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  • Hands in the Air with the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, oh, and Peter Andre!

    Get this, right, according to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, Peter Andre is eight days older than me. Yet here’s a current picture of the singer-actor-six pack, pitted against one of me; how’d that happen?   See if you can work out which one is which. Now, if you liked the fellow, with his Mysterious Girl and Read more

  • Vinyl Realm; afternoon music hub of Devizes

    Vinyl Realm; afternoon music hub of Devizes

    Images used with permission of  Matthew Hennessy of Hennessyimages.uk   Without me sounding like a stuck record, or this site becoming the Tamsin Quin homepage, the finale of my Saturday afternoon was spent with our Devizes musical heroine, and a dollop of others, as, after Friday’s successful album launch gig with backing of It’s Complicated Read more

  • Devizes Food Festival’s Grand Market was Indeed Grand

    One small stall holder selling their own brew of beer at the Devizes Food Festival’s Grand Market yesterday told me he was hassled by a woman claiming to be from a nearby Wadworth pub. According to him, the lady in question yelled, “we don’t want your beer around here!”   Wherever she intended to rhyme Read more

  • Don’t throw your love away.

    Sixties Mod group The Searchers are really at the Melksham Assembly Hall on Thursday. Up there with Merseybeat greats, The Beatles and Gerry & The Pacemakers, pop wouldn’t be the same without them. With only one original band member, John Mcnally and Frank Allen who joined the band in 1964, they’ll still put on a Read more

  • Stealthily Done; All-New Kennet & Avon Brewery

    I was supposed to drop into the Kennet & Avon Brewery’s popup beer garden mini-festival in Melksham this weekend, although I was told the secret which was to be announced there beforehand and sworn to confidentiality.   By the time I could’ve made it on Saturday the announcement was made anyway! Terribly unprofessional of me Read more

  • There was a poet from Devizes; Gail Foster’s new CD

    There was a poet from Devizes; Gail Foster’s new CD

    You’d have thought Whitney Houston had prior pop knowledge when she perpetually whined, “how will I know if he really loves me,” for Betty Everett theorised it’s “in his kiss,” back in 1964. Debatable though isn’t it? I mean, surely there’s good kissers and poor kissers, reflecting on mood, conviction and intoxication, and anyway, the Read more