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           <title>Review: Katzenjammer, Manchester Sound Control</title>
           
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  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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           <title>Review: Muse, Manchester Arena</title>
           
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  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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           <title>Review: Alison Krauss and Union Station @ Manchester Apollo</title>
           
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  THE queen of Bluegrass and her powerhouse band brought a touch of Tennessee to a dreary Manchester night.
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           <title>Review: Diana Vickers @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester</title>
           
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           <title>Review: Classical Spectacular @ MEN Arena, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <title>Review: Steve Earle @ Academy, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[SEVEN wives, time in jail, problems with addiction - you name it Steve Earle has done it.]]></description>
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           <title>Review: The Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular @ Albert Halls, Bolton</title>
           
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           <title>Review: John Gomm @ Octagon, Bolton</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[DRUMS, bass and acoustic guitar and bongos — who would have guessed all of these sounds could, simultaneously, and played by just one man, come out of one instrument?]]></description>
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           <title>Review: Ramsbottom Music Festival 2011</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[WITH GALLERY: Thousands of fans flocked to Ramsbottom Cricket Club over the weekend for the town’s first music festival. 
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           <title>Review: Andrea Glass @ The Met, Bury</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[“SEAMLESS” is probably not the word to describe Andrea Glass’ homecoming set at The Met, despite her cheeky insistence on using it regularly while talking to the audience.]]></description>
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           <title>Review: Dolly Parton @ MEN Arena, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <title>Review: Double Scoop Sundae Festival @ Heaton Park, Manchester</title>
           
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           <title>Review: James Taylor @ MEN Arena, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <title>Review: Dr Dee: An English Opera @ Palace Theatre, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  FORGET Pop Star to Opera Star on the TV, this is the real thing.
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           <title>Review: Flaming Lips @ Jodrell Bank</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[IS science the new rock and roll? 
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           <title>Review: Sinead O'Connor @ Manchester International Festival</title>
           
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  THE shaven headed, elfin-featured waif may have long disappeared but the talent and that voice remain undiminished.
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           <title>Review: Bon Jovi @ Lancashire CCC, Old Trafford</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[The boys from New Jersey settled into their compact stage set and quickly pleased the damp crowd with opening song ‘Blood on Blood’ and’ You Give Love a Bad Name’. 
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           <title>Review: Take That @ City Of Manchester Stadium</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[FANS might have waited for a decade-and-a-half to see the country’s biggest “manband” tour once more as a five-piece.
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           <title>Review: Rush @ MEN Arena, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  RUSH is one band that can certainly fill an arena, and they certainly did so in Manchester and the faithful fans came out to see their heroes in concert once again.
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           <title>Review: The Monkees @ Apollo, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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           <title>Review: I Am Kloot @ The Lowry, Salford</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <title>Review: Rumer @ Bridgewater Hall, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <title>Review: Kylie Minogue @ MEN Arena, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[IT’S often said that Kylie’s longevity is due to her talent for “reinventing” herself. 

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           <title>Review: Glasvegas @ The Soundhouse, Bolton</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <title>Review: The Wanted @ O2 Apollo, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <description><![CDATA[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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           <title>Review: The Australian Pink Floyd Show @ Apollo, Manchester</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[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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