A quick one from me today, offering our congratulations to our new writer, Helen Edwards from Devizes, who read out her poem “Motherhood,” on BBC Wiltshire this week on James Thomas’s Upload show. “It was fun,” she told us, “except my phone started ringing!”
Listen here from the BBC website, or Soundcloud link, here. I love writing, but poems, hum, something about bacon, not to mention I’m an absolute bag of nerves on radio! The article on the Bournemouth Writing Festival Helen mentioned is here too, and this one worked both ways, also inspiring Helen to write. Well done you, and we look forward to hearing some more soon!
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Donovan or Donoless, Fulltone Festival is a Cake Tray!
Images by Gail Foster Regretfully I must report that due to a personal issue Jason Donovan is unable to sing at Devizes’ Fulltone Festival this afternoon. But all in attendance yesterday will be aware, if Jason was a cherry on the cake, Fulltone is not one big cake. Fulltone is an industrial sized tray of…
Strange Days Indeed, at The Barge on HoneyStreet
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Fortnightly Banking Drop-in Sessions Replaces Devizes’ Lloyds….
No smiling faces in this snap! Our MP Brian Matthew met with representatives from Lloyds Bank yesterday to raise concerns about the closure of the branch in Devizes. Get in Brian, but it looks like we’ll be returning to the era of stuffing our cash into mattresses again…. Brian said he “discussed the impact on…
“Gaslight” at The Mission Theatre, Bath, July 8th-11th 2026
by Ian Diddams images by Michael Stevens – Pharos Photography Shakespeare is credited as having introduced around 1,700 words into the English language, and several hundred phrases and idioms. This practise of word invention was not however unique to Shakespeare, or that late 16th Century period… A play written in 1938, by Patrick Hamilton, was…
Bird is The Word Caged! Trowbridge’s New Music Venue Coming Soon
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Deadlight Dance New Single & Video
New single from our gothic duo Deadlight Dance, taken from March’s album Vox Populi…. Second tune on the album, a ballad to the poisonous evergreen shrub Daphne odora, which I classed as “a poignant plodding shoegazer.” The video looks very botanical and outdoorsy, I hope those goths wore sunscreen! Brilliant no-AI video, created by Haunting…
Who’s Lovin a Devizes McDonalds and Tesco?
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Brian on FullTone Festival
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CSF Professional Wrestling Returns to Devizes
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Update on the Update of a Postcard Fiasco as Untouchable Newsquest Joins the Party!
Though I wish it would be dropped and faded into the archives, it’s got legs! We’re still on about “postcardgate,” but the trivia sometimes becomes the nitty-gritty when the persnickety board the good train Facebook with their vitriolic trollop. Yet Newquest joined the party, and seems to have got off unscathed; funny that…. Here we…
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