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  • REVIEW โ€“Acoustic Strawbs โ€“ 8th June @ Assembly Hall, Melksham

    REVIEW โ€“Acoustic Strawbs โ€“ 8th June @ Assembly Hall, Melksham

    Is It Really Fifty Years? Andy Fawthrop Having checked my passport and visa for the border crossing, and made sure that my inoculations were up to date, I ventured out of D-Town into the Badlands of Melksham. Just shows what lengths Iโ€™m prepared to go to in order to find live music! After a superb Read more

  • The Mac are Bac @ The Neeld

    The Mac are Bac @ The Neeld

      Fleetwood Bac, the worldโ€™s first and best Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band will be bringing their phenomenal tribute show to Chippenham’s The Neeld on 21st June 2019.   Endorsed by Mick Fleetwood himself, this is the only Mac tribute to authentically replicate the classic ‘Rumours’ line-up. Over the last few years they’ve received rave reviews Read more

  • She Robot Assimilates the British

    She Robot Assimilates the British

    Images used with kind permission of Gail Foster.   Summer Sunday afternoons in the beer garden of the British; itโ€™s a Devizes thing, a ritual stretching back long before I anchored on these shores. Yet itโ€™s unusual for an android to be found there. In all truth, if any kind of automaton did start socialising Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Moscow Drug Club โ€“ 7th June @ Exchange Night Club, Devizes

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Moscow Drug Club โ€“ 7th June @ Exchange Night Club, Devizes

    Drugs Down In The Bin! By Andy Fawthrop   Well, sort of. Bear with me. In fact this was yet another Devizes Arts Festival offering that turned out to be an absolute cracker of a gig. Descending into The Corny Bin, or The Exchange Night Club to be precise, I wondered why this particular venue Read more

  • Billy Green 3; Should not be Moved

    Billy Green 3; Should not be Moved

    On my holibobs last week, local Geordie Britpop/mod musician Bill Green of trio Billy Green 3, (not to be confused with the British-Upper Canadian scout who saw victory at the Battle of Stoney Creek, naturally) messaged a YouTube link to his debut single, โ€œI Should be Moved.โ€ Promised to get on it this week, finally Read more

  • Legally Blonde Jnr Comes to Devizes

    Legally Blonde Jnr Comes to Devizes

    You got into Harvard Law? What? Like, it’s hard? Hey, get your flaxen Barnett around this; Legally Blonde, rom-com, chick-flick adaptation of Amanda Brownโ€™s novel of the same name is eighteen years old. Yeah, like, I know right. Two years later they made the sequel; although a smash at the box office, it never raised Read more