Canadian theatrical goth-punks New Jacobin Club, best known for their darkly flamboyant stage theatrics and sideshow stage performers, are proud to announce their upcoming UK tour to celebrate their achievement as one of Canada’s longest running theatrical rock acts as well as the success of their latest album overseas. Soldiers of the Mark is the band’s 5th full length album in nearly 20 years and has won critical acclaim with its’ apocalyptic feel and rich kaleidoscopic sound that has been described as “a cauldron of classic goth, 70’s rock and power metal” and is dominated by soaring...
Enjoy a show of cherished cars and steam engines from local owners, ranging from vintage era to modern day cult classics with a barbecue, bouncy castle and games, our first classic car show will be a great day out for all the family.
11am-3pm.
Entry on the gate - £2, family (2 adults plus 2 children) £5.
A cheque for more than £4,000 was presented to the South West Multiple Sclerosis Centre charity by Thomas Westcott Chartered Accountants.
The money, which in total came to £4,100, was raised at the firm's annual charity golf day and other fund raising events and will go towards daily running costs of the centre in Clyst Heath, Exeter.
The South West MS Centre receives no government funding, relying solely on charitable donations in order to survive and is run by a team of part time staff and dedicated volunteers.
Therapies offered at the centre to those with MS...
3 Daft Monkeys plus support Holly Morwenna at Kingskerswell Parish Church on April 30th Doors 7pm Festival favourites 3 Daft Monkeys bring their quirky and original approach to music back to venues across the UK this spring, after a whirlwind summer of international gigs and festival headline shows.
After experiencing the band’s notoriously energetic live performance at Glastonbury Festival this summer to a packed-out Avalon Stage, Mark Radcliffe declared them as one of his “Highlights of the Festival” on BBC TV coverage, and subsequently invited them to play a session on his BBC...
EMG Symphony Orchestra said farewell to its conductor with a performance of Britten’s War Requiem at Exeter Cathedral yesterday, 23 April. The Cathedral was full to capacity for the concert. A huge choir joined almost 100 players for the performance, which fell on the same date as the first bombing raids on Exeter during 1942. On 23 April that year, seven high explosive bombs fell west of the river in St Thomas and Marsh Barton with four fatalities. Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem was commissioned for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, built alongside the remains of the...
Jo Loosemore and Sarah Chesters from BBC Radio Devon’s Potting Shed programme (Sundays from 9-12) will be part of Toby Buckland’s 2016 Garden Festival.
Over the years this popular BBC Radio Devon programme has helped gardeners and gardens all over the county.
It invites listeners to ring, write, email and text in with garden queries and questions. Sarah Chesters from RHS Rosemoor gives expert advice and answers. The two presenters will be offering gardening Q & A sessions on Saturday 30th April in the tea tent during four sessions between 11am - 4pm
To be accurate, if you were down at Bystock Pools near Exmouth recently you would have been in for ‘a big surprise’.
Against the backdrop of tranquil pools and colourful heathland you would have seen a handful of musicians from Exeter Symphony Orchestra, in full concert dress working with photographer Matt Austin.
The extraordinary photo shoot has resulted in some stunning images.
These will be used initially in the June edition of Devon Life to promote The Devon Wildlife Trust’s ‘Concert for Wildlife’ to be held in Exeter Cathedral on the 16th July.
A former Nursing Sister who trained at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital during the Second World War has received a replica of a gold nursing medal which was tragically stolen from her during a burglary.
Eighty-nine year old Doris Sumption, from Spetisbury in Dorset, was devastated when her home was burgled three years ago and thieves took one of her most treasured possessions – a gold medal which she received for being top of her class during her nurse training at the RD&E in 1946.
Doris started her training with the RD&E, then based in Dean Clarke House in...
Honiton Gymnastics Club took 51 gymnasts to Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the Next Dimension Gymnastics Academy (NDGA) Invitational last weekend, returning with five gold medals, seven silvers and four bronzes.
It’s the biggest team that the club has ever taken away to an invitational competition, and the occasion was made even more memorable by the fact that Honiton was the most successful club at the event.
With 51 gymnasts competing in 23 acrobatic partnerships, Honiton fielded gymnasts in a wide variety of levels, from Grade 1 (novice) through to ‘13-19’ junior...
The sun shone upon the crowds that flocked to day two of the Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink today.
Hundreds of people enjoyed a packed line-up of activities including chef demonstrations, workshops, festival farmyard, cheese and wine masterclass, live music, Festival Question Time with BBC Radio Devon presenters as well as plenty of delicious regional food and drink to enjoy.
Tonight’s After Dark Music Festival at Exeter Castle features Electric Swing Circus, a 6-piece band which delivers a dazzling fusion of 20's swing and stomping beats, with support from...
