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1. 31. The Music – Welcome to the North (Virgin)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 September 2004 NOT being a huge fan of the Leeds quartet to date it seems apt that the band's follow-up to their 2002 eponymous debut closes with the track Open Your Mind, as several listens in I'm now firmly a paid up member of the Kippax quartet's 'for' camp.

2. 32. Halle Summer Music/Gardner @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 28 June 2004 TO play Mozart badly is easy: to play Mozart well is a real test of a musician.

3. 33. Royal Ballet Sinfonia - British Light Music vol. 6 (White Line)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 19 August 2004 MORE good stuff in the "Discoveries" series from White Line - though some of the pieces are well enough known.

4. 34. Gwen Stefani - Love.Angel.Music.Baby. (Interscope)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 22 November 2004 FUN, diverse and overwhelmingly successful, Love.Angel' is surely destined for a better reception than the last few No Doubt albums. Only time will tell what the future holds for her (former?) collective.

5. 35. Benny Carter - The Music Master (Proper Records)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 30 July 2004 CARTER'S death last year at age of 95 ended one of the most consistently productive careers in jazz history.

6. 36. The Verve: This Is Music - The Singles 92-98 (Virgin)

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 20 October 2004 A BAND that still remains as underrated as The Verve deserve better than this - two 'new' sub-standard tracks are not the epitaph you'd hope for. Of course, that's not to say that there aren't great songs on this compilation.

7. 37. The Mountaineers, Tricky Nixon, Fear Of Music, Omerta @ Night & Day

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 December 2004 THIS Northern Ambition gig was hopefully going to be an antidote to the cold, rainy night outside and a break from unavoidable Christmas festivities.

8. 38. Keith Ingham - Music Music Everywhere (Spotlite)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 27 August 2004 INGHAM is one the UK's leading mainstream pianists and this release is a fine showcase for his talents.

9. 39. Music festivals 2004: Move

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 08 July 2004 THE city's very own mustic festival, Move,& takes over the Old Trafford cricket ground& this weekend.& Find out who is playing, catch up with our interviews and buy your tickets, here.

10. 40. Oceansize - Music For Nurses EP (Beggars Banquet)

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 14 October 2004 YOU can't fault Oceansize's sense of ambition and grandeur. As most bands still seem infatuated with three-chord punk or backward looking Stones/Smiths/Jam revisionism, they aim for much higher, cerebral ground.

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