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  • Lightnin’ Willie and the Poorboys Opens New Season at Long Street Blues Club

    September is a week away; parents will be brushing off school uniforms, but Devizes blues fans won’t be dusting their brooms, because Long Steet Blues Club opens for the autumn/winter season on the first Saturday, the 5th with Lightnin’ Willie and the Poorboys…..    After a long absence the club welcome back one of the club… Read more

  • Hot Juice Project at The Three Crowns

    Hot Juice Project at The Three Crowns

    Whoa! What happened last night at the trusty Three Crowns?! What happened last night at the Three Crowns has clearly happened before, and happens most weekends; Devizes folk old and particularly the young come to party…. I’m aware of that much. But if the quality of the party rests in the hands of whoever is… Read more

  • Talking in Code at The Southgate, Devizes

    Talking in Code at The Southgate, Devizes

    I’ve got this Jetpack app on my phone which allows me to make adjustments to the site. There’s a new feature on it notifying me of articles published on this day in previous years. It revealed that on this day last year I fondly reviewed Talk in Code’s single launch gig at The Vic in… Read more

  • XTC’s Colin Moulding Wants AI Slop, Bad

    XTC’s Colin Moulding Wants AI Slop, Bad

    Swindonite and founder member of XTC Colin Moulding released a new single last week, Want It Bad (The Pep Talks and Playing Fields of Old England). It’s previewing a three-track CD single being released via Burning Shed. This is Moulding’s second single in five years, following 2021’s The Hardest Battle, but is it simply a… Read more

  • Henge Frontman Matthew C. Whitaker Solo Tour Comes to Frome

    Henge Frontman Matthew C. Whitaker Solo Tour Comes to Frome

    Featured Image: Antony Barkworth-Knight Despite intentionally making his tricks go wrong, Tommy Cooper was actually a skilled magician and member of The Magic Circle. SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg was a marine biologist, and Benny Hill really was a milkman. In order to deride an art effectively you must first master it. It therefore stands… Read more

  • Ruby Darbyshire: God is Offline

    Ruby Darbyshire: God is Offline

    Wiltshire singer-songwriter Ruby Darbyshire, you’re most likely familiar with, unless you joined Devizine family reader’s circle today, has a new song on YouTube, one she’s been playing at recent gigs. Here the track has a subtle piano added, and those wonderful brush drum strokes texturing it with that smooth jazzy ambience, yet with poignant narrative… Read more