Tag Archives: Manchester

Edwyn Collins / Gabi Garbutt and the Illuminations – Manchester Gorilla

Posted on September 11, 2019 by writewyattuk

Amid the post-summer holiday trudge back to work, I reckon we all need pick-me-ups, familiar despondency at days getting shorter and temperatures dropping – irrespective of global warming crises – taking its toll. Meanwhile the Government and UK itself is … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music | Tagged Andy Hackett, Badbea, Carwyn Ellis, Dennis Bovell, Edwyn Collins, Gabi Garbutt, Glasgow School, Gorilla, Home Again, Little Barrie, Manchester, Orange Juice, Rip It Up, Sean Read | Leave a comment

Cutting It Fine: from Making Out to Poldark, and beyond – the Debbie Horsfield interview

Posted on August 8, 2019 by writewyattuk

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 →

Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Music | 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 | Leave a comment

Still living the Impossible Dream – the Bez interview

Posted on July 17, 2019 by writewyattuk

Four decades after crossover indie/dance combo Happy Mondays set out on their initial adventure, and 30 years after their biggest-selling LP, the legendary Manc outfit have announced a marathon greatest hits tour for October, November and December this year. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music | Tagged 24 Hour Party People, Bez, Black Grape, Carl Hunter, Chris Cogshill, Factory Records, fracking, Herefordshire, Joe Strummer, Kermit, Madchester, Manchester, Manchester Academy, Mark Berry, Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches, Rowetta, Shaun Ryder, The Farm, The Roundhouse | Leave a comment

Charmed to meet ya – in conversation with Paul Hanley

Posted on June 21, 2019 by writewyattuk

Some books come your way with elaborate press releases. Others arrive on your desk in a more convoluted fashion. And the latter was certainly the case with Paul Hanley’s Leave the Capital. It was broadcaster Pete Mitchell who lent me … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music | Tagged 10cc, Brix and the Extricated, Buzzcocks, Cargo, Derek Leckenby, Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Hex Enduction Hour, John Peel, John Robb, Joy Division, Karl Burns, Keith Hopwood, Leave the Capital, Louder than War, Manchester, Marc Riley, Mark E Smith, Open University, Paul Hanley, Perverted by Language, Pluto Studios, Route, Sex Pistols, Steve Hanley, Strawberry Studios, The Beatles, The Clash, The Fall, The Tube | Leave a comment

Fylde under nature – talking The Membranes’ new record and much more with John Robb

Posted on June 5, 2019 by writewyattuk

It’s 35 years since music writer, Louder Than War founder and Membranes/Goldblade bass player/vocalist John Robb left the ‘Tatty Seaside Town’ later celebrated on 1988’s Kiss Ass … Godhead! LP. But he clearly still has plenty of time for his … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music | Tagged BIMM, Blackpool, Chris Packham, Gene Vincent, Glove, Henge, Ian Curtis, Ian Hunter, Jimi Hendrix, John Robb, Johnny Kidd, Joy Division, Kirk Brandon, Liines, Louder than War, Manchester, Mott the Hoople, Nick Brown, Public Service Broadcasting, Queen Zee, The Clash, The Membranes, The Pack, The Ritz, The Subways, The Undertones | Leave a comment

Pip Blom / Talk Show / Jacob Slater – Band on the Wall, Manchester

Posted on June 4, 2019 by writewyattuk

Champions League Final? Well, there was no way that could ever live up to either semi, and perhaps this was my show of support for Ajax, nipping down to Manchester, erm, City to catch another Amsterdam outfit with youth on … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged Amsterdam, Band on the Wall, Boat, Daddy Issues, Harrison Swann, I Think I'm in Love, Jacob Slater, Manchester, Pip Blom, Ruby, Talk Show | Leave a comment

Whatever floats your Boat – the Pip Blom interview

Posted on May 30, 2019 by writewyattuk

In a sense, perhaps it was almost inevitable that Pip Blom would follow her parents into the alternative music market. It’s now three years since this Amsterdam-based singer-songwriter first shared her somewhat raw, lo-fi brand of indie guitar pop with … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged Amsterdam, Band on the Wall, Eton Crop, Glastonbury Festival, John Peel, Kim Deal, Manchester, Micachu and the Shapes, Netherlands, Pip Blom, reading, The Breeders | Leave a comment

Robert Forster – Band on the Wall, Manchester

Posted on May 27, 2019 by writewyattuk

I missed out on The Go-Betweens live during their defining 1978/90 spell and the 2000/6 second coming, that latter period providing three LPs now nestling among my favourites of all time. But I had the pleasure of witnessing Robert Foster … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Uncategorized | Tagged 16 Lovers Lane, Australia, Band on the Wall, Brisbane, Grant McLennan, Inferno, Manchester, Marc Riley, Oceans Apart, Robert Forster, Spring Rain, Surfing Magazines, The Go-Betweens | Leave a comment

All Night Party People – in conversation with A Certain Ratio’s Jez Kerr

Posted on May 19, 2019 by writewyattuk

It promises to be a busy year for industrial punk-funk pioneers and indie-dance survivors A Certain Ratio, currently playing a series of UK dates to coincide with new Mute collection, ACR:BOX. After 2018’s acr:set compilation and their LP reissue campaign, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music | Tagged A Certain Ratio, Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias, Band on the Wall, C.P. Lee, Eddie Thomas, Factory Records, Gordon the Moron, Grace Jones, Jez Kerr, Jilted John, Joy Division, Manchester, Manchester Musicians Collective, Manchester United, Manchester Youth Theatre, Martin Hannett, Mute, New Order, Pips, Russell Club, Shack Up, Tony Wilson | Leave a comment

The Undertones / The Neville Staple Band – The Ritz, Manchester

Posted on May 17, 2019 by writewyattuk

An early start caught me out, my train arriving after seven, The Neville Staple Band already in charge by the time I’d made it from nearby Oxford Road station. And to channel ska inspiration Prince Buster and fellow 1979 breakthroughs … Continue reading →

Posted in Music | Tagged 1979, Bexhill, Billy Doherty, Buzzcocks, Damian O'Neill, Fun Boy Three, Hypnotised, John O'Neill, Manchester, Manchester Ritz, Mickey Bradley, Neville Staple, Paul Hanley, Paul McLoone, Pete Shelley, punk, ska, southampton, The Specials, The Undertones | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Manchester

Edwyn Collins / Gabi Garbutt and the Illuminations – Manchester Gorilla

Cutting It Fine: from Making Out to Poldark, and beyond – the Debbie Horsfield interview

Still living the Impossible Dream – the Bez interview

Charmed to meet ya – in conversation with Paul Hanley

Fylde under nature – talking The Membranes’ new record and much more with John Robb

Pip Blom / Talk Show / Jacob Slater – Band on the Wall, Manchester

Whatever floats your Boat – the Pip Blom interview

Robert Forster – Band on the Wall, Manchester

All Night Party People – in conversation with A Certain Ratio’s Jez Kerr

The Undertones / The Neville Staple Band – The Ritz, Manchester

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