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  • Devizes Beer & Cider Festival Release 2023 Music Lineup…..

    Devizes Beer & Cider Festival Release 2023 Music Lineup…..

    If, like me, youโ€™re teetotal and never touch a drop, you can still enjoy the CAMRA Devizes Beer & Cider Festival on the 1st July, for thereโ€™s food and a great musical lineup awaiting you there. Now, back to honest reporting (hic!); the lineup of which Iโ€™m about to reveal now! Thereโ€™s some stable regulars… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 13th -19th June 2023

    Another summery week ticked off, and our event guide just keeps getting bigger. This week is huge, people, huge โ€ฆโ€ฆI mean the week is huge, not the people, Iโ€™m not one to body shame as, I believe, is the appropriate gen z term; pass my pronouns, thereโ€™s good fellow.ย  Donโ€™t forget thereโ€™s more info on… Read more

  • Drag Queen Story Time in Swindon Sparks Counter Protest

    Drag Queen Story Time in Swindon Sparks Counter Protest

    By T.B.D Rose The LGBTQIA+ community bravely showed their support for Drag Queen Story Hour at the Wyvern Theatre yesterday, by staging a counter protest to the fascists who were blasting bigoted lies accusing drag performers of being groomers and of sexualising children, when in fact, pantomime dames and drag queens have been a staple… Read more

  • Humble Pie Over Danny K’s Coate Road Development Comments Rant? Unlikely!

    Oh Deirdre me, we can’t all be as perfect and flawless as Councillor Iain Wallis, and as the Dalek said climbing off the dustbin, we all make mistakes! Cream crackered after my standard early shift, on Tuesday I rushed out a knee-jerk reaction to Danny Kruger’s comments against the permitted Coate Road development, because I… Read more

  • Noble Jacks at Devizes Arts Festivalย 

    Noble Jacks at Devizes Arts Festivalย 

    Gasp at the audacity of a press release which spoke of “an ingenious blend of rap and hip hop,” which it really did, is to ponder any art deemed a ‘hybrid genre’ was likely at one point in time adjoined and hardly “ingeniously blended,’ rather reunited! The most ludicrous of these could well be folk-rock,… Read more

  • REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Marcus Brigstocke 9th June 2023 @ The Corn Exchange

    REVIEW โ€“ Devizes Arts Festival โ€“ Marcus Brigstocke 9th June 2023 @ The Corn Exchange

    A Top-Class Comedian At Work Andy Fawthrop The Devizes Arts Festival hit the half-way stage last night with an absolute sell-out performance. Honestly, you couldnโ€™t move in the Corn Exchange last night, with every possible space used to get people in. Thank goodness the aircon was working! Youโ€™d probably have to have been living on… Read more