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  • N’Faly Kouyaté (Afro-Celt Sound System) Tour Includes Wiltshire Music Centre

    N’Faly Kouyaté (Afro-Celt Sound System) Tour Includes Wiltshire Music Centre

    Perhaps best known as the frontman of Afro Celt Sound System, the Belgium-based artist N’Faly Kouyaté will be hitting the road for nine intimate shows with his new solo project.  Beginning at Southampton’s Turner Sims on 8th February, the tour will include Bradford-on-Avon’s Wiltshire Music Centre on the 11th February…. N’Faly Kouyaté’s UK tour will… Read more

  • Broken Shadows; New Novel from Wiltshire Author Sorrel Pitts

    Broken Shadows; New Novel from Wiltshire Author Sorrel Pitts

    I arrived in a Wiltshire village aged fourteen from suburban Essex, anxious this was my new home. While my parents awaited keys from the estate agent, they sent my elder brother and I to the shop for milk. Wandering the lane an elderly gent wished us the customary “mornin’.” It left me bewildered; why was… Read more

  • Daisy Chapman Took Flight

    Daisy Chapman Took Flight

    Okay, so, if I praised the Bradford Roots Festival last weekend and claimed to have had a fantastic time, it’s all as true as Harrison Ford retelling Daisy Ridley about the Force, with one embarrassing hiccup! Finally, for a brief moment between closing fire doors I met Trowbridge-based singer-songwriter extraordinaire, Daisy Chapman. She was going… Read more

  • The Importance of Being Earnest at the Wharf Theatre, Devizes

    The Importance of Being Earnest at the Wharf Theatre, Devizes

    The Importance of Being Earnest is rather like a newfound interest in jazz, you must “unlearn” the four-beat pop you’re accustomed to, to fully appreciate it. You have to rewind, temporarily forget Rick Mayall and Ade Edmondson, forgo all farcical comedy from The Goon Show to Charlie Chaplin, and leave your Tardis in late Victorian… Read more

  • New Nothing Rhymes With Orange Single

    New Nothing Rhymes With Orange Single

    Friday is over, I’m a day late to the party, but there’s a new single from Devizes-own Nothing Rhymes With Orange, and you’ve not heard anything like this from the boys before….. Starter for ten, Friday is Over sounds four-five notches more professional than anything which went before, a result of 91 Studios in Newbury… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 24th- 30th January 2024

    Hey frozen duckling, here’s what’s happening over the coming week in the wilds of Wiltshire…… Everything listed here is on our event calendar; go there for links and more info. It may be updated with even more things to do than listed here, so check in later in the week. Ongoing until 17th February, two… Read more