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  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 1st โ€“ 7th March 2023

    March on! Letโ€™s say no more about the impending spring other than YES!!!! As you might be able to tell, Iโ€™m not a winter person. Hereโ€™s what weโ€™ve found to be doing this coming week.……. Find details and tickets links at our event calendar, and plan your month ahead. Watch out though, itโ€™s always updating… Read more

  • SGO Release Live Album from The Southgate

    Late November last year I took the Southgateโ€™s landlady Deborah on her word, and it paid off; a word you should never doubt when it comes to bands booked. She told me Swindon ensemble SGO are โ€œan eclectic folky blues collective. They played a few crazy tunes in a circle in the middle of the… Read more

  • Unsurprised Alchemy: Will Lawton & The Alchemists Played The Pump

    Unsurprised Alchemy: Will Lawton & The Alchemists Played The Pump

    Roundabouts of Wiltshire, I usually just drive around them, that is, after all, their purpose. Saturday evening, I parked in the middle of that big one in Trowbridge; you know the one, all roads lead there, probably driven around it a thousand times. But I knew it was there and like the rest of my… Read more

  • How Ingrained is Hunting on our Society Given Police are Members of Criminal Gangs?

    How Ingrained is Hunting on our Society Given Police are Members of Criminal Gangs?

    Of course, today’s opinion rant comes from news Wiltshire Police have promoted officer Cheryl Knight to the rural crimes department despite allegedly being a member of the Beaufort Hunt and has previously ridden with the notorious Avon Vale Hunt. The public outrage of such has spawned a planned protest on 5th March at Devizes Police… Read more

  • Song of the Week: Deadlight Dance

    Song of the Week: Deadlight Dance

    It’s Wednesday night, it’s Song of the Week time…. I’m just amazed with myself that I’ve actually committed to this new regular feature for a whole month, incredible! This week, it’s post-punk eighties alternative/goth duo Deadlight Dance. Tim Emery and Nick Fletcher are a rekindled two-fifths of a Marlborough’s St Johns six form band and… Read more

  • Devilโ€™s Doorbell Live EP from the Pump

    Devilโ€™s Doorbell Live EP from the Pump

    Itโ€™s any wonder if this bonkers jazz skiffle duo found a double-entendre in the name of Trowbridgeโ€™s finest live music venue, The Pump, when they visited at the beginning of the month in support for Jaz DeLorean, being theyโ€™re the boaterโ€™s royalty of euphemisms, but at least they did find time to release a recording… Read more