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Chilling in Cheshire.
I could cry about the great Manchester bands that missed out: Molly Half Head who I saw at The Roadhouse were great, but just had the one LP. Same with The Paris Angels. But the best of the Manchester underachievers were surely The New Fads; how did they not make it? Their last two albums showed they breathed the same air as The Smiths and The Stone Roses.
I saw The Paris Angels and The New Fads at Cities in The Park, they were both pretty good. I used to like Northside back then and used to go to see The Chameleons a lot (and still do when they do the odd gig)