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  • Lou Trigg, and Some Flowers

    Lou Trigg, and Some Flowers

    Uplifting and sentimental, Flowers is the new song by Chippenham singer-songwriter Lou Trigg very worthy of your attention and playlist. A chorale delicacy, it trickles along sublimely, like staring thoughtfully through a rain-drenched window, nice and cosy, perhaps with a hand painted chipped-mug of lukewarm but earthy tea.…… Lou is a new one on us Read more

  • Two-Tone Icons, The Beat Coming to Swindon and Frome

    Two-Tone Icons, The Beat Coming to Swindon and Frome

    With Ranking Junior now taking centre stage, the mighty Beat will be heading on tour, taking Swindon, Bournemouth, Leeds, and Hull to get audiences dancing to some of the most famous ska and reggae tracks ever written.…. Ah yes, did a song called “Stand Down Margaret,” if memory serves me well; perhaps a change of Read more

  • Remembrance Service in Devizes, 2022

    Remembrance Service in Devizes, 2022

    Featured image: Remembrance Sunday 2019, Devizes by Gail Foster. With thanks to the secretary of The Devizes Branch of the Royal British Legion, Vera Richmond, we have some details of this year’s remembrance service in Devizes. An important year, 2022, because it’s the first time since 2019 there has been a full remembrance service…. On Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 13th -19th October 2022

    Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 13th -19th October 2022

    Here we are again, happy as can be, but slightly older, opps, soz, missed a C, slightly colder! Though we are a week older too, but that means nothing, only as old as you feel. Quite aggravated by chipping ice of the car windscreen this morning though, itโ€™s only October for crying out loud; who Read more

  • Sustainable Devizes Opens Community Fridge

    Sustainable Devizes Opens Community Fridge

    It’s early days, but it’s great to see the Devizes Community Fridge standing proud in the Shambles today. Running since the beginning of the month as a pilot scheme, Fridays will be the day to visit the fridge, the concept is simple, take out only what you need, put in items which you don’t.… It Read more

  • Boom Bap! The Scribes at The Muck; Hip Hop Lands in Devizes!

    Boom Bap! The Scribes at The Muck; Hip Hop Lands in Devizes!

    What time is it? Time for me to pretend Iโ€™m keepinโ€™ it realz, replace letters S for Z and generally use phrases like โ€œrock da house!โ€ Or, perhaps itโ€™z overdue for Devizes to get diversity in its musical entertainment. For aside the occasions when the Arts Festival or DOCA bring us something different, niche markets Read more