Swindon Music Sessions #2

Talk In Code, Soulsmith and Billyjon
Posted 17/06/09 - 09:52 in Announcements.
The Swindon Music Sessions are a series of weekly events aiming to showcase the finest talent Swindon has to offer, as well as bringing to light a few of Swindon‘s lesser known bands. The second of three events, hosted at Riffs Bar on Thursday 18 June, features an experienced line-up including three of the more established bands from the local music scene.

The night will be headlined by local indie-rock band Talk In Code. Since forming in spring 2007, the band established thems...

Have we missed a trick?

Posted 18/05/09 - 09:05 in General Discussions.
I've been asked to help out with a list of gigs for the BBC introducing show which has forced me to search around for a few more gigs this week. Looking at these has got me thinking maybe we've missed a trick with the aftermath of the Big Weekend because apart from Riffstock and Old School Tie at The Vic there isn't a lot coming up this week. Lots of covers bands, nothing much for original bands.

The week leading up to the fringe we had a great set of events put on by playdead, ...

Re-Branding Swindon

Posted 15/05/09 - 11:19 in General Discussions.
The challenge for the contestants on this weeks episode of The Apprentice was to re-brand the town of Margate. Now this has had me wondering in the past couple of days what you would do to re-brand Swindon.

At the moment I don't think Swindon has any real identity. Swindon used to be heavily involved in the Railway industry but sin...