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WriteWyattUK’s year in quotes, 2021 – part one (January to June)
As another challenging year moves towards its stuttering conclusion, here’s the first half of my 12-month review of sorts, featuring quotes prised from the collected words of the WriteWyattUK website in 2021, involving the opening six months as the first … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Holmes, All the Colours of You, Amelia Fletcher, Andy Strickland, Beautiful People, Birling Gap, Boo Hewerdine, Brexit, Brick Briscoe, Brix and the Extricated, Brix Smith, Catenary Wires, Cathal Coughlan, CBGB's, David Stark, Departure Lounge, Du Kane, Eddi Reader, Ellie Rowsell, Femi Kuti, Glastonbury Festival, Holly Ross, Iain Templeton, Indiana, Jacinda Ardern, Jacknife Lee, James, Jaz Coleman, Jim Glennie, Joey Ramone, John Robb, K÷, King Rocker, Laura Marling, Lee Mavers, LUMP, Made Kuti, Martin Stephenson, Membranes, Mick Carroll, Mike Lindsay, Monty don, New York, New Zealand, NHS, Nigeria, Pete hughes, Peter Hook, Preston, Provincials, Rob Pursey, Robert Lloyd, Seb Hunter, Shack, Steve Hanley, Stoned Rose, The Beatles, The Bible, The Daintees, The Fall, The Ferret, The La's, The Loft, The Lovely Eggs, The Nightingales, Tim Allen, Tim Booth, Tim Keegan, Tunng, William Doyle, Wolf Alice, Yellow Submarine
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Life after lockdowns – talking The Lovely Eggs with Holly Ross
Just as The Lovely Eggs were set to release landmark sixth album, I Am Moron, in early 2020, came national realisation that we were headed for a pandemic. The Lancaster-based psychedelic punk duo – Holly Ross (voice/guitar) and David Blackwell … Continue reading
Feeding The Ferret …. and the grassroots music and arts scene
While Danny Morris’ day-job is with a Bristol-based music promoter, he’s never lost touch with his Lancashire roots, in recent times giving over his spare hours to the independent music and arts venue in Preston where he gained his first … Continue reading
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Tagged A Certain Ratio, Blossoms, Danny Morris, Ed Sheeran, Evil Blizzard, Girls in Synthesis, Glastonferret, Idles, Jeffrey Lewis, Nigel Clark, Preston, Sue Culshaw, The Blinders, The Continental, The Ferret, The Lovely Eggs, Working Men's Club
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Looking back at 2018. Part one – the first six months
As another busy year draws to a close, let’s take a trawl through 2018’s WriteWyattUK feature/interviews, selecting a few choice quotes from within, starting with the half-year up to … well, in the words of Neil and Tim Finn, ‘You … Continue reading
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Tagged Action Records, Ajay Saggar, Bill Bailey, Chas and Dave, Chas Hodges, Chris Hewitt, Chumbawamba, Damian O'Neill, Darron Robinson, Dave Peacock, Dave Robinson, Dave Wakeling, David Baddiel, Days of Future Passed, Deeply Vale, Donald Trump, Dunstan Bruce, Fun Boy Three, Gaz Birtles, Gordon Gibson, Gretchen Peters, Heather Small, Holly Ross, hygge, Interrobang, JC Carroll, Justin Hayward, Knebworth Park, Lee Thompson, Levellers, London, M People, Madness, Mark Chadwick, Mark E Smith, Mark Steel, Mary Whitehouse Experience, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, One Man's Madness, Preston, Rick Buckler, Roddy Radiation, Simon Fowler, Steve Smith, Stiff Records, The Beat, The Clash, The Common Cold, The Fall, The Jam, The Lovely Eggs, The Members, The Moody Blues, The Sha La La's, The Sound of the Suburbs, The South, The Specials, The Swinging Laurels, The Undertones, The Vapors, The Wesleys, Tom Williams, Top of the Pops, Wilko Johnson
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Eggland expects – The Lovely Eggs interview
If you’re passing through Lancaster late at night, wondering where that glorious racket’s coming from, it could be Holly Ross (vocals/guitar, ex-Angelica) and David Blackwell working on new songs at their place, while their four-year-old lad sleeps through. Don’t get … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelica, Casey Redmond, Dave Fridmann, David Blackwell, Gruff Rhys, Holly Ross, John Peel, John Shuttleworth, Lancaster, Manchester, Marc Riley, Morecambe, Phill Jupitus, Porky the Poet, Sounds from the Other City, Steve Lamacq, The Lovely Eggs, The Yorkshire House
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Sounds from the Other City – Salford St Philip’s Church
As someone who associates the festival circuit with camping fields, lush greenery, damp tents and mud-caked marquees, I struggled to get my head around Greater Manchester’s latest sell-out ‘celebration of new music, performance and art’. But on the evidence of … Continue reading
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