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  • Devizes Welcomes New Coffee Shop, Caffe Vialottie

    Devizes Welcomes New Coffee Shop, Caffe Vialottie

    Devizes welcomed a charming new coffee shop to The Market Place today, called Caffe Vialottie; I thought it best to drop by, poke my nose inโ€ฆ.. Caffe Vialottie takes over the listed number 35, where the cherished Times Square closed its doors for the final time in June 2024. The walls are adorned with some… Read more

  • La Belle Hรฉlรจne; White Horse Operaโ€™s Debut at The Wharf Theatre

    La Belle Hรฉlรจne; White Horse Operaโ€™s Debut at The Wharf Theatre

    Seems odd the perfect combination between Devizesโ€™ only theatre, The Wharf, and one of the longest-running performance group, White Horse Opera hasnโ€™t linked before, but they are set to do so in March with a performance of Jacques Offenbachโ€™s Opรฉra bouffe, La Belle Hรฉlรจneโ€ฆ.. Okay, this is not exactly true. Barbara Gompels of the White… Read more

  • People Liked Us; Devizes Premier Covers Band Call it a Day

    People Liked Us; Devizes Premier Covers Band Call it a Day

    A sunny July in 2018 and Iโ€™m in Hillworth Park for a Fantasy Radio live session, finally witnessing a Devizes based band Iโ€™d been adding the gigs of onto our calendar. With an especial distinctiveness People Like Us complimented Coldplay, nailed as Oasis, and breezed through Crowded House, but it was when they covered Every… Read more

  • Ex-Kaiser Chief Nick Hodgsonโ€™s Everyone Says Hi Coming to Marlborough

    Ex-Kaiser Chief Nick Hodgsonโ€™s Everyone Says Hi Coming to Marlborough

    Featured Image Credit: Stewart Baxter Riot predictor Nick Hodgson formerly of the Kaiser Chiefs has a new band, the charmingly named Everyone Says Hi, and theyโ€™re playing an instore at Marlboroughโ€™s Sound Knowledge, on Sunday 2nd Februaryโ€ฆ. Everyone Says Hi will play a number of live dates across the UK to celebrate the release of… Read more

  • Two-Tone Icons, The Beat Headline Devizes Scooter Rally 2025

    Two-Tone Icons, The Beat Headline Devizes Scooter Rally 2025

    Matthew Murphy, or Ranking Junior, son of the late Roger Charlery, aka Ranking Roger vocalist of eighties Two-Tone ska band, The Beat and new wave collective General Public has settled into the shoes of his father and now fronts a reformation of The Beat, which tours extensively. This includes our blossoming scooter rally in Devizes… Read more

  • Jamsters; A New Initiative For Musicians at The Southgate

    Jamsters; A New Initiative For Musicians at The Southgate

    Bob Marley sang โ€œjamminโ€™ โ€˜til the jam is through,โ€ Jimmy Cricketโ€™s catchphrase was โ€œcomeโ€™ere, thereโ€™s more,โ€ but it looks like The Southgate in Devizes is combining the two. Jamsters is landlord Daveโ€™s new initiative to provide a Friday night platform for loose groupings and associations created at their regular jam sessions each Wednesdayโ€ฆ. The inaugural… Read more