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  • Film Review: Translations

    Film Review: Translations

    by Helen Edwards For those that are too busy to read this film review and to help our tech-conditioned โ€˜keep-it-quickโ€™ minds please see the one liner below:  โ€œA raw portrayal of the depths that a mental illness can reach with a glimpse of the impact on others and the eventual hope that can lead to recoveryโ€… Read more

  • Has Swindon’s Liddington Hill Created Celtic Grunge?!

    Has Swindon’s Liddington Hill Created Celtic Grunge?!

    Explosive new EP from Liddington Hill released tomorrow, Edge of Insanity, begging the question, have they created a whole new subgenre? As an impressionable Essex teenager coming from a hip hop background, thrust unwillingly into an eerie Wiltshire village like Sam Emerson in the Lost Boys, I endeavoured to align myself with the musical tastes… Read more

  • Devizes Arts Festival Week One Preview: Indian Blues to Micro-Art

    Devizes Arts Festival Week One Preview: Indian Blues to Micro-Art

    Set to be a busy month in town as The Devizes Arts Festival rolls out their extensive and promising programme, the best way I think to tackle this is week-by-week, highlighting some of those events which really shows off the diversity and quality on offerโ€ฆ.. No sooner than the month kicks off, so does the… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 31st May –ย  6th June 2023

    Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 31st May –ย  6th June 2023

    Moving swiftly into June, with bank hols and street festival done and dusted in Devizes town, this weekend is all about arts and organs; let’s see what’s going down in our hood over the next week shall we? Bearing in mind, this list is never comprehensive and events will come to our attention  throughout the… Read more

  • Devizes Street Festival Day 2

    Devizes Street Festival Day 2

    Devizes Street Festival 2023 came to a glorious close in the Market Place yesterday with the unique and dynamic brass, keys and guitar combo, Misha & His Merry Men, a collective of varying musicians on a theme of peace and love, which made for the perfect summary of the event as a whole; our waffle… Read more

  • HAVING A BABY AND THE S**T THEY DONโ€™T TELL YOU

    26th and 27th May 2023Wharf Theatre, DevizesPerformed and written by Lou Cox Review by Helen Edwards I will start this review with a trigger warning. The proceeds from this, Lou Coxโ€™s hilarious and devastating show, are being donated to The Grand Appeal, the official Bristol Childrenโ€™s Hospital charity. Whilst the audience laughed loudly at the… Read more