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Review: Katzenjammer, Manchester Sound Control

12:04pm Saturday 3rd November 2012

IT is hard to write objectively about a band you have seen three times in a week but I’ll try.

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Review: Muse, Manchester Arena

10:09am Friday 2nd November 2012

WHEN you’ve had the label ‘best band in the world’ hung around your shoulders it could prove more albatross than accolade.

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Review: Diana Vickers @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester

10:51am Thursday 9th February 2012

THE ‘new’ Diana emerged with a powerhouse showcase revealing songs from her new album.

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Review: Classical Spectacular @ MEN Arena, Manchester

4:01pm Friday 2nd December 2011

For those who stayed home to watch Strictly Come Dancing or The X Factor — shame on you. Still it was your loss.

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Review: Ramsbottom Music Festival 2011

12:40pm Monday 19th September 2011

WITH GALLERY: Thousands of fans flocked to Ramsbottom Cricket Club over the weekend for the town’s first music festival.

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Review: Dolly Parton @ MEN Arena, Manchester

4:12pm Thursday 15th September 2011

DECKED in rhinestones with the sort of blonde curls that would make any Essex girl jealous, the Queen of Country Dolly Parton could never be described as understated.

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Review: Double Scoop Sundae Festival @ Heaton Park, Manchester

6:10pm Thursday 28th July 2011

We went along for the Saturday and found something that was more like the ultimate summer fete than a festival in the conventional sense.

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Review: James Taylor @ MEN Arena, Manchester

5:08pm Friday 8th July 2011

WOULD it work? The legendary James Taylor, the man with a guitar who has written 150 songs, be able to hold an audience at the huge MEN Arena.

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Review: Dr Dee: An English Opera @ Palace Theatre, Manchester

10:46am Friday 8th July 2011

FORGET Pop Star to Opera Star on the TV, this is the real thing.

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Review: Flaming Lips @ Jodrell Bank

4:55pm Thursday 7th July 2011

IS science the new rock and roll?

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Review: The Monkees @ Apollo, Manchester

2:56pm Monday 16th May 2011

WITH the iconic Monkeemobile parked outside, a timewarp enveloped the Apollo as Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Davy Jones reminded a sell-out crowd just exactly what Monkeemania was.

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Review: I Am Kloot @ The Lowry, Salford

3:20pm Thursday 12th May 2011

GIGS in theatres are always slightly odd. The natural urge is to be somewhat reverent in such a grand setting, and so there’s little singing along and even the end-of-song applause is always polite.

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Review: Rumer @ Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

2:56pm Wednesday 6th April 2011

RUMOUR has it. . that Rumer's next album will eclipse her Seasons of My Soul debut masterpiece that made her the fastest-selling new artist of 2010.

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Review: Kylie Minogue @ MEN Arena, Manchester

3:10pm Monday 4th April 2011

IT’S often said that Kylie’s longevity is due to her talent for “reinventing” herself.

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Review: Glasvegas @ The Soundhouse, Bolton

1:08pm Friday 1st April 2011

It’s always a good sign when most of the audience can sing along to entire songs — strong Glaswegian accent included — as they did to favourites My Own Cheating Heart, Geraldine and encore Daddy’s Gone.

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Review: The Wanted @ O2 Apollo, Manchester

4:35pm Thursday 31st March 2011

IF the screams of nearly 3,000 teenage girls are to be believed — and having heard them it is difficult not to — The Wanted have made it into the big time.

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Review: Cee Lo Green @ Academy, Manchester

1:42pm Monday 28th March 2011

FRESH from his capture of Best International Male at the Brit Awards, the American hip hop star turned pop phenomenon Cee Lo Green is the hottest ticket in town.

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Review: Elbow @ MEN Arena, Manchester

1:41pm Monday 28th March 2011

For 20 years, Guy Garvey and his band have sung hymns to the rainy streets of Manchester, and to lovers and friends found and lost there.

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Review: The Stranglers @ Academy, Manchester

1:45pm Monday 28th March 2011

COMING as it did as the last gig of a three-week UK tour, it was perhaps inevitable that something unexpected might happen.

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Review: McFly @ MEN Arena, Manchester

7:14pm Tuesday 22nd March 2011

There were giant beach balls, a flying stage, fireworks, a bizarre but equally impressive rap, guns firing T-shirts into the crowd, and at the back of the stage, a gas-powered flaming sign that threatened to engulf the drummer.

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Review: The Australian Pink Floyd Show @ Apollo, Manchester

4:13pm Monday 14th March 2011

BEGINNING with the obligatory Shine On You Crazy Diamond, The Australian Pink Floyd Show proved yet again why they are widely lauded as the ‘best tribute band in the world’.

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