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1. 151. Cello festival countdown has started

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 12 March 2004 IT has been three years since the last one, now no one in Manchester is going to be allowed to forget that the countdown has started to the next Royal Northern College of Music International Cello Festival.

2. 152. Ferry Corsten - Right Of Way (Positiva)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 23 February 2004 “FERRY Corsten is making the finest music of his life,” reads the press blurb, which prompts the response; ‘oh dear’.

3. 153. Can you keep a Secret?

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 December 2004 DON'T believe what anyone says. One of the best albums this year for lovers of 'out there' rock 'n' roll is Secret Machine's second album Now Here is Nowhere.

4. 154. Radio legend John Peel dies aged 65

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 26 October 2004 VETERAN DJ John Peel, 65, has died. He suffered a heart attack shortly after being taken ill during a working holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru, with his wife Sheila.

5. 155. Musical Youth

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 22 November 2004 STOCKPORT Youth Orchestra was formed in the mid-50s and has gained a reputation for quality concerts and training young musicians in the art of orchestral playing. Here we speak to two of its players, brother and sister Thomas and Helena Bisby, ahead of a Bridgewater Hall concert.

6. 156. Branding Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 23 March 2004 IT IS now seven years since the slogan, "We're up and going", was produced with the intention of marketing Manchester to the world.

7. 157. Just good Franz

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 April 2004 THE assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, sparked the first world war. Fast forward to 2004, and Franz Ferdinand is emblazoned across the front of the NME, as the 'band that will change your life'.

8. 158. Bye, bye baby

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 09 February 2004 SHE was the pretty blonde with pigtails whose sweet nature helped hold together one of the most successful girl bands in the world. Now 10 years on she has shed her innocent chocolate box charm to reveal a sexy woman with a steely determination to maintain her place at the top of the pop charts.

9. 159. Best classical CDs of 2003

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 02 January 2004 ANOTHER year in which the big players in the commercial world seemed to have lost their way, but the enterprise and imagination of the small labels made up for it - for those prepared to seek 'em out. Here's my 10 of the best.

10. 160. Halle / Davis @ Bridgewater Hall

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 26 April 2004 CARL Davis has stepped back to the noble tradition of silent film. With orchestras all over the world - on Saturday, it was the Hall' - he presents classics of the silent era with live orchestral accompaniment.

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