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1. 1. Music tips for 2008

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 26 December 2007 THE last 12 months in music were as exciting, interesting and surprising as any in recent memory. Here are our tips for the top in 2008.

2. 2. Karine Polwart - The Fairest Floo'er (Hegri Music)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 20 December 2007 AFTER staking her claim to be one of the most potent voices of contemporary folk music through the truly wonderful albums Faultlines and Scribbled In Chalk, Polwart will deliver up another album of new songs in March.

3. 3. Composer Carl's Cranford shock

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 12 December 2007 COMPOSER and conductor Carl Davis is not one to be slowing down, even after more than 40 years at the top of the world of commercial music.

4. 4. Box of delights captures Detroit sound

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 06 December 2007 A RECENT addition to the club scene, Detroit Public Radio finally finds a new semi-permanent home at The Music Box tonight.

5. 5. Awards shows set for city

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 03 December 2007 FOR years music fans have longingly looked on as a host of stellar acts played venues all over the capital to celebrate the annual ShockWave NME Awards, but no more as next year a scattering of them will take place in Manchester too.

6. 6. Chemical Brothers @ Apollo

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 07 December 2007 THOUGH many of the so-called Nu Rave acts are little more than guitar bands with a working knowledge of an 808, their inexorable rise over this last year has redefined the idea of dance music gigs.

7. 7. Ocean Colour Scene @ Academy 1

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 22 December 2007 THIS year has undoubtedly seen the popularity of live music rise to new heights. No longer the reserve of the young and obsessive, now the older generation refuses to hang up its gigging shoes.

8. 8. Return of the keyboard Lineker

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 20 December 2007 IT'S good to know you get things right, sometimes. It was 1991 when I heard a young piano soloist called Graham Scott give his graduation recital at the Royal Northern College of Music and predicted great things for him.

9. 9. BBC Philharmonic @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 10 December 2007 VASSILY Sinaisky has an almost uncanny sympathy with the spirit of English music.

10. 10. Rihanna @ M.E.N. Arena

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 07 December 2007 SEX sells and R&B is sexy. You don’t need to be a big brother psychologist to work out why this music genre is such a massive money making machine.

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