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  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 26th Oct – 2nd Nov 2022

    So, Rishi Sunak is prime minister, eh, how about that for diversity? Last time, a woman, of sorts, now an Asian chap. A tax-avoiding billionaire Asian chap with a name which sounds like a brand of orange fizzy-pop, but one nonetheless. You’ve got to wonder who it’ll be next week. My money is on a Read more

  • REVIEW – Chaz Thorogood @ The Southgate, Devizes – Sunday 24th October 2022

    REVIEW – Chaz Thorogood @ The Southgate, Devizes – Sunday 24th October 2022

    Thoroughly Good Thorogood In Praise Of Sunday Afternoons At The Gate Andy Fawthrop Do you ever get that feeling that each day has its own special feeling, its own atmosphere?  Do we even need to talk about Mondays?  Fridays, especially Friday evening, have that “thank God it’s all over for another week; let’s go out and have Read more

  • Wiltshire Against the Badger Cull Expresses Outrage as Farmer Buried an Active Badger Sett

    Amidst the number of other suspicious, much less futilely brutal activities, in the pursuit of rural blood sports, we’re currently knee-deep in the badger cull, set to run until 2025 at least, and Government’s dodgy bTB eradication policy plans makes hard reading, but who, locally, bothers with licences anyway? Just lob some peanuts, and fire Read more

  • Dakar Audio Club; Exeter’s African Secret

    Dakar Audio Club; Exeter’s African Secret

    Such is the universal beauty of Bandcamp, one goes exploring music from another continent and discovers something sublime, from only ninety miles down the M5! If it’s unlikely there’s an Exeter Audio Club in Senegal, there’s certainly a Dakar Audio Club in Devon, whereby afrobeat fusion knows no boundaries. I mean, I went searching for Read more

  • As Cool as an Eddie Martin; Blues at The Southgate

    As Cool as an Eddie Martin; Blues at The Southgate

    It was a typical, standard Saturday night at Devizes Southgate, but a typical and standard night at the Gate equates to an absolutely blinding night in most other pubs…… Amidst friendly faces, welcoming staff and warm familiar surroundings, the unpredictable drizzling autumn was set aside for Mr Eddie Martin to group with the finest drum Read more

  • Devizes Opendoors Starts Regular Woman’s Group

    Good to hear homeless and sheltered charity Devizes Opendoors is planning to open a new session every other Tuesday, for women only. Promising coffee, crafts and pamper sessions, as well as health and wellbeing awareness, it will be the safe space for women in the community to find clothes, common ground, and oh yes, cake! Read more