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  • The World Under the Wood Will Put a Smile on Your Face

    The World Under the Wood Will Put a Smile on Your Face

    A dollop of Lewis Carroll, shards of C. S. Lewis and Roald Dahl, and perhaps even nicer elements of Tolkien, The World Under the Wood will put a smile on your face and bring out the inner child in you.….. Being honest, it doesn’t take too much to bring out the inner child out in Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festivalโ€“ Darius Brubeck Quartet @ The Corn Exchange 22nd June 2022

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festivalโ€“ Darius Brubeck Quartet @ The Corn Exchange 22nd June 2022

    โ€œNiceโ€ Andy Fawthrop The Devizes Arts Festival rolls on, and I was just thinking that it was high time that we had some proper jazz in the programme. To satisfy this so-far unfilled gap, DAF had managed to secure the services of top-notch international outfit The Darius Brubeck Quartet. Darius, of course, is the son Read more

  • Captain Councillor V The Pigeons From Hell

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull came to. Through bloodshot eyes he regained just enough bearing to recall his whereabouts. His wings tied with rope, behind a hardbacked chair, his feet were tied to the legs. Out of focus a stumpy, bearded fellow sneered face-to-face with him, grasping two electrodes. “Sch-sch-should, I shock him again, oh master?” he Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festivalโ€“ Simon Calder @ The Corn Exchange 21st June 2022

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festivalโ€“ Simon Calder @ The Corn Exchange 21st June 2022

    Travel Tales Andy Fawthrop Well, weโ€™re on to week two of the Devizes Arts Festival, but thereโ€™s been no let-up, as the entertainment continues to come thick and fast. Following Florian Felcittaโ€™s wonderful Free Fringe performance in the Three Crowns on Sunday afternoon, and yesterdayโ€™s highly entertaining talk from gardening expert Adam Frost, last night Read more

  • What to Do; Weekend Roundup for 24th-27th June

    Okay, here we go for our weekend rodeo roundup, for those who itโ€™s too much energy to scroll our event calendar for. No time for links, Iโ€™m a busy bee, find the links on the aforementioned event calendar, forcing you scrolling, and also updates as they come bounding in….. Build-up to the weekendโ€ฆ. Another week Read more

  • Wadfest; Great Community Do Launched at Wadworth

    Wadfest; Great Community Do Launched at Wadworth

    When a better half browsing Facebook, tells her husband about an event in their own town, that’s informative. When the husband runs a local what’s on guide, it’s a tad embarrassing! But that is the unusual way I found out about Devizes’ cornerstone industry, the Wadworth Brewery putting on a mini-festival in their carpark. This Read more