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Paul Lappin & The Keylines Live at Pink Moon Studios
If you need a breather from the perpetual cycle of cliche Christmas song mush, do yourself a favour; Paul Lappin & The Keylines released a live EP last week, itโs as โname your priceโ on Bandcamp, and Iโll wager my Christmas stocking and all of its contents, youโll eternally thank me for the advice.…. On Read more
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Tractors, Tinsel, and โSuggestedโ Environmental Issues
From Devizes to Marlborough and back, last weekend, Sunday 19th December saw a repeat of last yearโs Tractor & Tinsel Run, and Devizes Young Farmersโ fundraising event attracted masses of attention. Our man Andy was at the scene and I leave his thoughts on it here, I just wanted to add my tuppence too; you Read more
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REVIEW โ Kossoff โ The Band Plays On @ LSBC, Devizes โ Saturday 18th December 2021
Free At Last! Andy Fawthrop And so we came to the last LSBC offering of 2021, marking the half-way stage on the current season of concerts.ย Itโs been a packed programme recently, but no-oneโs complaining about that! Last nightโs offering was as good as a double-header as far as I was concerned. Drafted in at Read more
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REVIEW โ White Horse Operaโs Christmas Concert, including Faureโs Requiem @ St Johnโs Church, Devizes โ Saturday 18th December 2021
Chilly Church Concert Andy Fawthrop Iโm not sure why White Horse Opera are so shy of publicity, but Iโd seen very little on social media that this event was even taking place.ย Trusting that it was still on, I rocked up at the appointed time, and sure enough there was a gathering of those in Read more
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Running with a Timid Deer
An absolutely spellbinding new electronica jazz-blues single out this week, of which Iโd expect nothing less from what I believe to be one of Wiltshireโs most underrated bands, Salisburyโs Timid Deer, and produced by the brilliant Jason Allen. With a grand piano opening, their evocative part-indie-part-trip hop ambience is accomplished to a new standard here, Read more
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Can We Stop Boxing Day Hunts?
Make no mistake, thereโs a civil war under our noses, which comes to an apex when blood-thirsty predators triumphantly parade their wrongdoing on a day when most of us struggle out of bed to reach the fridge. Judge for yourselves whoโs the goodies and whoโs the baddies here, but pray tell me youโre not party Read more
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