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Heavenly t-shirts won’t ever let you down – celebrating Brian Bilston, the Catenary Wires, and Sounds Made by Humans
Once upon a time in an era seemingly rife with bands splitting ‘due to musical differences’, my own band started a rumour, then denied it, that we’d split up due to ‘t-shirt differences’. That was in the late ’80s, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Fletcher, Birmingham, Blue Aeroplanes, Brian Bilston, Buzzcocks, Catenary Wires, Heavenly, Henry Normal, Hue williams, Ian Button, John Betjeman, John Cooper Clarke, Oxford, Philip Larkin, poetry, Rob Pursey, Sounds Made by Humans, Spike Milligan, Swansea Sound, The Smiths, The Wedding Present
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Vinny Peculiar / Common Hall / John Denton – Castle Hotel, Manchester
A return to Manchester’s Northern Quarter, and somehow my first visit to the Castle Hotel, and something of a showcase for three happening singer-songwriters at different stages in their… well, I’ll say careers, because they all deserve them. It’s a … Continue reading
A welcome return to Vinny Peculiar’s Counterculture Club – in praise of How I Learned to Love the Freaks
‘Say goodbye to the summer of love…’ There’s an autumnal chill in the air right now, but while the summer’s gone, I’m yet to tire of an album that’s provided a key part of my soundtrack these past couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music, Uncategorized
Tagged Alan Wilkes, Dave Draper, Death of the Counterculture, Flower Power, Hippy Kids, How I Learned to Love the Freaks, Leah Wilkes, Manchester, Parlour Flames, Rob Steadman, Summer of Love, The Smiths, Vinny Peculiar, Worcestershire
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Art for heart’s sake – back in touch with Vinny Peculiar
“We all need a little more art in our life.” I can’t speak for you lot, but Channel 4’s Grayson’s Art Club has proved a big draw, so to speak, at WriteWyattUK Towers since the first UK covid lockdowns. Sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Artists Only, Big Star, Bonehead, Dave Hulston, David Bowie, David Hockney, Grayson Perry, Mott the Hoople, Oasis, Parlour Flames, Paul Cliff, Ray Davies, Robert Hughes, San Francisco, Shadrack 7 Duxbury, The Smiths, Vinny Peculiar, Worcestershire
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In memory of Inga Maria – the Keeley Moss interview
It’s fair to say that prolific Dublin singer-songwriter and blogger Keeley Moss is loving the amount of international airplay she’s getting right now, not least on national radio in Britain and in her Irish homeland, and on influential online stations … Continue reading
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Tagged 1988, Alan Maguire, Brave Warrior, Damian O'Neill, Darklands Audio, Dimple Discs, Dublin, Galloway Princess, Inga Maria Hauser, Inverness, Johnny rogan, Keeley moss, Larne, Microdisney, Munich, Northern Ireland, Preston, Stranraer, The Keeley Chronicles, The Smiths
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WriteWyattUK’s Guide to Finding Inspiration … In Spite of These Times, Pt. I
In which WriteWyattUK takes a look back – in quotation form – at the pick of our feature/interviews from 2020, the dreaded year the coronavirus carved a devastating impact on the music and arts scene. Click on the highlighted name … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Adele, Ajay Saggar, Americana, Amsterdam, Annie Hardy, Badly Drawn Boy, Baxter Dury, Bhajsn Bhoy, Blow Monkeys, Cigar Box Blues, Cornershop, Coronavirus, Damian O'Neill, Damon Gough, Danny Morris, Dave Fenton, David Bowie, Dead Trout, Dr. Robert, Eileen Gogan, Elvis Costello, Erland Cooper, From Scotland with Love, Get it Loud in Libraries, Giant Drag, Graham Firth, Grant Keir, Gypsy Pistoleros., Ian Allcock, Ian Prowse, John T. Davis, Karima Francis, Kenny Anderson, King Creosote, lancashire, Lee Mark Jones, Lindisfarne, Liverpool, London, Optic Nerve, Orkney, Paul Cook, Pele, Pete Astor, Pete Wylie, Preston, Richard Houghton, Rob Talbot, Robert Howard, Scott Carey, Sex Pistols, Shellshock Rock, Slade, Steve Levine, Stewart Parsons, Sue Culshaw, The Continental, The Ferret, The Loft, The Professionals, The Smiths, The Vapors, The Weather Prophets, Tjinder Singh, Transvision Vamp, True Deceivers, Virginia Heath, Wendy James, West on Colfax
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In the footsteps of Morrissey and Marr – talking The Smiths with Richard Houghton
By day a manager for a regional housing association, Richard Houghton still sees himself as ‘a frustrated journalist/author’, something he first made assured moves towards remedying five years ago, collating fans’ first-hand memories of the Rolling Stones’ live shows for … Continue reading
Lights still turn green at their convenience – talking BOB with Dean Leggett
Cast your mind back three decades or so. My diaries suggest I saw 148 gigs in the last three years of the 1980s, so inevitably recollections of some are cloudy. But many stick in the memory, not least those documented … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Tapp, BOB, Captains Log, Convenience, Cornwall, Dean Leggett, Highbury Corner, Jem Morris, John Peel, London, One Eyed Wayne, Optic Nerve, Paul Thompson, Penny Candles, reading, Richard Blackborow, Simon Armstrong, Sombrero, Stephen Hersom, The Beautiful South, The Old Trout, The Smiths, The Wedding Present, Windsor
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Understanding Vinny Peculiar – in conversation with Alan Wilkes
It would be all too easy to point out that Alan Wilkes, the inspiration behind Vinny Peculiar, has flirted with indie stardom but never quite attained that elusive crossover fame. But don’t think for one moment this Worcestershire-born and bred … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Wilkes, Bonehead, Bromsgrove, Che Beresford, David Bowie, Duke Special, Elbow, glam rock, Manchester, Parlour Flames, Return of the Native, Rob Steadman, Silver Meadows, The Smiths, The Wedding Present, Vinny Peculiar, While You Still Can, Wishbone Ash
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