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Anyone who is anyone should celebrate St Patrick's Day at Bushwackers in Swindon on Wednesday 17th March. There'll even be live music from Jamie and The First Class from 6pm and their chefs will be cooking up a traditional...
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Right, we held a collection for The Ocelot Charity of the Year, The Prospect Hospice, at last month’s comedy night and we managed to raise £82.01. That’s bloody good from a free night. We’ll probably hold another collection at the March...
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Scouting for Girls will be playing at AZUZA in Marlborough on Tuesday, March 30 for a gig organised by neighbouring Sound Knowledge Record shop. The band will be performing a live set from 6pm onwards. They will also be signing afterwards....
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The Demented are playing The 12 Bar in Swindon on Sunday 14th March from 6pm as part of the bar's Underage Festival in aid of the Goldenhar Family Support Group. They will be playing with The Costellos, Diversion, Party Scene, Patchwork Prophets...
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The 2010 Wilton Windmill open season will be starting on Sunday 4th April – not long to go! However, before the season starts and hot off the press is news of our Volunteer Training which is taking place on Saturday 13th March at...
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Celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, brilliant Oxford ska band The Inflatables will be playing The New Inn in Witney on Saturday March 13. The inflatables formed way back in 1980 and were originally known as The Giant Inflatables....
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The Circus of Horrors will be at City Hall Salisbury on Friday 12 March @ 7.30pm!! Following on on the huge success of The Asylum, The Circus of Horrors has had a major revamp & is back rocking & shocking with a brand new show ‘The Day...
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We love Bombay Bicycle Club at The Ocelot. We love them so much we got all over excited in the magazine when we heard they were coming to Oxford this month. In fact we got so overexcited that we said that they were coming to...
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The Worried Men are a band that have to be seen. Basically if you’re into the local music scene, these guys are bound to get your rock juices flowing. Led by Jamie Thyer, one of the hardest working men in blues rock, they are constantly...
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A piece of sad news is that Oxford's longest running open mic night is to close. We’re talking the Wednesday night Open Mic Night at the Folly Bridge Inn in Abingdon Road. Starting as "Wednesday music night" at the Marlborough House in 1992,...
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Teddies from across the Salisbury area are invited to bravely take to the skies in a huge sponsored teddy parachute jump at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday April 24. The event sponsored by local family business Wilton Wholefoods will help the...
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The International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition. will be held at Lacock Abbey from Saturday 20 February to Sunday 18 April (not Good Friday) from 11am - 5pm This is a collection of inspiring, prize-winning garden...
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Okay. So it’s not exactly clubbing. In fact this is a festival. But it is one of the best dance music festivals in the country with some of the best club DJs from up and down the land taking part. So it is kind of clubbing. Just in a field not...
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What’s on during March at The Red Lion in Faringdon I hear you ask? Well on Saturday March 6, Phil Baker will be playing uplifting rhythm and blues plus many classic songs. And then on Sunday March 7, there’s The 15 Minute Club calling...
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Alright, it might be a bit of time away, but Wroughton Carnival would be chuffed to hear from anyone who wants to take part with a float, walking group, bike or even a wheelbarrow. The actual carnival takes place on July 3 and the afternoon and...
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Random musings
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Reading like a lazily arranged sample from the contacts list of Pier's chums in the ITV media,...
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Every morning like many other commuters I haul myself onto a carriage and use the rail network to...
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If money is tight but you still want to go and do stuff, Wiltshire offers plenty of free things to...
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American television used to be something we were able to derive a superior smugness over. Their news...
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Hands up who has an i-pod or want one… If had metaphorical eyes from this page I would probably...
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Movies depicting any kind of apocalypse or a total breakdown in society always fill me with some...
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Poor old Niniane's dilemna is about the dangers of using an exercise ball as a desk chair. Yes,...
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For freedom of speech to work, even the idiots need to be able to voice themselves openly. This has...
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More misery is to be piled on the dirty smokers....
There are now plans to push smokers...
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I, like most men (and women), desire good beer. Ale more to the point. By far the best place to...
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Oh joy ! Again I am told that Apple plan to revolutionise the planet with a new product that is...
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If, like me, you like to waste the precious free hours of your ever depleting life roaming the web...
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A letter from Alan Johnson, as received this morning at Ocelot HQ
Dear...
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When Alistair Darling announced the introduction of the scrappage scheme earlier in the year, there...
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We never state the obvious here at The Ocelot. But here's a sign that does. Urmm or something like...
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