Monthly Archives: December 2023

A seasonal salute marking another 12 months of WriteWyattUK feature/interviews – the 2023 quotes review

In which we take our annual delve into the WriteWyattUK feature/interview archives, picking out a few choice quotes from the last 12 months January The Undertones, That Petrol Emotion and The Everlasting Yeah guitarist Damian O’Neill, on the rightly acclaimed … Continue reading

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Slade Alive at Christmas – a two-decade trip down Memory Lane … towards Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre

There’s a rather wonderful website out there listing more than 20 years of live performances for Noddy Holder, Jim Lea, Dave Hill and Don Powell, marking Slade’s evolution from their time with the bands that preceded the Black Country’s finest … Continue reading

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Whatever Happened to Lord Wakering? Talking Slade, McCartney, Our Price, and more with Daryl Easlea

Catching up with fellow author and freelance writer Daryl Easlea recently, we got the mutual backslapping out of the way fairly quickly, complimenting each other on our recent Slade publications. It’s not just about being complimentary though, preferring the term … Continue reading

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Celebrating Slade’s ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, 50 years on

I was barely six years old when ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ became Slade’s third single of 1973 to go straight in at the top of the UK charts. But I have vague memories from around then, and the Radio Times listings … Continue reading

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Santa Bail Me Out – spreading festive cheer with Skep Wax Records’ Swansea Sound and Heavenly

Those fiendish folk with the hummable, dance-around punk and indiepop song catalogue at Skep Wax Records are up to their festive tricks again right now, adding plenty more goodies for you to put in your basket – online or real, … Continue reading

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