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31. Preview: Roy Harper
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 4 May 2007EVERY decent folk revival produces a few lost gems and Roy Harper was certainly one who was ripe for rediscovering.
32. Preview: Willie Nelson
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 26 January 2007BEHIND every Country veteran, it seems, is a hardened pro eager for one extra encore performance. Just as Johnny Cash seemed to keep grafting until his final days, so it is with Willie Nelson, who, amazingly, will turn 74 this year.
33. Preview: Australian Pink Floyd
Oldham Advertiser, Saturday 21 April 2007THERE'S a hilarious scene from I'm Alan Partridge when the hapless Norwich DJ attempts to recreate a Pink Floyd lightshow for a corporate presentation he is giving.
34. Preview: Roger Waters
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 4 May 2007THE forces of charity can unite even the most warring factions but not always in the long term - Pink Floyd being a fine case in point.
35. ROCK: Velvet Revolver, Apollo, Monday
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 8 June 2007SOBER clarity is not exactly what you'd expect from a supergroup who comprise former members of Guns 'N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, but that's exactly what Velvet Revolver have come to symbolise.
36. INDIE: Manic Street Preachers - Apollo, Sunday
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 25 May 2007ON PAPER, the Manic Street Preachers have always sounded like a wonderful, electrifying rock 'n' roll proposal: a Welsh working-class rock band who welded the bombast of Guns 'n' Roses with social politics, steely rebellion and a fierce sense of bookish intelligence.
37. Preview: Maximo Park
Oldham Advertiser, Saturday 21 April 2007ALWAYS confused for being a band who preferred brains to brawn, the truth is that Maximo Park excel at both.
38. Preview: Jamie T
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 27 April 2007EVER since Mike Skinner - aka The Streets - struck pop gold, he has left in his wake a succession of young, street-smart, urban Brit hip-hoppers hoping to jump into his slipstream.
39. Preview: Stephen Fretwell
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 16 February 2007MANCHESTER-based songwriter Stephen Fretwell can count Hollywood actor Val Kilmer, of Batman fame, as one of his biggest fans.
40. Preview: Faithless
Oldham Advertiser, Friday 23 March 2007IT must be the only similarity between Faithless and Oasis that exists - but it's a significant one. Namely, the fact that both bands are kept in business by people whose musical tastes are cemented in the mid-90s.