So it looks as if Wiltshire will be the epicentre of the music scene this summer.

Lord Lansdowne's Bowood estate, which dipped its toe into the perilous waters of concert promotion last summer with performances by UB40 and van Morrisson, has plunged headlong in this year with not two ten gigs featuring the likes of The Levellers, The Feeling, Girls Aloud, Joan Armatrading and KT Tunstall, whose brother Dan is a tennis coach in Devizes.

There is also the Crimestoppers festival on August 31 which sees Jason Donovan and X-Factor so-winsome-you-could-vomit duo Same Difference. I hear the organisers are talking to other acts including the wonderful Duffy and Samantha Mumba (remember her? me neither) to complete the line-up.

Add that to WOMAD at Charlton Park in July, The Pump Festival at Trowbridge in August and Chippenham Folk Festival in May and you have an absolute shedload of top class performers strutting their stuff for our entertainment.

Bowood were a little coy at first when we heard about the plethora of gigs being planned. Our reporter rang the estate's spokesman and asked about The Feeling's gig on July 25. "Where did you hear about that? No one is suppsed to know yet," she spluttered.

"Er, its on The Feeling's web site," we replied.

Incidentally, we won't be workig particularly hard to give UB40's gig much publicity after they threw our photographer out from the press section by the stage last year.

I can understand Bowood being a little nervous of shouting too loudly about ten large-scale concerts in the space of 12 weeks. I expect the Lansdownes are worried about what neighbouring villagers might say at the thought of hundreds of cars blocking up the roads.

But Bowood has been keen to stress that these concerts are not festivals, with all the visions of dreadlocked layabouts, drug peddlers and overflowing chemical toilets that that conjures up.

I do wonder though whether they have thought carefully about booking The Levellers, a band made up mostly of ex-travellers whose followers very much fit the dreadlocks, drugs and pooing in the bushes motif.

Most of The Levellers' songs are revolutionist anthems about the rich exploiting the downtrodden poor and facist police picking on innocent anarchists who don't happen to want to work, pay taxes or observe drug laws. Or wash.

They extol the virtues of overthrowing the fat cat paymasters and sharing out property, particularly drink and drugs, equally.

The fact that thousands of similarly-minded people will be invading the manicured lawns of Bowood House would worry me if I had a title and a couple of hundred acres to look after.

Having said that, I saw the band at Glastonbury a couple of years ago and they were outstanding. I've also seen The Feeling a couple of times at the Bristol Academy and they will be fantastic too.

Aside from the potential anarchist takeover of the Bowood estate, these concerts can only be good for Wiltshire, and Calne and Chippenham in particular. There will be thousands of people coming into the area, which will mean a great financial spin-off for pubs, restaurants, petrol stations and hotels.

That might mean little to villagers whose driveway is blocked by an untaxed VW camper van full of smelly Swampy lookalikes spliffing up and dancing to The Levellers. But if the money they spend keeps their pub and petrol station open a bit longer it will be a small price to pay.

Hopefully we will shift a few papers too...