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  • Spearmintโ€™s Holland Park

    As spacey as Spaceman 3, I get a whopping chunk of cleansed retro Madchester with the opening of Holland Park, the new album from one of ‘Britainโ€™s best kept secrets’, Londoners, Spearmint. The album drops tomorrow, September 17th, on WIAIWYA Records, and is produced by acclaimed journalist and musician Rhodri Marsden, known afor playing in… Read more

  • Help Choose a Charity For A Fundraising Music Event in Devizes….

    A prestigious live music gig is being planned for Devizes. Top secret, if I spill anymore beans about it they’d be forced to shoot me, and I know you wouldn’t want that…..would you? I thought not, not even if they just skimmed my kneecap with a spud-gun? But what you can help the organisers decide… Read more

  • Sheer Music to Host Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls UK Tour at Bath Forum

    Featured Image by Clair McAllister Little doubt Frank Turner is the top of his game, the prolific indie-rockerโ€™s ninth studio album, โ€œFTHCโ€ is highly anticipated…. The previously released lead single, โ€œThe Gatheringโ€ only gives a small insight into the new direction of the record. Though Frank is not only able to feature guest appearances from… Read more

  • Scott Laveneโ€™s Milk City Sweethearts

    Scott Laveneโ€™s Milk City Sweethearts

    Weโ€™ve had a spate of comical albums coming in for review, what with Death of Guitar Pop, Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer and now this, which is by far the darkest, consequently most poignant. Songwriter and raconteur Scott Lavene returns this Friday (17th September) with Milk City Sweethearts, an album of new material….. Thereโ€™s intelligent… Read more

  • 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 itโ€™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 โ€“ Proms in Hillworth Park โ€“Sunday 12th September 2021

    REVIEW: Devizes Town Band โ€“ Proms in Hillworth Park โ€“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?ย  I mean like โ€œnormalโ€? โ€“ not the โ€œnew normalโ€, not the โ€œold normalโ€, but just โ€œnormalโ€?ย  Just me then?! After snuggling up with the BBC on Saturday night to witness the old โ€œlast… Read more