Hi Peter, so it is time to turn the tables, instead of you interviewing people to appear in NE, it’s now your turn to be interviewed, so can you introduce yourself to our readers? Now then Wayne, firstly, thank you for this, greatly appreciated mate and I’m looking forward to catching up again properly, soon. So, we’re playing a game of musical tables now are we, and it’s my turn to take the spotlight, a rarity I know. Basically, I’m a forty-something, freelance journalist and author from County Durham, a pit mining village called Esh Winning to be precise, and I’ve been writing for this fine publication for some five years now – believe me, it feels like longer….
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For the last several years you have been responsible for some of the content featured in this very magazine, as well as magazines,
press and websites all over the UK (and even further afield), so what is it that you do? I write, and, honestly, it’s something I’ve been doing for most of my life really, and from a rather young age, but now, for the past
decade really, I’ve been building myself up, running PR campaigns for individuals, groups, collectives, on both a regional, and national level, occasionally even further afield. I work primarily in the sports, music and entertainment sectors, but I’ll always look at anything really, and if I can do it, I will do it. So who do you help and how do they get it? I guess in recent times, pre-covid anyway, I’ve been primarily working with musicians, on both a local and national level (although working with Jade Byrne on her Pricks tours has been a massive highlight), but, as I’ve mentioned, anything will be considered. You’d be surprised as to how much work goes on behind the scenes, it can be very time consuming, and it’s far from an easy ‘gig’ – however, say you’ve a local musician going on tour around our fair
