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1. 1. Boon for fans of Manc music

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 14 January 2005 FOR some time now Terry Christian has been one of the few voices championing Manchester music on the radio, but now the presenter has a rival to contend with. Clint Boon, former member of Inspiral Carpets and now successful club DJ, is to host a new show on Fridays.

2. 2. Music charts: Elvis is back on top

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 10 January 2005 ELVIS Presley is back at the top of the UK singles chart with his 19th British number one, with the promise of more chart-toppers to come.

3. 3. Join the Club

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 26 January 2005 MUCH loved, much lauded and at the same time strangely under-rated, American Music Club return once again after a ten-year gap. The quartet stop off in the city for a rare live show on January 30.

4. 4. The blues is my religion

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 17 January 2005 HE is the presenter of a gospel show on TV's God Channel, but as singer and harmonica player of The Blues Band, Paul Jones also helps keep alive what used to be dubbed the "devil's music".

5. 5. Jilly's cheap thrills

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 14 January 2005 DUE to the dwindling amount of dance music magazines on the market the average newcomer to music and going out might be fooled into think ing that dance music in its various guises is the soundtrack of choice to everyone's nights out in the city. Plainly this isn't so, as clubs like Rock Kitchen and Jilly's will attest.

6. 6. ShockWaves NME Tour: Kaiser Chiefs interview

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 19 January 2005 SINCE an NME single of the week gong for Oh My God in May, Leeds indie-pop quintet Kaiser Chiefs have not looked back. Now the group are set to open the bill on the music magazine's forthcoming tour.

7. 7. Tsunami appeal nights: Love from Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 11 January 2005 ARDWICK'S Manchester Apollo and the Manchester City Music Network have announced they are teaming up to lay on night of live music to raise money for the appeal. Already confirmed are Badly Drawn Boy, Elbow, I Am Kloot, Nine Black Alps and the Durutti Column.

8. 8. Step out with duo's dance double

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 January 2005 THE award-winning Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company will be staging a world premiere at the Royal Northern College Of Music on February 1 with Flicker, a new music commission from Michael Nyman.

9. 9. Johnston Quartet @ RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 10 January 2005 THE annual orgy of chamber music at the Royal Northern College of Music - this year it's called "Schumann & Brahms Fest", with music by both Robert and Clara Schumann as well as Brahms - seemed even more orgiastic than usual in the Johnston Quartet's performance of Schumann's string quartet in A (op 41, no 3).

10. 10. Play it again, Tony

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 January 2005 IF Manchester music really is going through some freakish cultural timewarp at the moment, then it really wouldn't be complete without one other element - Tony Wilson. But after the rampant ego-athon that was the 24 Hour Party People movie, does the world really need more Tony Wilson in their lives? Yes it does - especially when it's Tony Wilson returning with a brand new record label, no less.

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