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  • Jamie at The Southgate; first live music review for a while!

    Jamie at The Southgate; first live music review for a while!

    Has lockdown made us appreciate the simpler things in life we once took for granted? Even if, itโ€™s pathetic to lose your shit over the lessening of restrictions and go on an all-out bonkers spree of drunken foolishness, playing into the mediaโ€™s hands creating a drama from a crisis. It is understandable isolated folk fear Read more

  • The State of the Thing: Post Lockdown Devizine and How We Can Help

    The State of the Thing: Post Lockdown Devizine and How We Can Help

    Optimistic afternoon, the first time in months Iโ€™ve been adding events to our event calendar, rather than deleting them. Halfway through I paused to wonder if it was all too premature, then the update broke that restrictions are being eased further to allow outdoor sports and entertainment events. It has been the most the bizarre Read more

  • Town Council Making Marlborough High Street a Safer Place

    Town Council Making Marlborough High Street a Safer Place

    At the Full Town Council meeting on 29 June 2020, Town Councillors made a decision, under a new scheme, to pass on to Wiltshire Council its support for the temporary widening of pavements in the High Street to make it a safer environment for residents and shoppers. Under new legislation announced last week which streamlines Read more

  • The Unforgettable Film Scores of Ennio Morricone

    The Unforgettable Film Scores of Ennio Morricone

    Ever seen those videos where some clever-clogs takes out the music to a film clip and it immediately loses all clout? It makes one realise how dependant the film is to the music, how, without it, thereโ€™s hardly any emotion, and in turn is symbolic of how music can emotionally move us. None so much Read more

  • NervEndings For The People

    NervEndings For The People

    More clout than Ocean Colour Scene Iโ€™d expected after hearing frontman Mike Barhamโ€™s prior thrashing solo releases and drummer Luke Bartels previous band, but more roaring blues than Reef was an angle I didnโ€™t see coming when I first checked our local purveyors of loud, NervEndings. Weโ€™re countless gigs in now, the band, with bassist Read more

  • Jon Amor is Cooking

    Jon Amor is Cooking

    Last time I saw Jon Amor he was queuing for Sainsburys. Sign of the times I suppose, wouldโ€™ve much preferred to say we were in a pub or hall, and Jon was doing his thing. Capers, was what, he explained, he went in for. Those Mediterranean pickled berries, I figured; Jon is as epicure with Read more