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1. 1. Sneddon’s spurred on by fame

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 14 January 2003 AS Fame Academy winner David Sneddon waits to see whether his debut single makes number one, Paul Taylor finds out what makes him tick.

2. 2. Stephen Jones - Almost Cured Of Sadness (Sanctuary)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 February 2003 STEPHEN Jones, aka Babybird, returned to his lo-fi roots to record this album in a home studio just 10 feet square.

3. 3. Everclear - Slow Motion Daydream (Capitol)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 February 2003 EVERCLEAR raised the stakes considerably with their wonderful two-album project Songs From An American Movie ' one disc sweet, the other sour ' and Slow Motion Daydream combines the merits of both in an album of fine tunes, smart-ass arrangements, gnarly guitars and pithy social comment.

4. 4. Toto @ Apollo

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 20 February 2003 THE song was George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps. But in the hands of Steve Lukather, that guitar was not so much weeping as having a hundred-notes-per-second nervous breakdown.

5. 5. Drifters stand test of time

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 27 February 2003 WHEN all four Drifters quit in protest at their pitiful wages in 1958, manager George Treadwell was not going to let this small detail spoil the group's upcoming dates at New York's Apollo Theatre.

6. 6. Turin Brakes - Ether Song (Source)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 February 2003 A PURPOSELY different style on this album for the darlings of the new acoustic age.

7. 7. Life not Limited to punk

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 22 January 2003 SITTING amid the comfortable clutter of Jah Wobble's sitting room, it is difficult to imagine that this is the same man from the punk era who signed his last, abortive record contract "Adolf Hitler...F*** you".

8. 8. Crows flying high

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 23 January 2003 THEY spring from the same sun-parched homeland as the Beach Boys, but Adam Duritz and his band Counting Crows have not exactly forged a reputation as California's happiest bunnies.

9. 9. Chris Rea @ Manchester Apollo

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 January 2003 THE great blues legend that is Robert Johnson went down to the crossroads, sold his soul to the devil and returned the greatest slide guitarist of his age.

10. 10. Adom's apple of Storm's eye

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 10 September 2003 FROM New York to Atlanta, across the Atlantic, and into Manchester, Adom have already come a long way. But it isn't far enough for a band which hopes to be selling out stadium-sized venues before they're satisfied.

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