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  • Paul Lappin & The Keylines Live at Pink Moon Studios

    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, itโ€™s as โ€œname your priceโ€ on Bandcamp, and Iโ€™ll wager my Christmas stocking and all of its contents, youโ€™ll eternally thank me for the advice.…. On Read more

  • Tractors, Tinsel, and โ€œSuggestedโ€ Environmental Issues

    From Devizes to Marlborough and back, last weekend, Sunday 19th December saw a repeat of last yearโ€™s 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

  • REVIEW โ€“ Kossoff โ€“ The Band Plays On @ LSBC, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 18th December 2021

    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  Itโ€™s been a packed programme recently, but no-oneโ€™s complaining about that! Last nightโ€™s offering was as good as a double-header as far as I was concerned. Drafted in at Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ White Horse Operaโ€™s Christmas Concert, including Faureโ€™s Requiem @ St Johnโ€™s Church, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 18th December 2021

    Chilly Church Concert Andy Fawthrop Iโ€™m not sure why White Horse Opera are so shy of publicity, but Iโ€™d 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

  • Running with a Timid Deer

    An absolutely spellbinding new electronica jazz-blues single out this week, of which Iโ€™d expect nothing less from what I believe to be one of Wiltshireโ€™s most underrated bands, Salisburyโ€™s 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

  • Can We Stop Boxing Day Hunts?

    Can We Stop Boxing Day Hunts?

    Make no mistake, thereโ€™s 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 whoโ€™s the goodies and whoโ€™s the baddies here, but pray tell me youโ€™re not party Read more