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  • Soultimate; The Piaggio Soul Combination

    Soultimate; The Piaggio Soul Combination

    Hey you, with the comb in your back pocket, imagine if the Brand New Heavies were signed by Motown in 1964, and you’d be a smidgen near the awesome sound of the Piaggio Soul Combination. Sprinkle some talc on the dancefloor and I’ll give you lowdown on their scorcher of a new album, Soultimate, released Read more

  • Talk in Code; Young Loves Dreamers

    Talk in Code; Young Loves Dreamers

    Set to release their new single ‘Young Loves Dream’ on Friday 11th February across all digital platforms, Talk in Code are rinsing their inimitable and uniformed sound with anthemic pop goodness; it’s to be expected…… Coincidently, three years and one day ago Devizine reviewed this Swindon indie-pop four-piece’s album, Resolve, with the retrospective angle of Read more

  • Singing Bishop with Stories to Tell Comes to St. Mary’s Devizes

    If there’s one venue I’m delighted to pen an event preview for, this new year, it has to be St Mary’s Church in Devizes. The Invitation Theatre Company showed us the potential of this disused church way back when, when Jemma and friends aptly dressed as nuns for Sister Act, if I remember rightly?! Since Read more

  • Bristol’s The Scribes Signed With Stimulus

    Bristol’s The Scribes Signed With Stimulus

    If the brilliant evening with The Allergies at Devizes’ Muck & Dundar this month did anything more than cause me to dance my socks off, it also made me evaluate the risk of bringing hip hop acts to our often-insular market town. The Allergies certainly rocked the rum bar, deejaying funky hip hop beats, and Read more

  • Baber and Wileman set to Chill

    Baber and Wileman set to Chill

    Meditatively strap yourself into a comfy recliner, as under his pseudonym Karda Estra, Swindon’s prolific experimental virtuoso Richard Wileman is in collaboration with Sanguine Hum keyboardist Matt Baber for an album taking their names as the title, Baber-Wileman. It’s released tomorrow (Monday 10th Jan 2022) on Kavus Torabi’s Believers Roast label.…. Under his own name, Read more

  • Devizes Town Band to Head on a Fantastic Journey

    Devizes Town Band to Head on a Fantastic Journey

    For their first outing of the year, Devizes Town Band plan to get all Phileas Fogg and beyond, taking the Corn Exchange on a fantastic journey from the depths of the ocean into space and everything in between, and you could onboard! Since 1999, when the Alpha Wind Ensemble was formed, and Mike Ward of Read more