Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There was a time when Manchester spoke that the world would listen with intensity, and whilst that sense of exposure has somewhat dissipated in recent times, those heady days when The Hacienda would bellow, when Oasis would rage on stage at Maine Road, when the roar of a Georgi Kinkladze mazy run was assured the calls of encore in much the same vein as Black Grape as they strutted their monumental character on stage are but a memory.