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  • The Relevance of Mike Barham

    The Relevance of Mike Barham

    After a “knackering weekend” Devizes music scene’s gentle giant rests up, prepping for All Roads Lead to Frome on Saturday, where he’s one of twenty acts to be thrown onto the Cheese & Grain’s stage. He sends me Relevance, new single, out tomorrow (30th August) telling he’s “been sitting on it for like, two years,… Read more

  • Taste of Wiltshire Food Fest is full, you can help empty it!

    Taste of Wiltshire Food Fest is full, you can help empty it! Yes, applications for stalls at the Farm Cookery School at Netherstreet, Bromham is full. Sunday 8th September is the date you need to save, 10am-4pm; start fasting now! This is a FREE foodie gig, with lots going on, examples: THE WILTSHIRE BEEKEEPER: Fred… Read more

  • The Judge, Jules Brings Live Band to Swindon

    The Judge, Jules Brings Live Band to Swindon

    One of the scene’s most best-known names for more than three decades, Judge Jules has never shied away from pushing the boundaries in dance music. And this year, for the first time ever, audiences will be able to experience the iconic tracks that have defined his career through a ten-piece live band with Judge Jules… Read more

  • Street Festival, Yeah!

    Street Festival, Yeah!

    Images used with the kind permission of Tanya Jurkiewicz Photography and Gail Foster   Gigantic bouncy slide outside the trusty Pelican, where we usually wait for a bus. Beyond, a superior stage surrounded by pockets of circus acts, charity stands, clothes stalls, and street food heaven wraps the Market Place, where DOCA gave information and… Read more

  • Sophia, Soul Rebels and Southgate

    Sophia, Soul Rebels and Southgate

    After popping out of the yurt on the Green, bedazzled by the curious show inside, want for some normality rushed through me, that and the simpler fact I needed a cider or three. Where better than our dependable Southgate, where if the fun was to stop, you’d be wondering if you were in the right… Read more

  • Q: What’s in the Yurt, DOCA? A: Los Galindos’ Udel

    Q: What’s in the Yurt, DOCA? A: Los Galindos’ Udel

    Images used with kind permission of Gail Foster   For me it’s not enough to say something is “weird.” To start, is it a “good” weird or a “bad” weird? If the opposite of weird is normal, and normal considered boring, then weird must surely entertain. It’s subjective; depends where you sit on the border… Read more