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 | |  | | | 3rd & 4th May 2009 | | Manchester Apollo | | UK ska legends with hits 'Ghost Town', 'Do Nothing', 'Rat Race' & 'Rude Boys Outa Jail' | |
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 | |  | | | 5th May 2009GARY MOORE (blues rock) | | | | Manchester Apollo | | Belfast blues guitarist with hits 'Out In The Fields', 'Parisienne Walkways' & 'Over The Hills & Far Away' | | |
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 | |  | | | 11th May 2009 COUNTING CROWS (rock) | | - rescheduled - | BEN FOLDS FIVE (pop) | | | MELEE (pop rock) | | | | Manchester Evening News Arena | | US college rockers who had hits 'Big Yellow Taxi', 'Mr Jones', 'Accidentally In Love' & 'American Girls' | |
ONLY MEN ALOUD (choir) | | | Manchester Bridgewater Hall | | Welsh choir who won BBC's Last Choir Standing in 2008 and cover jazz standards to classic pop & folk | | also see - ONLY MEN ALOUD - liverpool philharmonic - 6th may 2009 | also see - PAUL POTTS - manchester apollo - 16th oct |
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 | |  | | | | 13th May 2009 | | | Manchester Apollo | | X FACTOR 2008 winner who had hit 'When You Believe', and mixes modern jazz with soul pop | | also see - X FACTOR LIVE - men arena - 28th feb | also see - PAUL POTTS - manchester apollo - 16th oct | also see - RHYDIAN - bridgewater hall - 28th may | also see - SAME DIFFERENCE - manchester apollo - 21st mar |
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 | |  | | | | 14th May 2009 | | | Manchester Evening News Arena | | British guitar god with hits 'Tears In Heaven', 'Layla', 'Behind The Mask' & 'Change The World' | | also see - ERIC CLAPTON - liverpool echo arena - 13th may |
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 | |  | | | | 15th May 2009 | | HERE & NOW TOUR 2009 featuring... | BOY GEORGE (pop) | | | KIM WILDE (pop) | | | HOWARD JONES (pop) | | | KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS (pop) | | ALTERED IMAGES (pop) | | BROTHER BEYOND (pop) | | HAZEL O'CONNOR (pop) | | | Manchester Evening News Arena | | some of the biggest names in 80's pop come to Manchester including CULTURE CLUB's BOY GEORGE | | also see - HERE & NOW TOUR 2009 - liverpool echo arena - 14th may |
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| 16th,
17th & 29th May 2009 |
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Evening News Arena |
| Britain's
leafing girl band with no.1 hits 'Sound Of The Underground',
'I'll Stand By You' & 'The Promise' |
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 | |  | | | | 22nd May 2009 | | | Manchester Evening News Arena | | chart-topping Canadian rockers with hits 'Rockstar', 'How You Remind Me', 'Someday' & 'Too Bad' | |
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 | |  | | | 22nd & 23rd May 2009 | | Manchester Apollo | | Hometown 50th birthday celebration for Manchester's favourite miserabilist & ex-SMITHS frontman | | also see - JOHNNY MARR & THE CRIBS - manchester ritz - 5th feb | |
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 | |  | | | | 23rd May 2009 | JEAN MICHEL JARRE (electronica) | | | | Manchester Evening News Arena | | French electronic pioneer famed for his amazing light shows and hits 'Oxygene' & 'Rendez-Vous' | |
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 | |  | | | | 26th May 2009 | JOHN BARROWMAN (easy listening) | | | Manchester Bridgewater Hall | | star of stage and screen performs cover versions of pop classics in his own inimitable style | | also see - JOHN BARROWMAN - liverpool philharmonic - 19th may 2009 | |
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 | |  | | | | 27th May 2009 | | | Manchester Evening News Arena | | DESTINY'S CHILD star with hits 'Crazy In Love', 'Deja Vu', 'If I Was A Boy' & 'Beautiful Liar' | | also see - JAY-Z - old trafford - 12th sep |
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 | |  | | | 28th May 2009 GEORGE THOROGOOD (blues rock) | | | Manchester Apollo | | raw, rootsy, bare-bones blues rock'n'roll from the gravelly voiced rocker with a power-tool slide guitar | |
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 | |  | | | | 29th May 2009 | RHYDIAN ROBERTS (opera) | | | Manchester Bridgewater Hall | | classically-trained Welsh runner-up in X FACTOR 2007 performs hits from musicals and rock | | also see - X FACTOR LIVE - men arena - 28th feb | also see - PAUL POTTS - manchester apollo - 16th oct | also see - LEON JACKSON - manchester apollo - 13th may | also see - SAME DIFFERENCE - manchester apollo - 21st mar |
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