On The Seventh Day God Created Manchester !!!!!

The acid house scene of the late 80's was the start of something big for the indie bands of the late 80's and early 90s. With bands like the Smiths, New order, Soup dragons and Primal scream all making their mark at the same time as the underground house music scene at some point these genres were going to get mixed.

The roots of what we now call Madchester can be traced back to around 1988, it was a name that was created by Phillip shotton who worked for Factory records which would become one of the biggest indie labels in the uk. 

4 years earlier bands like the Stone roses and the Happy Mondays were forming and even though their sound was not dance orintainted the influence or the ever growing Manchester music scene would turn something that started out as indie rock into Indie dance. With artists like A guy called Gerald, Inspiral carpets, James and 808 state, indie bands started to find their groove.

Farfisa and Hammond organs, wah-wah and jangle indie guitars that would not be out of place in any track by the Byrds and double drum beats were making their way into the minds of young bands. With the explosion of the fashion craze created by the likes of Joe bloggs and Naf naf all the kids were wearing Baggy bell bottoms with bright 60s t-shirts.

And so started the Craze of BAGGY!!

Bands like The Charlatans, The Dylans, The mock turtles,Northside, Candy flip and Bedazzled all started to sprout up all over the place. And so the Baggy madness was born and for the next few years it was very, very cool to be a music obsessed teenager in the uk........