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1. 1. Manc music tips for 2009

   CityLife, Monday 05 January 2009 FOR most mere mortals, January is usually a time for quiet contemplation, stupid diets and watching the new series of Celebrity Big Brother. Yet for Manchester music, the word 'detox' simply does not exist.

2. 2. Gig of the week: Liam Frost

   CityLife, Friday 06 November 2009 GRANTED, it wasn’t quite Take That at Old Trafford, neither was it Oasis at Heaton Park – but for sheer gutsy defiance, Liam Frost’s run of comeback shows at Ruby Lounge earlier this year must rank up there with Manc music’s best residencies of 2009.

3. 3. Hello Math-chester, Van Gogh's ear

   CityLife, Wednesday 30 September 2009 ASK most bands in 2009 what's top of their shopping list and they'll probably point you in the direction of the keyboard shop. New Manchester band Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear, however, have their eyes fixed on a completely different sort of pop apparatus.

4. 4. I Am Your Autopilot prepare for lift-off

   CityLife, Tuesday 04 August 2009 The year might be 2009, but step onto most Manchester dance-floors and chances are you’ll be beamed straight back to 1989. With Eighties electro fever currently sweeping the pop world, it seems even Manchester isn’t immune to indulging in its dance-floor past.

5. 5. Janice Graham boast real northern soul

   CityLife, Thursday 24 September 2009 IT was just over 40 years ago that guitarist Pete Townsend wrote his brash, defiant defence of youth - The Who's iconic song My Generation. Fast forward to 2009 and Manchester upstarts Janice Graham are now making their very own generational pop statement - only it is much less complimentary.

6. 6. I Am Your Autopilot: preparing for lift-off

   CityLife, Tuesday 04 August 2009 THE year might be 2009, but step onto most Manchester dancefloors and chances are you’ll be beamed straight back to 1989. With eighties electro fever currently sweeping the pop world, it seems even Manchester isn’t immune to indulging in its dance-floor past.

7. 7. Versus Cancer band competition: Winner announced

   CityLife, Friday 04 December 2009 THE wait is over after the most heated musical debate since the Jedward saga – the winner of 2009’s Versus Cancer Unsigned Band Competition has finally been decided.

8. 8. No Life having the time of their lives

   CityLife, Thursday 04 September 2008 FOR a genre so usually associated with the sweaty, combustible world of club culture, there’s just something a little TOO clinical about 2009’s batch of electro-pop contenders. Thank goodness, then, for Manchester’s No Life, a band who are strongly committed to having a good time, all the time.

9. 9. Glow from out of the darkness

   CityLife, Friday 09 September 2011 Manchester singer-songwriter Pierre Hall bounds into a city centre bar, his skinny frame wrapped in a denim shirt and circulation-restricting jeans, bursting to tell all about his latest band project, the highly-acclaimed Golden Glow and resulting debut album Tender Is The Night.

10. 10. Interview: The Rainband

    CityLife, Friday 20 May 2011 David Sue talks to an outfit proud of their Manchester music roots.

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