List of bands and artists from England

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This is a list of notable bands/musicians from England. Bands should be notable and linked to their articles which lists their English origins in the lead. References should be provided for any new entries on this list. Bands may be temporarily red-linked (while an article is developed) as long as the reference establishes their notability.

By place & name

Abingdon Radiohead Andover The Troggs Ashby-de-la-Zouch The Young Knives Aylesbury Marillion Barnsley The Danse Society Saxon The Ward Brothers Basildon The Assembly Depeche Mode Yazoo Bath Goldfrapp Tears for Fears Propellerheads Battle Keane Beccles Fearless Vampire Killers Bedford Don Broco Bexhill on Sea Mumm-Ra Birkenhead Half Man Half Biscuit Miles Kane Birmingham Anaal Nathrakh Au Pairs The Beat Benediction Black Sabbath Charged GBH Dexys Midnight Runners Duran Duran Editors Godflesh Electric Light Orchestra The English Beat Fashion Fine Young Cannibals Judas Priest Johnny Foreigner Laura Mvula Led Zeppelin Magnetophone The Moody Blues[1] The Move Musical Youth Napalm Death Ocean Colour Scene Spencer Davis Group Spunge Steel Pulse The Streets Swim Deep The Twang UB40 Wizzard Bolton Badly Drawn Boy Buzzcocks Cherry Ghost Kinesis Bournemouth Air Traffic Electric Wizard Bradford New Model Army The Cult Smokie Terrorvision My Dying Bride Blue Roses White Light Parade Random Hand Ti Amo 1919 Zayn Malik Braintree Next of Kin The Prodigy Missing Andy Brentwood InMe Brighouse Embrace Brighton Architects As It Is Black Peaks Blood Red Shoes Brakes British Sea Power Clearlake The Electric Soft Parade Gnarwolves Johnny Truant My device Tall Ships The Go! Team The Kooks The Lambrettas The Levellers Passenger The Pipettes The Qemists Rizzle Kicks Royal Blood Bristol Disorder Massive Attack The Blue Aeroplanes New Rhodes Portishead Fuck Buttons Claytown Troupe Nik Kershaw Pinch Steveless Turbowolf Tricky Burnley Chumbawumba Camberley Reuben Cambridge Mallory Knox The Broken Family Band Canterbury Soft Machine The Wilde Flowers Caravan Bodyrockers Lucy Spraggan Yndi halda Carlisle Spooky Tooth The V.I.P.'s Cheltenham Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun Cheshire Viola Beach Chester Mansun Chichester Tom Odell Chinnor Adam Clayton Chorley John Foxx Colchester Modern English Special Duties Blur Corby Raging Speedhorn Viking Skull Cornwall Thirteen Senses Haven Big Country Al Hodge Coventry Bolt Thrower Cathedral The Specials The Selecter Fun Boy 3 Hazel O'Connor Jigsaw The Enemy The Primitives Crawley The Cure Derbyshire LostAlone Anti Pasti Eastbourne Toploader Egremont It Bites Essex Bloc Party Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip Depeche Mode Gorillaz Humble Pie Kunt and the Gang Purple Hearts Shadows Chasing Ghosts Frodsham Gary Barlow Glastonbury Reef Gloucestershire EMF Godalming Genesis Greenford The Magic Numbers Guildford Fastlane Shadowkeep The Stranglers The Vapors Halifax Ed Sheeran Paradise Lost Hampshire Frank Turner Laura Marling Harrogate Acid Reign Blood Youth The Harrogate Band Little Angels[2] Strangers in Paradise Stuart Colman Sulk (British band)[2] Utah Saints Wally Harrow New Device Hartlepool Sneaker Pimps Hemel Hempstead Porcupine Tree Herefordshire Ellie Goulding Mott the Hoople Hertfordshire Deep Purple Lower Than Atlantis The Shadows The Subways The Zombies Hemsley One Night Only High Wycombe Howard Jones Young Guns Hoylake The Rascals Huddersfield Evile Hull The Spiders From Mars Everything But The Girl Fine Young Cannibals The Housemartins Kingmaker The Beautiful South Fila Brazillia The Paddingtons Scarlet Hyde I Am Kloot Ipswich Rosalita Cradle of Filth Kent Kate Bush The Rolling Stones Sub Focus King's Lynn Deaf Havana Lancaster Bondax How's My Pop Leamington Spa Nizlopi The Shapes Sharks Leeds Alt-J Bonobo Boyracer The Chevin Chumbawumba Classically Handsome Brutes Club Smith Delta 5 Dinosaur Pile-Up The Dunwells Ellen and the Escapades ¡Forward, Russia! Gang of Four I Like Trains Hadouken! Hawk Eyes Hood Jellyfish Kiss Kaiser Chiefs To Kill A King Mekons Red Lorry Yellow Lorry The Edsel Auctioneer The Hollow Men The Mission The Music The Pale Saints The Parachute Men The Pigeon Detectives Pulled Apart By Horses The Rose of Avalanche Scritti Politti The Sisters of Mercy Soft Cell The Sunshine Underground The Utah Saints The Wedding Present Vessels Various Cruelties

