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1. THEATRE: Othello, Lowry, 30 Sep to 3 Oct
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008OTHELLO becomes a bouncer in a working-class Northern town in an electrifying adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play.
2. MUSICAL: West Side Story, Lowry, 30 Sep to 11 Oct
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008ENJOY the fabulous musical spectacle of West Side Story with the 50th anniversary production next week.
3. Old skool, new look
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008BACK in the late Eighties, the original warehouse parties used to be illicit, often clandestine affairs – secretly arranged happenings in abandoned warehouses where masses of young people would gather and bask in a new clubbing revolution of Acid House culture.
4. A fusion of pop art styles
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008A FUSION of work by an iconic American painter and former punk musician and an internationally known Japanese pop artist has proved a success.
5. 'I wanted to be myself'
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008PEOPLE still remember Sarah Whatmore as the girl in the see-through trouser suit on the very first Pop Idol that Simon Cowell proposed to.
6. MUSIC: Brett Anderson, Royal Northern College of Music, 26 Sep
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008SINGER Brett Anderson is clearly a firm believer in acting your age.
7. Blooming great fun for families
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008TAKE the family and put down roots in the grounds of one of the north-west’s most attractive stately homes this weekend.
8. COMEDY: Frank Sidebottom, Manchester Academy, Friday 26 Sep
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008THE north-west’s favourite big head, Frank Sidebottom, should please his many fans with an appearance at Manchester Academy on Friday.
9. The cream of Manchester
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 2008MANCHESTER, as we all know, is the capital of rock‘n’roll live music, and nowhere is that more apparent than at the In the City convention.
10. THEATRE: Brassed Off, Oldham Coliseum, until 27 Sept
Oldham Advertiser, Wednesday 3 September 2008IT’S over a decade since Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite and co marched on to our cinema screens and, in doing so, created a British box office hit.