The Cornwall Blog

From Heart to Stereo are playing in Wadebridge on the 1st of November at the Swan Hotel in the centre of town. An excellent band playing very imaginative covers and originals. This video does not do them justice at all, well worth coming down to see for yourself. The set list has a surprising amount of classic eighties tracks in it for a band in their early twenties, showing a musical maturity. It is also very refreshing to see these numbers performed with the energy of this extremely tight three piece.

In October 2008, Padstow Contemporary Art Gallery opened its Autumn Exhibition, featuring work by Gareth Edwards, Simon Gaiger and resident artist and curator John O'Carroll. The gallery was tucked away in an atmospheric alleyway in the centre of Padstow. A few days after the exhibition opened, all the design team from Pickle Design went along to the private viewing, eager to see John O'Carroll's new work alongside the gallery's regular exhibitors. There was a warm atmosphere within the small exhibition space, welcoming as we stepped in from the crisp autumn darkness. The image above is Damascus by Gareth Edwards, which was hung upstairs. His work in the lower gallery evoked the Camel Estuary, and the choice of media gave it the impression that it had formed wonderfully from the boatyards and sands. Simon Gaiger's sculpture drew on nautical mythology. Especially memorable was Charybdis , based on the spokes of a carriage wheel an...