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  • Half a Review: James Hollingsworth @ The Southgate

    Half a Review: James Hollingsworth @ The Southgate

    It was only a whistle-stop for me at Devizes’ best pub for original live music on Saturday, but long enough to sink a cider and assess; James Hollingsworth is fantastic…. Our roving reporter Andy informed me James is a blessing on the folk circuit, but this occasion, armed with enough loop pedals to make The Read more

  • Sarnie for Her Majesty!

    There’s still time to suggest your ideal sandwich filling fit for the Queen! Devizes Food & Drink Festival are hoping for seventy sandwich fillings…..even I couldn’t eat seventy butties, but I never refuse a challenge, if they need a judge! “Lots have been suggested,” they say, “and BBC Wiltshire’s Sue Davies was suitably horrified by Read more

  • Indecisionโ€™s Final Incursion of Devizes Corn Exchange

    Indecisionโ€™s Final Incursion of Devizes Corn Exchange

    The grand finale of popular local covers band, Indecision stormed Devizes Corn Exchange last night, Saturday 21st May, for one last hoorah. A hugely successful turnout in the-hard-to-fill Ceres Hall…… From Seend Beer Festival to Potterne Cricket Clubโ€™s, Indecision has been a firm favourite for many-a-year now, playing across the south west from Bromhamโ€™s long Read more

  • Castlemorton Wasn’t the Best Rave Ever!

    Featured Image ยฉAlan Lodge Photography Okay, I confess, that’s a clickbait title, forced to make you shout, pantomime style, โ€œoh yes it was!โ€ On this, the thirtieth anniversary of The Castlemorton Free Festival I’m predicting vast quantities of media coverage, hailing its significance in the counterculture of the nineties, and indeed it was the largest Read more

  • Cobalt Fireโ€™s Butterfly

    Cobalt Fireโ€™s Butterfly

    In the words of the great Suggs, โ€œbut I like to stay in, and watch TV, on my own, every now and then,โ€ after three gigs on the previous weekend, I opted a weekend off, albeit I was with the family, and succumbed to Britainโ€™s Got Talent for my entertainment, one little part of me Read more

  • Billy Greenโ€™s Garden

    To deal with my forgetfulness I have a to-do-list. The only issue with my to-do-list is I forget I started it; Billy Green released a new single last month, itโ€™s a poetic stonker of indie-rap, with his usual nod to Britpop, and still it fell through the floodgate. Apologies to Bill, but itโ€™s a convenient Read more