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  • 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

  • The Tiers of a Clown

    Wiltshire Council outlined what the new restrictions mean for us yesterday. I have copied and pasted it for your reference. Although some parts were accidentally deleted so I had to fill them in, as best as I remembered it reading. Apologies for any slight inaccuracies, but it’s Monday, alright? The actual report can be found… Read more

  • Top Twenty Local Music CDs For Christmas

    Top Twenty Local Music CDs For Christmas

    Bag yourself some of our recommended long players for your friends, family or even yourself this Christmas and help a local musical talent. Look at him, Grumpus Maximus, slouching on his sofa-throne investigating the inside of his y-fronts with one hand and clasping a tinnie with the other. Heโ€™ll need Google maps to find his… Read more

  • Jon Amorโ€™s Remote Control

    Jon Amorโ€™s Remote Control

    Pop is pop for a reason. Without sounding like a government soundbite, what I mean is, pop, as in the music, is popular for good reason; the catchiness often in the simplicity, which consequently sells. And if it sells, itโ€™s pop, regardless of the many subgenres and youth cultures which an era carries pop along,… Read more

  • Beans on Toast Knee Deep in Nostalgia

    Beans on Toast Knee Deep in Nostalgia

    If growing up in Witham meant Braintree appeared to be Shelbyville to our Springfield, I should go no further. The Prodigy are undoubtedly Essexโ€™s finest musical export in the last three decades, next to Colchesterโ€™s Blur, and what did Witham give us? Olly Murs, thatโ€™s who. Though if Jay McAllisterโ€™s hometown evokes my own childhood… Read more