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1. 1. Top pop names aid Darfur refugees

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 09 December 2004 TOP names from the music world, including Manchester's own Mick Hucknall, united last night to help the people of Sudan.

2. 2. Airing on the side of Manc music

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 14 December 2004 A WEEKLY show on the BBC's local radio station, GMR, now serves as the last bastion of Mancunian music. Simon Donohue shakes its hosts firmly by the hand.

3. 3. Maggini Quartet - Bliss (Naxos)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 December 2004 THE Maggini Quartet, who have achieved such great things with Elgar's and other English composers' chamber music, now turn to Sir Arthur Bliss, one of the most feted of our composers in the post-Second World War period and now suffering from considerable neglect (apart from his film score for The Shape Of Things To Come).

4. 4. Teenage Kicks @ Southern Hotel

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 20 December 2004 THIS may have been a rare chance to catch Badly Drawn Boy performing in his home suburb and Doves' first Manchester appearance for 18 months. But the huge projection of John Peel's face on the outside of the Southern meant there was no doubting who was the real star of the show.

5. 5. Earlies latest greats

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 December 2004 JUST over a year ago, a trio of raggle-taggle Manc musicians and studio types by the names of Giles, Christian and John-Mark (and now better known as The Earlies) hooked up with a mystery Texan called Brandon Carr via the internet, and loosely set about producing an album together.

6. 6. Blue Cat's rare magic

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 December 2004 THE Blue Cat Caf' first opened in 1996, when Danny Donnelly spotted a gaping hole in the Stockport live music market. Since then both the venue and the newly minted record label has helped nurture local acts.

7. 7. Swedish Chamber Orchestra - Vasks (BIS)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 December 2004 THE fact that two out of the three works on this new recording are already well established in the catalogue indicates how much the music of the present-day Latvian composer, Peteris Vasks, has won its place in the affections of performers already.

8. 8. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - John Foulds (Warner)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 December 2004 FOULDS (1880-1939) was a cellist in the Hall' Orchestra in the years before the First World War (and the son of a bassonist member of it) - so it is strange that the CBSO under Rattle's successor, Sakari Oramo, is championing his work.

9. 9. South head in a new direction

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 01 December 2004 THE Beautiful South seem to have spent years cultivating a reputation as one of the world's most serious pop acts. Now, with their latest album, lead singer Paul Heaton says it's time for a change of image.

10. 10. Can you keep a Secret?

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 December 2004 DON'T believe what anyone says. One of the best albums this year for lovers of 'out there' rock 'n' roll is Secret Machine's second album Now Here is Nowhere.

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