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    Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that developed in the English city of Manchester in the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance...
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  • Madchester Rave On is the second EP by Happy Mondays. It was released in November 1989 on Factory Records. The track "Hallelujah" became the band's breakthrough...
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  • Baggy (category Madchester)
    1980s and early 1990s, and generally associated with the Northern UK's Madchester scene. The style saw alternative rock bands draw influence from psychedelia...
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    Acid house (category Madchester)
    one another. The Madchester and baggy movements saw acid house influences bleed into the Mancunian rock scene. Prominent Madchester bands include the...
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    Happy Mondays (category Madchester groups)
    psychedelia to pioneer the Madchester sound. They experienced their commercial peak with the releases Bummed (1988), Madchester Rave On (1989), and Pills...
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  • compilation album of songs linked to the Madchester music genre distributed by Island Records in 1990. The Madchester sound had been developing during the...
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  • 1980s, the ecstasy-fuelled dance club scene played a part in the rise of Madchester with bands like the Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets and Happy Mondays. In...
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  • concert performances, which also helped establish them as fixtures of the Madchester and baggy cultural scenes. The record's critical standing also improved...
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    The Stone Roses (category Madchester groups)
    Manchester, England in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band's classic and most...
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  • Champion, Manchester-based music journalist during the Madchester era, summarised Madchester in the following way, 'White scallies put down guitars,...
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  • influence of the Smiths is common to the majority of Britpop artists. The Madchester scene, fronted by the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets...
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    Rowntree. Their debut album, Leisure (1991), incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegaze. Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar...
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  • high profile. Alternative rock reached the mainstream, emerging from the Madchester scene to produce dream pop, shoegazing, post rock and indie pop, which...
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    Inspiral Carpets (category Madchester groups)
    Inspiral Carpets is an English rock band, part of the late-1980s/early-1990s Madchester movement. Formed in Oldham in 1983, the band's most successful lineup...
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  • Kraftwerk. Alternative dance had a major impact on Britain's late-1980s Madchester scene (adapted from Manchester, New Order's home city) and 1990s trip...
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    poet. As lead singer of Happy Mondays, he was a leading figure in the Madchester cultural scene during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1993, he formed...
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  • Alice (2023-12-07). "The Gallagher Kids Bring The Next Generation Of Madchester Style To The Chanel Show". British Vogue. Retrieved 2024-08-28. Fishwick...
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  • Strawberry Studios, where extra instrumentation was added. Bummed is a Madchester-style psychedelic funk album, where much of the lyrical content was influenced...
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  • Music 88725467042 (2012 Remaster) Cassette: Silvertone ORE C521 "Explore: Madchester (Top Albums)". Allmusic. Retrieved 8 May 2011. Allmusic review Larkin...
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    was an early influence on the Manchester music scene that presaged the Madchester movement of the late 1980s centred on Factory Records and The Haçienda...
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  • the Madchester scene. Performing for the most part in the Haçienda, a nightclub in Manchester owned by New Order and Factory Records, Madchester bands...
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  • hammer. No one has yet been convicted of his murder. In his memory, the Madchester band Happy Mondays wrote a song called "Cowboy Dave", released on the...
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    [citation needed] In 2006, Bez was promoting a compilation album titled Bez's Madchester Anthems: Sorted Tunes from Back in the Day. The Happy Mondays again reformed:...
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  • performed "Hallelujah" from the Madchester Rave On EP, is regarded as a "cultural high-water mark", exposing the emerging Madchester scene to a wider audience...
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  • Valentine, Slowdive, Ride and Lush entered. Particularly vibrant was the Madchester scene, producing such bands as Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets and the...
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    The Charlatans (English band) (category Madchester groups)
    Although the Charlatans would later become popularly associated with the Madchester scene, the band's early demos recorded in 1988 in Birmingham and Dudley...
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  • an early 1990s UK alternative music scene dominated by shoegazing and Madchester. Radio 5, "The Mix" 10 June 1991, "Against Nature", "Firefly", "Rosemary...
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  • Candy Flip (category Madchester groups)
    dance music scene in the early 1990s (a scene more commonly known as Madchester or baggy). They are best remembered for their cover version of the Beatles...
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    James (band) (category Madchester groups)
    an optimistic note. Gold Mother was released in June 1990 just as the 'Madchester' movement, with its wave of popular Manchester-based indie bands, brought...
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    Carpets, and James. The later groups came from what became known as the "Madchester" scene that also centred on The Haçienda nightclub developed by the founder...
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