The South plus support from Ellile Williams

The Beautiful South, the legacy continues…

When great British pop institution, The Beautiful South split in 2007, several members of the band weren’t ready to let it go. So 2 years later, singers Dave Hemingway and Alison Wheeler, alongside life long members Damon Butcher (keys), Gaz Birtles (sax) and Tony Robinson (trumpet), came out of retirement and formed the 9 piece band, The South. With the realisation that if the fans didn’t want it, they wouldn’t do it, The South embarked on their journey. But boy, did the fans want it!...

Blueprint

Our House and Hold it down presetn Blueprint

Fresh off the back of the Summer Series, Our House & Hold It Down deliver a massive event to kickstart the year, hosted by two of Exeter’s finest music venues.

One wristband | Two venues | Three headliners

They're taking over five spaces and filling them with three of the finest names on the dance music scene, plus full support from your favourite residents from both Our House and Hold It Down.

9pm - 2am

Tickets £13

Over 18s

Box office: 01392 667080

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Exeter’s poetry platform presented by Alasdair Paterson and Liz Adams.

Each month we host a new headlining poet. There will also be open mic performances.

To book a slot call Liz on 07887 600831.

Headlining poet this month: Lynne Wycherley

£5

www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

Last Wednesday Series

A series of artists’ talks in association with Exeter College’s Centre for Creative Industries. Limited places available to the public.

Laura Reeves

Laura Reeves (b.1987) grew up in Exeter but now lives and works in Swansea. Laura graduated from Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2012 specialising in sculpture and received the Eistedfodd Young Artist Scholarship shortly afterwards. Laura will discuss the transition from recent graduate to artist.

www.laurajanereeves.com

Tickets: £3.50

£3.50

France / Poland, 2013, 96 mins. Dir. Roman Polanski

Alone in a Paris theatre after a long day of auditioning for the lead role in his new play, writer-director Thomas complains that no-one has what it takes to play his lead female characters. When actress Vanda bursts in, a whirlwind of erratic-and erotic-energy things change Thomas see everything he has been lamenting. She is pushy, foul-mouthed, desperate and ill-prepared-or so it seems. But when he, reluctantly, agrees to let her try out for the part, he is stunned and captivated by her transformation. Not only is Vanda a...

London-based singer/songwriter Lewis Watson got his start in music by quietly uploading cover versions of his favorite songs to a sleepy YouTube account in 2010.

The singer’s spare acoustic guitar complemented his booming and slightly soulful voice on covers of tunes by the Knife, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bon Iver, and others, and before long he was uploading his own original compositions to great response. Watson began playing out in support of larger acts, and after a gig with his former music teacher Joe Porter, Porter offered up his production services in the recording of Watson’s...

Throw all the genres and hyphenates together you want to describe her – indie, roots and soul, rock, blues and country – they are all right, and also not enough.

Chastity Brown writes songs that are carried deep in the American psyche, the hunger, desperation and confidence that runs through our times. Coming from Tennessee to Minnesota, touring the country, touring Europe, she has had half her own lifetime and million lifetimes gone before her to concoct her powerful sound. She’s been hailed by NPR, CMT, American Songwriter, The London Times, and Paste Magazine as a songwriter to...

Kris Drever’s voice and guitar forms part of the backbone of today’s contemporary roots scene.

A member of Lau, a band widely regarded as the epicentre of the new folk boom, and winners of the BBC Folk Award for Best Band for three years running, Kris is also widely admired as a solo artist and collaborator.

Kris will be playing with Éamonn Coyne, a leading figure in the youngest generation of Irish folk musicians.

Tickets £12 (£10)

Box office: 01392 667080

www.exeterphoenix.org.uk