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1. 1. M.E.N. Online's Gigs of the Year

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 December 2006 WELL, to paraphrase, Mr Lennon é another yearés over and new oneés about to begin. And what a year ités been! Take a look back as the M.E.N. Online reviewers pick out their gigs of the year.

2. 2. Blowout lays on festive bash

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 21 December 2006 GOODWILL to all men - especially if those men are electro music-inclined, it seems. For their Yuletide, erm, blowout, local promoters Blowout have enlisted two fine electro ciphers guaranteed to wake us out of our mince pie-induced festive slumber.

3. 3. Boys making a killing

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 November 2006 BRITPOPPERS Boy Kill Boy play another date in the region tonight when they take over Bolton's newest venue, The Soundhouse. Earlier this year Gary Ryan caught up with them for a chat.

4. 4. Westlife pip Oasis to top spot

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 27 November 2006 WESTLIFE hailed their fans as the best in the world as they triumphed in an album chart battle with music giants The Beatles, Oasis and U2.

5. 5. Sir Cliff still the gentleman of pop

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 23 November 2006 THERE'S a nice phrase to describe an artist like Cliff Richard - a musician whose career is almost as old as the pop charts - and that's an institution. He plays two dates here this weekend.

6. 6. Little Britain to return

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 23 November 2006 THE Little Britain tour is such a storming success that at their previous Apollo dates, there were no fewer than 21 different types of T-shirt on sale. Amazingly the show is set to return for two more dates this weekend.

7. 7. Bewitched Bennett's history lesson

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 November 2006 PART of the inspiration for Alan Bennett's The History Boys, the utterly enthralling play, which& is at& The Lowry until November 29, came, he says, from director Nicolas Hytner's days as a schoolboy at Manchester Grammar School.

8. 8. Kweller closer to finding his true self

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 14 November 2006 TEXAN troubadour Ben Kweller is set to revive the image of the lone male rock star (think Springsteen, Petty and Fogerty) with his third album - which is probably why it sounds like good old-fashioned rock 'n' roll. Layers of guitars, percussion and vocals swim around universal themes of travel, freedom, love.

9. 9. Bowen: I was addicted to war

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 November 2006 JEREMY Bowen was once more at home in a flak jacket dodging bullets in some war-torn hellhole than in the comfort of his London home. During his years as a BBC foreign correspondent covering conflicts in hot-spots around the world, from El Salvador to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Chechnya, Rwanda and Kosovo, he got addicted to the job.

10. 10. Martine's long wait for a dream come true

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 November 2006 SHE once had the (hardly 'Sit Down') job of managing Manchester band James, but it seems these days, Martine McDonagh is realising her own dreams.

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