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Sustainable Devizes Opens Community Fridge
It’s early days, but it’s great to see the Devizes Community Fridge standing proud in the Shambles today. Running since the beginning of the month as a pilot scheme, Fridays will be the day to visit the fridge, the concept is simple, take out only what you need, put in items which you don’t.… It… Read more
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Boom Bap! The Scribes at The Muck; Hip Hop Lands in Devizes!
What time is it? Time for me to pretend I’m keepin’ it realz, replace letters S for Z and generally use phrases like “rock da house!” Or, perhaps it’z overdue for Devizes to get diversity in its musical entertainment. For aside the occasions when the Arts Festival or DOCA bring us something different, niche markets… Read more
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REVIEW – Eddie Martin’s Big Blues Band (with The Little Big Horns) @ LSBC, Devizes – Saturday 8th October 2022
Big Band Blues Andy Fawthrop The Long Street Blues Club season continued last night with some great music. First up was Kelvin Davies (guitar) and Gary Jones (harmonica), a duo making their first visit to the club. They delivered an absolutely charming set of upbeat numbers, wandering around blues, folk, country and ragtime. Kelvin’s guitar-picking was first… Read more
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Talk in Code: The Big Screen
Talk in Code’s second album has been out a while, overdue to mention it…… January 2019, and I find myself making several eighties cultural references in reviewing Resolve, the debut album by Wiltshire’s own Talk in Code. A band which turned my aged preconceptions of the “indie” pigeonhole on its head. For me, wedged in… Read more
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Excelsior and Some Worried Men
Patiently awaiting the school run to take a listen to Excelsior, this new album by The Worried Men, after witnessing them at a blinder down Devizes’ live music ever-faithful, The Southgate, as I strongly suspected it’d be best designated as “driving music.” You know the Eye of the Tiger, Holding out for a Hero sort,… Read more
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Picnic at Hanging Rock, Via The Wharf Theatre
Opening on Halloween and ending on Guy Fawkes Night, the next production at Devizes Wharf Theatre promises to be a mysteriously eerie…. Written by Joan Lindsay adapted by Tom Wright and directed by Debby Wilkinson, Picnic at Hanging Rock takes place on St Valentine’s Day in 1900, when a group of schoolgirls from Appleyard College… Read more
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