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11. Preview: James Taylor
Oldham Advertiser, Thursday 12 April 2007AN active campaigner for environmental causes, and occasionally doing guest voices in episodes of The Simpsons 59-year-old James Taylor is very much as mellow as his music these days.
12. ROCK: Motley Crue, Apollo, Tuesday
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 8 June 2007ALTHOUGH Motley Crue are regarded as a rock collective, it's been much easier to mistake them recently as the personal car crash of drummer Tommy Lee.
13. Funeral For A Friend (Apollo)
Oldham Advertiser, Thursday 17 May 2007MORBID by name, very much morbid by nature in the worldview of Welsh emo rockers Funeral ForA Friend.
14. Preview: James Morrison
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 23 February 2007THESE are crowded times in the singer-songwriter market but James Morrison has done a fine job of standing out above that crowd - as last week's win at the Brit Awards for Best Male Solo Artist proved.
15. Preview: Dave Matthews Band
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 23 February 2007IT speaks volumes that, whenever Dave Matthews Band make live appearances in the UK, a sizable proportion of the audience will likely be Americans who've made the journey over the water.
16. Preview: Kelly Jones
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 30 March 2007YOU can't blame Kelly Jones for craving a change of scenery. As frontman of Stereophonics, he and his band (alongside maybe only Oasis) have become staples of arena-sized, mid-90s-derived machismo bloke rock.
17. MUSIC: Gary Moore - Apollo, Saturday
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 1 June 2007IN RECENT years, Gary Moore has become more distinguished for his voice - he has a twice-weekly specialist blues show on the radio station Planet Rock.
18. Preview: Jamie T
Oldham Advertiser, Thursday 18 January 2007IT has become mandatory to label any young urban artist who writes gritty, observational tales of day-to-day life with the term "the new Mike Skinner''.
19. Preview: Kaiser Chiefs
Oldham Advertiser, 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.
20. Preview: 192 Acousticfest
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 30 March 2007THERE'S always been a strong musical tradition of songs being inspired by buses but this must surely be the first time we've had a whole festival dedicated to one.