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  • No Surprises Living in Devizes Train Station LOL; Slight Return

    It’s the same nauseating Conservative ethos which finds a hundred-billion quid for a nuclear weapon system, despite a cold war since 1947 without major incident, and with the same purse, neglects education, cuts housing and abandons a celebrated healthcare system, which locally ramps up parking charges over 12% to pay for a failing transport system, Read more

  • Follow the Crows to Swindon

    Follow the Crows to Swindon

    Ah, goodbye January, hello Feb; that lengthy cold month full of let-downs. To add to my extensive list my car was seriously ill, so much so I was gutted not to have made it to the Follow the Crows premiere at Shaw Ridge. Not for the want of trying, I ranted it as far as Read more

  • The Horrible History of Chippenham

    They’re not show offs at the Neeld Community and Arts Centre in Chippenham, they’re show-ons! They’ve certainly booked a huge variety of class acts akin to city status, and through 2018 they intend to continue. A tribute to classic blues-rock is forthcoming with Voodoo Room, but from Nicolas Parsons’ sold out stand-up to a Big Read more

  • No Surprises Living in Devizes: Aesthetic or Artistic; similar thing isn’t it?

    I was four in 1977, the year of the Silver Jubilee. I recall a tonnage of bunting at our local recreation ground, though it’s vague. One sentiment glued in my head is frustration, with my parents the following morning. I’d been given a silver spoon with the crest of the jubilee, they were of the Read more

  • Unrest on Wine Street

    Unrest on Wine Street

    In the mid-nineties Pewsey received a refreshing alternative to the predominately techno scene when it gained a resident Jamaican keen to put on welcomed reggae nights. To this day organiser Knati continues to host sound system events from Calne to Marlborough. I’m reckoning it was 2006 when I approached him, asking if he’d like a Read more

  • Those Beers Won’t Drink Themselves!

    The Devizes Festival of Winter Ales does what it says on the tankard, but it isn’t just about drinking Kennet and Avon Brewery winter ales and ciders in the cosy Corn Exchange. Now I’m not talking about this year’s warming musical performances by Rob Lear and the Drystones, or even, dare I say it, the Read more