SOUNDCHECK 2023 Live at Visual Radio Arts Soundcheck Devizes A round-up of live performances from the fab artists that appeared on our stage throughout 2023 plus a couple of sneak peeks of shows lined up for early 2024. Video available from Weds 27th December 2023. THE HONEY POT The Outskirts Of Your Mind ARCH
SOUNDCHECK featuring COURTING GHOSTS Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Saturday 11th November 2023 Fusing elements of acoustic, Americana, and folk music with occasional touches of rock and jazz, Courting Ghosts position melody at the heart of their compositions. This melody-centric approach is evident in their expansive acoustic ballads as well as their high-energy, rhythm-driven
SOUNDCHECK featuring RICHARD WILEMAN and AMY FRY Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Saturday 28th October 2023 Richard Wileman is probably best known as composer for his largely instrumental, experimental studio project Karda Estra. In 2018, he started a series of’solo’ albums plus collaboration’s with Matt Baber (Sanguine Hum) and Kavus Torabi (Gong). These releases
SOUNDCHECK featuring JOHN WATTERSON Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Monday 23rd October 2023 An evening of music by Jake Thackray and poetry by Les Barker, performed by John Watterson. Jake Thackray was a singer-songwriter in the French tradition, a “chansonnier” whose songs are nevertheless convincingly and idiosyncratically English. After graduating from Durham
SOUNDCHECK featuring THE JOLLY ROTTER Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Saturday 9th September 2023 Thee Jolly Rotter, the undead spirit of brat pack punk brings you stripped back classic punk songs played on the uke – punkelele if you like. Imagine a zombie zoot suited Sinatra armed with a ukulele decomposing the Pistols, Clash
SOUNDCHECK featuring KEITH CHRISTMAS Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Wednesday 26th July 2023 In a career spanning over 50 years Keith has recorded multiple albums, played acoustic guitar on Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ album, appeared at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970 and gigged solo all over the UK and Europe supporting The Who, King
This page features two shows from Phil Cooper – in 2018 (see further down) and in 2023. SOUNDCHECK featuring PHIL COOPER 2023 Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Saturday 1st July 2023 Phil Cooper is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, mixing engineer, song arranger and producer based in the South West, UK. He has been working in
SOUNDCHECK featuring ARCH GARRISON Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Saturday 2oth May 2023 North Sea Radio Orchestra’s Craig Fortnam and James Larcombe play psychedelic acoustic music – songs (and instrumentals) about ghosts, green growing things, old roads, earthworks, barrows and mounds. This show is ticketed at £8.99 and originally aired on Bandcamp. Viewers can
SOUNDCHECK featuring EAST CREEK UNION Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Saturday 5th March 2022 East Creek Union play authentic songs and tunes from the traditional old time Appalachian repertoire that will get your feet tapping and maybe even inspire some spontaneous jigs and reels! The band was formed as a duo by Bob (fiddle)
SOUNDCHECK featuring DYLAN SMITH Live at Soundcheck Devizes Recorded on Saturday 8th January 2022 Broadcast on Monday 17th January 2022 Dylan Smith is a singer/songwriter guitarist from Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Following University graduation, Dylan worked for 10 years semi-pro on the Americana and Country Music festival scene, before turning professional to front a blues Trio, various function
