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  • Explosive Minds & ZambaLando: Swindonโ€™s Connection to Afro Latin Funk

    Explosive Minds & ZambaLando: Swindonโ€™s Connection to Afro Latin Funk

    Patiently waiting for a good reason to feature ZambaLando, Wiltshireโ€™s premier funksters of Afro-Latino beats, so upon the release of the follow-up album to 2020โ€™s Carry On, off we virtually trot to Swindon for a worthy tropical musical expedition! If thereโ€™s ever a criticism over Ry Cooperโ€™s nineties Son adventures with the Buena Vista Social Read more

  • Changing Times For Lacock’s Boxing Day Hunt Protest

    Changing Times For Lacock’s Boxing Day Hunt Protest

    Wiltshire Hunt Saboteurs report some great news, ahead of the Avon Vale Hunt’s Boxing Day Hunt, happening in Lacock today…. Wadworth-owned Lacock pub, The Red Lion, traditionally the meeting point for the start of the hunt, has made the decision to not open until after the hunt has left the village. The National Trust has Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 21st December 2022 โ€“ New Yearโ€™s Eve!

    Okay letโ€™s get this out there before the kids munch through all the Quality Street, and have a double whammy Christmas and New Year run down of everything (weโ€™ve found so far) happening around these parts over the yuletide; I feel like the Radio Times for live local entertainment! But first, allow me take to Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Winter Wonderland of Music 17/18th December 2022

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Winter Wonderland of Music 17/18th December 2022

    Proving That Thereโ€™s More To Life Than Football! Andy Fawthrop Another perishingly cold weekend in D-Town, but there was plenty of music and entertainment on offer to warm the heart.ย  So I went off on a Winter wander to see what was on offer. Unfortunately I had to miss Friday nightโ€™s Butch Hopkins Memorial Gig Read more

  • More Wildfowl Die as Situation on the Crammer is Debated

    More Wildfowl Die as Situation on the Crammer is Debated

    NOTE: This article gives no advise on what to do for the best, honestly, I donโ€™t know what to make of all this, or what side to sit on, as a second swan died on the Crammer in Devizes yesterday, after two Canada geese did prior, only in that the two debating sides are of Read more

  • Itโ€™s Christmasssss at Marlborough Memorial Hall!

    Itโ€™s Christmasssss at Marlborough Memorial Hall!

    In an attempt at a humorous Facebook status update a few years back I wrote a list headlined “it’s not Christmas until….” One option was “Hanz Gruber falls from the Nakatomi Plaza,” and another was “Noddy Holder calls it.” With Alan Rickman sadly passed, and a “will-they-won’t-they” Slade reform scenario apt for NME speculation clickbait, Read more