Tag Archives: Isle of Wight

Room at the top – The Loft and beyond with Andy Strickland

Three and a half decades after they dramatically broke up, mid-song, on a London stage on the final night of a nationwide tour, The Loft continue to inspire, with interest in this influential four-piece seemingly perpetual and having just led … Continue reading

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Celebrating Songs of Stage and Screen, with Blake’s Stephen Bowman

It was the morning after the night before when I spoke to Stephen Bowman, one of the three mighty voices behind close-harmony group Blake. But this is a tale of a rare night when this top-selling trio didn’t have to … Continue reading

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Growing up is hard to do – re-defining the National Trust’s top 50

This is a specially revised 2017 version of the third post published on this website, originally shared with the wider world on April 18th, 2012, adapted to mark the fifth anniversary of writewyattuk.com. Time flies, eh.   Being smug is … Continue reading

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