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  • Devizes Arts Festival Coming Back

    Devizes Arts Festival Coming Back

    After the wonderful winter stop-gap between the void of lockdown and this coming summer, Devizes Arts Festival is back with a full programme of events running from Friday 10th to Saturday 25th June. Please check their website for full details, but allow me to least give you a quick rundown.…. A Diva and a Piano… Read more

  • Bathโ€™s Bell Pub Hits Back at 1Star TripAdvisor Review!

    The Bell in Bath is an outstanding pub, we know this, you know this, but how theyโ€™ve turned a grumpy cretinโ€™s one star review on TripAdvisor on its head is nothing short of geniusโ€ฆโ€ฆ Finding your apposite pub is akin to shoe shoppingโ€ฆ. no, hear me out; I can waste time trekking a shopping centre,… Read more

  • 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