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41 Fords Park Up at The Southgate
With the happenings at the Arts Festival taken care of, and twenty/thirty something’s pilgrimage to The Three Crowns for the delights of our most famed cover band, People Like Us, I’m in Devizes for the wildcard; Trowbridge trio of nutty rockabilly/skabilly 41 Fords are playing The Southgate; arm twisted for a cider or three.…. Currently… Read more
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REVIEW – Devizes Arts Festival – Sir Willard White @ Corn Exchange, Devizes, 3rd June 2023
Bass Baritone Brilliance Andy Fawthrop It was time last night for The Devizes Arts Festival to roll out its first big-hitter of the 2023 programme, and what a smash it proved to be. Although not quite sold out, the Corn Exchange was pretty full, and those who turned out were rewarded with a sparkling performance.… Sir Willard… Read more
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REVIEW – Devizes Arts Festival – Sue Stockdale @ St. John’s Assembly Room, Devizes 3rd June 2023
An Adventurous Mindset Andy Fawthrop On to Day 2 of the Arts Festival, and something a little different. That’s the good thing about a two-week festival like this – there’s something in there for everyone. And this afternoon’s offering featured a very adventurous soul, who was keen to relate what she’d learnt in the course… Read more
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REVIEW – Devizes Arts Festival – Tango Calor @ Town Hall, Devizes 2nd June 2023
Perhaps..Perhaps…Perhaps… Andy Fawthrop Images by Gail Foster The Devizes Arts Festival kicked off its 2023 programme with a real bang last night, and perhaps this will be the best one yet if the opening gig was anything to go by.….. Tango Calor is, not surprisingly, a tango band trio. It was originally formed by the… Read more
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Film Review: Translations
by Helen Edwards For those that are too busy to read this film review and to help our tech-conditioned ‘keep-it-quick’ minds please see the one liner below: “A raw portrayal of the depths that a mental illness can reach with a glimpse of the impact on others and the eventual hope that can lead to recovery”… Read more
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Has Swindon’s Liddington Hill Created Celtic Grunge?!
Explosive new EP from Liddington Hill released tomorrow, Edge of Insanity, begging the question, have they created a whole new subgenre? As an impressionable Essex teenager coming from a hip hop background, thrust unwillingly into an eerie Wiltshire village like Sam Emerson in the Lost Boys, I endeavoured to align myself with the musical tastes… Read more
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