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1. 1. Boldness, curiosity, adventure... that sums up Costello

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 October 2003 THERE'S nothing Elvis Costello likes more than to talk about music - unless, of course, it's to actually make music. "I'm a working musician, it's what I do," he asserts of his place in the current pop world.

2. 2. Gorbachev / Loren / Clinton / Nagano - Peter And The Wolf (Pentatone Classics)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 23 October 2003 YES, I blinked at first, too. But that ace of conductors, Kent Nagano, has come up with another coup in this remarkable for-charity super-audio CD, by getting Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton and Sophia Loren to do the voice spots in a pairing of the traditional Peter And The Wolf with a new, much more politically correct story with music by the French composer, Jean-Paul Beintus.

3. 3. Robotic movement

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 October 2003 IT'S all too rare these days to find a united and buoyant local music scene that's as approachable as it is brimming with musical potential. But even rarer is it to find some people who completely embody that community-minded ethos. Meet Alan Lewinsky and Rachael Elwell, the Manchester electro scene's self-elected "odd couple" (both romantically and professionally). <BR>

4. 4. Folk legend gets on his bike

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 01 October 2003 THE& problem with Ashley Hutchings for professional cynics and jeremiahs like me, whose natural response to famous men is less to praise them than to bury them, is that he's as talented as his website claims he is.

5. 5. Mick and Christina set for Arena

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 October 2003 COULD it be the battle of the sexes at the M.E.N. Arena? The award-winning venue is to play host not only to Mick Hucknall, leading Simply Red on stage and famous for squiring some of the world's most beautiful women, but also to raunchy chart star Christina Aguilera.

6. 6. Lowgold are winners

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 02 October 2003 THREE& years ago everything seemed rosy in the world of Lowgold. The band were opening for Coldplay across the UK and dodging a few googlies from singer Chris Martin during impromptu games of cricket backstage. Suffice to say it hasn't gone precisely to plan since then.

7. 7. So weird and wonderful

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 October 2003 SINCE their lovely 1999 album, The Soft Bulletin, and its even-better successor, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, served notice on the world that The Flaming Lips were much more than just another crazy art-rock combo, their rise has seemed unstoppable.

8. 8. Peter's principle

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 30 October 2003 IT would have been surprising if pianist Peter Donohoe's fellow pupils at Chetham's had not hated him, as he took up in succession the violin, the viola, the clarinet and the double bass, all with the same apparent facility as he had at the piano.

9. 9. The Flaming Lips @ Manchester Apollo

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 October 2003 UP on stage, Flaming Lips frontman, Wayne Coyne, is introducing the first song of the evening. He's surrounded by an assortment of dancing, furry animals, while behind him is a giant video monitor projecting images of nudity and death.

10. 10. Turbo powered

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 October 2003 BURN the political correctness manuals - Aussie retro men Jet are coming to town.

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