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  • Kirsty and The Moonrakers

    It’s been quieter than Bjork in a tyre shop on Devizine this week. Apologises, I’ve had the rarity of relatives visiting. To show them how we do it Devizes style, I placed the Moonrakers Bar & Grill on a pedestal and booked a family meal. Two reasons; one, I believe it’s a cut above at Read more

  • Take Me Away From Country Roads: Dead Kool Seeks New, Family Ground

    You have to tip your Stetson to Dean Czerwionka of Dead Kool Promotions, which usually concentrates on promoting county music, for the launch of a sister event organisation he’s named “Devizes Family Club.” It does what it says on the tin.   Whist in the past Dean sought variety within the Country Music genre, the Read more

  • Devizes Needs a Good Laugh: Welcomed Return of Moonrakers Comedy Club

    True though innit, we might welcome that bloke down the pub who’s always got an amusing story to tell, but when it comes to comedy with a more professional angle, and no doubt equally as smutty, please welcome the return of the Moonrakers Comedy Club down at the Cellar Bar of The Bear Hotel; Thursday Read more

  • ‘The Blacksmith’s Craft’; John Girvan at Wiltshire Museum, by Gail Foster

    Gail Foster takes a visit to John Girvan’s exhibition at Wiltshire Museum: Read it here: ‘The Blacksmith’s Craft’; John Girvan at Wiltshire Museum Read more

  • School Summer Holiday Activities at Wiltshire Museum

    Wiltshire Museum in Devizes present a creative day for children aged between 7 and 13; something to avoid the constant whine, “mum, I’m bored!” They’ll explore the amazing objects in the museum’s archaeology and prehistory collections, explore their patterns and shapes and discover more about the people who made them.   This workshop is on Read more

  • Upstairs at Jacks with Bryony Cox

    I don’t know who “they” are, but Bryony tells me they say you shouldn’t mix dry and wet mediums. “I thought why not,” she shrugs, as we ponder a stunning pastel and ink landscape of Alton Barnes. Why not indeed? In this painting of an atypical day in Wiltshire, a dark cloud looms over the Read more