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1. 1. Head music

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 19 November 2003 RADIOHEAD& are enigmatic. To such a point, in fact, that it’s almost become a marketing strategy. Always challenging and often cryptic; it’s also fairly unsurprising that those disillusioned web-heads are prompted to find meaning.

2. 2. Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning (Sony Music)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 06 November 2003 THIS is about as sexy as scuzzy gets. Take the most enduring, hard-living electro rockers of the last decade and fuse their work seamlessly with the utterings of one of the most endearing supermodels.

3. 3. Shirley Horn - May The Music Never End (Verve)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 13 November 2003 ALWAYS one of the more laconic jazz singers, Horn's vocals are now unadorned to the level of speech or, occasionally, of whispering.

4. 4. Late Night Tales - Jamiroquai (Whoa Music)

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 19 November 2003 BASICALLY pitched as a collection of songs that influenced Jay Kay – the man behind Jamiroquai, but more realistically, this is a selection of lurved-up loveboat material for discerning soul-weekender attendees and Northern Soul fanatics looking to re-live their youth.

5. 5. The Art of Noise

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 12 November 2003 SICK and tired of the ‘lad author’ tag and ready to talk pop music, author Nick Hornby is in fighting mood, discovers David Sue.

6. 6. Magic man

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 14 November 2003 MATTHEW Bourne really does believe there's magic in the music. "When I was young, I believed that if I put on my favourite music when I was ill, it would make me better," he chuckles.

7. 7. Muse flash

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 24 November 2003 MATT Bellamy can recall the exact moment when, at the age of 13, he decided to become a rock guitarist. "I saw a video of Jimi Hendrix in Monterey, when he set fire to his guitar," says Bellamy. "I thought that was unbelievable - the first time I had understood the idea of danger being involved in music."

8. 8. Bhangra gong!

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 11 November 2003 IT'S such hard work being a million-selling music artist. At least that's what bhangra star MC Metz is telling his parents.

9. 9. The Wight soul survivor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 05 November 2003 BASS& guitarist Mark King has been limbering up the most famous thumb in funk music as he sets out to play an "ultimate tour" of Level 42 favourites.

10. 10. Emmylou Harris @ Bridgewater Hall

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 19 November 2003 LOOKING impossibly elegant and drop-dead cool even when she wanders casually on stage wearing T-shirt and jeans to lend vocal harmonies to support band mate Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris remains living proof that it is possible to grow older gracefully in the music business.

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