Otis Gibbs is a man in search of an honest experience. Gibbs is often referred to as a folk artist, but that is a simplistic way to describe a man who has planted over 7,000 trees, slept in hobo jungles, walked with nomadic shepherds in Romania, was a fifth grade yo-yo champion and once wrestled a bear (and lost). Otis has played countless, theatres, festivals, bars and house concerts and has managed to carve out a living, while remaining happily independent.
Much of his work concentrates on the world ignored by pop culture. Sometimes forgotten, obsolete, or simply marginalized, it...
One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best known and most celebrated works, the Mikado is a light-hearted comedy set in the fictional town of Titipu, Japan.
The wandering minstrel son of the Mikado falls for and flirts with a girl who is engaged to her guardian Ko-Ko. Unfortunately the Mikado has decreed that flirting is punishable by death and Ko-Ko, who has been appointed Lord High Executioner, must find someone to execute before the Mikado’s forthcoming visit! Throw a corrupt public official into the mix and confusion and deceit abound.
“Dear Mr. and Mrs. Tyler, we have a baby called David for adoption and we wonder if you would care to consider him. He was born on October 4th and his weight at birth was 7 lb 4 oz. David is a handsome baby with a nice shaped head and ears, fair skin and very dark eyes. He is a good and easy baby” is how Families for Children Patron Mark Tyler was described to his prospective adoptive parents. 50 years later Mark is about to celebrate his half-century by having his head shaved in aid of the charity. “I want to see if that nice shaped head is still there!” said Mark.
The latest show from acclaimed musicians Blast from the Past takes in 600 years of musical history in 90 minutes! Beginning in the Middle Ages and ending up in the 20th century (and incorporating everything in between!) this fun and fast-moving show is a whistle-stop tour of Western musical history.
Featuring long forgotten songs and tunes (not to mention jokes!) Blast from the Past paint a vibrant and vivid picture of our musical DNA, mixing the familiar and the obscure, the raucous and the reflective and the courtly and the commonplace.
Ralph McTell has enjoyed a 48 year career and Autumn 2013 sees the One More For The Road tour of this quintessential singer-songwriter-guitarist.
Ralph’s shows feature beautifully crafted narrative songs, combined with destrous fingerstyle guitar playing and evocative story telling, and will of course include the Ivor Novello award winning Streets of London.
Two of British poetry’s leading lights, together in Exeter, for one night only.
Sean O’Brien first six individual poetry collections all won awards, most recently the Drowned Book, which won both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes. Sean’s work explores issues at the heart of contemporary Britain. His recent poem Oysterity , published on the eve of the Government’s last pre-budget statement, scrutinizes the topical themes of consumption and regret. The Guardian calls him ‘ a poet of unabashed political engagement, wit and humour’ . His Collected Poems was published in 2012.
A woman out running with her partner has been seriously injured after running into a rope that had been deliberately tied across the pathway on a footbridge, near to Double Locks in Exeter. The woman, aged 33, is understood to have suffered a serious neck injury and is in hospital. Her condition is being described as stable but serious. The incident took place around 8.30pm on Thursday evening on a pedestrian footbridge that leads to Salmonpool Lane from the Duck’s Marsh playing field at the back of the University of Plymouth (Exeter Campus) in Exeter. With poor light at that time of the...
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THEATRE
Lunchtime Theatre: Tangled Feet present Inflation Friday, Princesshay Square, Exeter A bouncy castle sits in a public space. On it Tangled Feet try to solve the recession, understand trading and keep the darn thing up! Every attempt at order and structure is undermined by the moving landscape and actions of others. Using an evocative soundtrack, physical theatre and slapstick comedy, award winning Tangled Feet explore the uncertain ground our world is...
Tim Burgess, Exeter Phoenix, Thursday 19 September 2013
Perhaps it has something to do with Tim Burgess' keen practice of Transcendental Meditation, but rarely I have watched such a relaxed and admirably unshowy gig from a commercially successful artist.
Indeed, a low-key gig at the Exeter Phoenix - part of a UK autumn tour - seemed pretty apt for the laid-back recent solo work of the Charlatans ' front man.
Topped with an enviably lush mop of Dougal-esque blonde hair (Burgess is 46 now and nigh on 25 years of rock 'n' roll has been impossibly kind to him), Burgess...
One of the country's most distinguished living novelists, Hilary Mantel will discuss the impulse to recover the past that lies behind her historical fiction. The talk will be held in the stunning Alumni Auditorium, at the University of Exeter and members of the public, students and staff are welcome to attend.
The inspiration for the talk is a photograph of Hilary Mantel's great-grandmother on the doorstep of a terraced house in a Derbyshire mill village. She was far from her birthplace in Ireland, and the photograph is the single image of her that remains. The photo was taken at...
