Hot from their US and UK Festival Tour, award winning band Alt-J are Live in Concert in Exeter!
The English indie rock band was formed in 2007 in Leeds, by Gwil Sainsbury (guitar/bass), Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals) and Thom Green (drums).
Their debut album An Awesome Wave, released in May 2012 in Europe and September 2012 in the United States, won the 2012 British Mercury Prize,. Gwil Sainsbury left the band in early 2014.
Their second album, This Is All Yours, went straight to UK number one. Cameron Knight became a support...
As a world leader in providing weather and climate services, the Met Office employs more than 1,700 people at 60 locations around the world.
It is recognised as one of the world's most accurate forecasters and is at the forefront of climate research. But have you ever wondered just what goes on behind the scenes at the Met Office? Helen Chivers, Head of News and Social Media, will give a personal view of the Met Office, from working in the forecasting centres around the UK to the challenging role of heading up the press office. Helen was a Met Office operational meteorologist for...
Witness the ultimate in British comedy in a 3-part pre-Christmas party in Tiverton.
Comedy takes many forms. Some comedians throw slick, short puns at you by the dozen. Some weave tales of derring do and experience, embellished and fantastic. And others observe us, and remind us of how frail, desperate or silly we all are.
Tom Binns, on the other hand, has become famous for simply being someone else. The actor, broadcaster and stand-up comedian became best known in the early naughties as the hapless radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury.
Following the success of our two Galas with Jacqui Dankworth, we return to the jazz scene and this year invite Claire Martin to join us. This doyenne of British Jazz with be joined by Andy Williamson and the Big Buzzard Boogie Band.
The featured work is I Got Gershwin, Ned Bennett's Jazz Extravaganza, featuring ten of George and Ira Gershwin's best-known works including Summertime, I Got Rhythm and the blues from An American In Paris.
Add in solo sports from Claire, the band and the Exeter Big Noise Choruses and of course the Exeter Festival Chorus and you have an upbeat,...
The year is 1944. In the depths of a dusty larder in the bombed ruins of an Exeter restaurant, Eloise finds a beautiful, golden whisk.
But when she clutches the shimmering relic, she unleashes an ancient curse.
The only way to free herself is to cook the tastiest dish in the world.
With time running out, Eloise scurries into the broken city’s underworld, undertaking extraordinary feats to gather the ingredients and discover the recipe. But with a rabble of greedy gangsters also chasing the whisk, will she succeed in evading its curse?
"That's why they call it Café Nero, you know. Because you sit and fiddle with your iPad while the world outside burns."
For over 500 years the smell of coffee has seeped into our streets, our lives, our society.
Hub for gossip, romance, political tub thumping, dodgy deals, completing a new pitch, book clubs, a moment alone, escaping being alone - if walls could talk.
And in one coffee shop in a town just over the horizon, those walls can talk, time escapes us and those that visit the coffee house, dream in the coffee house, plot and scheme in the coffee house all...
This New Years Eve we invite you to leave behind the humdrum of day-to-day life and explore a world where nothing is quite as it seems.
After two years of raucous sell-out revelry, Exeter’s most imaginative New Year event returns with more mind-blowing live music, DJs, zany performers and hidden surprises.
Party amidst falling snow in a winter forest, revel with the weird and wonderful at a tropical tea party for loons, and throw some shapes at the Kitty Litter Disco – meeeoooow! There’s no telling what you’ll find around the next...
Zion Train are a Dub phenomenon. Their work from the past 2 decades still sounds fresh to today’s discerning ears. Their recorded output is prolific with an album a year and innumerable production credits, remixes and song writing collaborations. The live experience is legendary with audiences around the globe being whipped into a frenzy by pounding bass and heavy rhythms and their zest and positive energy still abounds. Expect the deepest of dub bass-lines and full-on effect-heavy mixing from main-man Neil Perch, the tightest of brass playing from The Crispy Horns and crazy tosting from...
THE SELECTER Legendary 2-Tone artists, The Selecter, release their new studio album SUBCULTURE on 15 June 2015 on DMF Records and have just announced a tour this Autumn. The album, which comes out on CD, 12″ Heavyweight Vinyl and Digital, has been produced by Neil Pyzer and expertly mixed by Prince Fatty and is the calling card of a ‘classic’ band that are completely tuned into the issues and challenges of the modern world.
Whenever successful bands from the past reform they invariably start trading in nostalgia and become “heritage” acts. No one expects them to grow artistically...
Back from Berlin, art-rock musician and prolific songwriter Grice and his band launch a new album of electro-acoustic glitch and intensely emotional songs.
Grice’s second album Alexandrine has been described as ‘an art-rock gem’, with plays on BBC6 Music (Tom Robinson) and worldwide.
