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1. 1. On track with Courtney Pine

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 09 March 2002 On the eve of his major Commonwealth concert, Courtney Pine, OBE, talks to Mike Butler about computer games, the limitations of music and other modern day jazz stories.

2. 2. A Manchester-made festival

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 14 March 2002 MOVE over Glastonbury - Manchester is to stage its own music festival this summer.

3. 3. Alfie @ The Ritz

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 25 March 2002 "This is a big night for us", shouted Alfie frontman Lee Gorton at the Ritz. It was a somewhat modest statement from a man whose Chorlton based band have toured the world with Badly Drawn Boy and been hailed as the pioneers of NAM (the New Acoustic Movement) by the music press.

4. 4. Perfect Knight

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 01 March 2002 Beverley Knight describes herself as a `tenacious b****,'' but when you're fighting against the stonewall indifference toward UK soul, you take your chances where you can. It figures that this will extend to the auto-repairs on a broken down Vauxhall, but let's talk music.

5. 5. The best in pop and rock

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 25 March 2002 Manchester is spoilt for choice in the music stakes on Monday, hosting two of the most sought after gigs of the year - The Strokes and Pop Idols.

6. 6. Timo Maas - Loud (Four Twenty)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 04 March 2002 A SOMEWHAT tastier offering from Planet Groove here.& It opens impressively with Help Me, which has a vocal by Kelis supported by something which sounds like incidental music from Star Trek.

7. 7. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (Locked On)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 22 March 2002 CHANCES& are Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, doesn't get out to Ayia Napia or Ibiza much. Debut single Has It Come To This? may have nudged him one premature step in the bling-bling camp of the Brit Urban Music clan, but as far as generational baggage goes, its blue-collar realism leans more The Specials way than say, So Solid.

8. 8. The Spirit Of Friendship Festival

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 08 March 2002 IN just a few months, the world's largest family of nations comes together in Manchester for the Commonwealth Games and this huge sporting event will coincide with the biggest national cultural festival the north west has ever seen, The Spirit Of Friendship Festival.

9. 9. Head

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 15 March 2002

10. 10. Pop Idol: Your reviews

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 27 March 2002 The Pop Idol finalists played at the M.E.N. Arena this week. Here's what you thought of them:

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