Lockdown, the South-West’s biggest dance music festival, will return to the magnificent Powderham Castle, near Exeter on the weekend of 1-3 September 2017.
Acts already confirmed: DIZZEE RASCAL CHASE & STATUS (DJ) (SEE WEBSITE FOR THIRD HEADLINER) WILEY GIGGS WILKINSON (DJ) SIGMA DJ GORGON CITY (DJ) BASEMENT JAXX (DJ) AJ TRACEY BECKY HILL SASASAS TQD JAX JONES SAM WHITMORE J.MASSISION SAM DEVINE KURUPT FM METRIX MY NU LENG CONGO NATTY
Plus many more live acts and DJs to be announced.
LOCKDOWN will be spread across four stages over the three days and will feature...
The talents of a Devon film maker and branding expert are playing a key role in the development of a museum more than 7,000 miles away in the Falkland Islands.
Tim Roberts’ Fatcalf Media business has been working with the Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust since 2014 when a chance meeting with the museum’s manager led to a contract to produce a film chronicling the 1982 Argentinean invasion through the eyes of islanders who were children at the time.
As well as featuring emotional interviews with the now adult residents, the film also features material from the...
Two researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School have been recognised as rising stars in diabetes research.
Dr Andrew Wood and Dr Hanieh Yaghootkar have been awarded two of just four €30,000 (£25,500) awards made across Europe, from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes e.V. (EASD). The award, made under the Rising Star Fellowship Programme and supported by global healthcare company Novo Nordisk, is designed to fund selected research projects of promising and innovative young researchers. Winning academics also give a presentation to the EASD Annual Meeting,...
Business confidence in the South West rose to an 18-month high in the last six months, according to the latest Business in Britain report from Lloyds Bank, based on data gathered after the snap election had been called. The confidence index – an average of respondents’ expected sales, orders and profits over the next six months – increased to 27 per cent, up from January’s score of 17 per cent and from 10 per cent immediately following the EU referendum vote. The Business in Britain report, now in its 25th year, gathers the views of more than 1,500 UK companies, predominantly small to...
Can you have it all? Do you want it all? A scientist, on the cusp of a new IVF discovery, is faced with difficult decisions about her own fertility. This lovable yet challenging story explores women’s choices, and the science behind those choices, when weighing up careers, parenthood, and where self-worth is found.
The award-winning White Slate Theatre are back for a third piece of new writing to face the stage. First came the iconic tumultuous story of Your Fragrant Phantom, then the compelling & exposing Captured, and now don't miss out on the stunningly innovative Re:...
The line-up of best-selling authors and budding literary stars for the annual Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival has been announced.
Now in its ninth year, the themes of the 2017 Festival will be nature, wildlife and history, including family history and memoir. There will also be magical events for children to help mark the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book.
The opening day of the Festival on 13th September will include an “in-conversation” event with Festival President, Dame Hilary Mantel MBE, who’s eagerly anticipated final book in her Cromwell trilogy is...
In response to Britain voting to leave the European Union and the ambiguous times we live in, a new musical ritual ‘Invoking 50 Articles’, is going to have eight South West performances this June and July. Originally performed in April at the Torbay Doorstep Theatre Festival and Totnes’s ‘Party In The Town’, it had such positive responses that it is now being taken on the road.
‘Invoking 50 Articles’ is is a 45 minute work for 4-part choir with triangle, a vocoder, four umbrellas, portraits of all the prime ministers from Heath to May, a paper shredder and a solo violin. It was...
In response to Britain voting to leave the European Union and the ambiguous times we live in, a new musical ritual ‘Invoking 50 Articles’, is going to have eight South West performances this June and July. Originally performed in April at the Torbay Doorstep Theatre Festival and Totnes’s ‘Party In The Town’, it had such positive responses that it is now being taken on the road.
‘Invoking 50 Articles’ is is a 45 minute work for 4-part choir with triangle, a vocoder, four umbrellas, portraits of all the prime ministers from Heath to May, a paper shredder and a solo violin. It was...
Exeter Punks Picnic is a three day music event taking place in August. Organised by Old Hat Promotions, this is the first year such an event has been held in Exeter.
The event will span three days, (18th-20th August) and two venues - the Barnfield Theatre and the newly reopened from fire damage Cavern Club.
Friday the 18th will feature four acts at the Barnfield Theatre, 7pm-11pm. These are A Waste of Damnation, Skinners, Bastard and Plymouth punk favourites The Bus Station Loonies. This event is £5 entry and advance bookings can be made through the box office on 01392...