Manchester

Rodrigo Constanzo is an experimental composer and performer living in Manchester, England. He has performed as a solo musician, or as part of various groups for the majority of his life. The most recent being as part of the SOUND festival in Scotland and speaking at the GEM Days festival in Huddersfield. He is also slated to perform at the FUTURSONIC festival in Manchester in 2009. He began his studies in music at the age of four, studying piano with his grandmother, formerly a piano teacher at the Conservatory of Cuba.

Kaatskill Mountains are a Garage/Gospel/Pop/Noise two-piece from Manchester. Formed in 2011 they have released 1 full length album titled El-ahrairah, 1 EP titled Soul Acceptance and are set to record their new record Q4 2012.

Peter "Hooky" Hook (born February 13, 1956 in Salford, Lancashire) was the bass player for the English Post-Punk band Joy Division, and the techno/rock band New Order. Hook was a co-founder of Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-70's. Together, they recruited vocalist Ian Curtis and drummer Stephen Morris to complete the quartet. The band reformed as New Order following Curtis' suicide.

There are at least two bands with the name The Shrimps. One is based in The Hague, The Netherlands. This is a poprock band featuring Wessel Eren, Wouter Alblas and Rutger Westerhof. Their first demo is called Rehearsal Space and there's an album coming soon. Another one is the acoustic psychedelic folk-rock duo featuring brothers Marcus & Simon Benjamin. Now based in Brooklyn, New York, Marcus and Simon are originally from Rochdale, a town near Manchester in northern England.