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  • Kyla Brox; Throw Away your Blues

    Kyla Brox; Throw Away your Blues

    By Ben Niamor  Long Street Blues Clubs’ offering for the coronation weekend.. Kyla Brox….. The bunting is still up for those keen to celebrate, personally I was looking forward to this gig as the crowning moment in my Saturday, and I was not disappointed! Opening up proceedings the ever-excellent and irrepressible Tom Harris. Tom has… Read more

  • Hail The Chippenham Circus of Curious Artists

    Hail The Chippenham Circus of Curious Artists

    Alongside fellow artist Rae Melody from Chippenham, and dressed as a clown, Warminster artist Sarah Christie greets the curious and art lovers at the door of the newly opened Forbidden Carnival, long-time aspiration of homegrown Wiltshire alternative artist Si Griffiths. Inspiration strikes and she excitedly elucidates a blossoming idea on the topic of circus….. I… Read more

  • John Watterson Keeps The Music of Jake Thackray Alive, in Pewsey

    Chansonnier Yorkshireman Jake Thackray is paid tribute in Pewsey’s Bouverie Hall on May 26th by fellow Yorkshireman John Watterson, aka “Fake Thackray……” An adopted YorkshiremanJohn Watterson, grew up on the Isle of Man, which is where he first met Jake Thackray in 1975. Recalling the performance at his local folk club, which John explains, “had… Read more

  • Helen’s Poem on BBC Upload

    Helen’s Poem on BBC Upload

    A quick one from me today, offering our congratulations to our new writer, Helen Edwards from Devizes, who read out her poem “Motherhood,” on BBC Wiltshire this week on James Thomas’s Upload show. “It was fun,” she told us, “except my phone started ringing!” Listen here from the BBC website, or Soundcloud link, here. I… Read more

  • Song of the Week: Snazzback

    Song of the Week: Snazzback

    Wednesday, song of the week time, and it’s some smooth jazz from Bristol’s finest purveyors of looping rhythms and upside down chickens, Snazzback. Stokes Croft Sleep Clinic is from the forthcoming album Ruins Everything, and it gorgeously trickles over halfway, building layers until the evocative vocals of Tlk meld to complete the effect. So incredibly… Read more

  • Boots & Braces Ready For Devizes Scooter Rally 2023?

    Boots & Braces Ready For Devizes Scooter Rally 2023?

    Long overdue is our annual poking our nose into Devizes Scooter Club, see what peaky blinders they’re pulling off, including of course, the Devizes Scooter Rally 2023; because no matter what the people say, this sound leads the way….. While I’d half-heartedly shrug at critics giving it scooter rallies can be a niche market, retrospective… Read more