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New Grey Whistle Test: Visual Radio Arts Arrives in Devizes
Not just on the premise of tea and nibbles, I find myself at Bath Road Business Centre. The Wharf Theatre’s old prop store has been gloriously converted into a recording studio, of a sort, by a company which once set up base in Frome’s Old Fire Station, Visual Radio Arts. My initial reaction to the… Read more
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The Fulltone goes BIG!
The F.T.O. Big Band at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon. 21/11/2021 Ian Diddams The Fulltone Orchestra (a.k.a. FTO) was formed back in 2017, the vision and brainchild of its Musical Director, Anthony Brown. Since then, the orchestra has performed across Wiltshire playing a wide genre of orchestral based music, from iconic movie themes to Bernstein and… Read more
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An Art Shambles!
I tip my beret to The Shambles in Devizes for a wonderfully presented Christmas Art Fair on Saturday evening. Though it promised a glass of mulled wine and minced pie, which I didn’t seem to receive, it offered a variety of local artists exhibiting, and besides, I’m impartial to mince pies anyway! (Update: seems I… Read more
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REVIEW – Focus @ LSBC, Corn Exchange, Devizes – 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 – on Friday night it was Motown Gold, with D-Town’s (ahem) young things bopping away to hits from their lifetime’s soundtrack. But on Saturday night it was something completely different – a journey into the… Read more
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Devizes Arts Festival’s Soulful Finale
Featured image by Gail Foster You’d be forgiven for assuming I’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 Temptations’ My Girl at the Devizes Corn Exchange Friday evening, that the first punter… Read more
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Fire at Stert Contained
It’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. “We’ve not long returned from our relief crew at the waste yard,” they reported, “Slow… Read more
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