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  • DOCA Announce Next Year’s Carnival & Street Festival Dates

    DOCA Announce Next Year’s Carnival & Street Festival Dates

    If, like most, you need something to look forward to, The Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts, or DOCA as we love to know them as, having made some hard decisions, have come up with a new list of dates for their usual events; here’s to 2021! So, we are looking at an early date in the Read more

  • Sam Bishop is One of A Kind

    Sam Bishop is One of A Kind

    With all the hallmarks of Sam’s current releases,One of a Kind slips perfectly into the direction he’s heading; it’s smooth, echoes of slight melancholy but uplifts just enough to wet the taste buds. Proving Sam Bishop is one of a kind, carving a distinctive style with every new track. But this one has one significant Read more

  • Wiltshire Girl Goes LIVE for Muscular Dystrophy

    Wiltshire Girl Goes LIVE for Muscular Dystrophy

    It was a sunny afternoon when we arranged a photoshoot for our Spider-milk-man fundraiser last spring, so the playpark outside my house was an ideal location. Carmela played on the climbing frame while I got to know her mum, Lucy. It was sadly evident then how restricted her muscular dystrophy limited her ability to do Read more

  • After the Lock Down

    Clair Figes ponders celebrations after the lock down…. In France, around the midsummer Solstice, every town throws itself open to La Fete de la Musique. Throughout the country, bars and restaurants and village squares fill the pavements with tables, chairs, hay bales, trailers; and they book local musicians or bring amps & speakers out into Read more

  • Cosmic Rays are Hard to Destroy

    Cosmic Rays are Hard to Destroy

    Introducing Shrewsbury’s five-piece rock band, Cosmic Rays. With a new album proving they’re Hard to Destroy…. As my daughter shoves her phone to my ear with her home-made eighties’ music quiz playlist, memories she will never know of blissfully return. “If I could be like Doc Emmett Brown and whizz you back to my era,” Read more

  • Devizes Scooter Club Auction Rally Banner for NHS

    Devizes Scooter Club Auction Rally Banner for NHS

    Ah, seems like a year ago now…. eh? Oh yeah, it was, nearly. With the second Devizes Scooter Rally teetering on the edge of cancelation, The Devizes Scooter Club still have their fingers crossed all will not be lost to the lockdown. After last summer’s amazing effort by the club to host the unforgettable first Read more