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