Adrian Edmondson’s celebrated folk-punk outfit The Bad Shepherds, have announced that their third album, entitled, Mud, Blood & Beer will be released on Monday 19th August through Ade’s own Monsoon Music label.

The album release is to be followed-up by a 24-date UK tour in November and December 2013. The support act on all dates has been confirmed as husband and wife folk duo, Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou.

Mud, Blood and Beer is the third beautifully-crafted album of classic punk and alternative songs loving reimagined by The Bad Shepherds in their distinctive folk...

Paul Foot’s recent shows and tours have garnered a string of 5 star reviews and successive Barry Nominations at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Described by Chortle as “Inspired, surreal and incomprehensibly funny”, he is a true original, challenging comedic convention at every turn and delighting his connoisseurs.

One of the highlights of this year’s Fringe…. Will leave your sides sore and your face wet with tears without every really fully appreciating why.’ ★★★★★ EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS

‘It may not be for you if you’re expecting comedy like you’ve ever seen it before. This...

Bafta and Ivor Novello award winning singer-songwriter Emily Barker and her band The Red Clay Halo are set to release their much-anticipated fourth studio album, Dear River on the 8 July 2013 on Linn Records and are touring the UK in October and November.

UK based but hailing from Bridgetown, Western Australia, Emily Barker is a compelling singer-songwriter, who with her band The Red Clay Halo blends classical, rock, country and folk influences to stunning effect. Having released three critically acclaimed albums, played a string of sold-out UK dates, performed with Frank Turner at...

International innovators Forced Entertainment’s latest performance imagines a multitude of hypothetical futures. Two performers wreathed in coloured lights, like a strange fairground attraction, speculate about what tomorrow might bring. Exploring utopian and dystopian visions, science fiction scenarios, political nightmares and absurd fantasies, the audience is carried along on a flowing tide of conjectures, possibilities and dreams. Sometimes collaborative, sometimes competitive the two performers enjoy the pleasure of invention as their suppositions take them in different directions....

Mark Thomas is well versed in the art of creative mayhem and over the years his troublemaking has changed laws, cost companies millions and annoyed those who most deserved to be. Now he returns to what he does best, mischief – joyously bad behaviour with a purpose.

After his award winning show Bravo Figaro Mark sets himself the task of committing 100 Acts of Minor Dissent in the space of a year. Mark catalogues everything from the smallest and silliest gesture to the grandest confrontations and the results are subversive, hilarious, mainly legal and occasionally inspiring.

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Scots songwriter Karine Polwart combines the economy and universality of the folk storytelling tradition with a probing intellect and compassionate lyricism. Twice winner of Best Original Song at the UK-wide BBC Folk Awards, she’s collaborated with alt folk balladeer King Creosote, the intellectual maverick of English folk song Chris Wood, Idlewild front man Roddy Woomble, bluegrass ace Tim O’Brien, not to mention unexpected guest appearances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and dub-reggae legends Sly and Robbie. None of which you’d expect from a lass who grew up in the...

Mention Glenn Tilbrook and most people may immediately think of Squeeze. However, since an acrimonious split in 1998 Squeeze has been on the back-burner. Although you might forgive him for resting on his laurels after 13 albums and countless tours all over the world, Tilbrook has continued to write and perform with the same enthusiasm that he brought to Squeeze’s earliest recordings.

With his two solo albums, The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook and Transatlantic Ping-Pong, he proved he’s lost none of the joie-de-vivre that became Squeeze’s trademark. This has been complemented by a...

Over the course of many album releases over the years Bibb has been nominated for multiple Blues Music Awards in several categories. In addition to the Grammy-nominated Shakin’ a Tailfeather children’s album (with Taj Mahal and Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir), other noted albums included Friends, which featured Odetta, Charlie Musselwhite, Guy Davis and Mahal as special guests.

Tickets: £22 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/eric-bibb/

Big Country are back big time, with a new album, new members… and the classic sound.

Big Country are a new wave/alternative rock band which formed in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1981. 30 years on, they are still as committed to the live stage and performing their unique sounding music as ever. ‘Back then we built our audience through non-stop gigging” says founder member Bruce Watson, “The band feels reborn and we are happy to go out there and prove it every night no matter how far we have to travel”.

Tickets: £20 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/big-country...

Turin Brakes are a modern English folk duo, comprising Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, hailing from Balham, London. They had a UK top 5 hit with their song Painkiller (Summer Rain) and are joined on stage by their live band, consisting of Rob Allum and Eddy Myer. Since starting out in 1999, the band have sold around 1 million records internationally. They are set to release a new album, We Were Here, in August 2013.

Tickets: £20 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/turin-brakes/