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  • Chapter Two kicks off this yearโ€™s productions at The Wharf

    After the sell-out Kidnap in Pantoland, The Wharf Theatre, Devizes are preparing for their first production of the year, Neil Simonโ€™s Chapter Two. Directed by Lewis Cowen it runs from Monday 28th January to Saturday 2nd February, doors at 7.30pm.   Novelist George Schneider is still grieving over the death of his wife, Barbara, when Read more

  • Larkin about at The Cons Club

    Larkin about at The Cons Club

    Photos Used By Kind Permission of Nick Padmore, (and I didn’t even let him sit on my knee this time)   Oh, hello, sโ€™ me, in 2019, not really gotten over 1989 yet, but here nonetheless, reporting on things which happened last year, still. Just a quick one then, weโ€™ve already reviewed the โ€œLive by Read more

  • Devizine Awards Results; about blinkinโ€™ time too!

    Devizine Awards Results; about blinkinโ€™ time too!

    Some might say happy new year, what lovely fireworks.   Others might say it’s a farcical pageant for a generation of infantile gurning, self-indulging dunces to rejoice the impending most ambiguous year in our nationโ€™s history by throwing billions of needed money up in smoke. Dreary bloody grouches.   So, with sore heads we plunge Read more

  • 2018: Year of Devizine!

    2018: Year of Devizine!

    Blinkinโ€™ buggery, itโ€™s near the end of the first full year on Devizine. I do hope youโ€™ve enjoyed reading it as much as I have creating it. Weโ€™ve certainly grown, like a wart on the butt of Wiltshire. Originally some wanted to pop it, comments like โ€œwho wrote this crap?โ€ came thick and fast, replaced Read more

  • A Christmas Pressie From Phil Cooper

    A Christmas Pressie From Phil Cooper

    Whatโ€™s the betting Phil Cooper gives darn good Christmas presents? Heโ€™s just that kind of great guy, isnโ€™t he? Who, when you open it you gasp and proclaim, โ€œomg, Iโ€™ve spent my life trekking to the four corners of the world for one of them; where did you get it?โ€ Whereas, undoubtedly, Iโ€™ll scoot down Read more

  • Gailโ€™s Mischievous Spring

    Blinkinโ€™ awesome what you can find on YouTube innit? Section of a long-lost cassette beleaguered my mind, though I canโ€™t find a clip the whole album is there, the part I wanted to draw attention to is approximately twenty-six minutes in. Itโ€™s a live recording of punk band, The Newtown Neurotics, where breaks are filled Read more