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1. 1. Power of music ‘can change the way we live’

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 January 2003 COMPOSER Robin Walker is a man with fire in his belly and a conviction that music could be used to change the course of history.

2. 2. Manchester music takes on the world

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 January 2003 IT'S crystal ball time for Rock Manchester. 2002 was the greatest year yet for our new stars, with Doves and Badly Drawn Boy establishing themselves as greats and the new wave making their biggest noise yet. As the Hogmanay chimes fade, here's how things look like panning out in 2003.

3. 3. InMe - Overgrown Eden (Music for Nations)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 January 2003 "IT'S all over now - you've killed me" sings Dave McPherson, lapsing into that wretching snarl only the denizens of the doomiest rock can summon.

4. 4. Contemporary feel to February at RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 28 January 2003 THERE'S a strong focus on contemporary music at the Royal Northern College of Music in February.

5. 5. Chamber festival to set the record straight

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 January 2003 IT may be small, but this year's new year chamber music festival at the RNCM - MendelssohnFest - is set to smash myths and put right musical records.

6. 6. Talich Quartet - Dvorak opp. 96 & 97 (Calliope)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 09 January 2003 THE two works here, written in Spillville, Iowa, in the summer of 1893, have long been among the favourites of lovers of Dvorak's chamber music.

7. 7. Manchester Camerata @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 02 January 2003 MANCHESTER Camerata's New Year's Eve and New Year's Day concerts are a Manchester institution now, and provided a cheerful way to say farewell to the old year's music-making and inaugurate the season of Viennese music.

8. 8. Bar: The Castle & others

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 31 January 2003 Not an ordinary pub by any means and certainly not for Oldham, The Castle is a little bit of indie music history crammed into a velvet lined lounge.

9. 9. Paul sings the Tex-Mex blues

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 January 2003 THE band Paul Young And Los Pacaminos were formed when one of Britain's top vocalists chose to form a band to play Tex-Mex music, a style steeped in the country blues tradition of south west America and the mariachi and norteno music of Mexico rather than the glossy eighties pop so often associated with his name.

10. 10. Tunnel vision

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 22 January 2003 THE latest arrival in Manchester clubbing, stepping into the Conti Club's basement, is The Tube, a new venture for The Music Box management.

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