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  • You Can Help Liam?

    You Can Help Liam?

    Liam is the most caring and loving boy that unfortunately cannot live a life of his dreams.   He nearly lost his life three days after his birth when he suffered Hypoglycaemia and associated brain injury. Liam was treated for severe sepsis and as a result of this trauma he now suffers from multi-focal epilepsy,… Read more

  • Chippenham Folk Festival –-Friday – Monday 24th – 27th May

    Chippenham Folk Festival –-Friday – Monday 24th – 27th May

    The Biggest Little Festival In Wiltshire By Andy Fawthrop Chippenham Folk Festival has just finished for another year, so it’s good time to round up just how good this event is, and why it’ll be worth going again next year. The Festival, including its early incarnation at Lacock, is now in its 48th year, and… Read more

  • The Band Plays On: Kossoff @ Long Street Blues Club

    The Band Plays On: Kossoff @ Long Street Blues Club

    At Last – I’m All Right Now…..  By Andy Fawthrop   I’d been waiting for this gig for quite a while. Bearing in mind my general antipathy towards “tribute” bands, I was feeling both excited and apprehensive. Being of, let’s say, “a certain age”, Free (and later Bad Company) had been my go-to rock bands… Read more

  • Back on the Saddle!

    Tipsy suggestions to those Saddlebackers at their gurt lush day festival at Devizes Sports Ground were poo-pooed from the off! With this year’s line up rolling out across social media, it’s easy to see they took my expansive notions as nonsensical dribble. A dance tent; yeah, right, circus and performing arts acts; get outta town,… Read more

  • You Can’t See the Join; Eric & Little Ern at Devizes Arts Festival

    Youngsters may ponder how we survived times of yore with just the three TV channels. Certainly, children’s shows stopped at six, new-fangled video recorders were expensive commodities and presented their users with a horrendous relay, poor sound quality and the tedious labour of rewinding. Yet we had something which barely exists today, an eminence of… Read more

  • Owl Fest Revealed; Bromham’s Secret Garden Party Cider Festival

    Owl Fest Revealed; Bromham’s Secret Garden Party Cider Festival

    The Westcountry festival circuit is Corky’s bread and butter, in a deja vu moment I uttered the last time we spoke we were in exactly the same place last year, Owlfest! In addition, Corky was attired in the same trademark Harris Tweed suit and flat cap, not the dress of your archetypal rapper. He replied… Read more