Entertainment & Reviews

Review and photograph by: Helena Gadsby

I can’t say I’m a big fan of country music. Ask me about the genre, and I could probably mention a Dolly Parton song; the names Hunter Hayes and Lady Antebellum vaguely register in my mind. My knowledge, however, stops there. So, on entering Exeter Pheonix, I had no idea what to expect from The Shires.

The opening act, Jonathan Jeremiah, was a singer-songwriter. On researching the man after the concert, I was surprised to learn he had a record deal with Island Record. Whist his songs were lyrically unimpressive (and sometimes far too...

Two legendary figures from the world of cricket commentating will entertain the audience at Exeter Corn Exchange on Sunday 25 October.

Henry Blofeld and Peter Baxter present Rogues on the Road, a new show relating their outrageous stories from two extensive careers spent broadcasting around the globe.

After three years of playing to packed houses across the UK, including two successful seasons at the Edinburgh Festival, Blowers and Backers have recently toured Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia with their wonderful reminiscences. They relate...

This Christmas, families are invited to join a host of colourful characters for a fantastically inventive adaptation of an age-old tale. Quirk Theatre’s new show The King With Donkey’s Ears will mark the thirteenth year of collaboration with Exeter Phoenix, joining together to ignite young imaginations and bring wonderfully creative live theatre toover three thousand people at Christmas time. Together they have provided a refreshing alternative to the traditional winter pantomime. The king has something hidden under his hat. Something big…. He has donkey’s ears! Only the royal barber knows...

Review by: Sam England Photos by: Paul Ramisch

An epic bass and drum driven instrumental soundtracks Rhodes’s ominous entrance to the stage. With no lights upon them, it’s hard to tell if this is the masterful work of Rhodes’s four member support band or just some legendary score for that film you’ve always meant to get around to watching sometime, being blasted out the PA. It turned out to be the former. Almost as soon as it began, the atmospheric layers fall away, leaving a spotlight exposed Rhodes, singing gently to the accompaniment of his own hollow-body electric guitar. It’s...