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  • Crammer Working Party to ask Devizes Town Council to Endorse Dubious Approach to Future Management of the Crammer

    Crammer Working Party to ask Devizes Town Council to Endorse Dubious Approach to Future Management of the Crammer

    Okay, I know, last thing I want is to be is a stuck record, always waffling about a pond in Devizes, but allow me thus, to express concerns in line with public opinion over the recommendation by the Crammer Working Party that the Committee endorses the approach being adopted by the Crammer Working Party in… Read more

  • Song of the Week: Lewis McKale

    Song of the Week: Lewis McKale

    Song of the week this week comes from Brighton’s singer-songwriter Lewis McKale, a Billy Bragg-ish harmonica and guitar combo breakup song from his forthcoming album, Self Help Tape.… Retrospectively shouty, Thanks For Nothing is as anti-Against All Odds, as Dylan’s Positively 4th Street, but if that’s not selling it to you, it’s a moreish grower… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 22nd โ€“ 28th March 2023

    Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 22nd โ€“ 28th March 2023

    All the ickle birdies singing in the blossom, and itโ€™s beginning to look at bit more like spring, which it should, being equinox, which basically means, take a raincoat to all the events weโ€™ve found to do in Wiltshire this coming week! As usual, more information and ticket links to everything I waffle on about… Read more

  • See Behind the Scenes: Open Day at The Wharf Theatre

    See Behind the Scenes: Open Day at The Wharf Theatre

    Saturday April 1st, between 10am and 2pm The Wharf Theatre in Devizes are holding their second ever open day, itโ€™s free and open to all. Whether youโ€™ve been in the theatre before, or not, everyone is welcome to come and see what goes on at the Theatre and what goes into putting on a show…..… Read more

  • 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 Cameronโ€™s term as Prime Minister. It didnโ€™t stop him barefacedly posing for a Tweet mucking in with Chipping Nortonโ€™s โ€œChippy Larder.โ€ 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