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  • Send Your Camel To Bed! The Brand New Heavies Headline Sunday at Minety Music Festival

    Send Your Camel To Bed! The Brand New Heavies Headline Sunday at Minety Music Festival

    Heavenโ€™s holding a half moon tonight, a secret I’ve gotta spill, shining for all going to the Minety Music Festival in July…. Seeming not content with just awesome headliners The Fun Lovinโ€™ Criminals on the Saturday evening, Toploader and The Stereo MCs on Sunday, organisers of this, which I hailed the best local festival last… Read more

  • Bouffon! JP Oldfieldโ€™s Debut EP in Review

    Bouffon! JP Oldfieldโ€™s Debut EP in Review

    Once the demonic entity Spring-Heeled Jack entered folklore it became subject to many books and plays, diluting the once real threat of this Victorian bogeyman into a mockery of mass hysteria and hoaxes. If our local upcoming blues soloist JP Oldfield is resurrecting the legend as an opening to his forthcoming debut EP, Bouffon, the… Read more

  • Jamie Hawkinsโ€™ Teeth and Side Owl Short Films

    Jamie Hawkinsโ€™ Teeth and Side Owl Short Films

    Devizes singer-songwriter Jamie Hawkins, famed for poignant narrative in his songs and one-third Lost Trade, has always had a passion for filmmaking; Teeth is the breakthrough worth chatting aboutโ€ฆ.or chattering about! What started as simple yet amusing animations as Team Biscuit and the obligatory music video for his sole projects and those with The Lost… Read more

  • The Emporium in Devizes to Close

    The Emporium in Devizes to Close

    If Devizes boasts an abundance of independent gift shops of unique and exquisite or often novelty items in the face of a national pandemic of boarded up storefronts, itโ€™s saddening to hear today The Emporium on St Johns Street is to closeโ€ฆ.. It has been a stalwart in our town centre for generations, as long… Read more

  • PREVIEW โ€“ Jazz Sabbath @ Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 1st March 2025

    PREVIEW โ€“ Jazz Sabbath @ Corn Exchange, Devizes โ€“ Saturday 1st March 2025

    Donโ€™t Miss This One! Andy Fawthrop Just over two years ago I was privileged to be in the audience when Jazz Sabbath played their only previous show in D-Town.ย  And what a night that was. The musical skill on show simply blew me away.ย  No surprise then that weโ€™re mightily looking forward to their next… Read more

  • Mental Rot; New I See Orange Single

    Mental Rot; New I See Orange Single

    Hold on tight, the new single from I See Orange, Mental Rot embodies everything I love about this Swindon grunge trio, and takes no prisonersโ€ฆ.. If there are few bands on the local circuit to have turned my head and caused me to wallow in self-pity that I sorely missed out on the grunge zenith,… Read more