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  • Slug Eggs Are On The Menu!

    Join the Devizes Slugs Facebook page they said, be fun they said; I even considered the U in slugs might be a typo. No one expressed the horror which might possibly be revealed to me by these mollusc-loving conservationists, that slug eggs are on the menu in swanky restaurants. Yet a post went up on Read more

  • Indecision To Split Up, With One Final Gig

    Popular covers band on the local circuit and beyond, Indecision, has indeed made a mutual decision to split up, but not without going out with a bang; theyโ€™re hosting a โ€œLast Hoorahโ€ gig at Devizes Corn Exchange on Saturday 21st Mayโ€ฆโ€ฆ From Seend Beer Festival to Potterne Cricket Clubโ€™s, Indecision has been a firm favourite Read more

  • Devizine Music Club: 13th March 2022

    Here we are again for a second bout of our music club, providing details of new music from outside our usual confines and stepping out internationally with a spring in our step…… Simon and The Astronauts Debut Album with Rachel Haden Cambridge/London based writing/recording collective, Simon and The Astronauts have shared a new single I Read more

  • Devizes Gives Wiltshire Blues & Soul Club a Warm Welcome

    Devizes Gives Wiltshire Blues & Soul Club a Warm Welcome

    Since their formation last June, Wiltshire Blues & Soul Club have held jamming sessions at the rather splendid Owl Lodge, tucked away on Bowden Hill, near Lacock. Video teasers on the book of face attracted my eye; membership-schemed freestyle blues within a cosy log cabin setting, firepit et al. But if this rural blues society Read more

  • The Dirty Smooth at Black Jack City

    The Dirty Smooth at Black Jack City

    A new rocking power-punch from Malmesbury, Minety and Cirencester based The Dirty Smoothโ€ฆ As an Eastender who spent most of his adult life in Essex, my dad had exceptional directional sense, once recalling roads in Germany he travelled on a school trip decades later, but put him in Kent and, for some reason, he was Read more

  • Devizes Town Council Seek Road Improvement Plans from County Hall

    Devizes Town Council Seek Road Improvement Plans from County Hall

    It’s the satirist in me which smirks at the audacity of placing a right-sided โ€œroad narrowsโ€ roadwork sign on the last bend before Potterne, up Whistley Road. In all actual fact, the road widens at this point, rather itโ€™s potholes the size of moon craters, on both sides of the road, which cause it to Read more