-
Recent Posts
- The Vapors / Chris Pope & Mic Stoner – Boileroom, Guildford
- Liam Ó Maonlaí, Jacquelyn Hynes and Clive Mellor / Hungry Bentley – Penwortham, The Venue
- Beyond the lockdowns, Normal service resumes – in conversation with Henry Normal
- Coming to an understanding of myself – the Liam Ó Maonlaí interview
- Juggling life’s priorities, comedy style – the Steve Royle interview
- Lighting the Bright Magic lantern – back in touch with Public Service Broadcasting’s J.Willgoose, Esq.
- The telling adventures of Saint Etienne – the Sarah Cracknell interview
- 2-4-6-8 motorway networking with Pip Blom
- Hand Built by Isolated Human – back in touch with Newton Faulkner
- Jim Bob’s wake-up call, 2021 style – back in touch with the self-styled Poundland Bono
Archives
Categories
Meta
-
WriteWyattUK on Facebook
Tag Archives: The Race for Space
Valley high – back in touch with Public Service Broadcasting’s J. Willgoose Esq.
Commercial success doesn’t seem to have changed the pseudonymous J.Wilgoose Esq. Unless of course his excuse of not picking up his phone straight away as he was ‘carrying a cup of tea into the studio’ is shorthand for some rock’n’roll … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged 9Bach, Beaufort Male Choir, Camera Obscura, coalmining, Ebbw Vale, Every Valley, Haiku Salut, Inform Educate Entertain, J Willgoose Esq, James Dean Bradfield, Lisa Jên Brown, Manic Street Preachers, miners' strike, Public Service Broadcasting, South Wales, The Race for Space, Tracyanne Campbell
4 Comments
Public Service Broadcasting / Smoke Fairies – The Ritz, Manchester
It’s ironic that the night we decided to do without the car and took the train to Manchester, my better half and I were let down by public transport. Not so much Public Service Broadcasting as Replacement Bus Service, cheated … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged DEC Appeal, Everest, Gagarin, J Willgoose Esq, Jessica Davies, Katherine Blamire, Manchester, Nepal, Smoke Fairies, Sputnik, The Race for Space, The Ritz, Wild Winter
4 Comments
The Race for Space by Public Service Broadcasting – a writewyattuk review
It was supposedly a happy accident that Public Service Broadcasting stumbled upon correlations between the sublime Everest on their debut LP and a mention of George Mallory’s historic Peak XV explorations while working on their second. Either way, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Apollo, Everest, Gagarin, NASA, Public Service Broadcasting, Sputnik, The Race for Space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok, Willgoose, Wrigglesworth
4 Comments
Exploring the gravitational pull of Public Service Broadcasting – a writewyattuk interview
I’m not alone in my fascination for all things space-related, and was captivated as a child by the later Apollo missions, at least one of which I vaguely recall catching on telly at primary school in the early ’70s. And … Continue reading
