Septembers Ocelot column was a (slightly biased) review of the 2014 Swindon Shuffle festival – the most successful ever according to most sources! Bob Dylan once sang, “the times, they are a-changin’”, a late sixties sentiment hailing cultural change that suddenly seems very appropriate once again within the music scene of a parochial western railway … Continue reading
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Of ringing ears and fuzzy heads. The story of The Ocelots 8th Birthday show
Let it never, ever be said, that The Ocelot doesn’t know how to throw a party. It does; I know so, I have been to many. And the very fact that I have very little recollection of any of them is surely hard evidence that they were damn fine. However, it also makes reviewing the music a somewhat … Continue reading
The Music that Refused To Die
Fashion is a fickle thing, especially in the music business. Musical trends, much like those in clothing come and go; often it seems in tandem with each other. No sooner are fashionistas back wearing ra-ra skirts, shoulder pads and fluro than music seems to suddenly be going electro again. Anyway, the gist of what I … Continue reading