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  • Alex Roberts and Fly Yeti Fly @ The Barge Honeystreet

    Alex Roberts and Fly Yeti Fly @ The Barge Honeystreet

    Ben Niamorย  First time for me in the barn venue, itโ€™s a great space. Alex is no stranger to this place, and it feels like a really relaxed gig among friends. Alex played a good bit of material from his most recent release for us, Meridians and superpowers, the title track among the very best.… Read more

  • Devizes Street Festival; Day One

    Devizes Street Festival; Day One

    If I can, which I think is best after one too many visits to the Stealth bar, sum today in Devizes up in a word, the word would be “balanced.” Perfectly balancedโ€ฆ. DOCA smashed day one of the 2023 street festival, the sun shone and a brilliant day was had on the Green. We see… Read more

  • Deadlight Dance: Innocent Beginnings

    Deadlight Dance: Innocent Beginnings

    Marlborough’s darkwave-goth duo, Deadlight Dance push their boundaries to new limits with their second single, Innocent Beginnings this week, and itโ€™s a corker of goth perilous poignancyโ€ฆ.. Echoes of Human League synth prowess rain from this sombre tune, with foreboding warning vocals of Joy Division, yet the theme is environmental, something though historically consistent in… Read more

  • Nothing Rhymes With Orange have Butterflies

    Nothing Rhymes With Orange have Butterflies

    If Lidl Shoes, April’s blast from our aspiring homegrown four-piece indie-punkers, Nothing Rhymes With Orange certainty raised the rafters with energetic enthusiasm, I held subtle solicitude, despite the amusing name, it did only a smidgen to progress the band any further than their mind-blowing debut EP Midsummer. By contrast today’s new single, Butterflies, is a… Read more

  • Your Place, or Mine? Devizes Town Council Squabbles Over Meeting Venue!

    Your Place, or Mine? Devizes Town Council Squabbles Over Meeting Venue!

    I’ve a mildly interesting word origin urban myth to bore you with before we begin on an opinion piece about the latest petty squabbling at Devizes Town Council, which, beggar belief, causes no consequence or botheration to proceedings of the town’s affairs, but stands to illustrate how pathetic and time wasting it’s all become; a… Read more

  • Song of the Week: Canute’s Plastic Army

    Song of the Week: Canute’s Plastic Army

    Swindon’s acoustic Celtic folk duo Canute’s Plastic Army played the Southgate in Devizes last Saturday; though firmly on my never-ending must-see-list, even just the name alone is enticing, until cloning technology is readily affordable and can be found in Lidl next to the Portable Car Air Compressors and 30-in-1 Screwdriver Sets, I cannot be everywhere… Read more