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1. 1. Bebel Gilberto - Aganju (Atlantic)

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 November 2004 THE new Queen of Brazilian music won a Mobo as Best World Music Act and she's the daughter of Joao Gilberto - the man who created Bossa Nova - so the pressure was always on to deliver.

2. 2. Michaelangelo Quartet & Ralph Kisbaum @ RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 09 November 2004 THEY made an outstanding impression on their first visit to Manchester Chamber Concerts Society's series last year - and the Michelangelo Quartet, superstars of the chamber music world, were amazing value this time, too.

3. 3. European talent out of tune at MTV Awards

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 November 2004 THE awards were held in their name - but European bands failed to make their mark at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

4. 4. Sizer Barker - Hotel Juicy Parlour (Real World)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 01 November 2004 IN 2000 Sizer Barker released Day by Day, a dreamy siren of a pop single that had the music press crashing on the rocks.

5. 5. Sting in the tale

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 November 2004 "I DON'T know where I'd be without music or what I'd be doing with my fingers if I wasn't playing anything. Stealing? Murdering people? says Sting, who finally arrives in Manchester on Monday, November 22, six months after he originally planned.

6. 6. Are you ready to Wobble?

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 01 November 2004 BASS virtuoso and rhythm magician Jah Wobble returns to Manchester on Saturday when he takes to the stage at the Life Caf'.

7. 7. Lostprophets @ Apollo

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 22 November 2004 FROM the moment the curtain rises to reveal frontman Ian Watkins astride a podium with his back to the audience, it's clear that regardless of venue, Lostprophets are putting on an arena show. Slickness in spades.

8. 8. City songwriter has X-Factor

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 05 November 2004 ISOBEL Heyworth is sitting in a city centre caf' sipping milky tea. The 23-year-old has suddenly had a brainwave concerning how the current (and very large) crop of Manchester singer-songwriters should decide who's the greatest of them all.

9. 9. K.D. Lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel (Nonesuch)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 November 2004 IN releasing an album of covers of songs exclusively written by Canadian artists K. D. Lang is hoping to avoid replicating what Rod Stewart is steadily doing for US musical heritage with his annual series of grubby 'American Songbook' homages.

10. 10. Max strikes back with musical memories

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 November 2004 ONE of the region's most famous sons is to kick off the festive season at the Royal Northern College of Music. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is to return for a concert with the BBC Philharmonic, when he will conduct a programme of music inspired by the places he remembers as a child growing up in Salford.

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