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  • Sheer Music’s MVT Open Letter to Government

    Sheer Music’s MVT Open Letter to Government

    Hats off to Sheer Music, who has a Music Venue Trust open letter template, calling for the government to consider grass roots music venues. You can download the template letter from the Sheer site, link here, and are encouraged to send it to your local MPs and councillors, with a cover letter in your own Read more

  • Brownie Dad in the Ring!

    Brownie Dad in the Ring!

    Yay, happy Fatherโ€™s Day, Dads, we are number one, so why try harder?! Received a photo-card from my son of my good self proudly showing off my moobs, and my daughter got me a fit-watch thingy to measure my steps, heart rate and all of that malarkey; a smidgen suspicious theyโ€™re trying to tell me Read more

  • International Ska! Hugo Lobo teams up with Lynval Golding and Val Douglas

    International Ska! Hugo Lobo teams up with Lynval Golding and Val Douglas

    If I penned an all-purpose article a week or so ago, about ska in South America being as prospering now as it once was in England, I follow it up with this grand example…. Argentinaโ€™s Dancing Mood trumpeter and producer Hugo Lobo made history this week, releasing โ€œFire Fire,โ€ a skanking upbeat cover of a Read more

  • Virtuous Violence of a Clock Radio

    Virtuous Violence of a Clock Radio

    If the name Clock Radio suggests an irritating box by your bed you simply want to lunge at in the morning, the casual โ€œTalking Headsโ€ fashion of local purveyors of self-proclaimed โ€œdeluded jangle rock,โ€ entice no such violent action; theyโ€™re smooth and arty. Though, ironically describe themselves as โ€œeasily triggered, dishonest, cryptic yet flirty,โ€ and Read more

  • Have a Sophia’s Soul Rebels after-lockdown party!

    If we’re all eager to consign this lockdown to the history books, none so more, perhaps, than our pub landlords/ladies and event organisers. I’d hope and imagine they’re considering ways to make the return to normal a real celebration. Just a suggestion then, as nothing with such universal appeal would bring the party to an Read more

  • Town Council raisingย ยฃ750ย toย support the Devizes Mayor’s Charities

    Town Council raisingย ยฃ750ย toย support the Devizes Mayor’s Charities

    We were all saddened to learn of the sudden and unexpected death of Cllr. Andy Johnson, the newly elected Town Mayor of Devizes, on the evening of 25th May, only ten days into his term of office. Many people across the Town have already paid tribute to his kindness and generosity as both a neighbour Read more