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Looking back at 2018. Part two – the second six months
In which WriteWyattUK scans the archives to cull a few choice quotes from the last six months of 2018’s feature/interviews on this site, taking a leaf out of Dr Feelgood’s books, following Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s lead, ‘Looking back to see if … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Music
Tagged Andy Kershaw, Andy Scott, Bianca Kinane-Ewart, Blancmange, Charlie Reid, Colin Meloy, Cornershop, Dave Hill, David Bowie, Eleanor Friedberger, Fay Fife, Fiery Furnaces, Goat Girl, Gruff Rhys, Hazel O'Connor, Hugh Cornwell, I Am Kloot, Ian Broudie, James, Jim lea, Joe Strummer, John Bramwell, John Peel, John Walters, Lightning Seeds, Lucinda Mellor, Neil Arthur, Neil Cossar, Nick Power, Nina Persson, Phil Odgers, Robert Gordon McHarg III, Rosy Bones, Saul Davies, Slade, Stuart Bailie, Super Furry Animals, Sweet, The Cardigans, The Coral, The Decemberists, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Proclaimers, The Rezillos, Tjinder Singh, Trouble Songs
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Two Preston nights to remember: part one – The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Preston Guild Hall
It seems a little arse about face to start a review with the opening encore, but it was Eric Bogle’s ‘The Green Fields of France (No Man’s Land’) that sent shivers up the spine on Saturday night. A song The … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Cock-a-Hoop, Eric Bogle, Ghosts of Cable Street, How Green is the Valley, Ironmasters, Night of a Thousand Candles, Paul Simmonds, Phil Odgers, Preston, Stefan Cush, The Defiant, The Green Fields of France (No Man's Land), The Men They Couldn't Hang, the Pogues, Waiting for Bonaparte
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The Men They Couldn’t Hang, still on the loose, avoiding the noose – the Phil Odgers interview
Listen to Cock-a-Hoop, the new record by The Men They Couldn’t Hang, and you get an album by a band sounding as fresh today as when their first album was released in 1985. What’s more, the subject matter of their … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Boothill Foot Tappers, Cock-a-Hoop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Ghosts of Cable Street, How Green is the Valley, Ironmasters, Joe Strummer, John Peel, Night of a Thousand Candles, Paul Simmonds, Phil Chevron, Phil Odgers, Ricky McGuire, Shanne Bradley, Shepherd's Bush, southampton, Spider Stacy, Stefan Cush, The Clash, The Defiant, The Men They Couldn't Hang, the Pogues, Tom Fletcher, Waiting for Bonaparte
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The Levellers, for folk’s sake – the Mark Chadwick interview
Three decades ago, a conversation in a pub in a busy South coast resort led to the newly-introduced Mark Chadwick and Jeremy Cunningham discovering they had plenty in common, not least their political world-view and taste in music. As guitarist … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Music
Tagged A Weapon Called the Word, Abbey Road Studios, Beautiful Days, Brighton, Glastonbury Festival, Jeremy Cunningham, Joe Strummer, John Leckie, Led Zeppelin, Levellers, Levelling the Land, Mark Chadwick, Metway, The Clash, The Men They Couldn't Hang, We the Collective, Zeitgeist
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Will the last one out please switch off the turntable?
So, another high-profile retailer is in administration, possibly on its way out to pasture after all those years on the high street. HMV. And this time it’s one that formed an important part of my past. It takes me back to … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Bragg, Comet, guildford, Half Man half Biscuit, HMV, Jessops, Porthmadog, Preston, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Wedding Present, Woolworth's
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