Tag Archives: 1983 in Manchester

A MOBO-nominated trumpeter, composer, and innovator born and located in Manchester, Britain, Matthew Halsall pulls from modal and religious jazz, inspired by Alice and John Coltrane and Kilometers Davis, among numerous others. Additionally, he’s a DJ with passions that range between traditional jazz to modern experimental digital music. His 1st …

Section of a continuum of quirky Uk folk-rockers that exercises back again to Bert Jansch through pre-glam Marc Bolan and David Bowie, Nick Drake, Prefab Sprout, Kirsty MacColl, and Badly Drawn Young man, vocalist/songwriter Liam Frost fuses traditional folk and nation affects with pop songwriting smarts along with a post-punk …

By the summertime of 1983, Fun Boy Three were peaking in recognition and Terry Hall disbanded the group. Starting up with ex-Swinging Pet cats users Toby Lyons and Karl Shale, Hall relocated to Manchester and created the color Field, a far more lush and melodic clothing than Fun Boy Three. …

Children of rings just like the Pop Group, Josef K, and Gang of 4 from the U.K.’s vibrant anti-rockist, post-punk picture of 1978-1981, Manchester, England’s bIG fire had been a self-proclaimed “tense and quirky three-piece pop group,” merging the restless skills of bassist/vocalist Alan Dark brown, guitarist Greg O’Keefe, and …