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  • The Lost Promises of Sam Bishop

    The Lost Promises of Sam Bishop

    Five years on from Devizes six-form boy band 98 Reasons, we find vocalist and keyboardist Sam Bishop studying music in Winchester, while former Larkin partner Finely Trusler continues working with cousin Harvey as The Truzzy Boys and has become fresh new frontman for local mod heroes, The Roughcut Rebels. Last week we were able get… Read more

  • Stockwell, Storm Jae and Nory Can’t Come Home

    Stockwell, Storm Jae and Nory Can’t Come Home

    It’s not every day we hear a quintessentially hip-hop track with the magnitude of enriching classic rock riffs, say, as Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street or Pink Floyd’s The Great Gig in the Sky. Agreeably the nineties downbeat and trip hop era unleashed some masterful acts, particularly of the Bristol scene. And there’s shards of precisely… Read more

  • Wiltshire’s Most Expensive Laugh; Seedy Out of the PCC Race!

    Wiltshire’s Most Expensive Laugh; Seedy Out of the PCC Race!

    Two opinion pieces from me in as many days; you lucky, lucky people! What I wouldn’t give to have two lofty opinion pieces from Devizine thrown at me once in a while! As the news circulates that hunting bonkers Conservative PCC candidate for Wiltshire, Johnathan Seed is out of the race, we all can have… Read more

  • A Trowbridge Kitchen Sink Drama; Sitting Tenants

    A Trowbridge Kitchen Sink Drama; Sitting Tenants

    Wednesday, racing down to the newsagent on the corner on my Rayleigh Tomahawk, fifteen pee in sweaty palm. Pick up my Beano, six pence left for halfpenny sweets. The lady stood irritated behind the counter holding a small paper bag, as the kid front of the queue rubbed his chin pondering the crucial quandary. “You’ve… Read more

  • Wiltshire Lays all its Eggs in the Same Basket

    Wiltshire Lays all its Eggs in the Same Basket

    You’ve done it now, it’s too late for reason. My reaction to the local election results coming in; you really want to hear it?! It’s not really news, and altogether unsurprising to see early results to the local town/village elections coming in, proving generally the majority population of Wiltshire is unable to consider change, and… Read more

  • Brainiac 5’s Other Dimension

    Brainiac 5’s Other Dimension

    And it is precisely that. Cornish psych-punkers The Brainiac 5 release this mind-blowing album of both reflective new tunes and lost archived tracks, today. Another Time Another Dimension bursts the cliché term genre-breaking to compose scattered influences, with this kind of low-fi garage style, which while loans to punk, even reggae, has the nod to… Read more