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  • Painting With Sound; Will Lawton & The Alchemists New EP

    Painting With Sound; Will Lawton & The Alchemists New EP

    Perhaps you’ve noticed of recent, my overuse of the word “sublime?” I could apologise, and worry abusing a word lessens its clout, despite happening to like it, but I ask you humour me; I’m going to use it again today, in a thoroughly slamming-my-fist-on-the-desk-like-I-really-mean-it type way! Malmesbury’s purveyors of cool, Will Lawton & The Alchemists… Read more

  • Avon Vale Hunt Suspended from the British Hounds Sports Association

    Avon Vale Hunt Suspended from the British Hounds Sports Association

    If Bob Marley used a Jamaican proverb for a line in I Shot the Sheriff , “Every day the bucket a-go a well, One day the bottom a-go drop out,”  it really has for the notorious Avon Vale Hunt, who’ve been suspended from the British Hounds Sports Association, following some sickening video footage…… I guess… Read more

  • Song of the Week: Ajay Srivastav

    Song of the Week: Ajay Srivastav

    New one on me, Bracknell-based Graham Steel Music Company being my gateway to this astounding London rootsy acoustic soloist, and I’m impressed. With the subtle nod to Indian influences while retaining a delta blues fashion, this single is gorgeous and progressive. Ajay explains this new new single, released tomorrow (9th Feb), is about “letting go… Read more

  • The Jon Amor Trio’s Residency at The Southgate Shows No Signs of Letting Up for 2023

    The Jon Amor Trio’s Residency at The Southgate Shows No Signs of Letting Up for 2023

    Once fed a feeble excuse for not booking a local act on the circuit because they gigged in town so often it was becoming timeworn and monotonous; I wasn’t swallowing the smallest chunk, it smelt sour. This is Devizes and we cherish the dependable, the analogous; it’s not boring, because we know what we like,… Read more

  • Shakespeare’s Problem Play Comes to The Wharf Theatre

    Following her recent successful production of As You Like It, at Devizes’ Wharf Theatre, Liz Sharman returns with another Shakespeare masterpiece, Measure for Measure. Often cited as one of Shakey’s Problem Plays, characterised by complex and ambiguous tones, pugnaciously shifting between straightforward comic material and dark, psychological drama, Measure for Measure is a predecessor to… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 8th – 14th February 2023

    February, not hotting up much temperature-wise, nevertheless plenty of stuff going on across the county and beyond; here’s what we’ve found to satisfy your soul this week…. You know the score, no links here, find them on our event calendar – something you need to keep an eye on as it has been known to… Read more