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  • Devizes Carnival Returning to Traditional Date

    Devizes Carnival Returning to Traditional Date

    Something Iโ€™m personally impartial about, though DOCAโ€™s carnival consultation flagged it as a major issue for many, the recent date changes of carnival is set to be returned to the original date.….. Announced this evening, DOCA said, โ€œbased on what we’ve heard, we have made the decision to move the Carnival back to the traditional Read more

  • Illingworth Celebrate Their 100th Gig!

    Illingworth Celebrate Their 100th Gig!

    Salisbury-based acoustic rock duo John Illingworth Smith and Jolyon Dixon play The High Post Golf Club, between Amesbury and Salisbury this Friday 2nd December, and celebrate that it’s their 100 gig. Although the duo had been collaborating musically for over three decades, gigs dried out proir to 2019, and they stopped, as Jolyon vaguely explained, Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 30th November โ€“ 6th December 2022

    No point in amending your bad behaviour now, far too late; youโ€™ve got to have been good all year round to get on the good list. So, may as well carry on as usual, as this week sees us in the wintery but festive season. Are you ready, excited? Hereโ€™s our rundown of stuff to Read more

  • Mighty Mighty; The Scribes Storm the Muck!

    Mighty Mighty; The Scribes Storm the Muck!

    Another fantabulous evening at Devizes’ tropical holiday resort, The Muck and Dunder rum bar, where Bristol’s boom bap trio I’ve been hailing since day dot, The Scribes, came, saw, matchlessly interacted with the audience, and tore the place down with a riotous show of incredible skill and talent; secretly, it was foreseeable months ago…… Again, Read more

  • Dr John Otway Rocks Trowbridgeโ€™s Pump

    Dr John Otway Rocks Trowbridgeโ€™s Pump

    By Lorraine Briggs The last time Otway played Trowbridge was in July 2003 at the Village Pump Festival, he returned last night to a gig to raise funds for the same festival in 2023; and what a show it was! Earlier this year Otway played his 5,000th gig at the Empire Shepherds Bush; and his Read more

  • DOCA Step into Christmas!

    DOCA Step into Christmas!

    As sparkly as Elton John at his most sparkliest, Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts pulled the tinsel out of bag for the annual Winter Festival yesterday evening, leaving no niggles for a ‘review’ here, as such, just saying, and besides, if you live in or around Devizes, you were likely there anyway! Edited out of my Read more