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  • 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 Smooth… 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 “road narrows” roadwork sign on the last bend before Potterne, up Whistley Road. In all actual fact, the road widens at this point, rather it’s potholes the size of moon craters, on both sides of the road, which cause it to… Read more

  • Devizine Music Club; 4th March 22

    I made an executive decision today, I know, right, next thing you know I’ll be suited and booted, giving it management speak like “moving forward,” and “blue sky thinking.” And just like government, I’m blaming Covid. During lockdown we broke our borders, and through scrambling for content we reviewed music internationally. Yet I’m keen to… Read more

  • Down art’ Barge; Honey Folk Fest June Bank Hols

    Down art’ Barge; Honey Folk Fest June Bank Hols

    As if a summery visit to The Barge on Honey Street isn’t like a little festival in itself, two bank holidays next year at our favourite crop-circley-campsite come wharf-pub have been earmarked for festivals. The annual Honey-Fest on August bank holiday, 25th to 29th we knew about and eagerly await details, but the first was… Read more