-
Recent Posts
- Don’t you wonder sometimes about sound and vision? Talking large rock sound systems with Chris Hewitt
- Far more than mere nostalgia: stepping forward with The Selecter – back in touch with Pauline Black
- A truly immersive experience: in praise of False Lankum – in conversation with Ian Lynch and Radie Peat
- Getting the run down on The Higsons, four decades on – the Terry Edwards interview
- Let me tell you about Sweden (and Denmark, Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester …) – catching up with Hugh Cornwell
- Fill in the pages of tomorrows yet to be – talking Dodgy with Nigel Clark
- Keeping life and soul together – in conversation with Nik Kershaw
- Treading Gently forward – beyond The Jam with Steve Brookes
- Journey to the Art of Darkness – talking The History of Goth with John Robb
- Overcoming these doubts – in conversation with Marlody
Archives
Categories
Meta
-
WriteWyattUK on Facebook
Tag Archives: Blur
Moving Inside Out with The Mighty Lemon Drops – the David Newton interview
A look at my (mostly trusty) list of live shows attended reminds me it was 37 years ago this week (November 17th, 1985) that I first chanced upon The Mighty Lemon Drops, supporting That Petrol Emotion at The Agincourt in … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Acklam Hall, Andfy kershaw, Birmingham, Blue Guitar, Blur, Burbank, C85, C86, California, Cherry Red, Chrysalis, Dan Treacy, David Newton, Dudley, Geoff Travis, Glastonbury, Happy Head, Heavenly Recordings, Janice Long, JBs, John Peel, Julian Cope, Katydids, Keith Rowley, Like an Angel, London, Marcus Williams, Martin Gilks, Mo-Dettes, Paul Marsh, roehampton, Sire, Slade, SXSW, That Petrol Emotion, the Adverts, The blue Aeroplanes, The Fall, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Wonder Stuff, tony linehan, wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Wanderers
Leave a comment
Ready for re-entry and re-animation – talking Everything Everything with Jeremy Pritchard
With the release of their delayed fifth LP, Re-Animator, now barely a week away, art-rock four-piece Everything Everything are crackin gon with plans for a tie-in UK and Irish headline tour next Spring … pandemic restrictions willing. But there’s no … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Films & TV
Tagged A Fever Dream, Alex Robertshaw, Arc, Blur, Everything Everything, Genesis, Get to Heaven, Hexham, Jeremy Pritchard, Jonathan Higgs, Man Alive, Manchester, Michael Jackson, Mike Spearman, Modern Bison, Northumberland, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Re-Animator, Salford, The Police, Tunbridge Wells, Violent Sun, XTC
Leave a comment
Coming to terms with The Wolfhounds – the Dave Callahan interview
If one recent album sums up the state of the nation in late 2016 more than any other, I reckon it’s The Wolfhounds’ Untied Kingdom (Or How To Come To Terms With Your Culture). This treasured Greater London outfit’s latest … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Aldershot, Andy Golding, Birdwatch, Blur, Bob Stanley, C86, David Callahan, Deutsche Ashram, Frank Stebbing, John Peel, London, Middle Aged Freaks, Miss Mend, Moonshake, My Legendary Childhood, Nirvana, Pink Label, Preston, Richard Golding, Romford, Terry Edwards, The Anti-Midas Touch, The Wolfhounds, Unseen Ripples From a Pebble, Untied Kingdom
4 Comments
Beyond the Dandelion Adventure – having words with Ajay Saggar and Marcus Parnell
This story starts with The Membranes, because without that Lancashire post-punk band a singer known as Fat Mark and a lanky Asian indie kid called Ajay might never have met. That initial meeting came sometime in the mid-‘80s amid an … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Action Records, Amsterdam, Blackpool, Blur, Cornershop, Dandelion Adventure, Deutsche Ashram, John Peel, John Robb, Kevin Shields, King Champion Sounds, Mark E Smith, My Bloody Valentine, Preston, The Bent Moustache, The Boo Radleys, The Continental, The Fall, The Membranes, The Stranglers, Thurston Moore, Tuff Life Boogie
8 Comments
Ever get The Feeling? Eponymous tales with Dan Gillespie Sells
Cool is a word that comes up a lot when you speak to Dan Gillespie Sells, frontman of The Feeling. But he only tends to use it disparagingly. Cards on the table first. Cool or not, his band have always … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Amy Winehouse, Ashmole School, Blur, Boy Cried Wolf, BRIT School, Dan Gillespie Sells, Hackney, I Thought It Was Over, Join with Us, Manchesster, Neil Finn, Queen, Richard Jones, Ruby Lounge, Spiralling, Stonewall, The Feeling, Twelve Stops and Home, Wicked Heart
6 Comments
writewyattuk 