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Celebrating the Sounds of the Street – Introducing Solid Bond in Your Heart: A People’s History of The Jam
‘What’re you trying to say that you haven’t tried to say before?’ Yep, it’s the ‘Time for Truth’. After spending much of 2023 working on Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade, I can reveal a few basic details … Continue reading
The Members / Blow-Up – Preston, The Continental, Friday 4th February 2022
Two nights out in a row? What is this, 2019 or something? Well, daily figures suggest we’re far from over this damned virus, whatever those trying to save their political careers might try to spin. But there are positive signs … Continue reading
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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Still on The Vapors’ trail – back in touch with Dave Fenton
This time 40 years ago, The Vapors were about to set out on tour with The Jam on their biggest adventure to date, invited along for the ride on the latter’s Setting Sons tour by their co-managers, Jam bass player … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Brighton, Bruce Foxton, Ed Bazalgette, From The Jam, guildford, Howard Smith, John Weller, Lost 80s, Magnets, Michael Bowes, Mike Hedges, Mike Jordan, New Clear Days, Portmeirion, Rob Kemp, Setting Sons, Shalford, Steve Smith, Surrey, The Jam, The Prisoner, The Stranglers, The Vapors, Turning Japanese
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The Members – The Star and Garter, Manchester
If you’ve seen The Members on a bill recently, it’s understandable if you felt sceptical about a line-up without lead singer Nicky Tesco, that voice and charismatic energy a key component of what this band were about. But there in … Continue reading
Open return to Guildford – Hugh Cornwell, back on the line
With a new LP out and an accompanying tour next month, Hugh Cornwell is commuting between his Somerset home and a few old Surrey haunts at present, getting his band truly match-fit. And it turns out that the former Stranglers … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy of Contemporary Music, Caroline Campbell, Chris Bell, Clitheroe, Dave Greenfield, guildford, Hugh Cornwell, Jet Black, JJ Burnel, John Cooper Clarke, Johnny Soxx, Monster, Pat Hughes, Ray Harryhausen, Restoration, Surrey, The Stranglers, Wilko Johnson, Windsor McGilvray
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The Human Love story – in conversation with Newton Faulkner
It seems that Newton Faulkner has something of an affinity with the inventive cover version. On his chart-topping double-platinum 2007 debut album, Hand Built By Robots, there was a fresh twist on Massive Attack’s Teardrop, with several more inspired covers … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Academy of Contemporary Music, Battenberg, Cam Blackwood, Cenzo Townshend, David Bowie, Dream Catch Me, Ed Drewett, Empire of the Sun, Eric Roche, Get Free, guildford, Hand Built By Robots, Human Love, John Butler, Newton Faulkner, Oxegen, Party Boy, Rick Wakeman, Sam Farrar, Surrey, Tessa Rose Jackson, Thomas Leeb, Toby Faulkner
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Rediscovering Alice’s Wonderland – a 150th anniversary celebration
To heed the King’s advice to the White Rabbit, I should begin at the beginning and go on till I come to the end, then stop. But I’m not so sure any appreciation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Dodgson, Edwin Russell, Fiona Fullerton, guildford, Jeanne Argent, Lewis Carroll, Lost in Space. The Beatles, Macmillan, Mia Wasikowska, Star Trek, Surrey, Through the Looking Glass, Tim Burton
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What the Rambling Railwayman did next – the Geoff Burch story continues
Those who have been with me for a while on this blog know it involves a broad church of interests, from comedy and football (two subjects sometimes inter-linked, I admit) to music. There are other passions highlighted too, including nostalgia … Continue reading
On the write track – 10,000 hits and counting
FIFTEEN months ago, this here scribe decided to try and spread the word about his writing by setting up a blog, despite a few nagging doubts and advice that suggested it might involve a bit too much hard work and … Continue reading
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