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Family
- Gaye Bykers on Acid
- Her Name is Calla
- The Hunters Club
- Kasabian
- Kyte
- Maybeshewill
- Misterlee
- Pacific Ocean Fire
- Perfume
- Po!
- Public Relations Exercise
- Prolapse
- Ruth's Refrigerator
- Sam Bailey
- Showaddywaddy
- Volcano The Bear
- Yeah Yeah Noh
- Leighton Buzzard
- Littlehampton
- Lincoln
- Lincolnshire
- Liss
- Liverpool
- Anathema
- Atomic Kitten
- The Bandits
- BBMak
- The Beatles[3]
- The Boo Radleys
- Carcass
- Cast
- Crucial Three
- The Crescent
- The Christians
- Christopher Maloney
- Cilla Black
- Circa Waves
- Dead or Alive
- Echo and the Bunnymen
- The Farm
- Gerry and the Pacemakers[4]
- Hot Club De Paris
- The Icicle Works
- A Flock of Seagulls
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Jemini
- The La's
- Ladytron
- Lawson
- The Lightning Seeds
- The Merseybeats
- The Mighty Wah!
- The Real Thing
- Rebecca Ferguson
- The Searchers
- Sizer Barker
- Sonia
- Space
- The Stairs
- The Stands
- The Teardrop Explodes
- The Zutons
- Wave Machines
- The Wombats
- WSTR
- London
- Above & Beyond
- Adam and the Ants
- Add N to (X)
- Adele
- The Adverts
- Akercocke
- Alabama 3
- The Alan Parsons Project
- Alexandra Burke
- Alien Sex Fiend
- All Saints
- AlunaGeorge
- America
- Amy Winehouse
- Angel Witch
- The Apostles
- Archive
- Athlete
- Baby D
- Babyshambles
- Bad Company
- Bad Manners
- Bananarama
- Barbarossa
- Bark Psychosis
- Basement Jaxx
- Bastille
- Bat For Lashes
- Banco de Gaia
- Beabadoobee
- Bedrock
- The Beloved
- Benga
- Ben Howard
- Big Bang
- The Big Pink
- Billy Idol
- Black Midi
- Blancmange
- Bleech
- Bloc Party
- Blonde Electra
- Blue
- Blue Pearl
- Blues Incorporated
- The Bluetones
- Blur
- Bôa
- The Bolshoi
- Bomb the Bass
- Bombay Bicycle Club
- Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
- Bow Wow Wow
- Breton
- Bronski Beat
- Bryan Johnson
- Emma Bunton
- Bush
- Busted
- Callender's Cableworks Band
- Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
- Chad & Jeremy
- Chase & Status
- Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds
- The Chords
- The Clash
- Classix Nouveaux
- Clement Marfo & The Frontline
- Client
- Cliff Richard
- The Clique
- Cockney Rejects
- Coldplay
- Elvis Costello
- Cream
- The Creatures
- Crystal Fighters
- Culture Club
- Daisy Chainsaw
- Damage
- The Damned
- Daniel Radcliffe
- Darkstar
- Daughter
- David Bowie
- The Dave Clark Five[4]
- Days in December
- Death in Vegas
- Declan McKenna
- Deep Purple
- The Defiled
- Delilah
- Delta Heavy
- Devil Sold His Soul
- Dire Straits
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Dizzee Rascal
- Django Django
- DragonForce
- The Dream Academy
- Dry the River
- Dot Rotten
- Dumpy's Rusty Nuts
- Dusty Springfield
- Dua Lipa
- Ebony Bones
- Eclection
- The Edge
- Edison Lighthouse
- The Echoes
- Elastica
- Eliza Doolittle
- Ella Mai
- Engineers
- Erasure
- Estelle
- East 17
- Eddy Grant
- Eurythmics
- Example
- The Faces
- The Fades
- Faithless
- The Feeling
- Fightstar
- Five
- The Fixx
- Fleetwood Mac
- Flo
- Florence + the Machine
- The Flying Pickets
- Foghat
- Four of Diamonds
- Freeez
- Furniture
- Future Signal
- Gary Numan
- Gay Dad
- George Michael
- Ghostpoet
- Girls Aloud
- Goldfrapp
- Goldheart Assembly
- Gold Panda
- Gorgon City
- Gorillaz
- Go West
- Groove Armada
- Hadouken!
