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  • Voting Now Open for the Wiltshire Music Awards

    The voting process for the Wiltshire Music Awards goes live today; there might be some other voting thing going on too, but this is far more important! In conjunction with Wiltshire Music Events UK, Iโ€™m delighted Devizine will be actively assisting to organise this new county-wide music awards. Weโ€™ve mentioned it a few times now,… Read more

  • Theatre Review: Everybodyโ€™s Talking About Jamie by Devizes Music Academy

    Theatre Review: Everybodyโ€™s Talking About Jamie by Devizes Music Academy

    An effervescent musical, full of promising young talent Written by: Melissa Loveday Images by: Gail Foster After the success of SIX last year, Devizes Music Academy is beginning to make a name for itself with its second musical production, Everybodyโ€™s Talking About Jamie, which featured two electrifying performances on 19th April at Devizes Schoolโ€ฆ. And… Read more

  • Is This Calne Reform Candidate Violette Simpson?

    Is This Calne Reform Candidate Violette Simpson?

    A photo is circulating on X of Calne’s Reform UK candidate Violette Simpson, which for some reason doesn’t appear on her election campaign….I wonder why? Just to clear up any confusion, she’s the one with the gun. According to Calne News Violette Simpson, the Reform UK candidate for Calne Central, has been criticised for describing… Read more

  • Devizes Palooza DJ on the Bill for Fatboy Slimโ€™s All Back to Minehead

    Devizes Palooza DJ on the Bill for Fatboy Slimโ€™s All Back to Minehead

    Big congratulations to Devizes DJ Greg Spencer this week, the creator of Palooza house nights at The Exchange nightclub, for he made the prestigious bill of Fatboy Slimโ€™s All Back to Minehead festival in November at Butlins; we have to celebrate him, baby, and praise him like we should! Palooza launched in March last year,… Read more

  • No Alarms No Devizes, Aptly in Devizes!

    No Alarms No Devizes, Aptly in Devizes!

    If I’ve been galavanting recently, gorging on other local townโ€™s live music scenes, what better way to return to Devizes than a visit to the liveliest watering hole, The Three Crowns, to see a band with our town’s name all over it, No Alarms And No Devizes? How apt! Iโ€™ll confess, while I know most… Read more

  • Hannah Rose Plattโ€™s Fragile Creatures

    Hannah Rose Plattโ€™s Fragile Creatures

    If Whitney Houston set a benchmark for female vocalists many did before her too, but while others were influenced by them, they never felt obliged to attain a sound precisely mimicking them, as, it seems to me, many modern female singers striving for pop success do with Whitneyโ€™s. And when they do, it sounds, well,… Read more