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  • Daydream Runaways Light a Spark

    Daydream Runaways Light a Spark

    โ€œSomethings end just for others to start. Some begin are just the lighting of a spark.โ€ Recurring loops of life the theme of Daydream Runawayโ€™s debut single, โ€œLight the Spark.โ€ Self-reflecting, perhaps, as this emotive, Killers-styled, smooth danceable indie harmony rings with poignant guitar breaks akin to Simple Minds, and the expressive vocals of U2.… Read more

  • Twit Twoo: Owl Fest Announce Line Up

    Breaking and brilliant news as Adam Dempsey pings over the line up for this yearโ€™s Owl Fest on Saturday May 25th in Bromhamโ€™s social club, The Owl. Chained to that kitchen sink again, I dried my hands on a tea towel quick as I could to reply what a fantastic line up, I reckon it… Read more

  • Barbโ€™d Wire and Corn Exchanging; Reggae Finds a Home at Devizes Arts Festival

    Barbโ€™d Wire and Corn Exchanging; Reggae Finds a Home at Devizes Arts Festival

    Never content with what contemporary music thrust down our throats, even as a youngster, the easiest and sneakiest place to hunt for origins was Dadโ€™s record collection. It would be years before he discovered the shortfall of vinyl and confronted me. Sixties Merseybeat and blues-pop standard, I recall the intriguing moment I unearthed a shabby… Read more

  • What a May Day! Things to do This Month; Part 2

    Hark, the darling buds of May. Already looking quite blossomy isnโ€™t it? Well, blossoming too is stuff to do in and around our local neighbourhood, and a few weeks ago I presented you with a lengthy look at whatโ€™s on during the first fortnight; see here. Now though, sit down and brace yourself for some… Read more

  • Half a Review from The Southgate: Soapbox and Patrick Goodenough

    Half a Review from The Southgate: Soapbox and Patrick Goodenough

    Yeah, I knowโ€ฆ.. Whatโ€™s Devizine coming to when I back out of a full night of live music? But with jam-packed weekends ahead, general fatigue and, like Suggs, sometimes I like to stay in and watch TV now and then, please allow my lethargy some slack, people. Britainโ€™s Got Talentโ€™s non-offensive new look of letting… Read more

  • Jemmaโ€™s Thoughts (well, some of them) on Things I Know to be True @ The Wharf Theatre

    Jemmaโ€™s Thoughts (well, some of them) on Things I Know to be True @ The Wharf Theatre

    As big chief of the Invitation Theatre Company and partner of Anthony, conductor of The Full Tone Orchestra, you cannot deny, Jemma Brown knows a thing or two about performing arts, so Iโ€™ve pinched her words of praise after watching Things I Know to be True at the Wharf Theatreโ€ฆโ€ฆ. Jemma Brown โ€“ 26.4.19 I… Read more