"That's why they call it Café Nero, you know. Because you sit and fiddle with your iPad while the world outside burns."
For over 500 years the smell of coffee has seeped into our streets, our lives, our society.
Hub for gossip, romance, political tub thumping, dodgy deals, completing a new pitch, book clubs, a moment alone, escaping being alone - if walls could talk.
And in one coffee shop in a town just over the horizon, those walls can talk, time escapes us and those that visit the coffee house, dream in the coffee house, plot and scheme in the coffee house all...
This New Years Eve we invite you to leave behind the humdrum of day-to-day life and explore a world where nothing is quite as it seems.
After two years of raucous sell-out revelry, Exeter’s most imaginative New Year event returns with more mind-blowing live music, DJs, zany performers and hidden surprises.
Party amidst falling snow in a winter forest, revel with the weird and wonderful at a tropical tea party for loons, and throw some shapes at the Kitty Litter Disco – meeeoooow! There’s no telling what you’ll find around the next...
Zion Train are a Dub phenomenon. Their work from the past 2 decades still sounds fresh to today’s discerning ears. Their recorded output is prolific with an album a year and innumerable production credits, remixes and song writing collaborations. The live experience is legendary with audiences around the globe being whipped into a frenzy by pounding bass and heavy rhythms and their zest and positive energy still abounds. Expect the deepest of dub bass-lines and full-on effect-heavy mixing from main-man Neil Perch, the tightest of brass playing from The Crispy Horns and crazy tosting from...
THE SELECTER Legendary 2-Tone artists, The Selecter, release their new studio album SUBCULTURE on 15 June 2015 on DMF Records and have just announced a tour this Autumn. The album, which comes out on CD, 12″ Heavyweight Vinyl and Digital, has been produced by Neil Pyzer and expertly mixed by Prince Fatty and is the calling card of a ‘classic’ band that are completely tuned into the issues and challenges of the modern world.
Whenever successful bands from the past reform they invariably start trading in nostalgia and become “heritage” acts. No one expects them to grow artistically...
Back from Berlin, art-rock musician and prolific songwriter Grice and his band launch a new album of electro-acoustic glitch and intensely emotional songs.
Grice’s second album Alexandrine has been described as ‘an art-rock gem’, with plays on BBC6 Music (Tom Robinson) and worldwide.
Described by the Daily Mail as ‘the most sophisticated drugs baron of all time‘, Howard Marks has worked with the British Secret Service and has been connected with the Mafia, the IRA, MI6 and the CIA. Just over a year ago Howard Marks was diagnosed with bowel cancer which had spread to two other organs, he was given 10 months to live….. .
Here we are 3 months after his predicted passing and after nearly 30 sessions of chemotherapy combined with Cannabis Oil Treatment, which is being used more and more seriously for the treatment of cancer and other illness, and everything from...
Exeter Phoenix and The Mysterious Freakshow present their annual Steampunk Extravaganza. Bigger and Better than any before, for one day only Exeter Phoenix will be transformed into a Steampunk Utopia playing host to the UK’s best Steampunk musicians, performers, authors, traders, creators for a day and night of interesting couture, unique performance, unusual workshops, fabulous DJs, cocktails and teapots … there really is something for everyone at this year’s event.
For information on the daytime Steampunk Experience, see here >>
Exeter Phoenix and The Mysterious Freakshow present their annual Steampunk Extravaganza. Bigger and Better than any before, for one day only Exeter Phoenix will be transformed into a Steampunk Utopia playing host to the UK’s best Steampunk musicians, performers, authors, traders, creators for a day and night of interesting couture, unique performance, unusual workshops, fabulous DJs, cocktails and teapots … there really is something for everyone at this year’s event.
We are also please to open up our doors to younger steampunks who...
Plus Then Thickens, Black Foxxes and The Mocking Birds
Think Black Flag playing James Brown, or The Nerve Agents covering Elvis Costello and you’re starting to get the picture. More punk rock and roll soul from Exeter’s favourite garage rockers.
Written by Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda. Directed by Rick Alverson, Dustin Guy Defa, Loretta Fahrenholz, Nick Mauss & Ken Okiishi, Alex Ross Perry.
The Sixth Year is an art world drama series in five episodes, which re-interprets the format of the TV series. Set in the New York art world, it stages the backstage and theatricalizes the social interactions and power games, the aspirations, passions, and everyday realities of the field.
The screenplay is based on interviews with artists, curators, gallerists, collectors, and art advisors, whose opinions, anecdotes, and...
