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80s legends Shakatak head for Exeter

Fougou Music, Devon based independent music promoter, is pleased to present 1980's hitmakers Shakatak live at Exeter Phoenix on Sunday 19 April at 8pm

They’ll be playing songs you remember from over the years such as Night Birds and Down On The Street and also new material as well. Join original members Bill Sharpe, Jill Saward, Roger Odell and George Anderson for a night of jazz funk at its very best.

Shakatak have enjoyed a level of success and career longevity, over 40 years, rarely paralleled in contemporary music, but then Shakatak is a particularly unusual group...

​The Gang is Back! Exeter Scout and Guide Gang Show ready for its 35th show

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 03/18/2019 - 12:07pm

Exeter’s Scouts and Guides will be “Riding along on the crest of a wave” again this Easter as they take over the Barnfield Theatre from the 10th to the 13th April 2019 for this year’s Exeter Gang Show.

Bigger, brighter and louder than ever before, the 35thExeter Scout and Guide Gang Show is packed full of popular songs, dance and laugh out loud sketches and has everything to keep audience members of any age entertained.

The cast of over 80 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts, Guides, Explorers, Rangers and Leaders from across Exeter and the surrounding areas are swapping their hiking...

BBC Radio Devon announces big changes to its line-up

New presenters have joined the station’s popular team in a fresh sound that aims to reflect the whole county.

Breakfast Show presenter Gordon Sparks is now joined by Laura James, waking Devon up from 6am to 9am every morning with interesting chat, news, sport, weather and travel.

Laura is known to early risers for her BBC Radio Devon show from 5am to 6am, which she continues to present. Before joining the station she presented breakfast shows across the West Country for Heart and Breeze.

She has been co-hosting the breakfast show for the last few weeks and has now...

Reasons why sports betting is one of the best hobbies ever

Over the years, with the rapid progress of technology, more and more people have become interested in betting. For many years, betting was reluctantly seen in society. One has heard many stories about fraudsters and the betting was thereby classified as negative. In fact, betting on sporting events has existed since ancient times. No one knows exactly when humanity began to make a bet on certain things. It's been used for entertainment and proof that you're right for many years. Who would have thought that the enthusiasm for betting in modern times is getting up again. And this even to...

Artists announced for Dartmoor Folk Festival

FUN for all the family is assured at the 42nd Dartmoor Folk Festival, all at modest prices or free-of-charge.

The festival, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 9, 10 and 11, will take place in the foothills of Dartmoor at South Zeal, near Okehampton.

It will include a packed programme of events and activities suitable for all ages, including a hugely-successful dedicated children's festival which will run alongside the main event.

There will be concerts, a ceilidh, craft displays, dances, a Dartmoor Fayre, music hall, pub sessions and music, song and dance...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your guide to What’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (15-17 March):

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Ardal O’Hanlon: The Showing Off Must Go On

Friday, Exeter Northcott

Ardal O’Hanlon continues to tour his acclaimed stand-up shows worldwide. Because he loves it. And it’s a compulsion. And the world is a funny place. In an age of raging populism, MeToo, identity politics, the end of truth, the collapsing middle ground, peak avocado and £15 Gin and Tonics, and terrified of being on the wrong side of history, and desperate to prove that his gender, race, age and class don’t...

Exeter School hosts Choral Society Concert in Exeter Cathedral

Exeter School is looking forward to performing its annual Choral Society concert in Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 21 March, which this year will feature music by Handel and Poulenc. Made up of current pupils, parents, staff and guests, the concert will feature four pieces. The full chorus and orchestra will perform Part 2 of arguably the best-loved choral work in Britain, Handel's Messiah, including the Hallelujah Chorus, and also Poulenc's Gloria, which combines chords and rhythms more often found in jazz along with hauntingly beautiful melodies. The school's Chamber Choir will perform...

Do online casinos cheat?

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Mon, 03/11/2019 - 10:37am

Everyone hustles and cheats. Matter of fact. Whether it is a lovely lady from a grocery store nearby, trying to swindle some extra cash out of your pocket or an employer cutting down on salaries on the pretext of financial hardships. And now imagine a ruthless engine of online casinos where money revolves in an unprecedented tempo – how could we possibly believe this machine if even the grocery damsel could be prone to deceive? This is actually a big question every gamblers asks themselves before entering any virtual gaming venue as software is just a bunch of code which might be easily...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 03/09/2019 - 10:38am

Your guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (8-10 March).

Theatre

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott

Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from married Bob after babysitting his kids. When he takes the scenic route and offers them a taste of adult adventure, the three start a fling each of them think they can control. Told with wicked humour, startling insight and a great ear for dialogue, Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical play is a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an unpromising...

MTV returns to Devon

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:08am

MTV today announced that it will be turning up the volume for Plymouth as it returns to host a series of live music events, panels, workshops and talks across one unforgettable week this summer. Bring on MTV Music Week Plymouth 2019!

Running from the 5th – 8th June, the four-day event will see MTV continue their Plymouth legacy, descending on the South Coast to present live music evening events: Club MTV, MTV PRESENTS, MTV PUSH Live and YO! MTV Raps.

The impressive line-up so far includes; Ghetts, Jvck James, Ms Banks, Pale Waves, RAY BLK, R3WIRE & VARSKI, Snoochie Shy...

A season of Japanese cinema is coming to Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 03/05/2019 - 10:54am

This March, Exeter Phoenix’s independent cinema, Studio 74, welcomes back The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme for a series of six screenings offering you the chance to experience Japan through cinema.

What’s more, there’s also a pre-film dining experience on offer, so you can enjoy a specially prepared Japanese meal plus your cinema ticket for just £15. Director Yukiko Mishima will also be heading to the city for a special Q&A after the screening of her film Dear Etranger.

This year’s season, People Still Call It Love, focuses on passion, affection and...

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