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  • REVIEW โ€“ Focus @ LSBC, Cornย  Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 20th November 2021

    REVIEW โ€“ Focus @ LSBC, Cornย  Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 20th November 2021

    Best Gig Of The Year In D-Town! Andy Fawthrop Second day on the trot in the Corn Exchange for me โ€“ on Friday night it was Motown Gold, with D-Townโ€™s (ahem) young things bopping away to hits from their lifetimeโ€™s soundtrack.ย  But on Saturday night it was something completely different โ€“ a journey into the… Read more

  • Devizes Arts Festivalโ€™s Soulful Finale

    Devizes Arts Festivalโ€™s Soulful Finale

    Featured image by Gail Foster Youโ€™d be forgiven for assuming Iโ€™m reviewing a greyhound race with this introduction, for akin to snapping open the starting traps, it was a fraction of second after Motown Gold played the inaugural bar of The Temptationsโ€™ My Girl at the Devizes Corn Exchange Friday evening, that the first punter… Read more

  • Fire at Stert Contained

    Fire at Stert Contained

    Itโ€™s good news from Devizes Fire Station, that the fire at the recycling plant at Stert has been contained. Early this evening, the station reported the fire is now under control and contained, after two nights of fighting the flames. โ€œWe’ve not long returned from our relief crew at the waste yard,โ€ they reported, โ€œSlow… Read more

  • Battle of the Best Devizes Breakfast Round 1; The Condado Lounge Vs New Society!

    Battle of the Best Devizes Breakfast Round 1; The Condado Lounge Vs New Society!

    Ladies and gentlemen, live from the Market Place, through ongoing bouts, it’s high time to discover who will be the title holder for the heavyweight Devizes breakfast champion. Tonight, in the Little Brittox corner, a newcomer to the competition, weighing in at twelve pounds seventy-five pee, all the way from the The Condado Lounge, the… Read more

  • 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