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1. 1. Stage music

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 03 October 2002 GOOD heavens, is theatre hip again? For word reaches me that Fat Boy Slim, Groove Armada and Moby are all clamouring for a cameo in a new play.

2. 2. The Sonar Yen

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 10 October 2002 Put The Sonar Yen on the front cover of the NME, award them a Mercury Music Prize and then grant them a 'Lifetime Achievement' at the MTV Music Awards and not a single member would bat an eyelid.

3. 3. Air Guitar @ Cornerhouse

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 22 October 2002 THE trouble with pop music-nostalgia, unlike what constitutes good art in fact, is that it's a useless idea under preservation. It's this conflict between the ephemeral and legacy that makes the Cornerhouse's current Air Guitar exhibition as hit and miss as it sounds.

4. 4. Classics: John Adams - Los Angeles Philharmonic (Nonesuch)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 October 2002 WRITTEN in 1999 (before El Nino), this is the latest John Adams piece for symphony orchestra (characteristically, it fulfilled four commissions simultaneously), and one of his biggest.

5. 5. Peek-a-boo

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 October 2002 Award-winning Frantic Assembly collaborate with Lamb on the voyeuristic Peepshow.

6. 6. Mint Royale, My Computer, Roger @ City Live!

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 31 October 2002 TWO bands chose tonight (Wednesday) to make their live debuts, but they have markedly different goals: Mint Royale have sold plenty of records but are written off as leftovers from the big beat scene; while My Computer have a universally praised debut album Vulnerabilia that not enough people have heard.

7. 7. A New Morning for Suede

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 October 2002 City Life's David Sue unearths the rural side of the happier, more grown-up Suede by talking to guitarist Richard Oakes before their Manchester Academy show on Sunday.

8. 8. Trafford's metal favourites Oceansize

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 October 2002 At long long last, Trafford's metal favourites are releasing a record. Tom Kirk hears what it's like to love a one-armed woman.

9. 9. This week's concerts

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 October 2002 AT a glance guide to classical and opera concerts from Friday, October 11 to Friday, October 18.

10. 10. Jazz - Esbjorn Svensson, Jimmy Scott, Bill Evans and James Carr

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 October 2002 THE tender and sensitive - almost falsetto - voice of Jimmy Scott is brought to bear on a collection of familiar ballads.

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