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REVIEW – Devizes Arts Festival – Dr. Phil Hammond @ Corn Exchange 3rd June 2024
by Andy Fawthrop The Doctor Will See You Now! Devizes Arts Festival has already got off to a storming start over this last weekend, with performances on Friday from Jolly Roger, Saturday from Lady Nade, and on Sunday from Adam Alexander and Eddy Allen. Some of these we’ve already reviewed here. So now it’s rolled… Read more
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Lady Nade at Devizes Arts Festival
If the opening Friday evening of Devizes Arts Festival was amazing for lively pirate-punk craziness, Saturday night was too for precisely opposite reasons. Bristol’s soulstress Americana virtuoso, Lady Nade arrived, and in a word, was mesmerising… I’ve put her ladyship on the highest pedestal since reviewing her lockdown album Willing, longing to see her perform.… Read more
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Rosie Jay’s Debut Single Doesn’t Give a Damn!
With a rolling hook in the chorus, piano riff over acoustic guitar and a heartfelt narrative, here’s a promising debut single from Salisbury’s young singer-songwriter Rosie Jay out today. I’m getting Kirsty MacColl vibes here, and if you think that’s a pretty high accolade, you’ll just have to have a listen and decide for yourself!… Read more
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Land Ahoy! Jolly Roger Opens Devizes Arts Festival with Fire in the Hole!
Land ahoy me hearties! Devizes Corn Exchange was boarded last night by Cornish punk pirates Jolly Roger, for a frivolous and swashbuckling opening to Devizes Arts Festival; the face that launched a thousand ships was witness to it…. That’s me, if it wasn’t obvious, landlubbers, the face! For although it’s Devizine assemble, to bring you… Read more
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LilyPetals Debut EP
One of many young indie bands which impressed me at Bradford Roots Festival, and proof there’s more than the name suggests at The Wiltshire Music Centre’s winter convention of local music, Bristol-based LilyPetals released their debut EP this week…. Firing on all cylinders, there’s five three minute heroes and one slightly longer tune on this… Read more
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Courting Ghosts Debut Album: Falling My Friend
Images used with kind permission of Pacific Curd Photography West Wilts and Somerset folk-rock collective Courting Ghosts are about to release their debut album, Falling my Friend in June….. If the name Courting Ghosts conveys something twisted and gothic, the band name may be a smidgen deceiving to their style. Subjective though, what’s in a… Read more
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