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  • Becca Maule’s Teenage Things

    Becca Maule’s Teenage Things

    I mean, yeah, press releases can be as handy as sitting next to Einstein in a physics test, but reviewing music isn’t an exact science, and while they speed up the process it’s tempting to allow them to spoon-feed you. Sometimes it’s a pleasant surprise to go in blind, as it was with Teenage Things,… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 12th – 18th July 2023

    Another summery week ahead of us, and our weekly report on all the stuff we’ve found to do. We will continue to support all local events and we won’t succumb to petty squabbling about any of them, by anyone. It seems unfair that we seem to get minimal respect for what we do by a… Read more

  • Simply the Best, CrownFest!

    Simply the Best, CrownFest!

    If last year I trundled off the 49 at Bishops Cannings in a blazing heatwave alone, this time things were different; the bus was heaving with revellers, mostly unprepared for the torrential rain forecast, enough to warrant me query out loud if anyone onboard wasn’t going to CrownFest, and if not, did they have a… Read more

  • Anna Dillon’s Wessex Airscapes: Elevating Wiltshire

    Anna Dillon’s Wessex Airscapes: Elevating Wiltshire

    Step into Wiltshire Museum in Devizes before October 15th and you’ll be treated to an exhibition which will make you look at the beautiful views most of us drive past daily in a whole new colourful and graphical context….. The exhibition, titled Wessex Airscapes: Elevating Wiltshire by artist Anna Dillon and drone photographer Hedley Thorne… Read more

  • Onika Venus is Back with a Midnight Remedy

    Onika Venus is Back with a Midnight Remedy

    Unbelievably two years have nearly passed since Onika Venus gave me a convenient excuse to poke my nose into what Sheer’s Kieran was doing up at Trowbridge Town Hall. Billed as reggae, arm twisted, I took a listen to the debut album, and have been infatuated since; now, we have a follow-up….. Because while the… Read more

  • Alexander Kai’s Figures in Focus at St Mary’s Devizes

    Alexander Kai’s Figures in Focus at St Mary’s Devizes

    Featured Image by Gail Foster St Mary’s Church in Devizes may be a while yet before becoming the vision of a fully fledged arts centre, but it’s certainly showing its full potential this coming weekend with a stunning exhibition from local artist Alexander Kai….. A prolific multimedia artist with the skill of another far elder,… Read more