Foreign acts that performed on the festival include Ian Brown, Happy Mondays, Gary Moore, Dinosaur Jr., The Stooges, The Lemonheads, The Fall, Heavy Trash, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Rakes.
His former students include three time Grammy Award winner Herbert Vianna and English Polydor Records recording artist Steve Davidson from The Ian Brown (Stone Roses Founder) Band.
Many high profile customers frequented the location including the then Mayor of London Ken Livingston, Suggs, Ian Brown, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Joe Strummer and the rocksteady musician Alton Ellis.
Brown University | James Brown | Ian Fleming | Gordon Brown | Chris Brown | Ian McKellen | Brown | Brown v. Board of Education | Jerry Brown | Mack Brown | Ian Smith | Chris Brown (American entertainer) | Ian Rankin | Little, Brown and Company | Joe E. Brown | Chris Brown (American singer) | Charlie Brown | Joe E. Brown (comedian) | Ian Brown | Ian Botham | Scott Brown | Sawyer Brown | Ray Brown (musician) | Pete Brown | Ian Thorpe | Dan Brown | Savoy Brown | Ian McEwan | John Y. Brown, Jr. | John Seely Brown |
Ghost co-wrote, with Scott McFarnon and Ian Dench, "Red" a top 5 hit for Daniel Merriweather in the UK in May 2009 and "I Did It for the Glory" by Ian Brown, which she co-wrote with Ian and Dave McCracken.
Amongst people who claim to have been in the audience at Deeply Vale from the next generation of musicians and Deeply Vale inspired them to pursue a musical career are Andy Rourke of the Smiths, David Gedge from the Wedding Present, Dave Fielding, Mark Burgess and Reg Smithies from the Chameleons, Jimi Goodwin from the Doves, Steve Cowen from the Mock Turtles and Ian Brown from the Stone Roses.
The single version of the song was included in Brown's compilation album, The Greatest.
The demos were also said to feature contributions from former The Stone Roses guitarist and member of Ian Brown's band Aziz Ibrahim, with backing vocals by Rowetta of Happy Mondays fame.
The band spent much of 2005 touring, playing with the likes of Ian Brown, Bloc Party, The Magic Numbers, The Pogues, and supporting Coldplay on several of their Twisted Logic Tour dates, and built up a solid fanbase as a result.
The cinema and surrounding area was featured in the music video to "Golden Gaze" by Ian Brown.
Two covers exist, 'I Fought the Law' (originally written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets in 1959) and 'My Sitar' which is an acoustic/military tabla version of My Star, the top ten chart song written by Ian Brown and Aziz Ibrahim.
Since then a number of high-profile directors have worked for the company, including Ian Wooldridge (1978-1984), Ian Brown (1984-1988) now at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Alan Lyddiard who left TAG to become Artistic Director of Northern Stage Ensemble in Newcastle(1988-1992), and Tony Graham, now at the Unicorn Theatre in London (1992-1997).
The Sacconi Quartet has been mentored by eminent musicians, including Gabor Takács-Nagy, Christopher Rowland and Levon Chilingirian, and has been joined on stage by Ian Brown, Raphael Wallfisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Martin Roscoe, David Campbell, Lawrence Power, Robert Cohen, Guy Johnston, Alasdair Beatson, Tom Poster, Matthew Rose and actor Timothy West.