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  • Billy in the Lowground are Halfway Up The T-Shirt

    Billy in the Lowground are Halfway Up The T-Shirt

    Itโ€™s been on my to-do list far too long, overdue to tick it off. Foot-tappin’ West Country folk ensemble, Billy in the Lowground released this album at the end of August, apologies for not mentioning it sooner, but it is worth mentioning, very worth mentioningโ€ฆ. Rather than baked bean stains halfway up most of my… Read more

  • Harder to Breathe; New Single from Talk in Code

    Harder to Breathe; New Single from Talk in Code

    Itโ€™s been a fantastic summer for Wiltshireโ€™s indie-pop favourites Talk in Code. I think Iโ€™ve caught them live at least four times, and only once blagged a lift home from guitarist Snedds, of which is customary to drunkenly chew his ears off on as many random subjects the journey time will allow; I guess that… Read more

  • Chatting with Josh Oldfield on Blues, Inspiration, and Drums in Suitcases!

    Chatting with Josh Oldfield on Blues, Inspiration, and Drums in Suitcases!

    I was chatting to Josh Oldfield last week, a Devizes singer-songwriter I believe weโ€™ll be hearing a lot more of. Though this interview was pending before Iโ€™d had the opportunity to see him perform, coincidentally the Sunday before I was fortunate enough to, at a private partyโ€ฆ. And it was worth a fortune, Josh has… Read more

  • โ€œDesign for Livingโ€ at the Rondo Theatre October 2ndโ€“5th 2024.

    โ€œDesign for Livingโ€ at the Rondo Theatre October 2ndโ€“5th 2024.

    by Ian Diddamsimages by Josie Mae-Ross Noel Coward is probably best known for โ€œBlithe Spiritโ€ but he in fact wrote sixty-five stage plays over a fifty year period. Bath Drama this week perform his excellent โ€œDesign for Livingโ€ – a comedy about a menage-a-trois, complicated by a fourth relationship set in Paris, London, and New… Read more

  • World Food in Devizes; Thanks Food & Drink Festival!

    World Food in Devizes; Thanks Food & Drink Festival!

    Devizes Food & Drink Festival came to a close for this year with the most amazing World Food event at the Corn Exchange on Sundayโ€ฆit was yummy on an international scale! Itโ€™s an annual finale Iโ€™ve missed in previous years, but was persuaded to attend by Dora who was there with a sweet Hong Kong… Read more

  • Autumn-Winter Comedy in Devizes

    Comedy in Devizes is a rare thing, unless you count visitors turning right at the Shaneโ€™s Castle junction, reading opinions on the Devizes Issues (but better) Facebook group, and the total legend who once climbed on top of the Roses faรงade to drive the lawnmower mounted up there. But we do have three upcoming comedy… Read more