Stephen Webb
Swindon Advertiser
United Kingdom
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Midnight chicken by food blogger Ella Risbridger tackles cooking and mental health
Debut cookery book writer Ella Risbridger, talks to Ella Walker about her novelistic recipe collection and making the kitchen more accessible. → Read More
Driving dance groove collides with a darker, more desolate rock
I Am Not - 3Mind Blight What’s interesting about 3Mind Blight is that you read through the accompanying bio and you find references to the Boom Bap Rap and Grunge scenes of the 90’s, which, at first, definitely seem out of keeping with the deft and dexterous slice of alt-rock that is I Am Not. But listen deeper and it makes perfect sense as the song seems to exist at a point where an infectious… → Read More
Sounds around town with Dave Franklin
To quote one Neville John Holder, Esq. “It’s Christmaaaaasssssss!” And he’s not wrong. So as you head into the only time of the year when… → Read More
Hairy bikers do comfort food
Comfort food is on the menu with the Hairy Bikers' new cookbook, British Classics. Jenny Stallard meets them. → Read More
Christmas fizz on a budget
Here's how to sparkle in style this party season, without blowing the budget. Sam Wylie-Harris toasts the rise of budget-friendly bubbles. → Read More
All about... eSensuals
eSensuals - Fans of Jimmy Century Things I Like: Unnecessarily convoluted song titles. Bands who don’t understand the term “generic boundaries”. Tongue in cheek lyrics. Silliness. Sultry beats. Sleazy grooves. Music with a larger than life personally. So the chances of me not loving the wonderfully named Fans of Jimmy Century was always going to be pretty slim indeed Based in Las Vegas, how… → Read More
All about... Sacrifice
Sacrifice - Elea Calvet I first experienced Elea Calvet's mercurial music in a small and intimate coffee shop setting more than a few years ago now. Since then I have caught full on, full band, musically sky scraping shows, similarly striped back affairs and everything in between. She has released music which has taken standard musical forms, rock, blues, alt-country but which is bent to her… → Read More
Six f the best for facial massage
Katie Wright gets the lowdown on this ancient method. → Read More
Famous five of grapes make fine wines
Wine tends to be surrounded by mystique, but it's easier to get to grips with the grapes (and style) if you can narrow down the field. → Read More
On this day: October 19
SWINDON 1952: Both sections of the Swindon and District Road Club riders got to the other side of the Chiltern Hills on their runs. Once there they found that the blast was so forceful that it was necessary to pedal really hard just to get downhill. The normal all day road club party riders launched east through Shrivenham by way of Longcot and at Fernham turned to cross The Ock and circle round… → Read More
Sounds around town with Dave Franklin
It may be cold and wet out there enough to make you think twice about heading out to a local gig, but the answer to that dilemma is to immerse… → Read More
Sounds around town with Dave Franklin
It may be cold and wet out there enough to make you think twice about heading out to a local gig, but the answer to that dilemma is to immerse… → Read More
On this day: Tuesday, October 16
SWINDON 1952: Highworth Rural Council decided to seek Government approval for a new sewerage scheme in Castle Eaton. Chiseldon’s vicar, the Rev P Anderson, said: “Time is important. I have never seen anything so filthy in my life – anywhere.” Of 48 homes and two schools in the small community, 14 premises were connected to existing sewers while 23 were not but could be. Sewage from one cottage… → Read More
Friday's round-up from Swindon's courts
COURT: Renato Vitale has been fined £85 for beating another man on April 27. → Read More
Sounds around town with Dave Franklin
Looks like we have it all covered this week. Underground legends, iconic names, left-field originality, old favourites and everything in between,… → Read More
DAVID RENARD: We are on the cusp of delivering landmark projects
Today will be a day of mixed emotions as I bid farewell to two stalwarts of my cabinet team and welcome two new faces. → Read More
ALL ABOUT: Let Down.
Let Down. - Tough on Fridays Books and covers eh? A band with the name of Tough on Fridays…well, that could cover a multitude of genres, a cover picture of a girl in the rain as seen through a blurred lens, I’m thinking pop ballad or, if I’m lucky, wistful dream pop. Then blam!…you get hit straight between the eyes with fast and infectious pop-rock, the perfect blend of commercial accessibility… → Read More
Cracking down on congestion at Swindon's Outlet Village
At last night’s Cabinet meeting, a very important item was discussed, one for which the people of Rodbourne and motorists in Swindon will be… → Read More
DAVID RENARD: We have our fingers firmly on the pulse of modernity
By 2020 Swindon Borough Council will be a “digital first” council. By this we mean that, over the next two years, an increasing number of… → Read More
Swindon boy nominated for Wiltshire Community Pride Awards
A YOUNG boy from Swindon who was born deaf and has cerebral palsy says he is speechless at being nominated for the Wiltshire Community Pride Awards. → Read More