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	Elbow - Elbow are a five piece band consisting of Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Craig Potter, Pete Turner and Richard Jupp. Provides a mailing list and news.
	Northern Uproar - Official home pages of Northern Uproar, provides tour dates, a gallery, reviews, latest news and stories.
	The Doves - The Official Doves site, registration is required for more details.
	None Of The Above - Band doing 60s and 70s covers and some original tunes. Contains a list of gigs and various pictures.
	Twisted Nerve Records - - UK label. Home to Alfie, Badly Drawn Boy, Dakota Oak, DOT, Misty Dixon, Mum and Dad, Sirconical, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman, and Andy Votel. News, pictures, links, audio clips, and catalogue.
	Music in Manchester - Site for reports and pictures of bands that have appeared in the area. Lists an A to Z of bands.
	World Of Twist - An archive of history, discovery, articles, lyrics, images, audio, links and credits on the band.
	A Top Pop Band - Offers free tunes mp3, gig list and links to songwriters in and around the area and provides gig dates.
	Grand Central Records - The joy of soul, the dirt of funk, the love of music. The beats and innovation of hip hop. Artists include Only Child, Tony D, Funky Fresh Few, Aim, Rae and Christian.
	GJ Bradley: Club DJ - Provides general details, photographs, what's new page and a contact page.
	The Bridgewater Hall - Concert venue, primarily for classical music. Includes an agenda, information about facilities, and online booking.
	BBC Manchester Online - Reviews, quizzes, local band A-Z, competitions, and demo's of new local talent to download.
	Blame The Parents Collective - Collective that organises gigs and promotes upcoming punk bands. Includes news and listings.
	Manchester Camerata - Northwest's chamber orchestra in the Bridgewater Hall. The orchestra also presents concert series' at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the Municipal Hall, Colne and the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe. Includes information and concert listings.
	N'tertainment - All year around, online booking information for mobile DJ. Offers general information and price list. Site requires Flash.
	Greater Manchester County Fire Service Pipe Band - Primarily a competition band, playing in grade 3 competitions all over England and Southern Scotland. Provides the bands history, practices and news.
	No Way Out - Lists band information, about the individuals, slang words and hitmans updates.
	Premier Sound Disco's - Provides a mobile D.J. service for weddings, birthday celebrations and other functions in and around the North West. Lists previous events and pricing.
	Soundblast - The official homepage of house producer Soundblast. Provides music, news and links. Site requires flash.
	Get Into Jazz - Provides listings of jazz gigs, festivals, bands, venues and tutors in the Greater Manchester area.
	Jazz Relaxin - Offers duo, trio or full band for special events. Describes experience and offers demo CD.
	The Phoenix Wind Ensemble - Available for recitals and background music for events. Describes the players with concert list, repertoire and downloadable samples.
	DJ Devo D - R&B DJ. Includes ringtones, events guide and a photo gallery of past events.
	Backslider - Hip hop club night held at various venues. Includes a schedule, event history, photographs, and artwork.
	Manchester Jazz Festival - Two weeks of jazz, held annually. Programme and venue information, and details of their education programme.
	Vivaldi Orchestra - A string orchestra based in Manchester, UK. Profile and history, rehearsal information, and concert dates.
	BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Based in Manchester. Information about concerts, CD releases, education work and the orchestra itself.
	Hallé Orchestra - Britain's longest-established professional symphony orchestra. Official site with contact details, membership information, history, and concert listings.
	Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra - Amateur symphony orchestra, believed to be oldest orchestra in Manchester. Details of concerts, profiles of members, history, and membership information.
	Manchester Beethoven Orchestra - Amateur orchestra giving concerts in Manchester. Information about calendar, membership, recordings, history and library.
	Manchester Camerata - Chamber orchestra based in Manchester. Details of their concert schedules, their education and community work, with background information on their support and members.
	Sale Chamber Orchestra - Gives concerts in Sale and surrounding area; information about concerts and the Trafford Young String Player award.
	Intriplicate - Flute, oboe and piano trio available for concerts and background music at weddings, parties and other functions. Details of members, events and reviews.
	Tangled Club - Pictures, resident DJs' profiles, audio clips, flyers, press reviews, and a message board.
	Aspire Music Agency - Provides entertainment acts for all occasions and venues in the area. Details of acts, mailing list and how to become an act.
	Cherrybomb - Dance house playing indie and retro. Lists news, DJ's and links.

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The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Music Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Music "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Music I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Music Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- Andr� Maurois "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Music I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Music "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Music Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Music "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- Fran�ois de La Rouch All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Music I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Music All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Music His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Music Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Music I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Music A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Music "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Music Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Music "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." 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