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|  | |  | | |  | The Human League  |  | Belinda Carlisle  | ABC , Go West & Heaven 17  | | Tatton Park, Cheshire | | Party Back To the 80's at Tatton Park's picnic concert | | |
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|  | |  | | |  | Final Fantasy  |  | | Royal Northern College of Music | | Canadian chamber folk violinist & singer Owen Pallett, a former touring member of Arcade Fire, produces a layered mix of sweeping soundscapes and intricate melodies using his violin and various effects pedals | |
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|  | |  | | |  | Elvis On Tour  |  | | Manchester Opera House | | Lee 'Memphis' King, the UK’s most successful Elvis Presley impersonator, pays tribute to the early days of pure hip-swivelling rock n roll, the '68 Come Back Special and Elvis's Las Vegas performances. | | also see - ELVIS ON TOUR - liverpool philharmonic - 2 aug | also see - ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT - men arena - 26 feb 2010 | also see - THE WORLD'S GREATEST ELVIS TRIBUTES - apollo - 29 aug |
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|  | |  | | | 17th August 2009 | Pearl Jam  |  | | Manchester Evening News Arena | | The return of the best selling American rock band of the 1990's with hits 'Spin The Black Circle', 'Given To Fly', 'Dissident', 'Jeremy', 'Alive' & 'Even Flow' | |
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|  | |  | | |  | New Found Glory  |  | International Superheroes of Hardcore  | | Manchester Club Academy | | Floridian pop-punkers continue to mine the darker vein, incorporating elements of old-school emo, minor keys and lyrics of struggle and strife, but without forgetting the singalong choruses as on hit single 'My Friends Over You' | |
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|  | |  | | |  | Lostprophets  |  | | Manchester Academy 1 | | Welsh nu-metal survivors and one of the few British bands to break America in recent times. 80s pop influenced yet streamlined heavy and melodic on hits 'Rooftops', 'Last Train Home', 'Last Summer', 'Burn Burn' & 'Wake Up' | |
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|  | |  | | |  | The Offspring  |  | | Manchester Academy 1 | | Californians who stand out as one of the pioneers of modern day American punk rock music, mixing novelty lyrics and crunching chords on anthemic punk-pop hits 'Why Don't You Get A Job?' & UK chart-topper 'Pretty Fly' | |
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|  | |  | | |  | Creamfields '09 |  | | Featuring Mylo, David Guetta, Axwell, Steve Angello, Tiesto, Laurent Garnier, Friendly Fires, Lucian, John Digweed, Pete Tong, Sven Vath & many more | | Daresbury | | The UK's largest dance festival returns to Daresbury, just 30 minutes along the M56 from Manchester. | | also see - CREAMFIELDS - daresbury - 30 aug | also see - APE AT THE APOLLO - apollo - 5 jun |
 | Magazine  |  | | Manchester Bridgewater Hall | | Howard Devoto's legendary Mancunian post-punk band, announce an additional night after 2 sell-out comeback gigs at Manchester Academy 1 | | | | |
 | World's Greatest Elvis Tribute Artiste Concert  |  | | Manchester Apollo | | A night featuring The best Elvis tribute artistes in the world lead by BBC1's World's Greatest Elvis winner, Shawn Klush from the USA with Elvis's own backing singers, The Sweet Inspirations | | also see - ELVIS ON TOUR - opera house - 15 aug & liverpool - 26 apr | also see - ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT - men arena - 26 feb | also see - THE WORLD'S GREATEST ELVIS TRIBUTES - apollo - 29 aug |
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|  | |  | | |  | Creamfields '09 |  | | Featuring Basement Jaxx, Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris, Paul van Dyk, Sasha, Ferry Corsten, Timo Maas, Dirty Vegas, 2manyDj's, Erick Morillo, Deadmau5 & more | | Daresbury | | The UK's largest dance festival returns to Daresbury, just 30 minutes along the M56 from Manchester. | | also see - CREAMFIELDS - daresbury - 29 aug | also see - BASEMENT JAXX - apollo - 30 apr | also see - 2MANYDJs - academy 1 - 6 jun | also see - APE AT THE APOLLO - apollo - 5 jun |
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