The following is a list of bands and musicians from the North East and Yorkshire of England, by town or city. Those to have a number one single are shown in bold.
Bands and musicians
A–B Ashton-under-Lyne Fivepenny Piece
Barnsley Danse Society Exit Calm Party Day Hands Off Gretel Kate Rusby Saxon The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican Dave Burland
Batley Robert Palmer
Benton Jimmy Nail
Bingley Marmozets
Bolton upon Dearne The Sherlocks
Bradford
Anti System Tasmin Archer The Cult Kiki Dee Susan Fassbender Fun-Da-Mental Gareth Gates Allan Holdsworth Natalia Kills Zayn Malik Chantel McGregor Melissa Steel My Dying Bride New Model Army Smokie Southern Death Cult Benson Taylor Terrorvision Kimberley Walsh (from Girls Aloud)
B–D Bridlington Ben Parcell
Brighouse Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band (attained No. 2 position in the charts, the highest ever for a brass band) Embrace
Consett Ruth Copeland, soul and blues singer Susan Maughan
Darlington Vic Reeves (as in Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - see Middlesbrough) We Start Fires
Dewsbury Bob Hardy (bassist from Franz Ferdinand) Joel Graham (bassist from Evile)
Doncaster Tony Christie Groop Dogdrill Tiny Dancers (from South Elmsall) Louis Tomlinson The Wallbirds Yungblud
Durham Gem Archer (guitarist with Oasis) Martha (from Pity Me) Prefab Sprout (from Witton Gilbert) Voorhees Trevor Horn (of The Buggles)
H–K Halifax Nick Holmes Don Lang Paradise Lost Ed Sheeran Richard Bedford The Orielles
Harrogate Acid Reign Blood Youth Stuart Colman Karl Culley Fig.4.0 The Harrogate Band Garry Jennings Little Angels Daniel Schwarz. Daniel and Otto Schwarz were travelling bandleaders who performed mainly in Harrogate. Otto Schwarz. Sulk Utah Saints Wally Mark Wharton Workshed
Helmsley One Night Only
Huddersfield Evile Kava Kava O'Hooley & Tidow John McCoy (bassist with Gillan, McCoy & G.M.T.) Sore Throat
Keighley Skeletal Family
Kingston upon Hull
The Beautiful South Biscuit Boy (a.k.a. Crackerman) (Paul Heaton's solo act) COUM Transmissions The Cutler Everything but the Girl (Formed in Hull by two students who were from elsewhere) Fila Brazillia Fonda 500 Roland Gift (from Fine Young Cannibals) The Heights of Abraham Hey, Rube! Ronnie Hilton (following his demobilisation in 1947, he took work as a fitter in Leeds) Homespun (band formed by Dave Rotheray, formerly of The Beautiful South) The Housemartins J*S*T*A*R*S Kingmaker Nyam Nyam The Paddingtons The Rats Red Guitars Mick Ronson (best known for work with David Bowie – see Tadcaster) Sade (formed in London but three of the five members were Hull natives) Salako Salem Scarlet Spacemaid Throbbing Gristle Trevor Bolder (David Bowie's Spiders From Mars with Mick Ronson, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash) Lal Waterson Norma Waterson The Watersons Infant Annihilator
Leeds
Mark Abrahams Abrasive Wheels Age of Chance Alt-J Big Cheese Black Wire Castrovalva Michael Chapman The Chevin Christie Chumbawamba Classically Handsome Brutes Sean Conlon (member of Five) Cryptic Shift Cud Dead Disco Dinosaur Pile-Up Eagulls Embrace Eureka Machines The Expelled The Flex ¡Forward, Russia! Gang of Four Gentleman's Dub Club Girls at Our Best! Higher Power Hood I Like Trains Kaiser Chiefs The Lodger The March Violets The Mekons Mel B (solo and also of the Spice Girls) The Mission The Music The Pigeon Detectives Pulled Apart by Horses Corrine Bailey Rae Jason Rae (born in Aberdeen; lived in Leeds) Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Lou Rhodes Roller Trio Paul Ryan Scritti Politti Send More Paramedics Sigma The Sisters of Mercy Soft Cell Static Dress The Sunshine Underground Utah Saints The Wedding Present Your Vegas Tom Zanetti
