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Monthly Archives: September 2018
Everything’s coming up Rosy with Goat Girl
After a delay while she was getting to New Cross on the train, Rosy Bones had reached the pub by the time I got hold of her late on Tuesday afternoon, visiting friends after a day of ‘admin’ and a visit … Continue reading
A new belief and sweet relief for The Coral – talking to Nick Power
No big moves to London or even Liverpool for The Coral, it seems, an outfit perfectly happy with life on the Wirral, 22 years after their first fumblings at getting a band together. As keyboard player Nick Power, at home … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Wills, Deltasonic, Gruff Rhys, Hoylake, Ignition, Into the Void, James Skelly, Liverpool, Move Through the Dawn, Nick Power, OMD, Skeleton Key, Sweet Release, The Coral, Wirral
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Babelsberg calling – the Gruff Rhys interview
Three months after the release of a record he originally considered putting out two years earlier, musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author Gruff Rhys is set to re-tread the boards around the UK, amid plenty of deserved acclaim for Babelsberg. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ali Chant, American Interior, Anhrefn, Babelsberg, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cardiff, Catatonia, Gruff Rhys, H. Hawkline, Lily Cole, Lisa Jên Brown, Manic Street Preachers, Ray Davies, Royal Northern College of Music, Set Fire to the Stars, Stephen McNeff, Super Furry Animals, Wales
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Remembering Joe Strummer, with Lucinda Mellor and Robert Gordon McHarg III
To mark late September 2018’s release of a box-set tribute to Clash frontman, punk pioneer, singer/songwriter, activist and all-round inspiration Joe Strummer, who died in late 2002, WriteWyattUK tracked down the project’s main drivers – artist Robert Gordon McHarg … Continue reading
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Tagged 101'ers, Hank Williams, Ignition Records, Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer 001, Joe Strummer Foundation, Lucinda Mellor, Lyza Jane, Mescaleros, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Peter J. Moore, Robert Elms, Robert Gordon McHarg III, Somerset, The Clash, Walker
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Hold tight, now we’re on our own – the Fay Fife interview
Four decades after first gracing our TV screens, belting out the tremendous ‘Top of the Pops’ on the iconic BBC chart show of the same name, the alluring Fay Fife clearly still has a passion for rock’n’roll. Anyone who’s caught … Continue reading
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