A SKILLZ BARRY ASHWORTH DANCEFLOOR OUTLAWS OMC (BEN & LEX) HOSTED BY JAE TUNS We are pleased to welcome Bristol’s Ghetto Funk for their first visit to Exeter as a warm up for their Shindig Weekender near Bath at the end of May. Co-founder of Ghetto Funk, Will Lardner, will be playing under his Dancefloor Outlaws alias and is joined by two DJs that need no introduction to Beatz & Bobz. The party rocking, crowd surfing DJs Dub Pistol’s main man Barry Ashworth and scratch master A. Skillz who just happen to be two of the venue hosts for Ghetto Funk’s Shindig Festival, held near Bath...
The South West’s much loved physical comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete are back this season with their Sell Out successful take on the classic tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Join Dorothy and Toto on their fantastical and downright chaotic travels along the Road of Yellow Bricks meeting the usual (sort of) suspects along the way – an unbelievably idiotic Scarecrow, a Tin Man straight from under the Iron Curtain and a Lion whose West End dreams seem just Over The Rainbow – as well as some characters, you might not expect….
The Future Sound of Exeter present a progtastic night of live music with double-headliners Beacon Fire and Sembalance plus FSOE prog deejays. Beacon Fire play melodic prog epics, and Sembalance are like Hawkwind with added harmonica! Profits to Phonic FM.
Ferocious Dog offer a full-on six-piece sound that encompasses folk infused with rock, reggae and Celtic vibrations. The combination of instruments creates a palette of sound that offers infinite variations: going in hard to get people up and moving, or slipping into melodic passages and dub-like fusions.
With their unique, aggressive yet feel-good music they tear up venues across the country often bringing their faithful Hell Hounds along for the ride.
For many years Ferocious Dog have appeared at small venues and pubs, until in 2009 where the band were given the...
Julian Clary, national trinket, author, TV and radio star is coming up your way...
The Joy of Mincing is Julian Clary's celebration of 30 years as a camp comedian. There is so much to tell you; the ups and downs of his sordid love life, the true and heart stopping account of how he saved Dame Joan Collins' life, and don't start him on the perils of his DIY electrical home enema kit.
On stage Julian will proudly wear his well-deserved M.B.E (Mincer of the British Empire). It was the last thing he expected to receive when he knelt down in front of Prince Charles in the...
Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival returns to Powderham Castle with some of the country’s best plant specialists, gardening stars and plenty of delicious local food, craft, live music and fun.
Gardens come in all sizes and whether you have an acre or a window box, a bare square of earth or a shady spot, you can grow a beautiful garden. Let your creativity take root at Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle and soak up inspiration from amazing and colourful nurseries, demonstrations and gardening experts. Nowhere else in the South West can you find such diversity of...
Illuminating fishing nets is a cost-effective means of dramatically reducing the number of sea turtles getting caught and dying unnecessarily, conservation biologists at the University of Exeter have found.
Dr Jeffrey Mangel, a Darwin Initiative research fellow based in Peru, and Professor Brendan Godley, from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University’s Penryn Campus, were part of a team of researchers who found that attaching green battery powered light-emitting diodes (LED) to gillnets used by a small-scale fishery reduced the number of green turtle deaths by 64...
Torbay Council’s sustainable travel team, Travel Torbay, are launching a new initiative with local businesses to encourage their staff to leave the car at home and cycle to work instead. This new initiative, which is called Bikes for Business, is offering local companies the opportunity to obtain free reconditioned bikes that can be passed onto staff to increase sustainable travel to and from their workplace. In return, these businesses are being encouraged to work alongside Travel Torbay to develop or amend their organisations Travel Plan.
Join Dartmoor National Park Ranger Simon Lee on Sunday 10 April as he leads a team of volunteers working on the popular Templer Way walking route near Haytor.
The day runs from 10:30 until 3:30 and starts at the National Park Visitor Centre, Haytor.
The Templer Way follows the route by which granite was taken from the quarries in the Haytor area during the 1800s on an 18 mile journey to Teignmouth on the south coast.
A granite tramway was used to transport the stone down to Stover Canal from where it was shipped down to the docks at Teignmouth. Large parts of the...
