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  • Vinyl Realm Settles Into New Home

    Vinyl Realm Settles Into New Home

    A median haul of vinyl can weigh in, but thereโ€™s no longer a trek down Northgate Street for record collectors and musicians alike. Vinyl Realm has settled into their new location on Devizes High Street and shopping there is a much more spacious and airy experience โ€ฆ.. Much as I loved the idea of a… Read more

  • Wiltshire Music Awards 2026 Announces New Venue, New Date, and Rebrand

    Wiltshire Music Awards 2026 Announces New Venue, New Date, and Rebrand

    The Wiltshire Music Awards is proud to announce an exciting new direction for its 2026 event, marking a bold evolution for one of the countyโ€™s anticipated celebrations of musical talentโ€ฆ.. Due to unforeseen circumstances surrounding the closure of the previously proposed venue, the Wiltshire Music Awards will no longer be associated with The Kingston Group.… Read more

  • Radium on Liddington Hill

    Radium on Liddington Hill

    Swindon-based adrenaline pumping five-piece Liddington Hill released their first EP for three years, and Radium is highly radioactiveโ€ฆ.. For most on the North Wessex Downs, the clump of beech trees at 900 feet high atย Liddington Hill is a landmark to get your bearings. Without a carpark and a mile from the Ridgeway, its Iron Age… Read more

  • Great Band, Shame About the Poster; Stop Using AI For Promotion!

    Great Band, Shame About the Poster; Stop Using AI For Promotion!

    Mixed emotions over one of those eye-catching social media โ€œreelsโ€ a few months ago, for two reasons. Firstly, attraction; the singing girl was a vision of beauty, perfect in every way. So perfect in fact, orally she cast no shadow, like she had a torch wedged into her oesophagus, and her sparkly array of exemplary… Read more

  • โ€œA Midsummer Nightโ€™s Dreamโ€ at the Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, Bath, 29th April- 2nd May – a preview

    by Mick Brian images by Jim McCauley โ€œLord, what fools these mortals beโ€, says the mischievous sprite, Puck, to his master the fairy king Oberon in William Shakespeareโ€™s โ€œA Midsummer Nightโ€™s Dreamโ€. Whilst in the text, he is addressing the four Athenian lovers and their irrational behaviour and criss-crossed love pairings โ€“ albeit created by… Read more

  • The Partyโ€ at the Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, Bath, April 22nd – 25th 2026

    by Ian Diddams images by Platform 8 Take Abigailโ€™s party, add some Aykbourn, a touch of Coward and a liberal sprinkling of 2010s socio-political background and what do you get? The answer is simply Sally Potterโ€™s โ€œThe Partyโ€ โ€“ a rattling roller-coaster ride of a kitchen sink drama with a darkly comedic edge in places.… Read more