The Actual One is Isy Suttie’s brilliantly funny new show about that moment in your late 20s when you suddenly realise that all your mates are growing up without you – featuring stories, songs and readings from the new book of the same name.
The invisible deal that Isy had made – to prolong growing up for as long as possible – was all in her head. Suddenly everyone around her is into mortgages, farmers’ markets and nappies, rather than skinny-dipping in the sea and sambuca sessions on rope-swings. When her dearest friend advises Isy that the next guy she meets will be not just The...
Described as ‘the most deathly delta blues outfit to ever emerge from Andalusia’ Guadalupe Plata channel red hot passion for the blues into Hispanic roots – this is a sound that lingers in the sunset like a voodoo curse.
Guadalupe Plate are: Pedro de Dios Barceló (“Perico”) – guitar, vocals, piano. Carlos Jimena Quesada (“Jimena”) – Drums, percussion and piano. Francisco Luis Martos Sanchez (“Paco Luis”) – washtub bass, electric bass, guitar and piano.
SKREAM An early and influential exponent of the dubstep genre, Skream is one of the most likeable personalities versatile DJs on the dance music circuit.
The first in a series of Autumn events from Exeter’s two heavyweight brands, Skream returns to the city for the first time since the heady days of Dubstep.
Of course, Skream is a different beast now. Always a musical pioneer, he switched his allegiance to a more 4/4 sound a few years back, joining the dots between Techno, House and Disco- he continues to challenge and provoke, his love of music and clubbing shining through...
Exeter Contemporary Open 2016 is an annual, open submission exhibition, which over the last eleven years has built national and international reputation as a prime opportunity for artists to showcase their work, drawing audiences and attention from across the country.
This year’s exhibition includes a shortlist of eight artists, selected from several hundred submissions by Cheryl Jones (Director of Grand Union, Birmingham), George Vasey (art writer and curator at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland) and Phoenix Gallery curator Matt Burrows.
Get your dancing shoes on and practice the art of not accidentally singing your head off to tunes no one else can hear – silent discos are taking over our terrace this summer.
As the sun sets, we’ll be bringing forth a series of eccentric summer nights. Expect a terrace party under the stars with madcap decor and two different music channels lead by a live DJ.
Get your groove on to your favourite indie classics, or choose the cheesy option to shake your stuff to guilty pleasures until late. Shhh…
Daylight to Darkknights returns, with music on the terrace from 2pm-10pm, before moving into the bar from 10pm-2am.
This time we have a monster line up playing all sorts of bassline, house, minimal and techno from the likes of Will Rae, Mad Pattern, Disco Dave, Connor HC, James Hunt, Notzz, Gavin Quiet, Dizzit, Rivum and Kelly Jay.
Inspired by the path to Afghanistan, well trodden down the ages whether by Western merchants, missionaries, Hippies or soldiers, There Shall Be Fireworks unearths a startling true story from a two hundred-year-old cemetery in Kabul known as the Kabre Gora (‘the Graveyard of Foreigners’).
It’s a send off. An American stockbroker turned statesman, thwarted in one wildly ambitious plan to change the world for good, bids farewell once again to the land that he loves. Your host is played by Martin Bonger (Fat Man, NIE’s Around the World in 80 Days), with composition and sound design by...
