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1. 1. Stu Francis is Mr Snowbusiness

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 December 2003 WHEN Stu Francis came up with the catchphrase "Ooh, I could crush a grape" during one particularly gruelling turn on the club circuit in the seventies, it helped to make him a household name.

2. 2. New Year's Eve clubbing guide

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 29 December 2003

   IT'S the biggest clubbing night of the year, but have you decided where to go on New Year's Eve yet? Our guide to what's on will help you make up your mind.

3. 3. What a wonderful year

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 22 December 2003 2003 has been a fantastic year for pop. There have been highs and lows, good singles and annoyingly catchy ones. Here, we take a look at the year's top movers and shakers.

4. 4. On the up

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 December 2003 MICK Ferry’s been through a change this year. He's been on the comedy circuit for a good few years and for the past couple he has achieved both compere and& headline status. Then someone suggested that he should try a solo show.

5. 5. Strange journey

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 December 2003 IT’s difficult to believe, watching Stanley Accrington confidently manipulating props and audience, that he was once so paralysed by stage fright that he had to get drunk before his debut at Stalybridge’s Buffet Bar.

6. 6. City limits

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 December 2003 SMOKY City might not be the longest serving Dixieland band in Manchester - Maurice Pike’s Panama Jazz Band, formed in 1953, beat them by a decade - but 40 years of stomping is no small achievement, and a great testimony to the devotion of the musicians and the tolerance of their wives.

7. 7. Business as usual for The Human League

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 December 2003 "I& HONESTLY think the music industry will be dead in a few years,"& says Phil Oakey, who brings his band The Human League to Manchester on Wednesday, December 17.

8. 8. Mike's jet-set revival

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 December 2003 CRACK Mike Sweeney open and the River Irwell would flood from the wound. Bones carved from old cobbles might lurk beneath a craggy skin fashioned from well-worn Lancastrian cotton.

9. 9. Greg Wilson comes back for his crown

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 December 2003 STAND& back all young pretenders – seminal Legends DJ Greg Wilson is returning to reclaim his electro crown at Music Is Better..

10. 10. Intimate date for Simon

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 December 2003 ADMIRERS of super-cool boyband Blue might be clamouring for tickets to the lads' packed-out concerts at the M.E.N. Arena. But despair not, for fans of the funky foursome might also be able to catch them at a more intimate venue.

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