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  • Bier, Bier, Bier and Seend Oktoberfest

    Bier, Bier, Bier and Seend Oktoberfest

    Dust off your Lederhosen and dirndls, tune your alpenhorns, Seend Community Centre annually hosts an Oktoberfest to make King Ludwig envious. Itโ€™s next week volks, Saturday 5th October. They invite you to โ€œjoin us for another fabulous night of fun and entertainment, in true Bavarian style.โ€ Traditional games include Holz Sรคgen (Log Sawing) Kuh Melken Read more

  • Devizes Food & Drink Festival opens with the Street Food & Artisan Market

    Devizes Food & Drink Festival opens with the Street Food & Artisan Market

    Parking in the Market Place today yes I did, parked my butt on a Muck & Dunder Chair and took in a great Devizes Food & Drink Festival Street Food & Artisan Market, thank you! Yo-ho-ho, an unpredictable drizzle didnรข stop th’ Devizes Food & Drink Festival settin’ thar grand Street Food & Artisan Market Read more

  • The New Society of Devizes

    The New Society of Devizes

    If you drop into the old Tourist Information centre in the Market Place these days, youโ€™ll get much more than a leaflet on the Caen Hill Locks. The owner, Steve, greeted the better half and I by the stairs, outgoing but with a shattered expression. The word on the street is out, in an unmissable Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Hadrianโ€™s Union @ Southgate & Jamie R Hawkins @ White Bear, Devizes โ€“ Sunday 22nd September 2019

    REVIEW โ€“ Hadrianโ€™s Union @ Southgate & Jamie R Hawkins @ White Bear, Devizes โ€“ Sunday 22nd September 2019

    Another Great Music Sunday Afternoon Andy Fawthrop First to The Southgate, where Dave & Debs continue to provide a platform for acts of class entertainment. Today it was 5-piece folk-rockers Hadrianโ€™s Union, a band completely new to me. Except that their fiddle-player Penny wasnโ€™t actually with them, so they just carried on as a four-piece, Read more

  • The Malone-Sibun Band and Joe Hicks at the Long Street Blues Club

    The Malone-Sibun Band and Joe Hicks at the Long Street Blues Club

    A cracking night for our blues club last night, which I managed to finally appear at! After publishing a run of awesome reviews from our man Andy, and with a flimsy hunch he wasnโ€™t going to make it Saturday night (though he did,) I figured it high time and a good opportunity to break my Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Comedy Night @ Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Friday 20th September 2019

    REVIEW โ€“ Comedy Night @ Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Friday 20th September 2019

    A Funny Old Night Andy Fawthrop A fairly packed audience gathered in the Corn Exchange on Friday night for Devizes Comedyโ€™s presentation. Not sure it was quite sold out, but there werenโ€™t too many empty seats in the place.   First up was Canadian born Tanyalee Davis, described in the publicity as โ€œJoan Rivers meets Read more