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  • Danny, Champion of the Food Bank

    Danny, Champion of the Food Bank

    Featured Image: Bob Naylor/WaterMarx Media While The Trussell Trust created the first food banks in 2000, under Tony Blair, usage of them rose by a staggering 2,612% during David Cameron’s term as Prime Minister. It didn’t stop him barefacedly posing for a Tweet mucking in with Chipping Norton’s “Chippy Larder.” Devizes MP Danny Kruger joined… Read more

  • Song of the Week: Lucky Number Seven

    Song of the Week: Lucky Number Seven

    Bristol’s purveyors of emotive post-grunge verging on etherealwave, Lucky Number Seven get our song of the week today, for their latest burst of harrowing energy, Marker Pen. It’s neo-goth come post-punk, relished in Bauhaus lachrymose and passion, yet twisted with Foo Fighters’ fervidity, tumbling like iced water over rocks, it’s a rollercoaster four minutes full… Read more

  • The First Ever Devizes Pride Announced

    If establishing Pride events in our cities and larger towns is sooo last decade, darling, we’re both keen and overjoyed to join the newer trend of small towns, even villages hosting Prides, as Devizes LGBTQ+ announce the very first Pride in Devizes on Saturday July 1st…. It was an overexcited notion I put to Devizes… Read more

  • A Sneak Peek at Devizes Arts Festival 2023

    A Sneak Peek at Devizes Arts Festival 2023

    I’m having a nose at Devizes Arts Festival website, as they’ve just published this year’s line-up, which you can find HERE. There’s a lot of stuff I don’t know of this year, but that’s no bad thing, because I’m something of an uncultured swine! This wonderful annual arts festival on our doorstep has cultured me;… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 15th- 21st March 2023

    Windy but warm, no, not me, the weather, I mind my manners, I thank you! Here’s what’s going down this coming week across our green and (mostly) pleasant land…… You should know the score by now, adding links here, ain’t nobody got time fer dat! You can find all that, details, links for tickets and… Read more

  • An Amazing Devizes Concert for Opendoors

    An Amazing Devizes Concert for Opendoors

    All images used with permission of Gail Foster If of recent I’ve been critical about counterproductive steps taken to solve the rise in youth crime, favouring encouraging events designed for our youngest, it doesn’t mean any age demographic should miss out on live entertainment. Therefore, it was a blessing last night to see the Corn… Read more