Middlesbrough
Amelia Lily James Arthur Black Wire Roy Chubby Brown The Chapman Family Collectors Club Chris Corner (also frontman of Hartlepool-based band Sneaker Pimps) David Coverdale (from nearby Saltburn, lead singer with Whitesnake) Vin Garbutt The Hangmen IAMX Journey South Maxïmo Park Misery Addict Bob Mortimer (as in Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer- see Darlington) Chris Rea Paul Rodgers (of Free and Bad Company) Space Raiders Jamie Tinkler (Eurovision, Pop Idol and X Factor contestant; member of boy/girl band POP!; two top twenty singles) Whitesnake
Newcastle
The Animals Sam Fender from nearby North Shields Cheryl Cole (of Girls Aloud) Dire Straits Drill Dubstar Geordie Hurrah! Jack the Lad Jade Thirlwall born at nearby South Shields Lee Jackson (of The Nice, Jackson Heights, and Refugee) Brian Johnson (of AC/DC and Geordie) Lighthouse Family Lindisfarne Maxïmo Park Chris McCormack (from 3 Colours Red) Peace Burial at Sea Perrie Edwards born at nearby South Shields Raven Spike Martin Stephenson Sting Andy Taylor (of Duran Duran; from nearby Cullercoats) Neil Tennant (of the Pet Shop Boys; born at nearby North Shields, schooled in Newcastle) Venom Bruce Welch and Hank Marvin (of The Shadows) The Wildhearts Kathryn Williams (originally from Liverpool; based in Newcastle after attending university there) Zoviet France yfriday
O–S Ossett Black Lace (featured on a local film, the Bradford-set Rita, Sue and Bob Too)
Ovingham China Drum
Ripon Billie Marten
Rotherham Nick Banks (from Sheffield band Pulp) Bring Me the Horizon (Drummer Matthew Nichols is from Maltby in Rotherham.) Jo Callis Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers Muse (Although actually formed in Teignmouth, Devon, bassist Chris Wolstenholme is from Rotherham.)
Rothwell The Pigeon Detectives
Ryton The Unthanks
Scarborough Little Angels
Settle John Newman
Sheffield
ABC Arctic Monkeys Babybird The Crookes Derek Bailey Dave Berry Black Spiders Bring Me the Horizon Bromheads Jacket Cabaret Voltaire Paul Carrack Chakk Tony Christie Clock DVA Jarvis Cocker Joe Cocker Comsat Angels Dead Sons Def Leppard The Dylans Richard Hawley Heaven 17 The Heights of Abraham Hey, Rube! The Human League John Shuttleworth J*S*T*A*R*S Little Man Tate The Long Blondes Longpigs Paul Shaft Lucy Spraggan Malevolence Milburn Moloko Monkey Swallows the Universe Pulp Reverend and the Makers Rolo Tomassi Self Esteem Slow Club Stoney Thompson Twins While She Sleeps
S–T Stakeford Darren Allison (drummer/producer with The Divine Comedy; also worked with My Bloody Valentine, Belle and Sebastian, and Spiritualized)
Sunderland Mark Brydon (of Moloko) Field Music Bob Fox The Futureheads The Golden Virgins The J.T.A Kane Gang Alex Kapranos (raised in Sunderland and South Shields) Kenickie Leatherface Nadine Shah Olive Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) The Toy Dolls Wodensthrone Frankie & the Heartstrings Don Airey (Key boards for various, presently Deep Purple ) Emeli Sandé A Tribe of Toffs
Todmorden Keith Emerson John Helliwell (Supertramp) Geoff Love Working Men's Club
Tynemouth The Motorettes
W–Z Wakefield Be-Bop Deluxe The Cribs Fiat Lux The Research Vardis Jane McDonald
Washington Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) Yourcodenameis:milo
Whitby Arthur Brown (of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
Whitley Bay Tygers of Pan Tang L Devine
York Asking Alexandria John Barry The Batfish Boys Benjamin Francis Leftwich Berri (singer) Glamour of the Kill Chris Helme Elliot Minor Mostly Autumn The Mood The Redskins RSJ The Seahorses Shed Seven The Smoke Supermoon Van Der Neer