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Banishing with love – in praise of Laura Marling’s Semper Femina
If expectation carries a weight, it doesn’t seem to concern Laura Marling, six LPs into a somewhat understated yet still stellar career, this super-talented artiste gracefully rising above genre labels amid major music press analysis and hyperbole. I tried to … Continue reading
Lloyd Cole – Preston Guild Hall
We were two songs in on Monday night before our special guest deigned to talk to us, fixing us with something of a 1,000-yard stare while sussing out his audience before announcing, ‘You’re not getting any younger either’. It was … Continue reading
The continuing adventures of the Magic Band, the Mothers of Invention, and the Muffin Men – the Denny Walley interview
Do you know the Muffin Men (‘the Muffin Men?’ I hear you ask. Yes, the Muffin Men), presumably based in Liverpool’s Drury Lane or Mulberry Place? Chances are that you might. They’ve been doing the rounds for more than a … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Antelope Valley High School, Atlanta, blues, Bongo Fury, California, Captain Beefheart, Denny Walley, Feelers Rebo, Frank Zappa, Lancaster, Liverpool, Magic Band, Mothers of Invention, Muddy Waters, Muffin Men, Preston, The Continental, Trembling Bells, Trout Mask Replica
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Life beyond The Waves – the Katrina Leskanich interview
When Katrina Leskanich told me down the telephone line, ‘The sun is shining, finally’ in London, I took it with a pinch of salt, not least as earlier that day I revisited a grainy mid-‘80s promo video in which she … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Music
Tagged Blisland, Chris Tookey, Chrissie Hynde., Dublin, Going Down to Liverpool, Kansas, Katrina Leskanich, Katrrina and the Waves, Kimberley Rew, Leader of the Pack, London, Loreen, Love Shine a Light, Lucie Jones, Mama's Cookin', Metropoodle, Norfolk, Paul Young, Preston, Terry Wogan, The Bangles, The Soft Boys, Walking on Sunshine
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WriteWyattUK on White Riot … 40 years on
I couldn’t get through Saturday, March 18th, 2017, without mentioning a certain clarion call from the early days of punk, released 40 years ago today – the song that inspired this website’s name. Naive maybe, but so much energy to … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged 1977, Buzzcocks, Combat Rock, Give 'Em Enough Rope, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, The Jam, The Stranglers, White Riot
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A Whole Lotta Zeppelin, with the Black Dog Orchestra
There’s a treat in store for Led Zeppelin fans next month, as Stairway To Heaven: Led Zeppelin Masters opens its UK run at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, prompting us to get the lowdown from this grand-scale production’s Aussie front-man, Vince Contarino. Four … Continue reading
Once More … with The Wedding Present
Following this site’s breaking announcement last week comes news of The Wedding Present adding a second night in Preston, Lancashire, having sold out their first summer show at The Continental in super-fast time. Three decades after their first visit to … Continue reading
Going Going … This Boy Can’t Wait – a writewyattuk exclusive
I don’t tend to do ‘breaking news’ and ‘exclusive’ splashes on this website, leaving that to the … yawn … competition. But when you’ve got it, perhaps you should flaunt it after all. Go, Man, Go, as a wise man once … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged David Gedge, John Peel, Lancaster, Preston, The Continental, The Wedding Present, Tuff Life Boogie
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King Champion Sounds – Preston, The Continental
There’s something about an unconventional marriage of inspirational music and film that always appeals to me, and I’ve been spoiled for choice on that front of late. In my formative days on the ‘80s London circuit I recall a venue … Continue reading
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Tagged Ajay Saggar, Amsterdam, British Sea Power, G.W. Sok, John Peel, King Champion Sounds, King Creosote, Man with a Movie Camera, Preston, Public Service Broadcasting, The Continental, The Magnetic North, Tuff Life Boogie, Ukraine, Vernal Equinox Festival
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