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  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Lucy Porter + Support @ Corn Exchangeย  6th June 2024

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Lucy Porter + Support @ Corn Exchangeย  6th June 2024

    Funny You Should Say That Andy Fawthrop And finally it was time to see the girl weโ€™ve all been seeing on the poster for the past few months!ย  Last night Devizes Arts Festival presented its comedy big-hitter, the radio and TV star Lucy Porter.ย  And D-Town responded with another packed audience. Lucy Porter is a… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Adam Rutherford @ Corn Exchangeย  5th June 2024

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Adam Rutherford @ Corn Exchangeย  5th June 2024

    Andy Fawthrop Itโ€™s All In The Genes Today Devizes Arts Festival presentation took on a more serious and talkative tone with another marquee signing taking to the stage.ย  And it was another good audience with plenty of trade at the bar and at the merch desk. Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, author and broadcaster who… Read more

  • Devizes Youth Action Group Gig Night is Back!

    Devizes Youth Action Group Gig Night is Back!

    The first gig and club night by Devizes Youth Action Group exclusively for secondary school aged youth in Devizes back in February was hugely successful, so theyโ€™re doing it again, on Friday 21st June at the Corn Exchangeโ€ฆ.. In conjunction with St James Church, the Devizes Youth Action Group has organised this event for youth,… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Edward Cross Quintet @ Assembly Roomย  4th June 2024

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Edward Cross Quintet @ Assembly Roomย  4th June 2024

    By Andy Fawthrop Fine Music In A Fine Room Today Devizes Arts Festival wheeled out its first classical offering, and chose a particularly fine room in which to showcase this young composer/ musician and his all-female quintet.ย  Iโ€™ve often said how much I admire the Assembly Room in the Town Hall, and I think itโ€™s… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 5th -11th June 2024

    Hereโ€™s what weโ€™ve found to do in the wilds of Wiltshire this coming week. Donโ€™t forget your sunscreen and a nice party umbrella! Everything listed here is on our event calendar; go there for links and more info. It may be updated, so check in later in the week. Ongoing: A Wiltshire Thatcher: A Photographic… Read more

  • The Visit; Wiltshire’s Councillors Endorsing Michelle Donelanย 

    The Visit; Wiltshire’s Councillors Endorsing Michelle Donelanย 

    Have you had โ€œthe visitโ€ yet? Your local councillor house-calling hand-in-hand with Conservative candidate Michelle Donelan? I have. At least it broke up my busy day with lighthearted banter! You know, by publishing their adventures in pestering on Facebook, they’re verging on breaking electoral rules, right? Despite my pacifism means my assault would only have… Read more