- Haken
- Hawkwind
- Hear'Say
- The Herbaliser
- Heaven's Basement
- Hell Is for Heroes
- The Hoosiers
- Hot Chip
- Hot Chocolate
- The House of Love
- The Hurt Process
- Ikara Colt
- Infadels
- Iron Maiden
- James Blake
- James Blunt
- Jamie T
- Jamiroquai
- Japan
- Jazz Jamaica
- Jess Glynne
- Jessie J
- Jessie Ware
- The Jim Jones Revue
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Johnny Panic
- The Joker & The Thief
- Jungle
- Kano
- Kate Nash
- Katie Melua
- Katy B
- Ken Colyer
- Killing Joke
- The King Blues
- King Charles
- King Crimson
- King Krule
- The Kinks[5]
- Kissing the Pink
- Klaxons
- KSI
- La Roux
- Labrinth
- Led Zeppelin
- Leona Lewis
- Lianne La Havas
- The Libertines
- Lily Allen
- Little Mix
- Lo Fidelity Allstars
- London Grammar
- Loveable Rogues
- Love Affair
- Lush
- Lynsey de Paul
- The Maccabees
- Madness
- The Magic Numbers
- Manfred Mann
- Mark Ronson
- McFly
- Meat Beat Manifesto
- The Members
- The Merton Parkas
- M.I.A.
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Mika
- Million Dead
- Modestep
- Morcheeba
- The Moths!
- The Motors
- Motörhead
- Mount Kimbie
- Mud
- Mumford and Sons
- Mystery Jets
- My Vitriol
- Nero
- The New Seekers
- The Nice
- Noah and the Whale
- Noisettes
- Nurse with Wound
- Oh Wonder
- One Direction
- The One Hundred
- Only the Young
- The Only Ones
- The Others
- The Outfield
- P.C.T
- Palma Violets
- The Passions
- Petrol Girls
- Pet Shop Boys
- Phil Collins
- Phixx
- Pink Floyd
- Placebo
- Plan B
- The Pogues
- The Police
- The Pretenders
- Procol Harum[1]
- Psapp
- The Psychedelic Furs
- Public Image Ltd.
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Pure Love
- Pure Reason Revolution
- PVT
- Queen
- The Raincoats
- The Rakes
- Razorlight
- Regular Fries
- The Rifles
- Robin Scott
- Rod Stewart
- The Rolling Stones[6]
- Roxy Music
- Rudimental
- The Ruts
- Sade
- Saint Etienne
- Sam Smith
- Samantha Fox
- The Saturdays
- Savages
- S Club 7
- S Club 8
- Scouting For Girls
- Seal
- Secret Affair
- Seefeel
- Senser
- Sex Pistols
- The Shadows
- Sham 69
- Shola Ama
- Siouxsie and the Banshees
- Sisteray
- Pixie Lott
- Skinny Lister
- The Skints
- Skunk Anansie
- Slash
- Small Faces
- Spandau Ballet
- Spector
- Spice Girls
- Splashh
- Squeeze
- Status Quo
- Stereolab
- Stereo Kicks
- Stereo MC's
- Skream
- Stooshe
- Stormzy
- Strawbs
- Suede
- Sugababes
- Supertramp
- Sweet Dreams (1970s band)
- Sweet Dreams (1980s band)
- Sweet
- T. Rex
- Taio Cruz
- Talk Talk
- The Tears
- Tempa T
- Ten Benson
- The Temperance Movement
- Test Icicles
- Theatre of Hate
- The The
- Thompson Twins
- Tinie Tempah
- Tomorrow
- Tom Vek
- Transvision Vamp
- Tribes
- Tubeway Army
- Ugly As Sin
- U.K. Subs
- UFO
- Ultravox
- Underworld
- Union J
- UNKLE
- Uriah Heep
- The Vaccines
- The Vamps
- Vaughan King
- Veronica Falls
- Visage
- Voice of the Beehive
- Vondelpark
- Wargasm[7]
- White Lies
- Whitesnake
- The Wanted
- The Who[1]
- Wiley
- Wilkinson
- Wire
- The Wiseguys
- Wolf Alice
- Wretch 32
- The xx
- The Yardbirds[5]
- Years & Years
- Yes
- Young Guns
- Zero 7
- 21 Savage
- Lowestoft
- Luton
- Lymington
- Macclesfield
- Malvern
- Manchester
- 10cc[8]
- The 1975
- 52nd Street
- 808 State
- A Guy Called Gerald
- A II Z
- A Certain Ratio
- Amplifier
- Audioweb
- Autechre
- Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds
- Barclay James Harvest
- Beecher
- Bee Gees[1]
- Big Flame
- Billy Ruffian
- Black Grape
- Blak Twang
- Blue Orchids
- Bugzy Malone
- Brassy
- Buzzcocks
- Blossoms
- The Chameleons
- The Chemical Brothers
- Cleopatra
- The Clint Boon Experience
- Courteeners
- Crispy Ambulance
- Daley
- Delphic
- Doves
- Dutch Uncles
- The Durutti Column
- Easterhouse
- Elbow
- Electronic
- Everything Everything
- The Fall
- Fingathing
