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  • Thanks DOCA: Devizes Winter Festival, this Autumn!

    Thanks DOCA: Devizes Winter Festival, this Autumn!

    Photographs by Simon Folkard Astronomical winter starts on the 22nd December, y’ know, but the Met Office uses a meteorological definition of seasons, making the first day of winter this coming Friday, the 1st of December. Either way I think we jinxed it, having a Winter Festival this November weekend in Devizes, as the climate… Read more

  • Wicked Weather Watch Launches Campaign to Empower Youth on Climate Action

    Wicked Weather Watch Launches Campaign to Empower Youth on Climate Action

    Wiltshire-based charity, Wicked Weather Watch (WWW), is looking to expand its innovative approach to climate education with their upcoming Big Give Christmas Challenge campaign….. The younger generation is facing an unprecedented environmental challenge with the growing impacts of climate change. Recognising the urgent need for climate education, Wicked Weather Watch is dedicated to teaching primary… Read more

  • Staying in Devizes This Christmas; What’s Happening?

    Staying in Devizes This Christmas; What’s Happening?

    Featured Image: Tanya Jurkiewicz Photography Oooh, exciting, are you excited? I know I am; been good(ish) all year, no bag of coal for me. With the DOCA Winter Festival coming this Friday and Saturday, and so long as Devizes Town Band play Stop the Cavalry, that’s my calling and I drop my humbug and start accepting… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 22nd – 28th November 2023

    Everything to do in Wiltshire this coming week, right in one handy listing, you know the drill, jump to it, preferably before putting your Christmas tree up, it is, after all, only mid-November; take a chill pill! Okay, please be aware this is not comprehensive and new events can and might yet still be added… Read more

  • REVIEW – Russ Ballard @ Long Street Blues Club, Con Club, Devizes – Saturday 18th November 2023

    REVIEW – Russ Ballard @ Long Street Blues Club, Con Club, Devizes – Saturday 18th November 2023

    LSBC Gave Rock n Roll to Ya! Review by Andy Fawthorp The LSBC gigs are coming round thick and fast as the new season gets into full swing.  And there was another packed house last night to welcome the Russ Ballard Band’s first appearance at the club….. First up was new boy Matt Prior to… Read more

  • REVIEW – James Hollingsworth @ The Southgate, Devizes – Friday 17th November 2023

    REVIEW – James Hollingsworth @ The Southgate, Devizes – Friday 17th November 2023

    Andy Fawthrop Wish You Were Here   Apparently I’ve not reviewed a gig at The Southgate for a while, despite attending plenty of them over the last few months, including the wonderful Courting Ghosts last Saturday night….. And, apparently, Debbie broke through the 400-gig barrier in early October, a major milestone which we allowed to pass without… Read more