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Mark Kaye’s Music Column

Xfm drivetime DJ Mark Kaye is back for 2007, and will be giving us his fortnightly dose of music news…

Published on January 16th 2007.

Happy New Year! And what better way to start 2007 than by heading down to this week's Xfm and O2 Live Session at Night & Day Cafe with the fantastic Guillemots.

After the success of the last one with Boy Kill Boy and local favourites the KBC how could we resist putting on another musical feast to brighten up this cold and wet January.

As always you can get your hands on the hottest tickets in town by listening to 97.7 Xfm Manchester, and if you're big fans of the Guillemots make sure you tune into my show on Wednesday when the band will be joining me live in the studio to give away the last pair of tickets.

Talking of gigs, they don't come much bigger than this year's Versus Cancer show at the MEN Arena on the 30th March. Earlier this week Xfm exclusively revealed the first three acts to be performing - The Charlatans, Echo and The Bunnymen and King Monkey himself, Ian Brown!

There are still loads more big acts to be confirmed (and trust me, they're big!), so keep listening to Xfm's new breakfast show with Jason Manford to find out who they are.

Mark Kaye

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