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1. Preview: Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family
Heywood Advertiser, Thursday 14 December 2006YOU could say Manchester's own Liam Frost is old beyond his years.
2. South go west to a new home
Heywood Advertiser, Thursday 14 December 2006WHEN Beautiful South frontman Paul Heaton first moved to Manchester three years ago, to settle down with his wife and baby in West Disbury, he remarked of his new, adopted home city: "I just like to walk the streets and observe. There's something very inspiring about the day-to-day life in this city."
3. Preview: The Pogues
Heywood Advertiser, Thursday 14 December 2006IT'S perhaps no surprise to hear that Shane MacGowan and Pete Doherty have become recent allies
4. PREVIEW: Tenacious D
Heywood Advertiser, Friday 8 December 2006SOME may argue that there's no room for comedy in music but when Hollywood actor Jack Black gets involved, certain allowances can be made.
5. PREVIEW: Iron Maiden
Heywood Advertiser, Friday 8 December 2006IT is the season of pantomime, so what better time than the return of Iron Maiden, the enduring heavy metallers for whom capes, daggers and medieval castles are as mandatory to stage performance as a sweaty power chord riff?
6. Likely lads taking over Oasis baton
Heywood Advertiser, Friday 8 December 2006IN nearly all of his interviews to promote Oasis' greatest hits compilation Stop The Clocks, Noel Gallagher has spoken repeatedly of his need to "pass the baton".
7. PREVIEW: Pharrell Williams
Heywood Advertiser, Friday 8 December 2006BACK in 2004, a survey of British radio apparently found that more than 20 per cent of the tracks played were produced by Pharrell Williams.
8. PREVIEW: Placebo
Heywood Advertiser, Friday 8 December 2006PLACEBO spent most of the Nineties being maligned as naff, posing Goth outsiders, so how did they end up headlining the MEN Arena 10 years on?
9. Preview: The Levellers
Heywood Advertiser, Friday 1 December 2006THIS being the generation of music downloading and YouTube, there's a convincing argument that pop tribalism is now dead and we're all as likely to be listening to Arctic Monkeys as we are Sugababes on our iPods.
10. Preview: Status Quo
Heywood Advertiser, Friday 1 December 2006THERE was something rather apposite about Status Quo's cameo appearance in Coronation Street last year, when the dinosaur rockers played at Les Battersby's somewhat disastrous wedding reception.