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1. 1. Acoustic Strawbs

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 January 2002 Remember the days when strikers could bring the country to its knees and the Strawbs could satirise them in songs like (You Won’t Get Me I’m) Part of the Union’ (latterly used, apparently without irony, to flog personal pensions).

2. 2. A labour of love

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 20 February 2003 DAMIEN Rice's O, two years in the making and plainly a labour of love, is a small masterpiece.

3. 3. Depressing Ron Sexsmith

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 29 November 2001 IT'S generally a long, hard road that the singer-songwriter travels, but Ronald Eldon Sexsmith seems to have suffered for his art more than most.

4. 4. Jackson Sundown’s Cosmic Country Christmas Knees-Up

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 10 December 2001 Manchester’s cosmic cowboys took their name from a legendary rodeo rider (he didn’t miss it, having long since departed for that great celestial corral).

5. 5. Introducing the Arlenes

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 26 March 2002 The story goes...Big Steve founder-member of hard-rockin’ country outfit A-La-Tex, was playing the London pub circuit when, across a crowded room, his eyes locked with those of Steph Arlene, one-time member of The Flesheaters.

6. 6. Seán Tyrrell

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 April 2003 IF you were seeking to give the lie to the casual cultural stereotype of life moving more slowly in the west of Ireland, you probably wouldn't cite the case of Se'n Tyrrell.

7. 7. Cult guitarist makes Manchester date

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 January 2003 'ONE of the best things to happen to the British music scene.'

8. 8. Tex-Mex in Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 January 2003 THERE'S more to Paul Young than 'Wherever I Lay My Hat' (just as well, I hear you sneer - but read on).

9. 9. Art Garfunkel

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 12 March 2003 I WRITE on the day that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel jointly receive the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award (and, no doubt, perform together) at the Grammys.

10. 10. Tracy Chapman

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 12 March 2003 TRACY Chapman was scarcely an overnight success - encouraged by her elder sister, she'd been writing songs and playing guitar since the age of eight, but, when the big break of the Mandela 70th birthday concert came and she won an extended spot when headliner Stevie Wonder walked out, she seized the opportunity.

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