First Offenders live at Taylor Brothers, Eccles, 1st Aurgust 2008 www.myspace.com/firstoffendersband

David Gray David Gray was born in Sale, Manchester in 1968, where his family ran a chain of bakery shops. As a result of a serious family dispute in 1995, he and his parents moved to live in Wales. Later, he returned to the Northwest region to attend Liverpool University, where his interest in...

Phil Lynott Thin Lizzy - (1949-1986) Philip Lynott, guitarist and singer of the famed pop group "Thin Lizzy", though actually born in Birmingham, England on 20th August 1949, of an Irish mother and a black Brazilian father, moved with his mother to live in Manchester while he was still...

That That The "Brit Pop" rave of the early 1990s, this talented Manchester-based vocal group restored the ballad to the popular music charts. In some ways reviving the youth adulation which the Beatles received during the 1960s, Take That became the role models for many young people....

First Offenders live at Taylor Brothers Club, Eccles 1st Aurgust 2008 www.myspace.com/firstoffendersband

An initially controversial group, boycotted by local media for their "yobbo pop band punk" image. Appeared in 1985 in local venues like the Boardwalk and the Haçienda . The band explained their enigmatic name : "Something hard and something pretty; something noisy but tuneful". Overtly Mancunian,...

First Offenders live at Taylor Brothers Club, Eccles 1st Aurgust 2008 www.myspace.com/firstoffendersband

Hacienda (The Tribute)

Gary Barlow Gary Barlow was born on the 20th January 1971 in Frodsham in Cheshire and attended Weaver Vale Junior School and then Frodsham High School. From a very early age he worked every Saturday night as a musician in Connah's Quay Labour Club. At the age of fifteen he entered the BBC's...

The Hollies formed from 2 earlier Manchester groups, The Deltas and The Dolphins in 1962, and launched on a career of long running UK hit records. They comprised Alan Clarke (vocals), Tony Hicks (guitar and vocals), Graham Nash (guitar and vocals - see below - next entry), Eric Haydock (bass),...