ART for MCR, an organisation elevating cash for Manchester charities by means of reside occasions and album gross sales, stated the town’s “beat will not ever be the identical”. They shared an image of Gary alongside a touching tribute.

They wrote: “Unreal this. Completely numbed us. We’re gutted to listen to of the passing of Gary ‘Mani Mounfield — a real large of this metropolis and an enormous affect on anybody who’s ever picked up a guitar or stepped on a stage spherical right here.

“Truthfully, The groove, the perspective, the spirit… he formed a lot of the music that formed us.

“This one actually hurts. Everybody correct correct cherished him. I bear in mind crying my eyes out watching them on the Heaton Park gigs.

“All our love goes out to the Mounfield household, the Roses group, and everybody feeling this loss at present. Relaxation simple Mani. Manchester’s beat received’t ever be the identical.”