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  • Shiine Weekender Festival 2021

    Imagine, a festival. Right now, imagining Joe Bloggs from the down the road clonking the ivory and singing a ditty down your local is wishful thinking. It’s hard to envisage an autumn a year away, and I accept, not ideal to invest in a ticket until you are sure this fiasco is blown over. However, Read more

  • 1/2 Dove – 1/2 Pigeon with Micko and the Mellotronics

    1/2 Dove – 1/2 Pigeon with Micko and the Mellotronics

    Had to chuckle to myself, trying to find this album stored on my phone I kept thinking about Mike & The Mechanics! Just, No, leave it; nothing of the sort, London’s Micko and the Mellotronics debuted last year with the single The Finger, the accompanying album 1/2 Dove – 1/2 Pigeon is due for release Read more

  • You’ve Been Mangoed; With Mango Thomas!

    You’ve Been Mangoed; With Mango Thomas!

    Vast developments in the later days of breakbeat house saw a split in the blossoming rave scene. Techno-heads being directed away from the newfound UK sound found solace in a subgenre dubbed “happy hardcore,” whereas the trialling occurred in the dawn of drum and bass, or “jungle” as it was known at the time. Yet Read more

  • Arcana & Idols of the Flesh: Ambience and Chamber-Prog with Swindon Composer Richard Wileman

    Arcana & Idols of the Flesh: Ambience and Chamber-Prog with Swindon Composer Richard Wileman

    One portion my nostalgia rarely serves, and that’s my once veneration for spacey sounds, apexed through the ambient house movement in the nineties, but not comprehensively; we always had Sgt Pepper, Pink Floyd and Hendrix’s intro to Electric Ladyland. I’ve long detached myself from adolescent experimentation of non-licit medications, lying lone in a dark bedroom Read more

  • Rowde Villagers Rally in Support of Residential Centre Facility

    Rowde Villagers Rally in Support of Residential Centre Facility

    Stop the closure of HFT in Rowde Sign the Petition here. It was a wonderfully professional-looking cake, we bought for a birthday of yore, from the residents of the nearby facility for adults with learning disabilities, now known as HFT Rowde. Making this a tricky piece to balance. While one doesn’t want to criticise a Read more

  • Dirty and Smooth Seed to the Spark

    Dirty and Smooth Seed to the Spark

    That moment after a message from a local band, when you click on their Facebook page to find eleven friends already “like” them, and not one of them told you! Yeah, I’m talking, but I ain’t saying anything new; does everyone know Malmsbury’s The Dirty Smooth, except me?! If not, you should. Since their debut Read more