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  • Ruzz Up The Gate!

    Ruzz Up The Gate!

    I was intending to start this along the lines of โ€œyou don’t need me to provide another reason why I love The Southgate,โ€ but this is Devizes. Being I overheard a conversation between a person by the ticket machine in the carpark, and their friend at their car three yards away, which went: โ€œgotta put… Read more

  • Canuteโ€™s Plastic Army; Hollow Children of Men

    Canuteโ€™s Plastic Army; Hollow Children of Men

    New single out today from Swindon-based gothic-folk duo, Canuteโ€™s Plastic Army, and itโ€™s three yeses from meโ€ฆCan one person give three yeses? Iโ€™m way past caringโ€ฆ. If youโ€™ve loved the previous single Wild, like me, or caught them gigging, usually in Swindon (but they did grace us with their presence at the Southgate in the… Read more

  • Homestead; New Festival Coming to the South West from Husband and Wife team

    Homestead; New Festival Coming to the South West from Husband and Wife team

    A brand new festival will be coming to the South West countryside in 2025, from a husband and wife team with years of experience across some of the UKโ€™s best-loved festivals….. Homestead is the culmination of a decade of dreaming for Will and Jess Lardner, a Bristol based couple who have been running and working… Read more

  • Sing Another Love Song with Rosie Jay

    Sing Another Love Song with Rosie Jay

    Second impressive single from young Salisbury singer-songwriter Rosie Jay is released today. Sing Another Love Song; a sound of the summerโ€ฆ.. Her debut breakup track I Don’t Give a Damn, had an interesting hook, this has too, but is far more optimistic, and eternally beguiling. It is, technically, the better of the two, revealing a… Read more

  • Devizes Food & Drink Festival 2024 Program Announced

    Devizes Food & Drink Festival 2024 Program Announced

    We love Devizes, we love food, and we love drink too! What’s not to like when the Devizes Food & Drink Festival launch, (or could we say lunch?!) their program of events for this year?! The Festival runs from 21st-29th September, in which during that time you could be tasting tucker from Italy to Ukraine,… Read more

  • Cotswold Water Park to be Renamed

    Cotswold Water Park to be Renamed

    Here’s a prime example as to why I could never be a councillor….. Cotswold District Council will vote on changing the name of Cotswold Water Park to Cotswold Lakes because visitors turn up expecting water slides, being the term is usually used for water theme parks. How two dimensional is that thinking? Imagine having to… Read more