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  • Meet the Wiltshire Council Election Candidates

    Or at least the ones either valiant or crazy enough to stomach appearing on Devizine! I did, didnโ€™t I, promise not to edit or โ€œopen my big cake hole,โ€ rather offer any candidate two paragraphs on why the heck we should vote for them, and leave it at that? No bias, no political grandstanding, no Read more

  • Song of the Day 36: Daydream Runaways

    Song of the Day 36: Daydream Runaways

    It’s those guys again. Yes, we’ve reviewed the song before, but this our quick song of day feature, which usually requires a video, and it’s the vid which is new…. and marvelous. “Something Anerican Pie about it,” Ollie of the Longcoats suggests on Instagram, and I tend to agree. Due to lockdown the Daydreamers haven’t Read more

  • Devizes Town Band in Chippenham

    Devizes Town Band in Chippenham

    โ€œWeโ€™ve been waiting patiently to get back to playing again,โ€ says our town band here in good old Devizes, โ€œbut now we are getting excited!โ€ The reason, with regulations permitting, theyโ€™ll be at Chippenhamโ€™s John Coles Park, off Malmesbury Road, on Sunday 23rd May, 3pm-5pm, for some free live music, promising to be a โ€œmusical Read more

  • Looking Forward to the Tradesโ€™ Road of Solid Gold

    Looking Forward to the Tradesโ€™ Road of Solid Gold

    Scrub the headline as โ€˜news,โ€™ here at Devizine Towers, as we look forward to any update The Lost Trades trio throw at us, especially a nice pint in a pub with those guys playing. Which is what weโ€™re building to, fingers crossed, as they pencil in HoneyFest at the Honeystreet Barge on their growing confirmed Read more

  • Chapter 6: The Adventures of Councillor Yellowhead: The Case of the Pam-Dimensional Pothole

    Chapter 6: The Adventures of Councillor Yellowhead: The Case of the Pam-Dimensional Pothole

    Chapter Six: in which, to much surprise, the Davizes Town Council pull off a viable solution, and we complete this general silliness once and for all. โ€œYou might be right, for once, man,โ€ Briggs gulped as he stood outside the Davizes Town Hall with his senior chief councillor, the mighty Yellowhead. โ€œThey seem more like Read more

  • The Naan Guru of Old Devizes Town

    Not one for needles, but one for Indian street food, thought I’d better treat myself, and the good lady wife too, mind, after being jabbed. Yep, vaccination accomplished, the excellent service at Devizes Corn Exchange did not advise eating Indian street food was completely necessary, but did advise waiting fifteen minutes before driving. So we Read more