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  • REVIEW โ€“ Sally Barker @ Town Hall, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 13th November 2021

    REVIEW โ€“ Sally Barker @ Town Hall, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 13th November 2021

    Joni & Sandy at Devizes Arts Festival Andy Fawthrop The Devizes Arts Festival continues!ย  Following Thursday nightโ€™s bash at The Corn Exchange with Ronnie Scottโ€™s Jazz Club, it was time for my second event in DAFโ€™s mini-programme.ย  This meant a change of both venue and of genre โ€“ this time it was folk music at Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Gerry Jablonski @ LSBC, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 13th November 2021

    REVIEW โ€“ Gerry Jablonski @ LSBC, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 13th November 2021

    Rock & Blues Is Alive & Well Andy Fawthrop Up the road again for the first of a string of Long Street Blues gigs during November.  You spend ages waiting for a gig to come along, then three come all at once.  Added to the musical offerings of Devizes Arts Festival and TITCo these past Read more

  • Seend to get Jazzy!

    Seend to get Jazzy!

    If Iโ€™ve been bragging about trekking to Trow-Vegas this weekend for musical indulgence, next weekend you donโ€™t even need to journey that far to get a dosage, just that direction….. Halfway house, the lovely village of Seend, with its wonderful Community Centre on the Green hosts a roaring twenties jazz party, next Saturday (20th November.) Read more

  • ร…lesund and Agata at Trowbridge Town Hall

    ร…lesund and Agata at Trowbridge Town Hall

    With Andy gig-galivanting the Vizes this weekend, I trekked to neighbouring Trowbridge, to find mesmerising and enriching vibes at the Town Hall, via ร…lesund and Agata; hold my hat, thereโ€™s a good fellowโ€ฆโ€ฆ Just as Jim Crow segregation laws spawned juke-joints, the twentieth century is littered with examples of mainstream music venues unable to stay Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Ronnie Scottโ€™s Jazz Club On Tour @ Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Thursday 11th November 2021

    REVIEW โ€“ Ronnie Scottโ€™s Jazz Club On Tour @ Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Thursday 11th November 2021

    Jazz Is Back In Town! Andy Fawthrop Yay!ย  The Devizes Arts Festival is back in business, albeit in truncated format for this year, and kicked off public proceedings with a real bang last night in The Corn Exchange. Despite being massively well served for all forms of live music in D-Town generally, jazz has been Read more

  • Ride & Oasis Member โ€œAndy Bellโ€ Brings his Space Station tour to Trowbridge

    Ride & Oasis Member โ€œAndy Bellโ€ Brings his Space Station tour to Trowbridge

    Not only am I old skool enough to recall DJ Sonique singing whilst on the wheels of steel, Iโ€™m even so aged to confuse this musician-come-DJ with the namesake of the Erasure frontman. But Sheer promoter, Kieran J Moore is excited with the announcement the frontman of legendary Oxford “showgaze” pioneers, Ride, also called Andy Read more