In 2005 `` Manchester Versus Cancer '' was founded Creating by Andy Rourke ( bass player from The Smiths ) , Nova Rehman his ex-manager , Tom Smetham a former ITV Granada Television producer and Stephen Chapman a former ITV News journalist .

In 2009 Andy Rourke quit Process_end his band project with Mani and Peter Hook called Name_conferral Freebass and moved Motion to New York .