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  • A Thousand Times with Sam Bishop

    A Thousand Times with Sam Bishop

    Who saw the Roughcut Rebels open our first Devizine Presents night at the Cellar Bar? What an awesome opening. Mind, it was supposed to be Larkinโ€™s Sam Bishop with a new band. He had to cancel, not feeling the band was quite ready. Grateful to the Roughcuts for stepping in with such short notice, and… Read more

  • Solstice, or What-Christians-Macallit?

    Solstice, or What-Christians-Macallit?

    Summer Solstice is on Friday 21st June and English Heritage provides free Managed Open Access to Stonehenge as usual, under the conditions: no amplified music, no drones, no alcohol, no drugs, no drunken or disorderly behaviour, no camping, no sleeping bags, no large bags, no chairs, fires, Chinese lanterns, fireworks, candles, tea-lights or BBQs, no… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“Acoustic Strawbs โ€“ 8th June @ Assembly Hall, Melksham

    REVIEW โ€“Acoustic Strawbs โ€“ 8th June @ Assembly Hall, Melksham

    Is It Really Fifty Years? Andy Fawthrop Having checked my passport and visa for the border crossing, and made sure that my inoculations were up to date, I ventured out of D-Town into the Badlands of Melksham. Just shows what lengths Iโ€™m prepared to go to in order to find live music! After a superb… Read more

  • The Mac are Bac @ The Neeld

    The Mac are Bac @ The Neeld

      Fleetwood Bac, the worldโ€™s first and best Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band will be bringing their phenomenal tribute show to Chippenham’s The Neeld on 21st June 2019.   Endorsed by Mick Fleetwood himself, this is the only Mac tribute to authentically replicate the classic ‘Rumours’ line-up. Over the last few years they’ve received rave reviews… Read more

  • She Robot Assimilates the British

    She Robot Assimilates the British

    Images used with kind permission of Gail Foster.   Summer Sunday afternoons in the beer garden of the British; itโ€™s a Devizes thing, a ritual stretching back long before I anchored on these shores. Yet itโ€™s unusual for an android to be found there. In all truth, if any kind of automaton did start socialising… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Moscow Drug Club โ€“ 7th June @ Exchange Night Club, Devizes

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Moscow Drug Club โ€“ 7th June @ Exchange Night Club, Devizes

    Drugs Down In The Bin! By Andy Fawthrop   Well, sort of. Bear with me. In fact this was yet another Devizes Arts Festival offering that turned out to be an absolute cracker of a gig. Descending into The Corny Bin, or The Exchange Night Club to be precise, I wondered why this particular venue… Read more