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Free Cider and Summer Tunes Come to Devon with a Music Series from Thatchers Cider

Free pints, live music and summer vibes

Thatchers is set to delight music and cider fans heading into venues and pubs across the summer with a national 40+ gig series that will visit Devon throughout August.

A mix of Juicy Sounds DJ nights and Summer Sessions acoustic evenings will be held to celebrate what promises to be a summer filled, not just with sport, but with music too.

Events are currently planned for:

  • The Blue Ball in Exeter on Friday 7th August.

  • Boathouse, Dawlish, Saturday 8th August.

  • Hyde Dendy,

  • ...

City artist's latest venture

Authored by stufer
Posted: Mon, 11/17/2014 - 1:10pm

Art-lovers are lining up to be part of an exciting new project that sees Exeter and its people taking a starring role in a series of artworks.

The project – TOPOS – is taking over an empty city-centre office space and through its crowdfunding campaign offers the opportunity to be part of a living landscape – digital recreations of famous landscapes - or even to commission an original piece of art.

Deborah Clark, owner of Southernhay House was one of the first to sign up. She said: “I've been bitching about the lack of a serious contemporary art scene in Exeter since I...

Magic and mystery at Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre this Christmas

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 11/13/2014 - 11:16pm

From Tuesday 16 December to Saturday 10 January The Bike Shed Theatre, in Exeter’s Fore Street, will be transformed into an extraordinary kingdom, filled with magic and mystery - The Land of Lost.

The perfect show for all the family, Edgar and the Land of Lost is an original Bike Shed Theatre and Wardrobe Ensemble production with family of three tickets available at just £25.

Join lonely, sensible, grumpy Edgar and adventurous, unruly Peewee as the unlikely pair travel through the imposing doors of lost property in sleepy Winton town - into the undiscovered, Land of Lost -...

Songs of legends, ghosts, hounds & werewolves

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:15am

There was a time when hideous tales of werewolves and hounds struck fear into the hearts of people across Devon. Were these tales just folklore? Or were the stories true? Many people believed it was the latter.

There were so many stories doing the rounds in the 19th century that a whole collection of them were gathered up in his West Country travels by famous song and story collector, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould.

Some of the stories from his famous work, The Book of Were-wolves, are the inspiration for a show being taken on a tour of Devon by the Wren Band, who have...

From The Jam return to Exeter

In November 1979 The Jam released their classic album Setting Sons and the single The Eton Rifles - their first top ten hit single. While their previous album All Mod Cons is generally regarded as their best work, Setting Sons is arguably considered a masterpiece with the conceptual songs such as Little Boy Soldiers more than matched by Foxton's own Smithers-Jones - possibly his finest three minutes of song writing. To celebrate the album's 35th anniversary From The Jam, featuring original The Jam member bass player Foxton and guitarist/vocalist Russell Hastings & drummer Steve (Smiley...

Sign up for YMCA Exeter's Santa abseil

On Saturday 6 December dozens of people dressed as Santa will abseil 100 feet off the Princesshay car park to raise money and awareness for homeless young people in Exeter.

The annual event is in its fifth year, and is hoping to once again raise thousands of pounds to support those without safe accommodation this Christmas, a time where amidst celebration, poverty is often at its worst.

The Santa Abseil, sponsored by local PR Company Attention Media and the Exeter Solicitors firm Gilbert Stephens, will help YMCA Exeter continue to provide 15,000 nights worth of...

Bernie Marsden & Joanne Shaw Taylor bring their tour to Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 11/07/2014 - 4:47pm

On 18 August guitar legend Bernie Marsden released his new solo album ‘Shine’ on Provogue Records.

At a rough guesstimate Bernie Marsden’s name appears on a hundred albums – maybe more. In addition to a long-running solo career the Buckinghamshire-born guitarist has been a recording musician since the early 1970s via membership of such groups as Whitesnake, UFO, Wild Turkey, Babe Ruth, Paice Ashton & Lord, Cozy Powell’s Hammer, Alaska, M3 and many more. Though there’s a tendency to pigeonhole him as a blues-rock guitarist, each of Marsden’s acts had its own individual flavour...

University of Exeter Footlights proudly presents EVITA

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 11/07/2014 - 4:32pm

She Seduced A Nation

This captivating story follows the rise and fall of a nation’s hero. It is based on the life of Argentine actress and political leader Eva Perón, who rose from nothing to become one of the most famous political figures in the country’s history.

Following Eva’s rise to become the Spiritual Leader of the nation, the musical features many celebrated songs including “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” and “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”. Evita features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice and is one of their most successful musicals. The show had...

Legendary actor David Warner supports local writers in charity horror book project

Authored by Montagfire
Posted: Tue, 11/04/2014 - 12:31pm

‘Terrors Of The Théâtre Diabolique’ is a thrilling new collection of original horror fiction from the Cygnus Alpha writers’ collective sold in aid of the mental health charity, MIND.

Cygnus Alpha is Exeter’s very own Sci-fi Fanzine that was popular in the 80’s with Rusell T Davies (Doctor Who Producer) then subscribing to it. The ‘zine was recently revived at a Sci-fi convention held at the Phoenix in 2012, PHONICON. Going from strength to strength Cygnus Alpha have published an unofficial Doctor Who Anthology called the ‘12 Doctors of Christmas’ (Still available as a Free Download...

Award winning choir host Black Voices

Authored by krufolo
Posted: Mon, 11/03/2014 - 3:42pm

St Thomas Gospel Choir have won a national award for "Contribution to the UK Gospel Music Industry" in the choir catagory of the PraiseTek Gospel Music Awards 2014. Each year, these awards acknowledge the work of various singers, musicians, choirs, rappers, bands and media personnel working in the UK gospel music scene.

Choir director, Kathy Rufolo and her fiance, Dale Hurrell, who sings bass in the group, went to London to receive the award on behalf of the choir with nearly 50 members.

St Thomas Gospel Choir was established in 2006 and has grown steadily over...

X Factor's Marcus Collins to play Exeter

Marcus Collins will be performing in Exeter early next year with his full live band.

Friday 20th march 2015 Marcus Collins will be performing at Exeters Lemon Grove with his full band plus support.

Marcus Collins, at just 23 years old, has already achieved great heights in his singing and musical career after his journey started on TV’s highest rating talent show, The X Factor.

Marcus became a firm favourite right from the beginning and his talent was nurtured by his mentor, Gary Barlow. Marcus proved himself adept at putting in startling musical performances,...

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