Leicester Blab Happy The Bomb Party Chrome Molly Circa Waves Cornershop Crazyhead The Deep Freeze Mice Delicatessen Diesel Park West Family Gaye Bykers on Acid Her Name is Calla The Hunters Club ist Kasabian Kyte Maybeshewill Misterlee Pacific Ocean Fire Perfume Po! Public Relations Exercise Prolapse Ruth's Refrigerator Showaddywaddy Volcano The Bear Yeah Yeah Noh Leighton Buzzard Kajagoogoo Littlehampton Delirious? Lincoln Climates Lincolnshire Bram Tchaikovsky I Was A Cub Scout Liverpool Anathema Atomic Kitten The Bandits BBMak The Beatles[3] The Boo Radleys Carcass Cast Crucial Three The Crescent The Christians 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 The La's Ladytron Lawson The Lightning Seeds The Mighty Wah! Multi Purpose Chemical Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark The Real Thing Rebecca Ferguson Space The Stairs The Stands The Teardrop Explodes The Zutons Wave Machines The Wombats London Adam and the Ants Add N to (X) Adele The Adverts Akercocke Alabama 3 The Alan Parsons Project Alien Sex Fiend All Saints AlunaGeorge Amy Winehouse Angel Witch The Apostles Archive Athlete Babyshambles Bad Company Basement Jaxx Bastille Bat For Lashes Benga Ben Howard Big Bang The Big Pink Blancmange Bleech Bloc Party The Bluetones The Bolshoi Bombay Bicycle Club Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Bow Wow Wow 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 Coldplay The Creatures Crystal Fighters Culture Club The Damned Darkstar Daughter David Bowie The Dave Clark Five[4] Days in december Death in Vegas Deep Purple The Defiled Delilah Devil Sold His Soul Dirty Pretty Things Dizzee Rascal Django Django DragonForce Dry the River Dot Rotten Dumpy's Rusty Nuts Dusty Springfield Ebony Bones The Edge Eliza Doolittle Engineers Erasure Eurythmics Example The Faces The Fades The Feeling Fightstar Fleetwood Mac Florence + the Machine Gay Dad Ghostpoet Goldfrapp Goldheart Assembly Gold Panda Go West Groove Armada Hadouken! Hawkwind Heaven's Basement Hell Is for Heroes The Hoosiers Hot Chip The House of Love The Hurt Process Ikara Colt Imogen Heap Infadels Iron Maiden James Blake James Blunt Jamiroquai Japan Jessie J Jessie Ware The Jim Jones Revue Johnny Panic Kano Kate Nash Katie Melua Katy B Killing Joke The King Blues King Charles King Crimson The Kinks[5] Kissing the Pink Klaxons Labrinth Led Zeppelin The Libertines Lily Allen Little Mix Lo Fidelity Allstars London Grammar Loveable Rogues Love Affair Lush 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 Nice Noah and the Whale Noisettes One Direction P.C.T Palma Violets The Passions Pet Shop Boys 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 Robin Scott Rod Stewart The Rolling Stones[6] Rudimental The Ruts Sade Saint Etienne Savages Scouting For Girls Secret Affair Senser Sex Pistols Sham 69 Shola Ama Siouxsie and the Banshees Sisteray Pixie Lott Skinny Lister The Skints Slash Small Faces Spandau Ballet Spector Spice Girls Splashh Squeeze Status Quo Stereolab Stereo MC's Skream Stooshe Stormzy Strawbs Suede Sugababes Supertramp Sweet Swervedriver T. Rex Talk Talk The Tears Tempa T Ten Benson The Temperance Movement Test Icicles Theatre of Hate The The Thompson Twins Tinie Tempah Tomorrow Toy Tribes Tubeway Army Ugly As Sin U.K. Subs UFO Ultravox Underworld UNKLE Uriah Heep The Vaccines The Vamps Veronica Falls Visage Voice of the Beehive Vondelpark White Lies Whitesnake The Wanted The Who[1] Wiley Wire The Wiseguys Wolf Alice Wretch 32 The xx Yes Young Guns Zero 7 Lowestoft The Darkness Luton Jethro Tull Macclesfield Ian Curtis John Mayall The Virginmarys

