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  • REVIEW – Lachy Doley @ Corn Exchange, Devizes – Friday 9th December 2022

    REVIEW – Lachy Doley @ Corn Exchange, Devizes – Friday 9th December 2022

    Awesome Aussie! Andy Fawthrop On a perishingly cold night in D-Town, the one thing you needed was to get warm as soon as possible.  And fortunately for us there was some genuine Australian heat waiting for us.… Paul Chandler’s Longcroft Productions had done the business yet again.  Pulling off something of a coup by securing the Lachy Read more

  • Tally-Ho for Boxing Day; Avon Vale Hunt Ride Again Admist Protests

    Here we go again, Lacock’s Boxing Day incongruous pageant of corruption and barbarism plans to go ahead this year, despite protests, as The Avon Vale Hunt will gather in showy and shameless glory.…. Safe in the knowledge the single patrolling WPC, Laura Hughes was a member of the hunt, and it was suggested did little Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 7th-14th December 2022

    It’s beginning to look a lot like…. another week in early December; bar humbug! Therefore, here’s what’s doing in and around Wiltshire, all of which can be found on our event calendar, with further info and ticket links.…. If we missed your event, did you tell us about it? It’s free to be listed on Read more

  • Alex Roberts at The Barge, Honeystreet 

    Alex Roberts at The Barge, Honeystreet 

    by Ben Romain and Victoria Stanley We ventured out to the Barge to catch Alex Roberts after first seeing him at The Southgate, Devizes on the highest recommendation of Devizes favourite Vince Bell. That was an introduction to an artist well worth following; so we duly did!  The Barge has had its challenges in years Read more

  • Bopping Up Alfred’s Tower; A New Chippenham Band Stronghold

    See, I’m not sure ol’ Alfred the Great would’ve approved of the whopping gurt folly erected in his name near Bruton. He was there to rally Saxon troops for the Battle of Edington, and if you’re planning to go kick some Viking butt you need to be inconspicuous, not have a hundred-and-sixty-foot redbrick tower sticking Read more

  • REVIEW – Gigspanner @ Pound Arts Centre, Corsham – Tuesday 29th November 2022

    REVIEW – Gigspanner @ Pound Arts Centre, Corsham – Tuesday 29th November 2022

    A Night Of Extreme Violins Andy Fawthrop Yes, I know it’s not in Devizes, but it’s pretty darned close.  And it was definitely worth the trip out on a grim Tuesday night when nothing else was happening.  Folk or football?  Well, as Bill Shankly never actually said, this gig was far more important than mere Read more