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We're giving away a pair of tickets to attend an exclusive JD Set studio session between April 26 and 30 at a secret location - plus tickets for the public gig on May 27, featuring Mike Joyce, John Cooper Clarke, The Whip, I Am Kloot and more. One runner-up will receive a set of five gig tickets.

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Main event: JLS

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ASTON Merrygold tells Sarah Walters that Brit Award contenders JLS have been putting everything into their rehearsals. Read more…

Interview: Modern English - John Robb, Johnny Jay

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OFFICIALLY, this month sees the launch of Modern English, the exciting new record label set up by Manc music personalities, writer John Robb and producer Johnny Jay. Read more…

Interview: Chapel Club

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"I’VE read I want to be published by Faber and Faber,” laughs Chapel Club frontman Luke Bowman when I ask him about his growing reputation as indie-rock’s new poet laureate. Read more…

Interview: The Drums

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IT'S breakfast in an ornate hotel in West London and Jonathan Pierce – magnetic frontman of NYC buzz-band The Drums – is musing over the melancholy nature of his lyrics. Read more…

Interview: Bicycle Thieves

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BICYCLE Thieves may be little more than a year old, but their story already befits a band on the cusp of something special. Singer Tom Hammersley contemplates a thrilling year that has seen his band go from bedroom to Glastonbury via, of all places, Dubai. Read more…

Interview: Example

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WHEN CityLife meets the boisterous 28-year-old Example, he’s holed up in a studio recording the concluding track to his forthcoming album, Won’t Go Quietly; a song which (apparently) sounds like New Order having a bash at dubstep. Read more…

Interview: The Dutch Uncles

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IT seems a perfect time to welcome the arrival of Dutch Uncles: a band aiming to scoop top grades in this year’s rock academia class and who, quite possibly, are Manchester music 2010’s finest advert for thoughtful muso excellence. Read more…

Interview: Hurts

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IN May 2009, Hurts established a MySpace page and posted a self-made video (funded by the paltry sum of £20) for a song called Wonderful Life. The track luxuriated in an exquisite early-80s sound that was simultaneously joyous and mournful, like ringing in the New Year on your own with a bottle of meths. Read more…

Interview: Motion Theory

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LAST year, when Elbow collaborated with the Hallé Orchestra for those spectacular concerts at the Bridgewater Hall, the Bury band set something of a benchmark for contemporary rock musicians. New Manchester band Motion Theory, however, intend to take this lofty experimentation even further. Read more…

Interview: Neil Tennant

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AFTER selling 50m records worldwide, Neil Tennant talks to Gary Ryan about why the Pet Shop Boys refuse to be relegated to a musical footnote. Read more…

Must see: Ian Brown

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IAN Brown is gonna trump everyone’s quiet plans for turkey with the trimmings and three generations of the family this Christmas. Because he’s back in Manchester to play for 16,000 of us... Read more…

Interview: Liam Fray

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THE Courteeners mark their return with a new album and a huge sold out city gig. Liam Fray tells Sarah Walters where they've been. Read more…

Interview: Florence Welch

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DESPITE losing our in the Mercury, it has been very much Florence Welch's year. Sarah Walters talks to the lead singer of Florence + The Machine about music, mirrors and... moshers. Read more…

Liam Gallagher: ‘Me and our kid, we were never close’

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HIS last public appearance in Manchester was as front man of Oasis. Now Liam Gallagher returns as head of clothing label Pretty Green. Paul Taylor talked to him about fashion and fraternal love. Read more…

Interview: Martin Fry

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ABC's Martin Fry returns to his home city for an orchestrally-enhanced Lexicon Of Love show. He speaks to Paul Taylor. Read more…

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Must see: Mika

amanda baker wrote: 3 weeks 5 days ago

I went to see mika last night with my 12 year old daughter ,my aunt and my uncle.....we had a ball !! ,Mika ia a must see for definate,my daughter was right at the front and she loved it !!. I also love the fact that Mika is fantastic live ,it was like listening to the album at home !!, I hope he comes back to manchester next year as i will be going again with my daughter. Amanda xxx

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Must see: X Factor Live

Sarah Walters wrote:

Overnight stardom used to be a pipe dream for musicians and singers. It took The Beatles four years of knocking around local and international circuits to get Brian Epstein to notice them and offer them their big break.

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