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  • Chop Chappy with Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer

    Fancy a break from the serious side of life? Tired of bolshy reactionary keyboard warriors blotting facts and illogically splicing political car crashes into positives? Or maybe it’s just that bastard tap in the upstairs bathroom, dripping, and the only thing the bimbo at the call centre is filing is her fingernails. You need some Read more

  • REVIEW: Devizes Town Band – Proms in Hillworth Park –Sunday 12th September 2021

    REVIEW: Devizes Town Band – Proms in Hillworth Park –Sunday 12th September 2021

    Sun Shining & All Is Well with The World Andy Fawthrop Does anybody else feel like things are starting to roll again?  I mean like “normal”? – not the “new normal”, not the “old normal”, but just “normal”?  Just me then?! After snuggling up with the BBC on Saturday night to witness the old “last Read more

  • Signs and Wonders of The Burner Band

    Signs and Wonders of The Burner Band

    Popping immediately into your head with fun songs you’ll be singing for the rest of the week, while breaking out in denims, Leeds’ The Burner Band kick off their debut album, last week, Signs and Wonders with a rock n roll blinder, but that’s not all they’ve got in them.…. The subsequent tune to Blues Read more

  • REVIEW: Devizes Musical Theatre’s “A Gallery Of Rogues” @ Lavington Community Centre –Saturday 11th September 2021

    REVIEW: Devizes Musical Theatre’s “A Gallery Of Rogues” @ Lavington Community Centre –Saturday 11th September 2021

    Yes M’Lud! By Andy Fawthrop It’s not often that you’ll get me schlepping down to a Community Hall in the middle of nowhere (well, OK, Lavington) on a Saturday night for a dose of Light Opera, but…well…it seemed like a good warm-up for the BBC Last Night of the Proms which was due to be Read more

  • Some Reasons Why I Enjoyed Jesus Christ Superstar at The Wharf

    Some Reasons Why I Enjoyed Jesus Christ Superstar at The Wharf

    One reason why I enjoyed Jesus Christ Superstar at Devizes Wharf Theatre yesterday evening, is similar to why I like sci-fi and fantasy genres. No, hear me out, long winded it maybe, but there’s a point! With sci-fi you can take an earth-bound concept, and moving it from its usual perimeters, see it for what Read more

  • Absolutely Pukka; Death of Guitar Pop

    Absolutely Pukka; Death of Guitar Pop

    It’s top marks for the Death of Guitar Pop duo, Silky and Top Kat, for their new album, Pukka Sounds, from me; did you expect anything less?! In 1976 Bunny Wailer titled his debut solo album, “Blackheart Man,” that being a Jamaican version of the bogeyman. Perhaps he likened the mysteriousness of Rastafarians to this Read more