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  • 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

  • Wiltshire is not Due a second Lockdown

    โ€œItโ€™s easier to fool people than convince them that they have been fooled,โ€ Mark Twain. Brilliant quote, you best believe it. Hereโ€™s the ha-ha irony, I fooled you. There are no sources of information to prove where or when the well-documented author Mark Twain allegedly said this. At least, according to snopes.com. Unless theyโ€™ve fooled… Read more

  • Georgeโ€™s Postcard, from a Motorway

    Georgeโ€™s Postcard, from a Motorway

    If Devizine is a voyage of discovering artists new to us, ones who pop up time and time again do so because theyโ€™re both more than worthy and have become friends. A nice Friday spent watching Phil, Tammy and Jamie live stream from a garden, as The Lost Trades debuted lockdown set in, and well,… Read more

  • From The Specials; Neville Staple Band in Lockdown

    From The Specials; Neville Staple Band in Lockdown

    Photos by John Coles Artwork by Sugary Staple If last yearโ€™s fortieth anniversary of Two-Tone Records saw an upsurge of interest in this homegrown second-generation ska, it shows no sign of flawing anytime soon. Perhaps you could attribute parallels to the social and political climate of our era, or debate intransigent devotees are reliving their… Read more