The Bike Shed is very excited to have the return of the heavy grooves of Bella Figura, on their 2nd EP Tour. And if that’s not enough for you, local talent Potts Music will also be filling your ears with beautiful beats. Followed up by a suitably funky DJ, for what more could you ask?
Acclaimed French Actress and International Animal Communicator Gloria Delaneuf returns to the UK to talk her life-changing experience with the gorillas of the Kungalunga Jungle.
Assisted by her UK tour manager Josephine Cunningham, she is determined to show that man and gorilla can live “sans frontieres”. Part lecture, part dramatic-reconstruction, part live-demonstration, it will be an evening that will stay with you forever.
Following on from the award-winning “Gloriator”, “Glorilla” is the hilarious new show from French/English comedy duo Spitz & Co. It has been...
A founder member of Public Image Limited, Jah Wobble’s heavy, hypnotic bass lines defined the post punk era and have influenced many musicians over the last 30 years.
John Wardle met John Lydon, John Grey and Sid Vicious at Kingsway College, London, in 1973. It was Vicious who originally nicknamed John Jah Wobble” after a drunken binge, and would also loan him his first bass guitar.
During the heyday of punk rock in the mid to late 70s, Wardle earned himself the reputation of being something of a wildman. His original introduction to the bass stemmed from his long-term...
Blues is the teacher. Punk is the preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy, experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect.
Exciting things happen when these things collide. Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made the BellRays happen in 1991 in East LA but they weren’t really thinking about any of this then. They wanted to play music and they wanted it to feel good. They wanted people to want to get up, to need to get up and check out what was going on. Form an opinion. React. So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones, Billie Holiday,...
Dizraeli is a rapper, multi-instrumentalist and sometime singer taking hip hop to new terrains.
Having gone solo in 2009 to record his debut album Engurland (City Shanties), and then spent six years writing and touring with his band Dizraeli & The Small Gods, Dizraeli has gone solo once more to build a new sound.
Playing ‘bourbon soaked gypsy blues bop ‘n’ stroll’, Urban Voodoo Machine are a seven to ten-piece band hailing from Dalston, East London.
In 2002 Paul-Ronney Angel had an idea. He’d lead a band. They’d dress in black and red. There would be a LOT of them. And their music would sound like a great night out in a dangerous part of town. From the get-go, The UVM fused junkyard blues and stinging rockabilly with mariachi horns, fiddles, sinister cabaret and punk rock tangos. ‘I wanted to play rock’n’roll music with a different instrumentation,’ says Angel, ‘taking inspiration from...
A SKILLZ BARRY ASHWORTH DANCEFLOOR OUTLAWS OMC (BEN & LEX) HOSTED BY JAE TUNS We are pleased to welcome Bristol’s Ghetto Funk for their first visit to Exeter as a warm up for their Shindig Weekender near Bath at the end of May. Co-founder of Ghetto Funk, Will Lardner, will be playing under his Dancefloor Outlaws alias and is joined by two DJs that need no introduction to Beatz & Bobz. The party rocking, crowd surfing DJs Dub Pistol’s main man Barry Ashworth and scratch master A. Skillz who just happen to be two of the venue hosts for Ghetto Funk’s Shindig Festival, held near Bath...
Two of the British folk scenes most accomplished performers, Kathryn and Sean have graced stages the world over in a number of guises, however, the intimacy and strength of passion shown as a duo, combined with an eclectic repertoire ensures a rare treat for any listener.
Twin daughters and a folk-rock whirlwind forced Kathryn Roberts (Vocals / Piano / Woodwind), and Sean Lakeman (Guitar), to sideline their popular duo performances in the mid noughties. After almost a decade, 2012 saw a spectacular return in conjunction with their critically acclaimed album Hidden People. Awards...
The South West’s much loved physical comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete are back this season with their Sell Out successful take on the classic tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Join Dorothy and Toto on their fantastical and downright chaotic travels along the Road of Yellow Bricks meeting the usual (sort of) suspects along the way – an unbelievably idiotic Scarecrow, a Tin Man straight from under the Iron Curtain and a Lion whose West End dreams seem just Over The Rainbow – as well as some characters, you might not expect….
Richard Chappell Dance presents the company’s second UK Tour of its inaugural evening of work IRIS and The Vast Rocks, with new solo work Burnt Norton.
With a constantly evolving movement language deriving from classical ballet, contemporary dance, improvisation and capoeira, the programme explores how adrenaline-fuelled dance can create and coexist with unique environments.
IRIS Combining a stark score by DJ Shaq Livingston with a dark, torch-lit setting, IRIS analyses adolescent experiences of London’s club culture and nyctophobia, which is extreme fear of the dark....
