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1. 1. Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead (Polydor)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 October 2004 A KILLER pay-off line seals the surprise display of genius that Snow Patrol has brought to the world of music in the last 12 months.

2. 2. Franz Ferdinand's art attack

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 October 2004 FRANZ Ferdinand, who - and how arty is this? - take their name from the archduke whose assassination in Sarajevo precipitated the First World War, play the 'nice, neat-looking boys' card. For them, you feel, the look is as important as the music.

3. 3. Jimmy Eat World - Futures (Interscope)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 18 October 2004 I GREW up with Jimmy Eat World, literally. They were always around in Mesa, Arizona when I was growing up. Kicking my way through adolescence, I must have seen them play a few dozen times on their home turf at Mesa's Nile Theatre and Tempe's Nita's Hideaway (both RIP).

4. 4. The Boxer Rebellion - Code Red (Poptones)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 07 October 2004 IT seems strange that a record label headed by the world's most famous critic of mild-mannered indie music, Alan McGee, who once famously called Coldplay 'bed wetters', should find anything of substance in The Boxer Rebellion.

5. 5. The Great Crusades - Welcome To The Hiawatha Inn (Glitterhouse)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 11 October 2004 CONSIDERING how often Tom Waits has been cited during his four-decade career, it is surprising how few artists have tried to replicate his music.

6. 6. Steven Osborne and Martin Roscoe - Messiaen (Hyperion)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 14 October 2004 WRITTEN during the Second World War, Olivier Messiaen's sequence of seven meditations on "the Amen", for two pianos, springs very clearly from his organ music and the profound Christian beliefs he almost always sought to express through it.

7. 7. Baby Bebel

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 13 October 2004 BEBEL Gilberto, bossa nova siren, Carmen Miranda obsessive and multi-tasking domestic goddess, has just released her second album, the follow-up to her extraordinary solo debut Tanto Tempo, and her star is very much in the ascendant.

8. 8. Brothers in harmony

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 19 October 2004 NEIL Finn is happy to acknowledge that his latest album, made with big brother Tim, is just brimming with positive feelings. Listen to a clip from this interview here.

9. 9. Time to get Dizzee

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 October 2004 TWENTY-YEAR-OLD East Londoner Dizzee Rascal (real name Dylan Mills) is embarking on his first full-scale UK tour, including a gig in Manchester on Wednesday, October 27. But, in all seriousness, he surely is a man who does not need to extend his public profile any further.

10. 10. Minnie Driver @ Apollo

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 October 2004 THERE were two key questions bumping around inside the heads of Finn Brothers fans: how heavily would Crowded House tunes feature in their set? And would Hollywood A-lister Minnie Driver be any cop as the support act?

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