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  • REVIEW – Eddie Martin’s Big Blues Band (with The Little Big Horns) @ LSBC, Devizes – Saturday 8th October 2022

    REVIEW – Eddie Martin’s Big Blues Band (with The Little Big Horns) @ LSBC, Devizes – Saturday 8th October 2022

    Big Band Blues Andy Fawthrop The Long Street Blues Club season continued last night with some great music. First up was Kelvin Davies (guitar) and Gary Jones (harmonica), a duo making their first visit to the club.  They delivered an absolutely charming set of upbeat numbers, wandering around blues, folk, country and ragtime.  Kelvin’s guitar-picking was first Read more

  • Talk in Code: The Big Screen

    Talk in Code: The Big Screen

    Talk in Code’s second album has been out a while, overdue to mention it…… January 2019, and I find myself making several eighties cultural references in reviewing Resolve, the debut album by Wiltshire’s own Talk in Code. A band which turned my aged preconceptions of the “indie” pigeonhole on its head. For me, wedged in Read more

  • Excelsior and Some Worried Men

    Excelsior and Some Worried Men

    Patiently awaiting the school run to take a listen to Excelsior, this new album by The Worried Men, after witnessing them at a blinder down Devizes’ live music ever-faithful, The Southgate, as I strongly suspected it’d be best designated as “driving music.” You know the Eye of the Tiger, Holding out for a Hero sort, Read more

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock, Via The Wharf Theatre

    Opening on Halloween and ending on Guy Fawkes Night, the next production at Devizes Wharf Theatre promises to be a mysteriously eerie…. Written by Joan Lindsay adapted by Tom Wright and directed by Debby Wilkinson, Picnic at Hanging Rock takes place on St Valentine’s Day in 1900, when a group of schoolgirls from Appleyard College Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 6th -12th October 2022

    Here’s what we’ve found to do round and about Wiltshire this coming week, unless you like staying home, scowling at your electric smart meter as it ticks down pounds like a stopwatch attached to a timebomb.….. In a week where our illustrious MP Danny K’s words of reassurance blazed a rim-job op-ed in the trustworthy Read more

  • Bishop’s Cannings Crown Forced to Cancel Events

    Bishop’s Cannings Crown Forced to Cancel Events

    You’d be forgiven for assuming The Crown at Bishop’s Cannings desire a gothic exodus of drugged and depraved heathens sacrificing virgins into a hellfire den of iniquity on a daily basis, if you believe the pitches of complaints by a sole villager. When, in reality, all that’s really happening is the occasional small gathering with Read more