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- How Does It Feel? Slade and Beyond by Jim Lea with Daryl Easlea (Omnibus Press, 2026) – a WriteWyattUK special feature
- Introducing True Confessions: A People’s History of The Undertones
- Disabling devices and shedding light on the new Dark Ages – in praise of Vinny Peculiar’s The Curse of You Know Who
- Jumping over pavement cracks – the Rachel Love interview
- Listening In – surveying The Undertones’ golden years with Mickey Bradley
- Amos Trust Presents: Sumud – Billy Bragg, Paul Weller & Steve Pilgrim, Declan O’Rourke, Rasha Nahas, Ian Prowse, Amelia Coburn, Aziz Ibrahim, The Dome, Grand Central Hall, Liverpool
- Heart on his sleeve – a personal tribute to Woking FC’s John Moore
- Rising up, morning, noon and night – talking No Names with Ian Prowse
- Hanterhir / Keeley – Falmouth, The Cornish Bank
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Looking Glass Girl by Cathy Cassidy – a writewyattuk review
In the year Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland turns 150, we can expect a number of events set around that influential work and all it led to. Alice is a little too Marmite for some tastes, and I totally … Continue reading
Taking the Long Road home – the Milltown Brothers interview
Matt Nelson is on his way home from work to Burnley, having moved back to the North-West around a dozen years ago. Milltown Brothers’ chief singer-songwriter is a family man these days, a dad-of-three who runs a visual effects film … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Burnley, Colne, Gigantic, Here I Stand, lancashire, Long Road, Manchester Academy, Matt Nelson, Milltown Brothers, Nian Brindle, Preston Front, Simon Nelson, Slinky, The La's
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Experiencing eclipses and supersonic flight – the Smoke Fairies interview
Katherine Blamire was roaming around rural Yorkshire with fellow members of the band Smoke Fairies when I called her, enjoying a day off from a UK tour supporting Public Service Broadcasting. To add to 13 shared dates, the band headlined … Continue reading
The Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cottrell Boyce – a writewyattuk review
Frank Cottrell Boyce has a lot to live up to when it comes to publication time, not least considering the quality of his first three children’s novels, Millions, Framed and Cosmic. I also enjoyed the Merseyside author’s re-imaginings of Ian … Continue reading
Public Service Broadcasting / Smoke Fairies – The Ritz, Manchester
It’s ironic that the night we decided to do without the car and took the train to Manchester, my better half and I were let down by public transport. Not so much Public Service Broadcasting as Replacement Bus Service, cheated … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged DEC Appeal, Everest, Gagarin, J Willgoose Esq, Jessica Davies, Katherine Blamire, Manchester, Nepal, Smoke Fairies, Sputnik, The Race for Space, The Ritz, Wild Winter
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University of the Nerd Age – the Talk Nerdy 2 Me feature
According to US young adult author John Green, of The Fault in our Stars fame, ‘Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it’.* In fact, nerdiness is a state of mind for some, and you can include Lancashire … Continue reading
The Crumpsall Kid rides out – the Mike Harding interview
Veteran comic, folk singer-songwriter, author, broadcaster and playwright Mike Harding is set to visit 17 small theatres and arts clubs in May. From Keswick to Barnsley via Pocklington, Mike has a busy few weeks ahead of him, and it’s not … Continue reading
Voicing an opinion – Paul McLoone on life with The Undertones
It was only supposed to be a one-off show, a November 1999 date to mark the opening of a new venue in their home city. There would be no Feargal Sharkey this time, he of the fantastically-distinctive warbling voice by then … Continue reading
Cleaning up with Crissy Rock – from Liverpool to Peterlee, via Benidorm
Award-winning actress, stand-up comic and best-selling author Crissy Rock is in a Teeside tailback, and has clearly forgotten our 11am phone date. We go ahead anyway, while Crissy inches slowly along amid A19 amid traffic gridlock, ‘hands-free’ communication and backup satellite … Continue reading
Time for Truth – the Rick Buckler interview
There have been insider accounts of the story of The Jam from various angles since Paul Weller called time on the band in late 1982. The first to made an impression on me – and I was barely 15 when … Continue reading