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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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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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Tagged 'N Betweens, A People's History of Slade, Ambrose Slade, Dave Hemingway, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Hammersmith Odeon, Jim lea, Liverpool, Noddy Holder, Royal Court Theatre, Slade, Spenwood books, Sweet, the Vendors, Top of the Pops, walsall, Wild! Wild! Wild!, wolverhampton
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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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Tagged 'N Betweens, Ambrose Slade, Chic, Chris Charlesworth, Chris O'Donnell, Chris Selby, Daryl Easlea, Dave Hill, David Kemp, Don Powell, Futura, George Tremlett, Helen O'Hara, How Does It Feel, Jim lea, Keele, Kube Radio, Leigh-on-Sea, Louder than Words, Merry Xmas Everybody, Michelle Hickman, Noddy Holder, Off the Ground, Omnibus Press, Our Price, Paul McCartney, Record Collector, Rik Gunnell, Slade, Slade in Flame, slady, Smoke Fairies, Sparks, Steeleye Span, Steve Gregory, Steve Megson, The Beatles, The Fall, Thin Lizzy, Whatever Happened to Slade?, Wild! Wild! Wild!, Wreckless Eric
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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
Milltown Brothers / Greenheart – Lancaster, Kanteena
‘There’s a lighthouse on the harbour blowing kisses to the moon; There’s an aircraft flying over, and I swear it feels like June. There’s a cool breeze blowing down, and she says she’s feeling fine. This is my time!’ My … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple Green, Burnley, Colne, Greenheart, James Fraser, Kanteena, Lancaster, Long Road, Lowry, Matt Nelson, Milltown Brothers, Neil Young, Slinky, Stockholm, Which Way Should I Jump
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Bass Notes: Life and Times on the Road with Stone Foundation – back in conversation with Neil Sheasby
Neil Sheasby was at home in Atherstone when I caught up with him earlier this week, having a breather between live commitments with Stone Foundation, the Midlands soul band he co-founded with namesake Neil Jones a quarter of a century … Continue reading
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Tagged Atherstone, Bass Notes, Boys Dreaming Soul, Camden, Coventry, glasgow, Haircut 100, Horace Panter, Islnigton Assembly Hall, Japan, John Bradbury, Kevin Armstrong, Neil Sheasby, Nuneaton Queen's Hall, Outside Looking In, Paolo Hewitt, Paul Hanlon, paul weller, Stone Foundation, Terry Hall, The Specials, Wendy May
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Vinny Peculiar / Common Hall / John Denton – Castle Hotel, Manchester
A return to Manchester’s Northern Quarter, and somehow my first visit to the Castle Hotel, and something of a showcase for three happening singer-songwriters at different stages in their… well, I’ll say careers, because they all deserve them. It’s a … Continue reading
