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Swindon Wide

guide to live music in Swindon through June

As we barrel towards festival the area. There are musical offerings
season, the musical juggernaut that every week from Thursday to
keeps on rolling in Swindon has Sunday, but a highlight this month
a few diamonds left in the rough. is the 2 Tone All Skas on 9 June,
Here's just a few choice picks, but who perform exactly what you'd
there are plenty more out there for expect from their name. Not to be
you to discover! missed!
We are going to open this month's And finally, although it's not
suggestions with something a little technically in June, the Old Town
different. Remember when Level Festival is just over the horizon,
III was The Furnace? (Or when starting on 8 July. The Positive
The Furnace was Level III for that Media Group team will be at the
matter? We digress...) Well for one Swindon's very own Misfires will headline The Vic TWICE on 6 & 13 June Family Fun Day on 9 July, and the
night only on Saturday 3 June you too! They are taking over The Vic on 6 main concert on 15 July at the Old
can relive those heady Furnace days Then we have something a little June (that's the sold out one) and Town Bowl will be headlined this
with a one-off club night featuring special. One of Swindon's youngest then again on 13 June. Get your year by The Britpop Boys. Plenty to
nothing but classic stuff played groups are headlining The Victoria tickets and find out what all the look forward to, and you can find
at The Furnace between 2002 and TWICE in June, with one of the fuss is about. more information via the festival
2013; Rock / Metal / Indie / Pop dates already sold out when we More of a ska fan? Head down website: www.oldtownfestival.org
/ Electronica from the 60s to the went to press. Misfires have been to Swindon's latest addition to To keep your finger on the musical
Noughties, just like it always used labelled as the next indie super the live music scene, the Groves pulse in Swindon and further afield,
to be. Entry will be £3 before 10pm, band by Spilt Milk Magazine and Company Inn, who are building a pick up your copy of The Ocelot in
and the first 50 people through the billed as the love child of Catfish & reputation for putting on some of venues at the end of each month, or
door get a free "Furnace Mixtape" The Bottlemen and The Libertines. the best covers and tribute acts in head to: www.theocelot.co.uk

Recipe: Beautiful beetroot, potato and horseradish rostis

A sure-fire hit for breakfast, brunch or Par boil the potatoes in a pan of cold
lunch. You can cook the beetroot first, salted water. Drain and peel. Coarsely
but using it raw lends the röstis a nice bit grate the potatoes, beetroot and onion
of bite. If you have any leftover cooked into a large bowl.
beetroot or potato these would work fine Finely grate the horseradish into the
too, or swap the beetroot for parsnip, same bowl. Bash the garlic into a fine
celeriac or squash. paste then add it to the bowl with the
herbs.
2 large potatoes Season with salt and pepper, sprinkle
1 large beetroot, peeled over the flour and mix well. Heat the oven
1 small red onion to 190°C/Gas 5. Shape the veg mix into
5cm piece of horseradish, peeled or 1 four burger-sized patties.
tsp grated horseradish from a jar They should hold together well, but add
1 large garlic clove a bit more flour if not. Heat a good slug
small bunch of dill, roughly chopped of oil in a non-stick frying pan and fry
small bunch of tarragon, roughly the röstis until golden brown on each side
chopped (don’t be tempted to flip them more than
small bunch of parsley, roughly chopped once or move them much).
1 tbsp plain flour (or rice flour to make Transfer to a baking tray and finish
it glutenfree) cooking in the oven for 15 minutes, until
sunflower oil, for frying crisp and cooked through.
salt & black pepper www.riverford.co.uk

Putting your foot in it for poetry Bletchly Park to Swindon meant closely in future. Julia Kasdorf has
five changes, all fine until Didcot lines that catch it:
said: where there’s no lift on platform 1.
Poetry column by Poetry Swindon’s “On a scale of 1 to 10, what’s A client in Watford has his meeting Like a doctor, I learned to create
Maurice Spillane
your pain threshold?” room on the fifth floor and he’d from another’s suffering, my own
I thought about that: “Well, I’m no lift. Worse, he didn’t think that uselessness, and once
This is how it not sure. I’ve nothing to compare was odd. you know how to do this, you can
happened. I went to a with.” People were lovely. A pregnant never refuse.
rugby match in Bath She tapped her pen on the desk woman offered me her seat. I
and took a shortcut and told me she hadn’t got all day. declined, but it started a lovely • Open Mic is on Monday 12
across a grassy bank. “Ok,” I said, “on a scale of 1 to 10 chat. An old man stood up and June, 6pm at Richard Jefferies
My left foot slid down the slope what would child-birth be?” offered me his wife and then got Museum
and my body fell back on my ankle. She glared at me and said: “You’re flustered. • Performance Poetry is at the
Snap, fibula fractured in two a 1.” It was fun and fine for a few days Beehive Pub on Tuesday 13 June,
places. And so it went. Being on crutches and then it became tedious. So 7:30pm
We went to A&E. The nurse asked and no car for the last two weeks much you can’t do.
questions about allergies. Then opened my eyes. A train from I will look at the disabled more Book at www.poetryswindon.org

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