Entertainment & Reviews

A rainbow of rare designer pieces, ‘toxic’ colours and secret dye recipes are set to be revealed as the National Trust delves into its wardrobe of over 20,000 pieces from Killerton’s fashion collection.

From 13th February, the latest exhibition, Fashion to dye for, will be opening its doors to invite people into the wardrobe and discover how colours, dyes and design shaped fashion history.

Would you risk your life in the name of fashion? If you think green is the colour to die for, find out how people used toxic arsenic to formulate a particular shade of green. If absorbed...

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of their seminal album Sheet Music – which included Top 10 hit The Wall Street Shuffle – 10cc will embark on a 26-date theatre tour, commencing 23rd September at Hall For Cornwall in Truro, before heading to the Great Hall in Exeter in September.

Led by 10cc co-founder Graham Gouldman, the band will perform two sets at each concert, the first half of the evening comprising Sheet Music its entirety, with a pause for the symboli.c turning of the vinyl album.

Released in 1974, Sheet Music reached No 9 in the UK album charts and entered the Top...

Exeter School is looking forward to performing three contrasting pieces for the annual Choral Society concert held at Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 17 March.

Made up of current pupils, parents, staff and guests, Choral Society will perform Fauré's Requiem, a favourite within the choral repertoire, featuring a solo from music scholar Rebecca German who will sing the famous Pie Jesu.

New to many performers and audiences will be contemporary composer Paul Patterson's Magnificat. The piece is a real showcase for the glorious combination of choir, brass, percussion and organ and...

Steve Knightley, one of the British folk roots scene’s biggest names, brings his “All At Sea” UK tour back to his Devon home town this month when he appears at Topsham’s Matthew Hall (Saturday, February 20). Show of Hands’ acclaimed BBC award-winning frontman has been rated “one of England greatest singer songwriters”. His song Walk With Me (When the Sun Goes Down) on the brand new Show of Hands album, The Long Way Home (released January 15), is currently playlisted on BBC Radio 2. www.bbc.co.uk/music/records/n3f39j He set out on a mission in 2014 - to play as many village halls and “...