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Dreams stay with you – in conversation with Mark Brzezicki
Four shows into Big Country’s latest anniversary tour, Mark Brzezicki was back home this week, between dates at Holmfirth’s Picturedrome and The Warehouse, Falkirk. And three decades after his primary band’s commercial peak, he can confirm there’s still plenty of love … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba, Big Country, Bruce Foxton, Bruce Watson, Dunfermline, ESP, From The Jam, Kate Bush, Marcus Hummon, Mark Brzezicki, Midge Ure, Mike Peters, Pete Townshend, Phil Collins, Prince's Trust, Procol Harum, Queen, Scott Whitley, Simon Hough, Simon Townshend, Skids, Steve Lillywhite, Stuart Adamson, The Cult, The Seer, Tom Chaplin, Tony Butler, Tony Lowe
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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
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Music
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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Time to Breathe Again, in the company of Midge Ure
If you were to condense the history of popular music from the mid-’70s to the turn of the ’90s into a few pages, Midge Ure would still get a pretty impressive showing. Not just in the footnotes either, despite being … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Band Aid, Bob Geldof, Breathe, glasgow, If i Was, India Electric Co., Malcolm McLaren, Midge Ure, Phil Lynott, Rich Kids, Slik, Steve Strange, Thin Lizzy, Ultravox, Visage
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Here She Comes (again) – The Hazel O’Connor interview
Hazel O’Connor has lived ‘up in the hills’ of County Wicklow for around 25 years now, based just under an hour from Dublin. She has Irish roots, Hazel’s Dad having left Galway for Coventry, where he worked at a local … Continue reading
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Tagged Breaking Glass, Clare Hirst, Coventry, David Bowie, George Michael, Glenn Matlock, Hazel O'Connor, Hugh Cornwell, Ian Dury, Mick Jones, Midge Ure, Phil Daniels, Robert Smith, Sarah Fisher, The Flys, The Rich Kids, The Stranglers, Toyah Willcox, Will You
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