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1. INDIE: Manic Street Preachers - Apollo, Sunday

Middleton Guardian, Friday 25 May 2007
ON PAPER, the Manic Street Preachers have always sounded like a wonderful, electrifying rock 'n' roll proposal: a Welsh working-class rock band who welded the bombast of Guns 'n' Roses with social politics, steely rebellion and a fierce sense of bookish intelligence.

2. POP: Pet Shop Boys - Apollo, Monday

Middleton Guardian, Friday 25 May 2007
IN NEED of some pop Midas touch? Of late the answer to any despairing pop artist's prayers has been the Pet Shop Boys.

3. Funeral For A Friend (Apollo)

Middleton Guardian, Thursday 17 May 2007
MORBID by name, very much morbid by nature in the worldview of Welsh emo rockers Funeral ForA Friend.

4. Preview: Bryan Adams

Middleton Guardian, Friday 4 May 2007
WITH his mix of bombastic stadium anthems and self-conscious blue collar schtick, Bryan Adams has spent a good 25 years cultivating his persona as Canada's answer to Bruce Springsteen.

5. Preview: Roy Harper

Middleton Guardian, Friday 4 May 2007
EVERY decent folk revival produces a few lost gems and Roy Harper was certainly one who was ripe for rediscovering.

6. Preview: Roger Waters

Middleton Guardian, Friday 4 May 2007
THE forces of charity can unite even the most warring factions but not always in the long term - Pink Floyd being a fine case in point.

7. Preview: Meatloaf

Middleton Guardian, Friday 4 May 2007
BETTER to think of Meatloaf as less of a rock performer, and more of a major movie franchise in which each instalment gets bigger, more overwrought and expensive but ultimately it's better to stick to the original.

8. Preview: Jan Akkerman

Middleton Guardian, Friday 4 May 2007
THERE can't be many guitarists who can play for Ice-T one minute, then BB King the next but Jan Akkerman is a musician of rarefied talent.

9. Mr Loverman smooches in

Middleton Guardian, Friday 4 May 2007
IF you go along to one of Lionel Ritchie's concert, don't expect to see Cristiano Ronaldo there.
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