-
Recent Posts
- Looking back on The Jam, 1982 and all that – back in conversation with Rick Buckler
- Going back to my roots – talking an crann and more with The Undertones’ Damian O’Neill
- WriteWyattUK’s quotes review of 2022, part two – July to December
- WriteWyattUK’s quotes review of 2022, part one – January to June
- Waiting for the family to arrive – back in touch with Don Powell
- Taking the Westway to the sea with Graham Jones – talking Haircut One Hundred, Boys Wonder, and more
- Missing You – a tribute to Terry Hall and Iain ‘Tempo’ Templeton
- A Christmas gift for you from Swansea Sound – back in touch with Rob Pursey
- Blancmange / Alice Hubble – Lancaster, Kanteena
- Still walking in the sunshine – celebrating five decades of Bad Manners with Buster Bloodvessel
Archives
Categories
Meta
-
WriteWyattUK on Facebook
Tag Archives: Americana
WriteWyattUK’s Guide to Finding Inspiration … In Spite of These Times, Pt. I
In which WriteWyattUK takes a look back – in quotation form – at the pick of our feature/interviews from 2020, the dreaded year the coronavirus carved a devastating impact on the music and arts scene. Click on the highlighted name … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Music
Tagged 2020, Adele, Ajay Saggar, Americana, Amsterdam, Annie Hardy, Badly Drawn Boy, Baxter Dury, Bhajsn Bhoy, Blow Monkeys, Cigar Box Blues, Cornershop, Coronavirus, Damian O'Neill, Damon Gough, Danny Morris, Dave Fenton, David Bowie, Dead Trout, Dr. Robert, Eileen Gogan, Elvis Costello, Erland Cooper, From Scotland with Love, Get it Loud in Libraries, Giant Drag, Graham Firth, Grant Keir, Gypsy Pistoleros., Ian Allcock, Ian Prowse, John T. Davis, Karima Francis, Kenny Anderson, King Creosote, lancashire, Lee Mark Jones, Lindisfarne, Liverpool, London, Optic Nerve, Orkney, Paul Cook, Pele, Pete Astor, Pete Wylie, Preston, Richard Houghton, Rob Talbot, Robert Howard, Scott Carey, Sex Pistols, Shellshock Rock, Slade, Steve Levine, Stewart Parsons, Sue Culshaw, The Continental, The Ferret, The Loft, The Professionals, The Smiths, The Vapors, The Weather Prophets, Tjinder Singh, Transvision Vamp, True Deceivers, Virginia Heath, Wendy James, West on Colfax
Leave a comment
Here of their own free will – talking to Graham Firth about The True Deceivers
I feel I need a disclaimer when writing about a few bands I love, not least when I’ve known them so long. And in the case of two members of folk roots stalwarts The True Deceivers, I even had a … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Allan Broad, Americana, Blazing Homesteads, Dee Coley, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, Eat the Sofa, Fairport Convention, folk, Graham Firth, guildford, Hell or High Water, His Wooden Fish, Jamie Legg, Lies We Have Told, Lindisfarne, Long Ryders, Mark Mitchell, Mel Tillis, My Own Heighway, Nick Bliss, Plenty, Rupert Lewis, Steve Earle, The Star, The Waterboys, Tom Petty, True Deceivers, Woodworm Studios
Leave a comment
West on Colfax in search of Americana – the Scott Carey interview
As Scott Carey works on Watling Street Road, Preston, you could argue that his band might have taken a more Lancastrian name, perhaps linked to the Roman road leading towards Ribchester and beyond. But West on Colfax prefer to wear … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Alan Hay, alt country, Americana, Denver, Greenhorse Records, Inspiral Carpets, Jack Kerouac, lancashire, Madchester, Paris Angels, Preston, Scott Carey, Stephen Holt, Teenage Fanclub, The Byrds, The Continental, The Delines, Tony Wilson, West on Colfax, Wilco
Leave a comment
writewyattuk 