Manchester 10cc[7] 52nd Street 808 State The 1975 A II Z A Certain Ratio Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias Alfie Amplifier Audioweb Autechre Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds Barclay James Harvest Beecher The Bee Gees[1] Big Flame Billy Ruffian Black Grape Blak Twang Blue Orchids Bugzy Malone Brassy Buzzcocks The Chameleons The Chemical Brothers Cleopatra The Clint Boon Experience Cohesion The Courteeners Crispy Ambulance Delphic Doves Dutch Uncles The Durutti Column Easterhouse Elbow Electronic Everything Everything The Fall Fingathing Foghat[8] Freddie and the Dreamers Freeloaders Future Sound of London 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 Longview Ludus Luxuria M People Magazine Man From Delmonte Marconi Union John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Mazes The Mindbenders[7] Mint Royale Molly Half Head Monaco The Mothmen N-Trance New Order Nine Black Alps The 1975 Northside Oasis Oceansize Omerta The Other Two 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 Smirks The Smiths Sonic Boom Six Space Monkeys Starsailor Sub Sub The Stone Roses Sweet Sensation Swing Out Sister Take That Theatre of Hate The Cygnet Ring The Ting Tings Van der Graaf Generator The Verve The Waltones The Whip World of Twist Matlock Karma Kid Rhythm Plate Diagrams The Accidental Ben Ottewell Middlesbrough Dartz! The Axis of Perdition James Arthur Milton Keynes Fellsilent Hacktivist TesseracT Nantwich Blitz Kids Newcastle upon Tyne The Animals[10] Detroit Social Club Dire Straits Dubstar Maxïmo Park Jimmy Nail Pet Shop Boys The Wildhearts YFriday Titus Venom yourcodenameis:milo Lighthouse Family Newcastle-Under-Lyme Dan Croll Northampton Bauhaus The Departure Maps Jealous Northwich The Charlatans Nottingham Area 11 Consumed Earthtone9 Fudge Tunnel Heck Iron Monkey Jake Bugg Paper Lace Pitchshifter Sabbat Skyclad Ten Years After Tindersticks Oxford Bellowhead Foals Ride Stornoway Supergrass Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Winnebago Deal Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies Pinner Elton John[11] Portsmouth The Cranes Poulton-le-Fylde Skrewdriver Reading The Cooper Temple Clause Exit Ten A Genuine Freakshow Slowdive Redditch The Cravats The Very Things Rugby Spacemen 3 Spiritualized Lavondyss Salisbury, Wiltshire Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich second nature Rock Doctors Sheffield 65daysofstatic ABC All Seeing I Arctic Monkeys Babybird Bal-Sagoth Black Spiders Blameless Bring Me The Horizon Bromheads Jacket Cabaret Voltaire The Comsat Angels The Crookes Def Leppard Heaven 17 Hiem The Human League The Last Shadow Puppets LFO 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 Rolo Tomassi While She Sleeps Southampton Band of Skulls Bury Tomorrow Delays Moss Southend The Hamsters The Horrors Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly Southport Gomez South Shields Angelic Upstarts Staines HARD-FI St Albans Dark Stares Enter Shikari Friendly Fires Your Demise Stevenage Fields of the Nephilim St Helens The Lancashire Hotpots Stoke-on-Trent Motörhead Discharge Robbie Williams Stourbridge Diamond Head Ned's Atomic Dustbin Pop Will Eat Itself The Wonder Stuff Suffolk A Sunderland Frankie & The Heartstrings The Futureheads Field Music Kenickie Leatherface Nexilva Surrey Canterbury Disclosure Fatboy Slim Hundred Reasons Lucy Rose Reuben The Stranglers The Yardbirds[5] You Me at Six Sussex The Feeling Swindon The Dead Lay Waiting XTC Tavistock The Rumblestrips Teignmouth Muse Telford The Sunshine Underground Tetney Ella Henderson Tewkesbury Spunge Torquay Wishbone Ash Tyne And Wear Little Comets Wakefield Be Bop Deluxe The Cribs The Research Skint & Demoralised Watford Gallows Sikth Wellington T'Pau Weybridge Nashville Teens Whitley Bay Tygers of Pan Tang Wigan The Verve Woking The Jam Wolverhampton Babylon Zoo Slade Worcester Peace Worthing The Ordinary Boys York Asking Alexandria John Barry Chris Helme The Batfish Boys The Redskins Shed Seven The Seahorses The Smoke Glamour of the Kill Elliot Minor RSJ

References

1. Gilliland 1969, show 49.
2. "Harrogate Advertiser - Harrogate bands".
3. 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. Digital.library.unt.edu. Shows 27-28, 39, 45.
4. Gilliland 1969, show 29.
5. Gilliland 1969, shows 29, 38.
6. Gilliland 1969, shows 30, 38, 46.
7. "Official 10cc Fan Club/Pre 10cc articles". Retrieved 21 October 2014.
8. "foghat bio. The history of the band and members". Foghat. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
9. Gilliland 1969, show 38.
10. Gilliland 1969, shows 29, 49.
11. "Biography  : EltonJohn.com". Retrieved 21 October 2014.