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  • The Lost Trades September Tour Comes to Pound Arts

    Trowbridge-Devizes finest musical export for a decade or two, acoustic folk vocal harmony trio, The Lost Trades, step out for a nationwide tour this September. The closest they come to home is Pound Arts in Corsham…. The groupimg of Phil Cooper, Tamsin Quin, and Jamie R Hawkins, fantastic artists within their own rights, was always… Read more

  • Schools Lego Building Challenge From The Great Western Brick Show

    Calling all future Lego engineers! Be the Brunel of tomorrow and build a bridge to help achieve net zero….. To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Great Western Brick Show at STEAM at the Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, the organisers are inviting local schools to take part in their Brick-building challenge… Read more

  • Fulltone Confirmed For 2025 in Devizes

    The Fulltone Orchestra has confirmed today that their annual festival will take place on The Green in Devizes from 25th – 27th July 2025…. “It’s hard to believe that exactly one month ago, we were on The Green setting up for what we thought might be the last Fulltone Festival,” they said today. “Fulltone is… Read more

  • The Light at the End of The Bottle of Dog

    The Light at the End of The Bottle of Dog

    The Light at the End of The World is a fourteen tracks strong album which scores a goal directly from the kick-off with the aptly titled opener Let’s Go. Released at the beginning of the month (August 2024) the timeless goodness of hard rock is firing off on all cylinders, and it doesn’t wait for… Read more

  • Get ‘Lifted’ by Chandra

    Get ‘Lifted’ by Chandra

    Chandra, Hindu God of the Moon, with his own NASA X-ray observatory named after him, and also frontman of a self-named friendly Bristol-based four-piece pop-punk band I’ve recently been introduced to; busy guy, I have to tell you about them….. This band has been together since April and knocked out five singles already. The latest,… Read more

  • Assassination in Pewsey…D’Ska Assassination!

    Assassination in Pewsey…D’Ska Assassination!

    There was an assassination in Pewsey last night … a ska assassination; pick it up, pick it up, Pewsey! Like buses, ska bands are around these backwaters, which put me in a dilemma. Safe in the knowledge those Killertones will skank up the Southgate in Devizes, I sought to head east to the vale of… Read more