The Ocelot - December 2015 - Wiltshire edition | Page 3

#114 DEC ISSUE For Starters 04 Michael Bosley 06 Our Man in Iraq 07 Modern Horrors! Arts and Culture 09 Are You Talkin’ To Me? 10 The Written Word 12 Theatre List 14 Panto Guide 16 Comedy at The Bear Music 18 Sam Duckworth 20 Middlenamekill 22 This is New Music 25 12 Bands of Christmas 26 Gig Monkey 29 The Gig List Food and Drink 33 Brewery Bird 34 Festive Feast 36 Christmas pudding The Final Bit of the magazine 38 Agony Girl and Twisted Peel Season’s Greetings to all of our readers There’s a lot of people getting a bit excited at the moment. You can’t escape it. It’s everywhere and before you know it you’ll be getting in the spirit yourself. Of course I’m talking about the new Star Wars film. I do go on a bit about it in my film column on page 9. But, there’s also that other thing going on. That Christmas thing. And we also go a bit mad about that as well. Being the father of three children, I love a bit of Christmas myself. The kids are more excited than that time they witnessed me scream when a frog jumped out at me. It was a scary frog, alright! Stop going on about it. I think it had a knife. Anyway, we’ve now got this whole month to get us all aglow with festive cheer and there’s loads going on in Wiltshire to make the season just that tiny bit jolly as we’ve got a magazine that’s fuller than about 15 stockings. Talking about stockings, my parents used to use tights instead. It was a hell of a thing watching us all try to inch out whatever delights they had piled in there. Except I never ate the tangerine that was at the bottom despite it taking about half an hour to get out. I’m sure the uneaten tangerine is a metaphor for something. I’ll work out what by next Christmas. Write into me at [email protected] Jamie Hill Editor: Jamie Hill - [email protected] Sales: Dave Stewart [email protected] 07872 176999 Telephone: [phone] Publisher: Positive Media Group, Arclite Building, Peatmoor, Swindon SN5 5YN Printers: Acorn Print, Swindon www.theocelot.co.uk