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  • Are We Still in Rowde?! RowdeFest 25 Sunny Overview

    Are We Still in Rowde?! RowdeFest 25 Sunny Overview

    Images by Hans Shell, Ruth Wordley, Helen’s PolarPix and Bird is the Word If you’re going to write on a subject you must research it, but if you’re going to write well about it you need to get involved in order to understand the details often hidden to outside observersโ€ฆ. I learned this a year… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festivalโ€“ Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri โ€“ Corn Exchange – Friday 30th May 2025

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festivalโ€“ Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri โ€“ Corn Exchange – Friday 30th May 2025

    Still Got The Music In Her By Andy Fawthrop Itโ€™s been a while coming a-round but at long last Devizesโ€™ very own Arts Festival finally kicked off last night for its two-week run.ย  And we started off, as is usual now, with a real belter of a concert in the Corn Exchange, this time featuring… Read more

  • Clock Radio Turf Out The Maniacs

    Clock Radio Turf Out The Maniacs

    The first full album by Wiltshireโ€™s finest purveyors of psychedelic indie shenanigans, Clock Radio, was knocked out to an unsuspecting world last week. Itโ€™s called Turfinโ€™ Out The Maniacs, which perhaps should be fact-checked as it sounds to me like theyโ€™re letting them all in, as they arrive on yellow submarines and check into Frank… Read more

  • The Bradford on Avon Live Music Festival- This Weekend!

    Bradford-on-Avon Town Councilโ€™s annual festival, aptly titled The Bradford on Avon Live Music Festival is back this weekend, championing local talent with an eclectic line-up of impeccable performers across its multiple venues and in association with the Wiltshire Music Centreโ€ฆ.. The festival launched in 2022, sees music pouring out of venues across the entire town… Read more

  • โ€œSweeney Toddโ€ at St. Augustineโ€™s Catholic College, Trowbridge May 28th-31st

    โ€œSweeney Toddโ€ at St. Augustineโ€™s Catholic College, Trowbridge May 28th-31st

    by Ian Diddamsimages by Chris Watkins Performing Sondheim isnโ€™t the simplest of tasks. Or, rather, singing Sondheim isnโ€™t the simplest of tasks. With his dissonant music, off the beat lyrics and constant interchanges of charactersโ€™ lines in songs it takes a lot of practise, a good ear, and huge concentration to meet Sondheimโ€™s demands. Many… Read more

  • Ruby Darbyshire to Perform at Silverwood School Open Evening

    Ruby Darbyshire to Perform at Silverwood School Open Evening

    The phenomenally talented Ruby Darbyshire is performing at Silverwood School in Rowde on 27th June. Ruby has kindly offered to support Silverwood Schoolโ€™s open evening….. Silverwood School near Devizes, has an ambition to provide a truly integrated system of outstanding education for those with special educational needs and disabilities in Wiltshire up to 19 years… Read more