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  • Two Man Ting Bring Sunshine to the Southgate Today

    Two Man Ting Bring Sunshine to the Southgate Today

    Winding up their โ€œmini tour,โ€ after last nightโ€™s gig at Salisburyโ€™s Winchester Gate, world/reggae duo, Two Man Ting appear at Devizes Southgate for an afternoon session from 4 to 6pm. Midlands Jon Lewis and Sierra Leonian Jah-Man Aggrey, are a branch of world dance collective Le Cod Afrique, who play a cheerful combination of multicultural… Read more

  • Opinion: House Party Organiser in Devizes Issued with ยฃ10,000 Fine

    Opinion: House Party Organiser in Devizes Issued with ยฃ10,000 Fine

    Daniel Jae Webb reports for Wiltshire 999s that the organiser of the house party, in Wick Lane, Devizes on Friday night, has been issued a ยฃ10,000 fine by Wiltshire Police, for ignoring a police warning. Officers were called to the house and requested the party was be shut down in line with COVID-19 regulations, and… Read more

  • The Lost Trades on Cloud 9

    The Lost Trades on Cloud 9

    New song from our local purveyors of the perfect folk vocal harmony trio, The Lost Trades. Out for another Bandcamp Day, today, Friday, where the website drops itโ€™s fees and gives the artists 100% royalties; and darn it, if this isnโ€™t worth a quid when it constitutes a mere quarter-cup of coffee from a posh… Read more

  • Devizineโ€™s IndieDay Outing!

    Well blow me down, cover me in peri-peri sauce and call me Natisha if weโ€™ve had a Devizine event recently. Understandable all things considered. Annoying though, being I passed on the idea of holding a second birthday bash last autumn thinking weโ€™d host or co-host something better in the summer. Crystal ball smashed, see? Face… Read more

  • Jon Veale Flicks the Switch

    Jon Veale Flicks the Switch

    How long does it take to take to put together a single, and how much longer during the lockdown? I dunno; donโ€™t ask me, I just write about this stuff, and donโ€™t make a great job of that! I suppose youโ€™ve got pull in all the elements, yโ€™ know, paste together drums and vocals and… Read more

  • Bill Greenโ€™s Still Lost Demos

    Bill Greenโ€™s Still Lost Demos

    Spent a recent evening flicking through old zines I contributed cartoons to, relishing in my own nostalgia. Not egotistically admiring the artwork, or even laughing, rather cringe at most of it. More so because every publication has a backstory; where I was, what the hell I was up to, and thinking, if at all, at… Read more