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- Heavenly t-shirts won’t ever let you down – celebrating Brian Bilston, the Catenary Wires, and Sounds Made by Humans
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Slady – Vinyl Tap, Preston
Can it really be a staggering 44 years this weekend since Slade’s Reading Festival rebirth? Apparently so, the Black Country’s finest spectacularly seeing off the critics in what proved to be the inspiration for an 11th-hour career resurrection, acceptance from … Continue reading
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Tagged Cum on Feel the Noize, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Jim lea, Noddy Holder, Preston, Reading Festival, Slade, slady, Vinyl Tap
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Echoes of The Bunnymen – Preston, The Continental
I was nervous enough ahead of this live show, let alone the band. Four fellas with deserved acclaim for their own adventures in music tackle a tribute set to a much-loved Liverpool outfit with such a revered back catalogue… and … Continue reading
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Tagged Crocodiles, Echo and the Bunnymen, Echoes of the Bunnymen, Heaven Up Here, Ian McCulloch, Les Pattinson, Liverpool, Mick Shepherd, Ocean Rain, Pete de Freitas, Porcupine, Preston, Scott Carey, Simon Dewhurst, The Continental, Tony Cornwell, Will Sergeant
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In praise of the Looked After Kid – a Paolo Hewitt appreciation
I love reading around a subject while writing, and work on my book about The Jam has me not only returning to or finally delving into various other publications about the band, but also reliving the years around which they … Continue reading
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Tagged books, children's homes, London, Looked After Kid, Martin chivers, Napoli, paul weller, reading, Robin Friday, The Jam, Tottenham Hotspur, Woking, writing
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Preston Weekender: Sunday on the Square – From The Jam / Buzzcocks / Space / Evil Blizzard
‘Hello hooray, what a nice day…’ Forty years to the week from my first live solo sighting of Bruce Foxton – at Guildford Civic Hall on his Touch Sensitive LP tour – the Flag Market in Preston was transformed into … Continue reading
Attila the Stockbroker – Foxtails, Chorley
Mick Pike, frontman of Preston post-punk outfit Pike and Lancashire alt world music faves Deadwood Dog, has a new venture on the go alongside his day-job. He tells me, ‘We haven’t a clue what we’re doing,’ in a ‘Blockbuster’ style, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albania north Korea, Attila the Stockbroker, Benjamin Zephaniah, bowel cancer, Brighton & Hove Albion, chorley, Clive Walker, dementia, Donny Osmond, Foxtails, John Baine, Marc Bolan, punk, socialism, Southwick, The Clash, White Rat, Woking FC
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Keeley / Sweet Knuckle – The Ferret, Preston
My second live sighting of Keeley, and another triumph, albeit in this case with a rather less frenetic audience than that encountered in Manchester on their first English mini-jaunt. Thirty miles further North West in the heart of Lancashire, I … Continue reading
Hot desking it in Nuevo Cottonopolis – examining John Robb’s continued belief in the power of rock ‘n’ roll
Do You Believe in the Power of Rock ‘n’ Roll? John Robb does, and I’ve got to realise in recent years that you don’t have to do quite so much preparation for a chat with this ever-entertaining Manchester-based, Fylde coast-born … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackpool, BritPop, Chorley Theatre, Dale Vince, Fleetwood, glam rock, Goth, henry Rollins, John Robb, Live Aid, Louder than War, Louder than Words, Madchester, Manchester, Nirvana, Norwich, punk, Rox, Shocking Blue, Sounds, Stewart Lee, The Membranes, The Stone Roses, Yard Act
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In praise of a ‘beautiful distraction’ – marking John Winstanley’s Lancashire Rocks archives exhibition launch
I can’t truly pinpoint when I first met John Winstanley, but in self-published 2014 memoir, Unsigned Unscene, he mentions a late summer 2002 news story I wrote in my Chorley Guardian newspaper days that created a spark, about a dozen … Continue reading
Celebrating the Sounds of the Street – Introducing Solid Bond in Your Heart: A People’s History of The Jam
‘What’re you trying to say that you haven’t tried to say before?’ Yep, it’s the ‘Time for Truth’. After spending much of 2023 working on Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade, I can reveal a few basic details … Continue reading
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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