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Taking the Westway to the sea with Graham Jones – talking Haircut One Hundred, Boys Wonder, and more
Haircut One Hundred are back, celebrating their 40th anniversary with a live show and special edition of Pelican West, the debut LP that saw them on their way all those years ago. And that was all I needed by way … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Sargeant, Boys Wonder, Cornwall, Girlschool, Glen Matlock, Graham Jones, Haircut 100, Haircut One Hundred, Jimmy Pursey, Les Nemes, Marc Fox, Nick Heyward, North of a Miracle, Orange Juice, Paint and Paint, Pelican West, Porthtowan, Roundhouse, Shepherd's Bush Empire, The Beat
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Truly making his mark – in conversation with Seth Lakeman
Seth Lakeman is back, and on the evidence of new LP, Make Your Mark, the last 18 months did nothing to blunt his creative prowess. Emerging from the long days, weeks and months of lockdown, the celebrated indie-folk singer-songwriter and … Continue reading
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Tagged A Pilgrim's Tale, Alex Hart, Ben Nicholls, Benji Kirkpatrick, Cara Dillon, Cornwall, Devon, Equation, folk, Freedom Fields, Honour Oak Records, Kate Rusby, Kitty jay, Lakeman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Make Your Mark, Penlee, Plymouth, Plymouth Argyle, Poor Man's Heaven, Public Service Broadcasting, Robert Plant, Sam Lakeman, Sean Lakeman, Seth Lakeman, Solomon Browne, Stephane Grappelli, Toby Kearney
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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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Stop … Start – celebrating the further return of BOB with Richard Blackborow
They say good things come to those who wait, but 28 years is pushing it, surely. At the end of September, late ‘80s/early ‘90s indie force and WriteWyattUK favourites BOB are finally releasing You Can Stop That For A Start, … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 Club, Banwell, BOB, Cornwall, Dean Leggett, Enfield, Finsbury Park, Highbury, John Peel, Leave the Straight Life Behind, London, Microdisney, Oasis, Optic Nerve, Queen of Sheba, reading, Richard Blackborow, Simon Armstrong, St Ives, Telepathy, The Beatles, Wharf Chambers, Windsor, You Can Stop That For a Start
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Lights still turn green at their convenience – talking BOB with Dean Leggett
Cast your mind back three decades or so. My diaries suggest I saw 148 gigs in the last three years of the 1980s, so inevitably recollections of some are cloudy. But many stick in the memory, not least those documented … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Tapp, BOB, Captains Log, Convenience, Cornwall, Dean Leggett, Highbury Corner, Jem Morris, John Peel, London, One Eyed Wayne, Optic Nerve, Paul Thompson, Penny Candles, reading, Richard Blackborow, Simon Armstrong, Sombrero, Stephen Hersom, The Beautiful South, The Old Trout, The Smiths, The Wedding Present, Windsor
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Cutting It Fine: from Making Out to Poldark, and beyond – the Debbie Horsfield interview
Until she took on the most recent screen adaptation of classic Cornish historical literary saga Poldark, writer Debbie Horsfield was best known for a string of Manchester-based dramas. It’s now 30 years since the first of her three series of … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Before Beauty, Aidan Turner, All the Small Things, Andrew Graham, Cornwall, Cutting It, Debbie Horsfield, Ed Bazalgette, Eleanor Tomlinson, Gulbenkian Studio, Jimmy McGovern, Liverpool Playhouse, Making Out, Mammoth Screen, Manchester, Martin Wenner, New Order, Northern Soul, Out on the Floor, Poldark, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stonyhurst College, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Other Two, The Riff-Raff Element, True Dare Kiss, Winston Graham
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Fisherman’s Friends / Sunderland Crew – Morecambe, The Platform
There was a storm brewing in the Irish Sea last Friday as we parked on the blustery prom at Morecambe and headed across the road from the Midland Hotel to The Platform. It was the sort of night you thank … Continue reading
Sailing at Eight Bells with Fisherman’s Friends – in conversation with Jeremy Brown
As Fisherman’s Friends, the original sole men and Cornwall’s best-known occasionally off-shore musical export, head back out on tour, it was high time I hollered ‘Ahoy there’ to arguably their second most recognisable singer, Jeremy Brown. The so-called ‘nemesis of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbey Road Studios, Billy Hawkins, Cornwall, Danny Mays, Fisherman's Friends, Ian Brown, Jeremy Brown, Johnnie Walker, Jon Cleave, Morecambe, Poldark, Port Isaac, Port Isaac Chorale, Rupert Christie, Wadebridge Male Voice Choir
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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
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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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