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  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 1st-7th September 2022

    It might not be bank holiday, but it’s not blank holiday, if you see what I mean? Nah, forget it; here’s what’s happening over the next week in Wiltshire. Pinch punch, Thursday is the first of September, and I’ve got nothing, yet! Do keep a check when updates come into our event calendar, the one Read more

  • Opera Meets House at Devizes Full Tone Festival

    Opera Meets House at Devizes Full Tone Festival

    Featured image above by Gail Foster It has been undeniably a variety music show at the Full Tone Festival this bank holiday weekend on the Green in Devizes, of tremendous proportions and matchless quality. The stage I’ve previous dubbed “like something out of the Jetsons,” was once again erected, deckchair city assembled around it, with Read more

  • Shut the Front Door and Catch a Bus Month with Wiltshire Council!

    Shut the Front Door and Catch a Bus Month with Wiltshire Council!

    The lunacy, much less the audacity to suggest it, of Wiltshire Concillors, and their inability to accept reality, is highlighted in September by the singlemost insane campaign to-date; Catch a Bus Month. “A double-decker bus can take up to 75 cars off the road and switching just one journey in 25 to the bus would Read more

  • 12 Bars Later at The Southgate

    12 Bars Later at The Southgate

    Could be a pub crawl, more likely the chord progression of blues, but my drunken jesting query met with a shrug from the guitarist, the name 12 Bars Later means either, whatever! I might not have been so far from a truth, in that over this bank holiday 12 Bars Later nail four bars; played Read more

  • September in Swindon; Shuffles and Jazz Knights

    Wowzers, someone’s put a musical rocket up Swindon’s you-know-where, and is due to ignite it over September! You’ve never had it so good, Swindonites, as Swindon Shuffle announce their line-up ahead of the weekend of 15th-18th September AND an inaugural Swindon Folk & Blues Festival is announced by The Jazz Knights the very following Saturday, Read more

  • Richie Triangle; Imposter Syndrome

    Coming around to Devizine’s fifth birthday has got me reminiscing on how all this started in the first place, who is really to blame?! It wasn’t Richie Triangle’s fault, really, for he cannot help who comes to see him play, but as for our mainstay support of local live music, a hefty portion transpired from Read more