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  • Rural Wiltshireโ€™s Sensational Soul Food with Sujayโ€™s Jerk Pan Kitchen

    Rural Wiltshireโ€™s Sensational Soul Food with Sujayโ€™s Jerk Pan Kitchen

    When you live in a market town such as Devizes itโ€™s inevitable when driving through any city to become overwhelmed and perhaps a smidgen envious at the variety of cuisine on offer; look, Nepalese dal-bhat-tarkari street food, outside a lacto-vegetarian Mongolian bistro, next door to a vegan Venezuelan arepas snack bar! You name it, a… Read more

  • Go Operation Teddy Bear!

    If Iโ€™ve been rather quiet on Devizine recently I apologise. Iโ€™ve been enjoying some family time while the kids are home, and mores to the point, bestowed one of these โ€œkeyworkerโ€ badges, the real job has never been busier. Yet despite the lack of usual content regarding events and gigs, thereโ€™s still subjects to write… Read more

  • DOCA Announce Next Yearโ€™s Carnival & Street Festival Dates

    DOCA Announce Next Yearโ€™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; hereโ€™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 Samโ€™s current releases,One of a Kind slips perfectly into the direction heโ€™s heading; itโ€™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