The innovative comedy mind behind Modern Life Is Goodish (Dave TV), Are You Dave Gorman? and Googlewhack Adventure is back with a brand new live show that promises more of his unique blend of stand-up comedy and visual story-telling as Dave Gorman Gets Straight To The Point*... (*The PowerPoint).

Yes. That's right. It's a PowerPoint presentation. We know what you're thinking. But don't worry... You won't need to take notes and you almost certainly won't be tested on it later.

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Elkie Brooks will be celebrating her 70th birthday with a UK tour.

Quite simply one of the most successful and popular singers the UK has ever produced. Now in the 5th decade of her career, she is still proving to be one of the most powerful and versatile vocal talents of our generation. With numerous hit singles, million selling albums and awards, her annual tours are treat for fans old and new.

Performing some of her classic hits, blues and jazz, an electric evening with Elkie is guaranteed to leave you begging for more.

2012 saw the release of Elkie's much...

Circus of Horrors' latest incarnation is set in Victorian London in 1899. Jack the Ripper was still at large and this was the age of the freakshow.

A young girl dreams of running away to join the circus only to see her dream become a nightmare in a decrepit and corpse ridden Carnevil. Killer Klowns, Sword Swallowers, Demon Drawfs, Death Defying Aerialists, a Hairculian Diva swinging solely from her hair, back flipping & fire limboing acrobats and much more - this is a show ruled by the undead & climaxing in an awesome flaming apocalypse.

The story twists and turns...

After finally clawing his career out of the toilet and towards the stars, Sean McLoughlin should be at his happiest, right? Unfortunately this long-awaited improvement in career has coincided with an astonishing collapse in his personal life (floods, divorce, cats etc). Sean has beaten the system and yet finds himself at the mercy of it. From these two conflicting circumstances a question has emerged: Can a man rise AND fall at the same time?

The bastards may be pulling him apart but Sean McLoughlin presents his sharpest and most hilarious stand-up show yet. Hold onto your hats,...

The Simmertones are a seasoned ska and reggae band from the southwest of the UK who regularly get audiences dancing in packed venues with their infectious live sound.

The band have been extremely busy in 2015 having just completed an active summer touring festivals throughout the UK. A particular highlight was headlining the Chinatown stage at Boomtown Festival to critical acclaim.

Tickets £8 standing

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Lecture Series:

In March 2013 Tim Jarvis returned from Antarctica where he led a team of six men to successfully retrace the legendary polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 southern voyage of survival. Using the same rudimentary equipment, period clothing, and technology as Shackleton, the team sailed a replica James Caird life boat from Elephant Island to South Georgia, before climbing over its mountainous interior. This is the first time that anybody has been able to authentically recreate the Endurance expedition, regarded by many as...

Oysterband as you don’t know them…

Up close and personal: John Jones, Alan Prosser and Ian Telfer, the three founder members and creative heart of folk-rock legends Oysterband, invite you to an evening of fresh acoustic performance and not-entirely-discreet stories – an insight into their history, sometimes turbulent, often funny, with great songs from every era of a unique career.

“The idea arose from Sidmouth and Shrewsbury Festivals recently asking us to do ‘something different’ as well as t

Tickets £15

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A fusion of New Orleans style brass with hiphop, Balkan, funk and much more, combined with a blazing mixture of energy that will have you dancing like crazy.

The eight BBE members are all very young and talented musicians who combine swinging brass with tight percussion. All their work are originals, though the band isn’t ashamed to rock the audience with a surprising cover every now and then.

Tickets £10 (£8)

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French photographer Claude Cahun (1894–1954) achieved posthumous fame for her elusive self-portraits in which she assumed multiple personae. Born Lucy Schwob, she adopted the pseudonym in 1917 to free herself from the narrow confines of gender. At the beginning of her career she was aligned to the Surrealist movement and was friends with André Breton; however she distanced herself both politically and physically after fleeing France on the eve of Nazi occupation. Cahun settled in Jersey where she embarked upon her defining photographic series, in which the subversion of traditional...

Shotgun Theatre, the NSDF award-winning student drama group from the University of Exeter, are proud to present their production of the ‘laugh out loud’ coming of age musical Avenue Q.

Princeton has just graduated from college, and suddenly finds himself thrown into the real world. Step one, find a place to live – a shabby apartment way way out in Avenue Q, New York. Step two, meet the neighbours – Kate the girl next door and kindergarten teacher, recently laid off aspiring comedian Brian, Republican banker Rod and Nicky his slacky roommate are just a few of the colourful...