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Believe Me Him – back in touch with Blancmange’s Neil Arthur
Based in Gloucestershire since leaving London a dozen years ago, Blancmange mastermind Neil Arthur continues to divide his time between the Cotswolds and old haunts in the capital. “I really enjoy it, including walks when I finish work or early … Continue reading
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Tagged Benge, Blancmange, Cornwall, Darwen, David Rhodes, Don't Tell Me, Fader, Gloucestershire, Heaven 17, John Foxx, John Grant, Kincaid, lancashire, Living on the Ceiling, Martyn Ware, Neil Arthur, Stephen Luscombe, The Human League, Unfurnished Rooms
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Into 2016 … and 103,000 hits can’t be bad
As the hands reached midnight on New Year’s Eve, the minions behind the scenes at writewyattuk.com polished off the last of the Irish cream (explaining at least one of those empty bottles that next morning) and got to work on … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Buzzcocks, Cast, Dodgy, Dubious Brothers, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elkie Brooks, Graeme Garden, Gretchen Peters, Happy Mondays, Heaven 17, Ian McNabb, Julian Cope, Mark Radcliffe, Martha reeves, Midge Ure, Mike Harding, Noel Fielding, Public Service Broadcasting, Rick Wakeman, Slade, Smoke Fairies, Squeeze, Status Quo, The Chameleons, The Jam, The Rolling Stones, The Stranglers, The Undertones, Tom Robinson, Wolf Alice
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Heaven 17, plus 35 – the Martyn Ware interview
It was 35 years ago that Martyn Ware left The Human League, what began as a creative non-band project soon evolving into Heaven 17. Big times followed for both Sheffield outfits, and while Heaven 17’s ground-breaking debut LP Penthouse and … Continue reading
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Tagged BEF, Glenn Gregory, Heaven 17, How Men Are, Ian Craig Marsh, Jeremy Corbyn, Liverpool, Martyn Ware, National Trust, Penthouse and Pavement, Phil Oakey, Sheffield, Sheffield Wednesday, The Human League, The Luxury Gap, The Undertones, Tina Turner
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