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  • 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

  • Wave your nappy in the air like you don’t care!

    Halfway up a mountain in Andalusia, early noughties; I spot admist the crowd of mad ravers in a tranced frenzy, a distressed toddler crying, and perpetually calling out “mama!” Rave culture was never just about popping out to a club to wave your arms in the air, and hug complete strangers on a Friday night, Read more

  • EH raise price to visit Stonehenge

      EH announced entry price to Stonehenge is set to rise in April from £16:50 to £19:50 per adult, and from £40:70 to £50:90 for families. I find myself wondering how much of this is for the upkeep of the monument and how much is pure profit, or to make inadequate new infrastructure alterations, or Read more

  • No Surprises Living in Devizes: Christmas has Bin and Gone

    Christmas has been and gone, oodles of excessive packaging, bounded by gift-wrap, collate with ceaseless magnitudes of biscuits or mince pie boxes, and a massif of void tins and bottles, a testament to an enjoyable few days of merriment. Now it’s the renowned month of misery, as dark as a heart-to-heart about Morrissey’s downturn with Read more

  • Mind your Manners; Special Brew are coming the Cons Club in April

    With barely enough time to tack another mirror to their Lambrettas, The Devizes Scooter Club is zooming forward with a Bad Manners Tribute band on April 28th at their regular venue, the Conservative Club. After booking Northern Soul DJ Terry Hendrick for 24th Feb and hosting a 70s/80s disco on 31st March, are they out Read more

  • The Ideal Husband is at the Wharf

    What makes the ideal husband you might ask; what’s that honey, you woke me up? One made of chocolate and praline perhaps, one who can fix the broken drain in just cut-off jeans and still smells like rosewood and patchouli, one who folds his socks in pairs might be adequate; I don’t know, maybe Oscar Read more