Renowned for their eclectic and energetic live shows, they bring together their own unique union of ska-funk-dub and afrobeat and top it all off with cleverly crafted conscious rhymes – you’ll know these boys came to party.
‘Enjoyably raucous’ EVENING STANDARD
By The Rivers
Not a band to be easily defined. Their eponymous debut album demonstrates influences of the melodies of Soul & Motown, the grooves from Funk & Afro-Beat, and the fun from Ska and Pop, with a blazing brass section which accents, stabs, and sways its way alongside...
New Exeter Chiefs winger Fetu’u Vainikolo has spoken of his excitement after he completed his move to the Aviva Premiership club on a two-year-deal.
The Tongan international, who moves to Sandy Park from Irish club Connacht, has said that Exeter Chiefs’ style of play was a main factor for joining and that he cannot wait to get started. “I’m really excited and looking forward to it,” said the 28-year-old. “It’s always good to get a new experience and I’m really looking forward to the challenge. “Exeter’s type of game play really suits me as a rugby player, it’s the type of rugby I...
The daughter of folk legend Steve Tilston, Martha found herself drawn to folk’s protest spirit and its themes of social justice from an early age. These themes are ever present in the eloquent, politicized questioning that suffuses her latest LP, 'Machines Of Love and Grace', released in late 2012, a collection of subtly charged acoustic folk songs, tinged with electric guitar and touches of electronica. The title is a nod to a beat poem by Richard Brautigan.
‘She has the power to draw an audience into her world, leaving all those present with a smile, and a few issues to...
Criticised by an art school lecturer as having “a remarkable eye for trivia”, Chris Wood’s love of small things has made him one of England’s most vivid and arresting song writers. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables. Hollow Point is his chilling ballad of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezez and Wood’s feel for the sheer “one thing after another-ness” of life allows us, for the first time, to see the event through the eyes of the victim.
‘The finest and most original singer-songwriter to have emerged from the British folk scene...
Zion Train are Dub/Dance pioneers and have been undisputed leaders in the genre for the past two decades. The band were heavily involved in alternative and DIY underground culture in the UK during the 1990s as well as being purveyors of the finest Roots Reggae music throughout this period. They are one of the finest live dub acts on the planet and promoted the practice of dynamic onstage dub mixing which they perform alongside acoustic instruments and the best vocalists.
Expect top-notch reggae-fusion which combines soaring vocals, conscious lyrics, high-energy dance beats and the...
The Mighty Diamonds — Donald “Tabby” Shaw, Fitzroy ”Bunny” Simpson and Lloyd “Judge” Ferguson – formed in 1969 in the Trenchtown area of Kingston, Jamaica. They are the most consistent and long-running vocal trio in Jamaican musical history and for the past 41 years have been entertaining and educating the world with their sweet harmonies and conscious lyrics.
Tickets: £15.50 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/the-mighty-diamonds/
The Noisy Animals are THE biggest band in the world. They are about to blast off into outer space on a mission to find their brand new sound for their latest hit album. In a super duper really, really fast adventure around a rock ‘n’ roll musical universe, our friends encounter noisy planets, cheesed-off nursery rhyme characters, shooting stars and Shakespeare.
Kid Carpet and The Noisy Animals are back, with a brand new adventure. 'Blast Off!' involves some very lo-fi technological wizardry, turning ordinary everyday toys into magical superstars with the aid of a video...
For 5-11 year olds from the book by Michael Morpurgo (adapted by Daniel Jamieson)
Tomas didn’t like books or stories. Stories were just for “Little Snotties”. He was happier clambering in the mountains like a goat or tobogganing with his Dad. That was until the Unicorn Lady came to town and reeled him in with her irresistible magic tales. But then disaster struck and put everything that mattered most in Tomas’s life in terrible danger… 'I Believe in Unicorns' is a spellbinding and moving story by one of our greatest storytellers.
Royal Mail today (7 August) welcomed the Government’s consultation on imposing tougher penalties for irresponsible dog owners.
Dog attacks are a significant hazard, faced by postmen and women on a daily basis. Since April 2011, there have been over 5,500 attacks on Royal Mail postmen and women, some leading to a permanent disabling injury. Attacks have resulted in the loss of 4,100 working days due to injuries. Over 2,400 postmen and women were attacked across the UK by dogs from April 2012 to April 2013. While the number of attacks has fallen by 24 per cent nationally since 2011,...
