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  • From Devizes to Disneyland with MACs!

    From Devizes to Disneyland with MACs!

    For want of a feel-good story this stormy weekend, what a marvellous opportunity for the kids at MACS Theatre School, as a group performed a musical melody Halloween show on the main stage at Disneyland Paris this week. โ€œEach and every one of them were absolutely fantastic, and a pleasure to take on the trip,โ€ Read more

  • Railway Village Voice’s November’s Musical Musings

    via November’s Musical Musings Read more

  • A Halloween Open Mic in a Cellar

    A Halloween Open Mic in a Cellar

    With assorted images kindly nicked from: Alan Jones, Richard Benham and Deborah Barnett Felt a tap on my shoulder in the Cellar Bar of the Bear Hotel last night, an eerie witch called Tess taciturnly offered sweets from a variety Halloween basket. If it was just a kind gesture, I also saw it symbolic of Read more

  • FREE Halloween eBook!

    FREE Halloween eBook!

    Halloween, Mwhahahaha! If you’re not venturing out tonight, armed with a sugared-up face-painted youngster, lucky you! Perhaps you’d like to lounge on the sofa with a scary story. Here’s one I wrote, back when I wrote stories and Devizine didn’t occupy my every waking minute! Wrote in 2016, only a novelette size, but creepy enough. Read more

  • Our Sunday Live Music Stroll Around Devizes, Relay!

    Our Sunday Live Music Stroll Around Devizes, Relay!

    Andyโ€™s usual Sunday stroll around Devizes, hunting live music, took a different turn this weekend, as I interfered! In order to save time, treat this article as a roundup of all that happened to us both; a kind of music relay race! Andy spent the early afternoon down our trusty Southgate, I met up with Read more

  • PREVIEW: White Horse Operaโ€™s production of Bizetโ€™s Carmen @ Lavington School โ€“ Wednesday 30th October, Friday 1st November and Saturday 2nd November 2019

    PREVIEW: White Horse Operaโ€™s production of Bizetโ€™s Carmen @ Lavington School โ€“ Wednesday 30th October, Friday 1st November and Saturday 2nd November 2019

    This Opera Is For You! Andy Fawthrop Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, based on an original story by Prosper Merimee, first performed in 1875. It is written in the genre of opรฉra comique, with musical numbers separated by dialogue, and it shocked its early audiences with its Read more