The Eleventh UK Taiko Festival is taking over the Exeter Phoenix on the Fourth & Fifth July with two exciting concerts.
Taiko Beats is the Saturday lunchtime concert featuring performances by Taiko groups from all over the world. Sunday Beats is the Festival’s final concert featuring some very special guests.
To find out more and to book your tickets please go to www.taikofestival.org.uk .
A summer terrace party from Ripe and Hold It Down – the terrace will transform into a paradise for all to enjoy.
Ripe and Hold It Down have carefully selected DJ’s who will perfectly compliment the first Height of Summer – keep your eyes and ears peeled for Part Two to be announced soon!
The Bridge Jazz Club is the home of Exeter’s jazz scene. Pete Canter & Friends + Jam Session. First set from the house band followed by jam session. All welcome. Bring charts for the rhythm section. Entrance fee includes a free raffle.
House Band:
Pete Canter – Saxophone Jim Blomfield – Keys Jim Rintoul – Double bass Gary Evans – Drums
Inspired by the ancient legend of a man who spent 35 years in solitude in the Egyptian desert, this new Wellcome Trust-supported ensemble performance explores, through song and body, landscapes where mental health and religious experience collide.
How to treat a religiously-orientated mental illness? This is a problem facing NHS psychiatrists treating patients who say they are possessed by spirits. Is there a limit to what Western medicine can heal, when faced with a dark night of the soul?
With insight from psychiatry and anthropology, this show plunges soul-first into the...
If you could eradicate the world of pain, what would be your price?
A newly written comedy drama set in 1860’s Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Based upon the true events from the life of Dr. William Morton and his obsession to the patent the world’s first pain relief solution. Relucatantly yet loyally assisted by his young British protégé, Nathaniel Jameson, whilst dutifully supported by his wife, Elizabeth and their house maid Mary. The debate emerges, befitting morality, decency and legacy; threatening the deterioration of family and friendship when desire for recognition and...
Matthew Crosby (one of Pappy's, co-star/co-writer of BBC3's Badults) returns to Edinburgh with another lovely little show. Come along, have a chuckle or two, leave, never really think about it again. Matthew has appeared on 8 out of 10 Cats; Never Mind the Buzzcocks; Celebrity 15-1; and 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. And let's not forget that he appeared as a news-reading dog on BBC 1’s Animal Antics.
Third show from the guy who makes all the comedy with Turtle Canyon Comedy and supported James Acaster on tour. He is also an atheist on a Christian football team, was a young ornithologist and is such a feminist that he spells misogynist: msogynist.
‘Cloudbusting’ are a 5-piece band of musicians who are obsessed with the music of Kate Bush.
Formed in 2012 and based in Devon and Cornwall, they kicked off their 40-date tour of the UK with a special performance at The Half Moon in Putney. This is the venue where Kate last played with the KT Bush Band in 1977 before she was whisked off to stardom by EMI with the release of ‘Wuthering Heights’.
‘Cloudbusting’ play 2 hour-long sets including all Kate’s well known songs and a generous selection of fan-pleasing album tracks from every phase of her career. The show recreates...
If you could eradicate the world of pain, what would be your price?
A newly written comedy drama set in 1860’s Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Based upon true events from the life of Dr William Morton and his obsession to patent the world’s first pain relief solution, reluctantly yet loyally assisted by his young British protoge Nathaniel Jameson, whilst dutifully supported by his wife Elizabeth and their house-maid Mary. The debate emerges, befitting morality, decency and legacy; threatening the deterioration of family and friendship when desire for...
Comedian, entertainer, magician and presenter Martin Daniels is a spectacular stage and screen performer, captivating audiences with his uproarious sense of humour, charming personality and consummate magical skill.
The son of legendary TV magician Paul Daniels, Martin harboured ambitions to become a performer from a young age. At the age of 17, he took the plunge on a career in show business, making his debut in a summer season in Newquay. He didn’t have to wait long to be thrust into the limelight.
Game for a Laugh was one of Britain’s biggest TV programmes of the 1980s...
