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Tag Archives: Tuff Life Boogie
The Wedding Present / The Catenary Wires / Miles Salisbury – The Continental, Preston
When Un-Peeled promoter Tuff Life Boogie broke the news that The Wedding Present were coming to my favourite Lancashire riverside locale in early March, there was much excitement from the North West indie fraternity, with one date soon not enough. … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Amelia Fletcher, Bizarro, Blank Students, Caternary Wires, Charlie Layton, Danielle Wadey, David Gedge, George Best, Going Going, John Peel, Marcus Kain, Miles Salisbury, Preston, Talulah Gosh, The Continental, The Wedding Present, Tuff Life Boogie, Valentina
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Going Going … This Boy Can’t Wait – a writewyattuk exclusive
I don’t tend to do ‘breaking news’ and ‘exclusive’ splashes on this website, leaving that to the … yawn … competition. But when you’ve got it, perhaps you should flaunt it after all. Go, Man, Go, as a wise man once … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged David Gedge, John Peel, Lancaster, Preston, The Continental, The Wedding Present, Tuff Life Boogie
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King Champion Sounds – Preston, The Continental
There’s something about an unconventional marriage of inspirational music and film that always appeals to me, and I’ve been spoiled for choice on that front of late. In my formative days on the ‘80s London circuit I recall a venue … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Ajay Saggar, Amsterdam, British Sea Power, G.W. Sok, John Peel, King Champion Sounds, King Creosote, Man with a Movie Camera, Preston, Public Service Broadcasting, The Continental, The Magnetic North, Tuff Life Boogie, Ukraine, Vernal Equinox Festival
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Beyond the Dandelion Adventure – having words with Ajay Saggar and Marcus Parnell
This story starts with The Membranes, because without that Lancashire post-punk band a singer known as Fat Mark and a lanky Asian indie kid called Ajay might never have met. That initial meeting came sometime in the mid-‘80s amid an … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Action Records, Amsterdam, Blackpool, Blur, Cornershop, Dandelion Adventure, Deutsche Ashram, John Peel, John Robb, Kevin Shields, King Champion Sounds, Mark E Smith, My Bloody Valentine, Preston, The Bent Moustache, The Boo Radleys, The Continental, The Fall, The Membranes, The Stranglers, Thurston Moore, Tuff Life Boogie
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Taking the Big Red Bus to town – celebrating Tuff Life Boogie’s autumn return
If you follow the alternative and indie music scene and you’re based in the North West, you may know a little about Tuff Life Boogie. Then again, this is hardly a story of self-aggrandisement or any of that self-serving twaddle. … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Action Records, Big Red Bus, Blitz, Dandelion Adventure, Galley Beggar, Icicle Works, JD Meatyard, Jez Kerr, John Peel, lancashire, Preston, Rico La Rocca, Stanley Brinks, The Boo Radleys, The Continental, The Stone Roses, The Wave Pictures, Thomas Truax, Tuff Life Boogie
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