(The crowd enjoying the 'I Am the Resurrection' finale.) The MEN arena was once again home to the Manchester Versus Cancer concert. Like last year's event, 2007's concert was charmingly shambolic. The night was headlined by Noel Gallagher performing a semi-acoustic set, which inevitably was drowned out by 17,000 people singing along with him! As well as Noel other Mancs on the line up included: Ian Brown, The Charlatans, Denise Johnson, DJ Tintin, Doves (DJ set), Mani, Andy Rourke, John Thompson and Johnny Vegas. The rest of the country was represented by Echo and the Bunnymen, Paul Weller and David McAlmont and Bernard Butler. Johnny Vegas provided a particularly exciting moment when he decided to climb off the stage and enter the crowd to 'get' someone who had thrown a drink at himself and Alan Carr. I think it's fair to say he was a touch the worse for wear, and his entry into the audience was rather 'unsteady' with his 'builder's crack' gaining a huge cheer from the crowd. Of course he disappeared only to rise again a good few minutes into Ian Brown's set. The finale to the night was a jammed version of Stone Roses classic 'I Am The Ressurection', sung by Ian Brown and with Mani on bass. Again we should congratulate Andy Rourke for organising the event. Let's hope that it has made a hefty amount of money for a good cause.A new student radio station is hoping to change the Sunday night eating habits of students. This weekend will see the first Salford University Radio transmission of 'Pulse', a vegetarian trance show hosted by DJ Beetz and MC Chick P. The show will play an hour of trance and techno music whilst MC Chick P raps a veggie recipe over the beats. The producers are hoping that the recipes will be followed 'live', allowing the students to prepare, cook and eat the meal whilst the show airs. The ingredients to the recipes will be hosted on the radio station's website a few days in advance of the show, allowing the listeners to shop and be prepared. DJ Beetz says "We all know that in student world, Sunday evening is a chance to recover from the party the night before. By rapping healthy recipes we are allowing students to make a choice on how healthy they want to feel at University at the start of each week ". Recipes aren't simply a 'load of old lentils' though, " The food will be exciting, one weekend it may be a simple but healthy pizza and the next a three bean goulash" says MC Chick P. Source: Salford Daily GrindLiam Gallagher and Oasis have been called 'over-rated.... Luddites' and 'they have made stupid hip'. These words apparently come from Kele Okereke, singer with band Bloc Party. Kele says that Liam has made school kids want to act dumb and not be ambitious. He also takes umbrage at the fact that 'Oasis claim to be inspired by the Beatles but... they fail to grasp that the Beatles were about constant change and evolution. Oasis are repetitive'. This outburst comes after Liam Gallagher called Bloc Party 'a band off University Challenge'. In the piece in Manchester Evening News, Kele uses the words 'pernicious', 'irks' and 'ephemera'. Staying with Oasis, it had emerged that Noel Gallagher would have quit Oasis - if he hadn't been the main songwriter. The rocker has revealed he would have walked out on brother Liam at the same time original members Bonehead and Guigsy did in 1999 if he didn't have the responsibility of writing the majority of their hits. Speaking before his Teenage Cancer Trust show on Monday night (26.03.07), Noel told Virgin radio: "If I wasn't a songwriter I'd have gone the same way as Bonehead and just quit and retired. But I can be sat at home and it is my passion for writing that drives me into the studio. Then if you put a record out you are obliged to go out and make more millions." Noel insists he now has no intention of disbanding Oasis because he still loves being a rock star. He added: "I just want to carry on doing it and to be happy doing it. There's nothing really I haven't achieved. As long as I can still get excited being a rock and roll star then I'll carry on doing it. Source: Uncut Magazine, BANG Media International At last! Johnny Marr has had his first US number one with his collaboration with Modest Mouse. After 24 years being a professional musician this must be very pleasing for the former Smiths guitarist. In fact he is quoted as saying "It feels great!" Source: MEN It is as Mancunian as Oasis and Morrissey…and now the 192 bus is also heading for immortality in music. For singer Dave Hulston has compiled a whole album inspired by the famous bus route which has run from Manchester to Stockport and Hazel Grove for almost four decades. The 42-year-old father-of-two was born in Stockport Road at Longsight and still lives in Levenshulme so he is steeped in the history of the service which runs almost 24 hours a day. The album, the "Willow and the 192", will be released in the summer but Levenshulme locals will get a sneak preview at a music festival called the 192 Accoustifest at the M19 bar in Stockport. Source: MENIf you have heard an interesting Manchester music story this week, or have been involved in something please email it to us and we'll stick up here for posterity.