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  • Wiltshire is not Due a second Lockdown

    โ€œItโ€™s easier to fool people than convince them that they have been fooled,โ€ Mark Twain. Brilliant quote, you best believe it. Hereโ€™s the ha-ha irony, I fooled you. There are no sources of information to prove where or when the well-documented author Mark Twain allegedly said this. At least, according to snopes.com. Unless theyโ€™ve fooled Read more

  • Georgeโ€™s Postcard, from a Motorway

    Georgeโ€™s Postcard, from a Motorway

    If Devizine is a voyage of discovering artists new to us, ones who pop up time and time again do so because theyโ€™re both more than worthy and have become friends. A nice Friday spent watching Phil, Tammy and Jamie live stream from a garden, as The Lost Trades debuted lockdown set in, and well, Read more

  • From The Specials; Neville Staple Band in Lockdown

    From The Specials; Neville Staple Band in Lockdown

    Photos by John Coles Artwork by Sugary Staple If last yearโ€™s fortieth anniversary of Two-Tone Records saw an upsurge of interest in this homegrown second-generation ska, it shows no sign of flawing anytime soon. Perhaps you could attribute parallels to the social and political climate of our era, or debate intransigent devotees are reliving their Read more

  • A Cracked Machine at the Gates of Keras

    A Cracked Machine at the Gates of Keras

    Don my headphones, chillax with a cider, and prepare my eardrums for a new album from our local purveyors of space-rock goodness; Cracked Machine is a wild rideโ€ฆ. There are few occasions when mellowed music truly suspends me in the moment, when it just exists in the air like oxygen and totally incarcerates and engulfs Read more

  • PSG Choirs Show Their True Lockdown Colours

    PSG Choirs Show Their True Lockdown Colours

    Five choirs strong, since their origination by Will Blake in Derry Hill six years ago, PSG Choirs run in Calne, Melksham, Devizes, Chippenham and Trowbridge and welcome all, with experience or not. All you need is a zest for singing. Function entertainment provider, Will formed PSG with a desire to unite his local community and Read more

  • Artist Melinda Copyright Scam: Do Not fall for it

    Artist Melinda Copyright Scam: Do Not fall for it

    Where do these bell-ends get off? I confess, this scam got meโ€ฆ. A lesson learned not to check emails before I head off to work in the wee hours of the morning this week, as I fell hook, line and sinker for a shrewd little scam. That time in the morning, Iโ€™m even more gullible Read more