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Must see: X Factor Live

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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. Read more…

Must see: Alberta Cross

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Here at CityLife, we love anagrams. And we also love Alberta Cross, the alt-folk blues rockers from Sweden and London. Read more…

Must see: Tom Clarke

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With his band, The Enemy, on voluntary hiatus until the middle of the year, Tom Clarke has found himself with a little time on his hands. And Tom is choosing to fill it in a way that is surely a proper bit of good news for Mancunian music lovers. Read more…

Preview: Editors

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Their biggest fan (Michael Jackson, people!) may have gone, but Editors would have made Jacko proud of late. Read more…

Preview: Star Wars In Concert

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There are nerds, and there are uber nerds. There’s even a subset above them – the Star Wars nerds. And that top dog in the nerds stakes now gets its very own arena concert... Read more…

Must see: Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal

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Two of modern music’s most colourful and musically divisive characters – Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal – first found common ground in 2007 when the pair teamed up on the Rascal’s third album for a grime reworking of So You Wanna Be A Boxer. Read more…

Must see: Passion Pit / Ellie Goulding

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It all seems a little bit ludicrous now, seeing Ellie Goulding’s name listed as a supporting artist to a band so firmly outside the mainstream that there’s more chance of Bono admitting he’s not the kind of ambassador world peace is actually looking for than Passion Pit getting a Top 40 hit. Read more…

Must see: The XX

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There are some gigs that this little weekly information exchange between us and you can help you get into, but there are others that you just have to hear about as soon as the tickets go on sale. Read more…

Interview: Dave Haslam

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All great interviews start with a challenging interviewee and a cracking set of questions. “When I interviewed Guy Garvey for True Faith at the Manchester International Festival,” says DJ and writer Dave Haslam, “he said he'd give me £1 for every question he hadn't had to answer before.” Read more…

Preview: Peter Andre - Apollo

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The steamy life and times of singer Peter Andre becoming newsworthy again is perhaps the most unexpected twist of fortunes the 21st century could have conjured. Read more…

Must see: Kathryn Williams

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Britain – it seems a fair observation to make – is not lacking in ridiculously talented female singer songwriters these days, as the last two years of music have proved. Read more…

Must see: Mumford And Sons

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Set aside the contribution of the Brit School to the recent London music scene, and it’s the reappraisal of folk music that has been a standout feature of many of the capital’s bands. Read more…

Gig of the week: The Heartbreaks - single launch

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Given their choice of name, The Heartbreaks are a band you might expect to instinctively romanticise their career story. Although to examine the hard facts, it’s pretty tough to add any more romance to an already breathless rock ‘n’roll love story. Read more…

Interview: Anna Kashfi

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In what has already been a frank and emotional discussion with CityLife, Manchester folk duo Anna Kashfi – Sian Webley and James Youngjohns – appear most visibly moved when the conversation shifts to the recent death of author JD Salinger. Read more…

Interview: Field Music

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In a musical climate where bands are having to go to increasing lengths to make money – just short of popping their Brit Award in the post to CashMyGold – Field Music are giving the UK a valuable lesson in keeping things ‘proper’ indie in the 010s. 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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