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  • Duality; Debut EP From Melkshamโ€™s Between The Lines

    Duality; Debut EP From Melkshamโ€™s Between The Lines

    It was never just the fervent ambience created which made me go tingly with excitement about Melkshamโ€™s young indie band Between The Linesโ€™ demo single Fading Time, it was the profusion of potential. A latent driving me to Swindon Shuffle this year, where theyโ€™d be playing at The Hop, but now a manifest for all… Read more

  • Joyrobber Didn’t Want Your Stupid Job Anyway

    Joyrobber Didn’t Want Your Stupid Job Anyway

    A second track from local anonymous songwriter Joyrobber has mysteriously appeared online, and heโ€™s bitter about not getting his dream jobโ€ฆ.. If this mysterious dudeโ€™s August invective track at racist talk show host Jeremy Kyle, and his patronising attitude, it feels like him telling me heโ€™s โ€œnot one for holding a grudge,โ€ might have a… Read more

  • Devizes Chamber Choir Christmas Concert

    Devizes Chamber Choir Christmas Concert

    Itโ€™s not Christmas until the choir sings, and Devizes Chamber Choir intend to do precisely this by announcing their Christmas Concert, as they have done since they were founded in 1978โ€ฆ.. Devizes Chamber Choir is a group of around thirty singers, with a broad repertoire from acapella, through chamber works to major choral masterpieces including… Read more

  • A Positive Week After Wiltshire Music Awards

    A Positive Week After Wiltshire Music Awards

    All Images By Helen Polarpix Best part of a week since Stone Circle Music Eventsโ€™ Wiltshire Music Awards and Iโ€™m still at one thousand feet about what we achieved, and dealing with a cascade of feedback. While some of it has been appreciated constructive criticism, that crazy playground called social media is such that some… Read more

  • Steatopygous go Septic

    Steatopygous go Septic

    If you believe AI, TikTok and the rest of it all suppress Gen Zโ€™s outlets to convey anger and rage, resulting in a generation of anxiety and mental health concerns, I might take your point as marginally valid, but Iโ€™d add politely as I possibly could, โ€œhave you, perchance, had the pleasure of listening to… Read more

  • The Wurzels To Play At FullTone 2026!

    The Wurzels To Play At FullTone 2026!

    If Devizesโ€™ celebrated FullTone Festival is to relocate to Whistley Roadโ€™s Park Farm for next summerโ€™s extravaganza, what better way to give it the rustic feel than The Wurzels, who have just been announced on the line-up?! If Somersetโ€™s Scrumpy and Western genre has fermented longer than a cider press from folk roots, itโ€™s surely… Read more