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  • Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time

    Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time

    SYNDICATED INTERVIEW By Jason Barlow Images: Roslyn Gaunt Is there no end to the man’s talents? A staple of revered panel show Mock the Week, Ed Byrne has also sledded down the side of a volcano for Dara and Ed’s Great Big Adventure, upstaged Martin Sheen and Robert Downey Jr on The Graham Norton Show,… Read more

  • Song of the Week: Meg

    Song of the Week: Meg

    Chippenham’s folk singer-songwriter Meg gets our early song of the week this week, and The Cycle is only her debut single…. I’ve spoken twice to Meg, and she expressed her excitement at going to the studio, both times! This builds in layers and composition, again as in her live performances, there’s some empyrean prose, delivered… Read more

  • Atari Pilot are Waiting for the Summer

    Atari Pilot are Waiting for the Summer

    Kempston joystick! There’s a new single from Swindon’s sonic indie-rock blasters Atari Pilot, and it seems they’re waiting for the summer to fall. Hint, guys, it’s usually, particularly this year, when the kids go back to school…. I’m not wrong, though, am I? Never without that euphoric retrospective tinge, Atari Pilot I liken to Talk… Read more

  • Don’t Give Up Now, Ruby Darbyshire

    Don’t Give Up Now, Ruby Darbyshire

    As discoveries of young local talent never seem to wane here at Devizine, here’s one with a difference, we’ve not featured yet; you may have seen Ruby Darbyshire busking a showstopper with bagpipes, but it’s far from the limits of this girl’s mind-blowing talent…. Her live studio recording is a four track EP, acoustic folk… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 6th – 12th September 2023

    Schools are back, summer has finally arrived, here’s what we’ve got this coming week…… Not comprehensive, more will be added to our event calendar as we move through the week, so check in on it from time to time. Pay a visit to Wiltshire Museum, Devizes, for the Anna Dillon exhibition; reviewed HERE. Ongoing until… Read more

  • Some Work Experience At The Southgate!

    Some Work Experience At The Southgate!

    Not as the title might suggest…. Since I peaked too soon over the bank holiday, coupled with working it, yeah, I sadly missed Monday’s entertainment at our trusty Southgate. Deborah plonked a cheap-as-chips scrumpy on the bar for me, to cure my Southgate withdrawal symptoms, and rubbed salt into the wound by telling Well Hung… Read more