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11. Preview: Mika
Middleton Guardian, Friday 23 February 2007UNUSUAL, quirky and a wide vocal range are ingredients that create pop phenomenon Mika, who promises a fun performance at Manchester's Academy 2 this Tuesday.
12. Preview: Fron Male Voice Choir
Middleton Guardian, Friday 23 February 2007FRON Male Voice Choir is riding the crest of a tidal wave. It's not every day a group of 60 retired builders, policemen, farmers, miners and prison warders from a tiny North Wales coal-mining village top the album charts and have their lives made into a Hollywood film.
13. The Dinner Detective: Evuna
Middleton Guardian, Friday 23 February 2007TAPAS restaurants are springing up everywhere these days. Two have appeared on Deansgate in the past 12 months alone - La Vina near the corner of John Dalton Street and Pesto a few hundred yards further on (if you can call Italian mini-dishes "tapas".)
14. Preview: The Feeling
Middleton Guardian, Friday 23 February 2007ROCK 'n' roll, as we all know, is a narcisistic world, full of vanity and obsessed with notions of credibilty and "cool''. It's no wonder then, that Britain took so warmly to The Feeling - a group who, from day one, were brazen in their attempts to tear up the rock star "cool'' rulebook.
15. Damon: Why it feels so right to write ...
Middleton Guardian, Friday 23 February 2007BADLY Drawn Boy's current tour has been a long time coming. Mancunian singer songwriter Damon Gough was on track to complete the challenge of recording five albums in five years after the Mercury Prize-winning The Hour Of Bewilderbeast, in 2000.
16. A winner - the X-citing Factor
Middleton Guardian, Friday 23 February 2007HOW'S this for a phenomenon: ring this number and wait in the queue to buy tickets for a concert that's taking place in three months' time. Nobody yet knows who will be headlining, nor how many acts you'll see.
17. Preview: Opera North
Middleton Guardian, Friday 23 February 2007OPERA North's winter season comes to The Lowry this week. The highly-regarded, Leeds-based company will perform recitals of three popular operas from Tuesday until Saturday, March 3.
18. A Bit About ... Kathryn Stott
Middleton Guardian, Friday 16 February 2007PIANIST Kathryn Stott brings her new recital programme to the Bridgewater Hall next Friday.
19. Looking fresh on the slopes
Middleton Guardian, Friday 16 February 2007LET'S face it. The words "waterproof" and "stylish" rarely inhabit the same sentence on a fashion page. But, following meagre early snowfalls, the European winter sports season is now in full, if belated, swing.
20. Preview: Kaiser Chiefs
Middleton Guardian, Friday 16 February 2007KAISERr Chiefs, perhaps more so than any of their peers, are largely responsible for British guitar leapfrogging from the indie underground ghettos and straight into the mainstream in recent years.