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REVIEW – Kossoff – The Band Plays On @ LSBC, Devizes – Saturday 18th December 2021
Free At Last! Andy Fawthrop And so we came to the last LSBC offering of 2021, marking the half-way stage on the current season of concerts. It’s been a packed programme recently, but no-one’s complaining about that! Last night’s offering was as good as a double-header as far as I was concerned. Drafted in at… Read more
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REVIEW – White Horse Opera’s Christmas Concert, including Faure’s Requiem @ St John’s Church, Devizes – Saturday 18th December 2021
Chilly Church Concert Andy Fawthrop I’m not sure why White Horse Opera are so shy of publicity, but I’d seen very little on social media that this event was even taking place. Trusting that it was still on, I rocked up at the appointed time, and sure enough there was a gathering of those in… Read more
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Running with a Timid Deer
An absolutely spellbinding new electronica jazz-blues single out this week, of which I’d expect nothing less from what I believe to be one of Wiltshire’s most underrated bands, Salisbury’s Timid Deer, and produced by the brilliant Jason Allen. With a grand piano opening, their evocative part-indie-part-trip hop ambience is accomplished to a new standard here,… Read more
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Can We Stop Boxing Day Hunts?
Make no mistake, there’s a civil war under our noses, which comes to an apex when blood-thirsty predators triumphantly parade their wrongdoing on a day when most of us struggle out of bed to reach the fridge. Judge for yourselves who’s the goodies and who’s the baddies here, but pray tell me you’re not party… Read more
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A Right Christmas Carry-Con at The Vaults
Sunday saw Ian Diddams reading his Christmassy self-penned yarn at The Vaults, which over the past few years has become something of a decidedly anticipated yuletide tradition among Devizes socialites, not to mention raising wonga for local charities. Directed downwards to, what is fittingly described as a vault, within the Vaults, a communal gathering amassed.… Read more
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Why Did the Gazette & Herald Single Out Trowbridge Takeaway with Zero Rating?
Working five years or more as a delivery driver for a local butcher, you witness some pretty awful hygiene practises while passing through numerous commercial kitchens. Yet via this experience I conclude, bad hygiene is not confined to any particular sort of eatery or of any class of establishment. I delivered to everything from greasy… Read more
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