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  • REVIEW – Jon Amor/ King Street Turnaround – Southgate – Sunday 3rd October 2021

    REVIEW – Jon Amor/ King Street Turnaround – Southgate – Sunday 3rd October 2021

    Busy Day For The Hometown Boy Andy Fawthrop Sunday saw me drifting up Long Street once again to The Southgate.  Dave & Debs have been doing a fantastic job to make everybody welcome over the last few weeks since Lockdown ended, not only by getting their garden into shape with umbrellas, gazebos, and marquees, tables Read more

  • REVIEW – Jimmy Carpenter – Long Street Blues Club – Saturday 2nd October 2021

    REVIEW – Jimmy Carpenter – Long Street Blues Club – Saturday 2nd October 2021

    Long, slow sax in the evening Andy Fawthrop I think we’re all partial to some casual sax when it’s on offer, so it didn’t take much persuasion to get me back up Long Street to the Con Club for the next date of Long Street Blues Club’s winter season.  Tonight it was the turn of Read more

  • The Evolution of Kirsty Clinch

    The Evolution of Kirsty Clinch

    “The only thing disappointing about Kirsty Clinch’s Evolution is, it ends.” It’s a generation X thing, I’m suggesting, which levels me to downloading an album as the last port of call to actually “owning” something anywhere near physical, against this era of streaming music, sourly missing the fondness of holding a piece of vinyl for Read more

  • Sonny Vincent’s Snake Pit Therapy

    Here’s me doubting using the phrase “traditional punk rock,” because wouldn’t punk castoff anything deemed traditional? Yet I feel the term punk is loosely thrown about these days, compared to its original ethos. Much of the sneaker and drainpipe crowd-surfing youngsters barely relates to the sound and attitude of the Pistols or Ramones.   While Read more

  • Arts in Calne; October sees the Calne Music and Arts Festival

    Arts in Calne; October sees the Calne Music and Arts Festival

    Calne Music and Arts Festival (CMAF) is a community celebration of music and the arts, which takes place during a ten-day period at the beginning of October each year, and this year is of no exception. The festival aims not only to provide entertainment for the people of Calne and surrounding villages, but also to Read more

  • Local Bands Ramp Up the Volume on Bradford-on-Avon’s Skatepark Campaign

    Local Bands Ramp Up the Volume on Bradford-on-Avon’s Skatepark Campaign

    Bradford on Avon Gig Will Help Raise Funds for New Skate Park A three-band fundraising gig to help fund a new skate park in Bradford on Avon, Sk8er Noize – Get on Board, is announced for Friday 22 October at the town’s St Margaret’s Hall. Promising to raise the roof as well as a cash Read more