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  • Saddle Up! Devizes Most Prestigious Festival Steps Up Their Game

    Saddle Up! Devizes Most Prestigious Festival Steps Up Their Game

    Your creative sorts usually appreciate music, but, stereotypically, entertainment for “sporty-types” would rather be waving fists and hurling abuse at a team projected to them via a widescreen TV, seemingly oblivious; television is a one-way communication devise. It’s not until someone puts “Eye of the Tiger,” on a jukebox, or Bonnie Tyler croaks she’s holding Read more

  • 10 Week Acting Course with Swindon’s Shoebox Theatre, for ages 13-15

    Just because my acting resume ended with my Shakin’ Stevens impersonation at my Cub Scout pack holiday talent show, that’s no excuse for you. You can discover your talent at the wonderful Shoebox Theatre in Swindon. Young people interested in performing arts, from thirteen to fifteen year olds, can enrol now for acting classes.   Read more

  • Shuffling in Swindon

    Swindon Shuffle has been mouthed around my earshot recently, whazat? Some kind of euphemism? Nope it’s Swindon’s longest running contemporary music festival; been ‘appening since 2006. It now consists of four days of original live music spread over Swindon’s finest music venues, much of it locally sourced, and it’s free entry to the whole shebang! Read more

  • Wharf Theatre Brings Local Playwriter’s “Broken Wing” to Life

    Zara is therapist to a sixteen year old refugee, trying to come to terms with the brutal horrors of war. Her own adopted daughter of the same age is dealing with her ‘inner’ conflict. As the characters of the two girls, Layee and Thea, emerge, they tell not only their own stories but each other’s, Read more

  • OwlFest, and a Supreme Village for Live Music

    Argh, seen one Wiltshire village, seen ‘em all, so they say. Who be “they” anyway? Course they all seem the bleedin’ same from the angle of a flippin’ Costa Coffee cup, while belting through at eighty miles per bleedin’ hour, texting about the far more important place they be pretending to be? Who do they Read more

  • Positive Vibrations in Melksham, as the Legends Play Homage to Bob Marley

    A teenager steps out the door of Federal Studios, and onto the bustling King Street, clutching a freshly pressed single, which he sings on. So chuffed with this achievement he fails to consider he hasn’t a record player to play it on, neither that they’ve incorrectly spelt his name on the label as “Robert Morley.” Read more