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1. 21. Massive return

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 April 2003 MASSIVE Attack don't do anything quickly. Thirteen years has seen only four studio albums, so nationwide tours by the band - slimmed down to just Robert Del Naja on latest album 100th Window - are few and far between. On the eve of their three dates in Manchester, City's Life's Sarah-Jane looks back on the Bristol collective's career.

2. 22. Stereophonics set to shine again

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 25 September 2007 "THIS is the best album we've ever made," coos Kelly Jones, describing Stereophonics' forthcoming sixth LP. They play here tonight.

3. 23. Earlies latest greats

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 December 2004 JUST over a year ago, a trio of raggle-taggle Manc musicians and studio types by the names of Giles, Christian and John-Mark (and now better known as The Earlies) hooked up with a mystery Texan called Brandon Carr via the internet, and loosely set about producing an album together.

4. 24. New album releases

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 21 February 2002 Doves, Mum and Dad amd Fat City's 45 Kings II.

5. 25. Massive Attack's window on the web

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 13 February 2003 FIVE years and nothing. Now, not only are Massive Attack back with a new album and forthcoming tour, but they've also brought their inimitable world to the web.

6. 26. Life Cafe date for Kathleen

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 15 April 2005 "IN reviews people are always comparing me with Lucinda Williams. Of course, that's great and incredibly flattering, but I'm always amazed that they don't notice how much I rip off Tom Petty," laughs Kathleen Edwards.

7. 27. Dido laughs all the way to the bank

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 13 August 2004 DIDO can easily afford to be sanguine about the fact that the number of good reviews she has ever received from the ever-snootier rock press is probably fewer than the number of letters in her full name.

8. 28. The Jukes - A Thousand Dreamers (Twisted Nerve)

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 10 November 2004 TWISTED Nerve releases sometimes get over-zealous reviews in certain local magazines, possibly out of a sense of regional pride.

9. 29. In The City Live: Monday - TV On The Radio interview

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 September 2004 CITY Life was first drawn to New York band TV on the Radio after reading a succession of glowing reviews for their first EP on Touch & Go.

10. 30. Lambchop

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 May 2002 Following universal acclaim for 2000's Nixon album, Nashville based 14 piece Lambchop looked to have broken away from the constant, but quiet acclaim of peers and press within the alt-country field, and moved into the realms of wider appreciation.

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