- Flip & Fill
- Freddie and the Dreamers
- Freeloaders
- Future Sound of London
- Godley & Creme
- Happy Mondays
- Haven
- Herman's Hermits
- Tom Hingley and the Lovers
- The Hollies[9]
- Hurts
- I Am Kloot
- Inspiral Carpets
- James
- Joy Division
- Kinesis
- King of the Slums
- Lamb
- The Longcut
- Liam Gallagher
- Longview
- Love City Groove
- Ludus
- Luxuria
- M People
- Magazine
- Man From Delmonte
- Marconi Union
- John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
- Mazes
- The Mindbenders[8]
- Mint Royale
- Misha B
- Molly Half Head
- Monaco
- Morrissey
- The Mothmen
- N-Trance
- New Hope Club
- New Order
- Nine Black Alps
- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
- Northside
- Oasis
- Oceansize
- Omerta
- The Other Two
- Pale Waves
- Paris Angels
- The Passage
- Puressence
- Quando Quango
- Rae & Christian
- The Railway Children
- Ruthless Rap Assassins
- Sad Café
- The Seahorses
- Simply Red
- Slaughter & The Dogs
- The Slow Show
- The Smirks
- The Smiths
- Sonic Boom Six
- Space Monkeys
- Spookey
- Starsailor
- Sub Sub
- The Stone Roses
- Sweet Sensation
- Swing Out Sister
- Take That
- Theatre of Hate
- The Ting Tings
- Van der Graaf Generator
- The Verve
- The Waltones
- The Whip
- World of Twist
- Matlock
- Middlesbrough
- Milton Keynes
- Moreton
- Nantwich
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newcastle-Under-Lyme
- Newton-le-Willows
- North London
- Andy Abraham
- The Kinks
- North Shields
- Sam Fender
- Norwich
- Northampton
- Northwich
- Nottingham
- Nuneaton
- Nunthorpe
- Oxford
- Peterborough
- Pinner
- Plaistow
- Poringland
- Portsmouth
- Poulton-le-Fylde
- Preston
- Reading
- Redbridge
- Redditch
- Romford
- Rugby
- Salisbury
- Scunthorpe
- Sheffield
- 65daysofstatic
- ABC
- A.C. Temple
- All Seeing I
- Arctic Monkeys
- Artery
- Babybird
- Bal-Sagoth
- Black Spiders
- Blameless
- Bring Me the Horizon
- Bromheads Jacket
- Cabaret Voltaire
- The Comsat Angels
- The Crookes
- Def Leppard
- Derek Bailey
- Drenge
- Fat Truckers
- Graham Fellows
- Heaven 17
- Hiem
- Hoggboy
- The Human League
- I Monster
- In the Nursery
- Joe Cocker
- Kings Have Long Arms
- The Last Shadow Puppets
- LFO
- Lindsay Dracass
- Little Man Tate
- Living in a Box
- The Long Blondes
- Longpigs
- The Lovers
- Milburn
- Moloko
- Monkey Swallows the Universe
- Pink Grease
- Pulp
- Reverend and The Makers
- Richard Hawley
- Rolo Tomassi
- Slow Club
- Smokers Die Younger
- While She Sleeps
- Shoreditch
- Somerset
- Southampton
- Southend
- Southport
- South Shields
- Stafford
- Staines
- St Albans
- Stanford-le-Hope
- Start Hill
- Stevenage
- St Helens
- Stockport
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stourbridge
- Streetly
- Suffolk
- Sunderland
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Swindon
- Tavistock
- Teddington
- Teignmouth
- Telford
- Tetney
- Tewkesbury
- Thurrock
- Torquay
- Wallsend
- Walthamstow
- Wakefield
- Watford
- Wednesbury
- Wellington (Salop)
- West Bromwich
- Weybridge
- Weymouth
- Whitley Bay
- Widnes
- Wigan
- Wirral
- Witham
- Woking
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Worthing
- York
References
- ^ a b c d Gilliland 1969, show 49.
- ^ a b "Harrogate Advertiser – Harrogate bands".
- ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "The British Are Coming! The British Art Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries. Shows 27–28, 39, 45.
- ^ a b Gilliland 1969, show 29.
- ^ a b Gilliland 1969, shows 29, 38.
- ^ Gilliland 1969, shows 30, 38, 46.
- ^ Stock, Olivia. "WARGASM: "We're like fire meets acetone peroxide"". Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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- ^ Gilliland 1969, show 38.
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