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Category Archives: Football
The Undertones / Neville Staple Band – Manchester Academy 2
You may well know how it is – weekend traffic on a second trip into Manchester in four nights taking its toll. For Haircut One Hundred on Wednesday, we let the train take the strain, but there’s always that worry … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Football, Music, Uncategorized
Tagged Billy Doherty, Bobby Charlton, Damian O'Neill, Derry, John O'Neill, Manchester, Manchester Academy, Mickey Bradley, Neville Staple, Paul McLoone, Sugary Staple, The Fun Boy Three, The Specials, The Undertones, Tony Husband
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Pies, Peas, Performances and Paul – in conversation with Paul Cookson, the poet touched by the band of Nod
Paul Cookson was at home in Nottinghamshire when I called his number on the lead-up to the publication of Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade, taking a breather between back-to-back school visits and social engagements, planning his next … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Football, Music
Tagged Back Home, Brooks Williams, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Edge Hill University, Everton, Hellfire Preachers, Henry Priestman, Jim lea, lancashire, Les Glover, Miles Hunt, National Football Museum, Noddy Holder, Nottinghamshire, Occasional Flames, Paul Cookson, Penwortham, Pies Peas and Performances, Retford, Slade, slady, Stan Cullimore, The Amber List, Top of the Pops, walmer Bridge, Walsall Town Hall, Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade
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Blancmange / Alice Hubble – Lancaster, Kanteena
Admittedly, I should have got this review together a while back … but sometimes life gets in the way. Instead, consider this as much a heads-up to two of my long-playing highlights of 2022, each deserving proper recognition. Besides, with … Continue reading
Going viral, 2020 style …
This is a WriteWyattUK public service announcement … without guitars. Hereby follows a written intermission, after a testing fortnight on the home front in which this website’s sole scribe finally succumbed to the dreaded coronavirus. Normal service will be resumed … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Football, Music
Tagged Boris Johnson, Cornwall, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dido Harding, lancashire, NHS, Sheffield, Surrey
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Still alive and nearly famous – the Lee Mark Jones interview
As Lee Mark Jones delights in telling me, few stage performers manage to get an across-the-board mix of one, two, three, four and five-star reviews for their live shows. But that’s what the critics said at Edinburgh Fringe Festival … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy & Theatre, Football, Music
Tagged A Rock'n'Roll Suicide, Axl Rose, Chris Squire, Chris Thorpe, Craig Jennings, Cry of the Innocent, David Bowie, Edinburgh Fringe, Guns'n'Roses, Gypsy Pistoleros., Hendon, Ice Babies, Jane Dickinson, Kidderminster, Kidderminster Harriers, LA Guns, Lancashire Fringe Festival, Lee Mark Jones, Lemmy, Pandamonium, Peter O'Toole, Preston, Ramones, Regular Wretches, The Ferret, The Last Gang, Trudie Styler, White Trash, Worcester
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Pete Sounds and The Wah! Ahead – the Pete Wylie interview
Pete Wylie’s heart may be as big as Liverpool, but he’s a right pain in the derriere when it comes to nailing down an interview. But in this case perseverance finally paid off, with no ‘Getting Out Of It’ for … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Football, Music
Tagged Andrew Weatherall, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eric's, Joe Strummer, Josie Jones, Julian Cope, Liverpool, Mick Jones, Mott the Hoople, Pete Fulwell, Pete Sounds, Pete Townshend, Pete Wylie, The Clash, The Teardrop Explodes, Wah!, Will Sergeant
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Sweet inspirations, five decades on – the Andy Scott interview
Can it really be half a century since the pre-glam incarnation of The Sweet threw their first chord shapes, and 45 years since the era-defining ’Blockbuster’ saw the band in their pomp top the UK charts? What’s more, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Football, Music
Tagged Andy Scott, Ballroom Blitz, Blockbuster, Brian Connolly, Bruce Bisland, Don Powell, glam rock, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Love Affair, Mayfield's Mule, Mick Tucker, Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn, Novatines, Pete Lincoln, Redcar, Rock against Cancer, Roger McGough, Slade, Spinal Tap, Steve Priest, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, Teenage Rampage, The Elastic Band, The Scaffold, The Silver Stones, The Sweet, Tony O'Hora, Wrexham, Wrexham FC
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Popping back t’ Cornershop – the Tjinder Singh interview
There’s a brand new single out from indie-dance favourites Cornershop, a band Mojo have dubbed ‘the quintessential 21st-century pop group’, The Independent labelled ‘cultural critique you can dance to’, and The Guardian reckon are ‘clever and engaging, happily detached from the mainstream’. … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Football
Tagged Avtar Singh, Ben Ayres, Brimful of Asha, BritPop, Cornershop, David Chambers, Derek Randall, Double Denim, Double Diamond, Gorillaz, Ian Viggars, John Peel, John Robb, lancashire, Leicester, Marcus Parnell, Preston, Suga Sugar, Tjinder Singh, Wiija, wolverhampton
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Stepping back to gain perspective with The Proclaimers – the Charlie Reid interview
This weekend, Cooking Vinyl release Angry Cyclist, the 11th studio album from The Proclaimers, with plenty of dates between now and the end of the year to celebrate on both sides of the Atlantic. Their first LP since 2015’s Let’s Hear … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Football, Music
Tagged Angry Cyclist, Canada, Charlie Reid, Cornwall, Craig Reid, Dave Eringa, David Tennant, Dexy's, Edinburgh, Fife, Glastonbury Festival, Hibs, I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), John Williams, Kevin Rowland, Paul Simon, Scotland, Shrek, Stephen Greenhorn, Steve Earle, Sunshine on Leith, The Clash, The Housemartins, The Proclaimers, This is the Story
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