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  • Reggae Inna Cellar, with Razah and Knati P

    Reggae Inna Cellar, with Razah and Knati P

      Can’t review your own gig, numb-nuts; see this as a reflection on our blinding reggae night down the Cellar Bar…โ€ฆโ€ฆ..ย    Relying on public transport, our neighbouring Marlborough seems like a million miles away, a gamble you won’t be stuck in Avebury wandering the stones talking to some starry-eyed American beatnik about the wonders… Read more

  • Cuban meets African, in Devizes: All About Grupo Lokito

    Cuban meets African, in Devizes: All About Grupo Lokito

    You know, I have my ska-reggae show on Boot Boy radio, thatโ€™s while Iโ€™m so looking forward to Barbโ€™dwire playing the Devizes Arts Festival in June, but feel I differ from its, generally, skinhead cohorts with instantaneous love for all Caribbean styles of music. Thereโ€™s something so colourful and lively in these many styles from… Read more

  • De Novo; New Beginnings for Claire and Mark

    De Novo; New Beginnings for Claire and Mark

      Whatโ€™s all this about then, another invitation to โ€œlikeโ€ a Facebook page? I was glad to catch up with Claire Gilchrist yesterday, as she announced a new venture with other former People Like Us originator, Mark Povey…โ€ฆ. The fresh electro-acoustic duo dubbed, De Novo, promises to โ€œcreate something frickinโ€™ stratospheric!โ€ Bassist Mark left People… Read more

  • Happy Gypsy Birthday Blood!

    Happy Gypsy Birthday Blood!

    Some years ago, I walked into the Moonrakers, keen to hear a young singer called Tamsin Quin perform. It was a time when I had reservations about the rant column I was writing for Index; Wiltshire. While popular, and mostly when I did rant on a subject, I tended to become more interested in highlighting… Read more

  • Devizine Presents #1; Presented

    Devizine Presents #1; Presented

    All Photos used with the permission of Gail Foster, except the one of Gail herself!   Gimme a samba band, throw me an avant-garde minimalist techno breakbeat and then chastise me with a euro-pop grunge fusion played by an antelope on a washboard, I couldn’t give a donkey’s kidneys, all music is better than no… Read more

  • Up the Mountain to Chat with the Hound;

    Up the Mountain to Chat with the Hound;

    Jordan Whatley on his new EP, illness and influences.   If chat between songs on Tamsin Quinโ€™s live CD commending the local music scene prompted me to an awakening, Saddlebackโ€™s Battle of the Bands in February last year opened my eyes and ears to exactly what she was extolling. A decade of parenting undermined my… Read more