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  • Sound Affects Find the Ley Lines

    Sound Affects Find the Ley Lines

    Make no mistake, we love Swindon folk-rock duo Sound Affects here at Devizine. Ergo Iโ€™m prepped with some fond words and in high expectations prior to listening to their new album out today (13th Dec) Ley Lines. Itโ€™s been over two years since reviewing Everyday Escapism, their previous nugget of wonderful. And if I praised Read more

  • Skates & Wagons EP

    Skates & Wagons EP

    Fashionably late for the party, this Oxford duoโ€™s self-titled debut EP was released on White Label Records at the beginning of the month; what can I say for an excuse? Glad to catch up though, as Skates & Wagons are well worth it. Thereโ€™s retrospective grandeur on offer here; even down to the bracketed song Read more

  • Fairy-Tale of New Park Street; And Better Local Christmas Songs!

    Fairy-Tale of New Park Street; And Better Local Christmas Songs!

    It was Christmas Eve moi lover, outside Carpet Right, an old man without facemask said to me, won’t be seeing another one, and then he yelled a song, Shaky Stevenโ€™s Merry Christmas Everyone, I turned my face away, and puked all over youโ€ฆโ€ฆ Okay, Iโ€™ll hold my hands up, thatโ€™s all Iโ€™ve got when it Read more

  • The Monkey with no Bum!

    The Monkey with no Bum!

    No, looks to me like, from the front cover picture, the monkey does indeed have a bum, albeit it quite small and the motion lines suggest itโ€™s shrinking. No matter the outcome of the debate, it cannot be good news for this monkey called Charlie. I could ask the author Asa Murphy why, but we Read more

  • Tankus the Hengeโ€™s Luna Park

    Londonโ€™s Tankus the Hengeโ€™s third studio album is released today (4th Dec.) Tis a quixotic rockโ€™nโ€™roll fable, a utopian realm of wonderment with ingenious prose and the composition of a variety performanceโ€ฆ. Picked on this new release to scribe a few words about based upon Devizes Arts Festival organiser Margaret Bryantโ€™s thrilled expression when she Read more

  • Small Wonders Art Auction in aid of Arts Together

    It was one of my most memorable days following a story for Devizine, when I attended an Arts Together workshop in a sheltered accommodation hall in Bowerhill, last February with the artist Clifton Powell. I found out these sessions meant so much more than โ€œart therapyโ€ to the folk there, and it was delightful to Read more