Please don’t get me wrong, I love that Bradley Walsh Cockney sparrow, and could imagine myself having a right laugh with him down any boozer he cared to drop into! But here we wouldn’t suggest you should wait for Brad to pop into your local before guaranteeing your good self a cracking night out! We’re into July’s midsummer madness, and Devizine will focus on all the best things to do this month, in Wiltshire, with or without Bradley or another celebrity…..
For Newsquest, unfortunately, the Chase is over! Sure, I pipped them to the post on the McDonalds application fluff last week, but that could’ve been anyone’s. I’ll hold my hands up; I did it because, from time to time, the clickbait headline is a must. But day-to-day I’m not fussed over hits.
Our focus is on the pub without a celebrity appearance. The venue where there might be a person, or group of, you don’t know, or at least the television-addicted, cheesy puffs munching sofa-surfers majority don’t know, but you’ve heard of, or are taking a chance on, because you read Devizine. Because you trust us when we tell you that this person, or persons, have spent years perfecting their art, rehearsing together, writing songs, painting, learning their lines, or finding the right chords to match, and in culmination they do so for purely for the love of it, perhaps in hope to put food on the table, and to provide something together…..to entertain you.
Here at Devizine we will report on the amateur, the upcoming local talent, with equal gusto to an event who’s booked a top name. We don’t do this for hits, we do this because we believe there’s a truckload of skilled actors, musicians and artists around these rural backwaters who are going unnoticed by the mainstream media, and what is more, they deserve so much more than this. But there you have it, try as we must! If I did this for payment I’d have quit years ago!!
So, check out July on our event calendar now, and recheck again as we go through the month, because it is constantly updating. Don’t rely on that event popping up on your Facebook feed any more than local newspapers telling you about it; all social media platforms have lots of political propaganda to throw at you, paid mush adverts, wonky opinions, and cringeworthy pictures of someone you don’t even knows’ supper. There’s no room left on there to show you the gig your mate is putting on down your local, and you cannot expect them to find the space, because, to them, spreading hatred and causing division among the masses is far more important. Stop the clock, Bradley, that is wrong.
There’s no polite way to explain it, but I think you should face facts; mainstream media is a big bag of swollen bollocks, and locally, it’s competing with social media for cringe clickbait, whilst failing to showcase and highlight the real people out there, striving to be creative. Send me your thoughts on that in emoji or as an AI poster, if you care to, I’ll be too busy to answer them, as I’ll be covering as much of what’s really going on locally as I possibly can!
Summer festivals and so much more; see you down the front, mine is a cider, ta muchly! Xx
Oh, and if we’ve missed listing your event, it isn’t because we don’t like you! Tell us about it like you’re Billy Joel on a promise!!
Check out July on our event calendar now.
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