It's a tie! Gorillaz at the Opera House (35%) "Oddly, as Dirty Harry and Feel Good Inc let rip, it somehow makes perfect sense that the Opera House should host this unique event. Factor in the plethora of special guests Albarn has managed to rope into appearing – including an impressively unshambolic Shaun Ryder and the reformed Ike Turner - and the resulting experience is something that won’t be forgotten by many." Ciaran Gilligan Oasis at the City of Manchester Stadium (35%) "An hour and a half later, after the final strains of My Generation finally died away, Oasis had proved that the old tunes are the best, and while ever they play these anthemic singalongs, they’ll never be short if a fan or two." Sue Denim The others... U2 at the City of Manchester Stadium (12%) "They may still be obsessed with slogans and posing, but isn’t that why we love them? The cheers that rang louder than the feedback at the close of a second encore of All Because Of You, Yahweh and Vertigo said yes. Rumours and articles might have wanted it another way, but U2 are still the biggest band on the planet by a long way." Chris Long Kylie at the MEN Arena (11%) "As she launched into a whirling Love At First Sight to close, the big screen behind flashed clips from every video of her 17 years of pop, right back to the fresh faced Charlene she began as. Hilarious, funky and unflappably sexy, they proved two things. The first is that she has happily embraced the tunes and the looks that have got her to her position at the top. The second is that she just keeps getting better with age." Chris Long Manchester Kicks at Night and Day (7%) "In fact, the only thing that does matter tonight is that the spirit of the man that this is all for, and in turn, the spirit of the music that he stood for, is alive in the heart and soul of every single person in the building. Keeping it Peel? Too right." Ciaran Gilligan | 
