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1. 21. Seven days of fringe benefits

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 June 2005 AFTER a successful launch last year, Manchester's second ever 24:7 fringe theatre festival comes to a close this weekend.

2. 22. Laurie brings her lunar show to Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 20 May 2005 LIKE the rest of her work, the new Laurie Anderson show, The End Of The Moon, resists easy categorisation. She brings it to The Lowry tonight.

3. 23. Salad days

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 November 2005

   WHEN& nostalgia bites and promoters head down memory lane, it usually means a bumper-car style assault of the biggest hits from back in the day. This particular double-header won't follow the tired, predictable formula, however, as two of the cities best-respected drum n' bass nights - AudioSalad and Soul: ution - will be the ones join the dots between the last 15 years of underground dance music.

4. 24. Happy days for the Mondays

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 29 March 2005 MANCHESTER relocated to London for a 48 Hour Party People extravaganza this weekend, led by The Happy Mondays.

5. 25. Them's The Rakes

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 August 2005 CITY Life has a rare hangover and really can’t muster up the brain cells to come up with a good question to ask The Rakes. The group play the city on Tuesday.

6. 26. Nancy Sinatra @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 12 April 2005 NANCY Sinatra was the Steve McQueen of 60s and 70s pop. No one ever went to a McQueen flick for an Oscar-nabbing tear-jerking performance. The crowd went for his style - the cool attitude inflected in his every gesture.

7. 27. Former Smiths to reunite for cancer benefit

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 12 December 2005 TWO former members of one of the world’s most influential bands are to reunite for the first time in over 17 years for a one-off charity gig in Manchester.

8. 28. St Ann's Square's allot of fun

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 08 August 2005 CITY-CENTRE shoppers and workers hurrying out for a sandwich could be forgiven for thinking they have strayed into someone's garden if they venture into St Ann's Square this week.

9. 29. Cheers to Chile

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 February 2005 AT the end of the nineties, I would have said Chile had lost its way as a wine-producing nation, despite its immense natural advantages of climate and rootstocks. The cheaper reds were dull, sweet products of over-cropping, and the top reserves were simply not worth the absurd prices for wines that made you tired drinking them.

10. 30. Why Prine is primed for action

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 October 2005 THERE are, as John Prine is discovering, some drawbacks to suddenly having a popular album. "It seems like I'm out on the road playing all the time, because people want to hear us, just when I'd got it down to not having to work more than weekends," he jokily laments. He plays the region on Saturday.

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