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1. 11. Michaelangelo Quartet & Ralph Kisbaum @ RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 09 November 2004 THEY made an outstanding impression on their first visit to Manchester Chamber Concerts Society's series last year - and the Michelangelo Quartet, superstars of the chamber music world, were amazing value this time, too.

2. 12. Iain Archer - Flood the Tanks (Bright Star)

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 19 May 2004 Not, as you might think, a tribute album to the great lamented Scottish football journalist, but instead the first album from the latest entrant to the celtic new world order of music.

3. 13. Halle / Swensen / Lewis @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 05 March 2004 LAST night's concert was an illuminating one - mainly because it gave us a chance to hear Aaron Copland's third symphony, written in that fascinating period following the Second World War, when classical music briefly resumed its 19th century role of expressing uplift and collective aspiration.

4. 14. Fancy a Danish?

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 26 February 2004 In the music world, a Scandinavian band hitting the big time in blighty is comparable to a British group finally cracking the States.&  One of the latest to attempt this feat are Danish rockers, Kashmir.

5. 15. The Boxer Rebellion - Code Red (Poptones)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 07 October 2004 IT seems strange that a record label headed by the world's most famous critic of mild-mannered indie music, Alan McGee, who once famously called Coldplay 'bed wetters', should find anything of substance in The Boxer Rebellion.

6. 16. Airing on the side of Manc music

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 14 December 2004 A WEEKLY show on the BBC's local radio station, GMR, now serves as the last bastion of Mancunian music. Simon Donohue shakes its hosts firmly by the hand.

7. 17. Lowfive - Emergency Disaster Kit (Music For Nations)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 September 2004 ROCK'N'ROLL has been undergoing a mini-revival thanks to the success of Jet and The Darkness. In an attempt to hop on the gravy train, Lowfive pop in with their debut effort, regurgitating this redundant genre with inoffensive music of worst order.

8. 18. European talent out of tune at MTV Awards

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 November 2004 THE awards were held in their name - but European bands failed to make their mark at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

9. 19. World Chieftains

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 16 September 2004 WITH a career that spans four decades and 40 albums, The Chieftains are not only Ireland's premier musical ambassadors but also one of the most enduring and influential creative forces in establishing the international appeal of Celtic music.

10. 20. Norah Jones strikes a blow for music

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 April 2004 THERE'S a very real sense in which the enormous international success of Norah Jones' Come Away With Me album - more than 18m copies sold, five Grammies won - represents a triumph of music over marketing.

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