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  • Nothing Rhymes Orange, Fact

    Nothing Rhymes Orange, Fact

    Oh, for the enthusiasm of emerging talent; new track from Nothing Rhymes with Orange is a surprisingly garage band delight…… My dad never revealed his feelings about being in an amateur teenage band. Though I knew he was, he played down its importance. Sacrificing his guitar for parenthood, heโ€™d shrug and tell me they were… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Black Sabbitch@ LSBC, Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Friday 14th October 2022

    REVIEW โ€“ Black Sabbitch@ LSBC, Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Friday 14th October 2022

    Awesome! Andy Fawthrop The Long Street Blues Club season is now in full swing, giving us a second gig within a week, and with several more to come before Crimbo.ย  Last night was a switch of nights to Friday from the usual Saturday, and of venue from the usual Con Club to the more intimate… Read more

  • Lou Trigg, and Some Flowers

    Lou Trigg, and Some Flowers

    Uplifting and sentimental, Flowers is the new song by Chippenham singer-songwriter Lou Trigg very worthy of your attention and playlist. A chorale delicacy, it trickles along sublimely, like staring thoughtfully through a rain-drenched window, nice and cosy, perhaps with a hand painted chipped-mug of lukewarm but earthy tea.…… Lou is a new one on us… Read more

  • Two-Tone Icons, The Beat Coming to Swindon and Frome

    Two-Tone Icons, The Beat Coming to Swindon and Frome

    With Ranking Junior now taking centre stage, the mighty Beat will be heading on tour, taking Swindon, Bournemouth, Leeds, and Hull to get audiences dancing to some of the most famous ska and reggae tracks ever written.…. Ah yes, did a song called “Stand Down Margaret,” if memory serves me well; perhaps a change of… Read more

  • Remembrance Service in Devizes, 2022

    Remembrance Service in Devizes, 2022

    Featured image: Remembrance Sunday 2019, Devizes by Gail Foster. With thanks to the secretary of The Devizes Branch of the Royal British Legion, Vera Richmond, we have some details of this year’s remembrance service in Devizes. An important year, 2022, because it’s the first time since 2019 there has been a full remembrance service…. On… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 13th -19th October 2022

    Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 13th -19th October 2022

    Here we are again, happy as can be, but slightly older, opps, soz, missed a C, slightly colder! Though we are a week older too, but that means nothing, only as old as you feel. Quite aggravated by chipping ice of the car windscreen this morning though, itโ€™s only October for crying out loud; who… Read more