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  • REVIEW โ€“ Jazz Sabbath @ Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Sunday 20th November 2022

    REVIEW โ€“ Jazz Sabbath @ Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Sunday 20th November 2022

    You wait for one to come alongโ€ฆ. by Andy Fawthrop After Saturdayโ€™s double-header at Long Street Blues Club with the Alex Voysey Trio and Hardwicke Circus, there was hardly time to draw breath on this exciting musical weekend.ย  A quick shift from the Con Club to The Corn Exchange, and there we were on a… Read more

  • Introducing The Next Magnificent Seven Tracks from Our Juliaโ€™s House Compilation

    Introducing The Next Magnificent Seven Tracks from Our Juliaโ€™s House Compilation

    Me and my absent mind. We released the second volume of our compilation album series in August, when I announced its release, and revealed further details of the first seven tunes, with a promise to detail them all in groups of sevenโ€ฆ. then, nothing, nada, absolutely spaced on it! I can only apologise to all… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ The Alex Voysey Trio & Hardwicke Circus @ LSBC, Con Club, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 19th November 2022

    REVIEW โ€“ The Alex Voysey Trio & Hardwicke Circus @ LSBC, Con Club, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 19th November 2022

    Double-header, Double the Fun! by Andy Fawthrop In yet another busy musical weekend for Devizes, it was hard to choose where to go, with gigs all over the place.ย  A nice problem to have I guess, but on Saturday night I threw my money into the Long Street Blues Club hat to see two bands… Read more

  • SGO Folk Up The Southgate

    What of the apostrophe, diacritical, a punctuation marking a possessive case of nouns, a contractive omission of letters, or perhaps, in this case, a leftover smudge on a pub chalkboard?! Taking said chalkboard listing S’Go as the omission would read “S” for something, “go,” which could easily be ill-perceived as ultramodern funky electronica, or something… Read more

  • The Dinner Party – TITCO @ The Wharf Theatre, Devizes

    An Open Love Letter โ€“ To TITCO by Ian Diddams Most reviews are quite sombre, written in the third person with a degree of distance.  Not this one. It’s time to throw that book away and speak from the heart. This โ€œreviewโ€ is openly praiseworthy and could even appear sycophantic. Meh. Whatever. It probably is… Read more

  • Devizes Girl Wins Vernon Kay’s Talent Nation

    Devizes Girl Wins Vernon Kay’s Talent Nation

    A huge congratulations to Jess Self, 13, from Devizes, who has won Vernon Kay’s Talent Nation….. Presented by Park Dean Resorts, Talent Nation had over 2,500 applications and  ran at 52 holiday parks across the UK. Jess travelled to Skegness where she made the final twelve, and was then crowned the overall winner by judges,… Read more