Exeter

The Wurzels plus support from Tank Sherman

Event Date: 
11/12/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exmouth Pavilion

Join the fun with the fantastic Wurzels. The evening kicks off at 8pm with funny man Tank Sherman followed by the ever popular Wurzels.

The Wurzels will be performing all their hits, plus much, more! Why not get in the party started this Christmas with friends and family at one of the best nights out!

https://www.ledleisure.co.uk/exmouth-pavilion/book-now/the-wurzels-tank-sherman

Jethro

Event Date: 
08/12/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exmouth Pavilion

Every once in a while there comes along a true comedy genius, someone who rapidly gains cult status with the British public. Such is the case with Jethro!

Armed with nothing more than a microphone and delivered to you in a warm Cornish accent, Jethro has the rare ability to paint hilarious pictures in the mind of his audience.

Over 4 million DVD sales pay testimony to the size and dedication of his army of followers, and their love of the unpredictable, irreverent twaddle that reduces his audience to tears of laughter night after unforgettable night!

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Show of Hands

Event Date: 
03/12/2015 - 7:30pm to 05/12/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exmouth Pavilion

Show of Hands are undeniably one of the strongest current forces in acoustic music – England’s finest and most popular roots partnership and something of a “people’s band”, regularly voicing the hopes, fears and life stories of scores of people in song.

Joined by Miranda Sykes on double bass they are widely recognised for their resonating original songs, stunning musicianship and remarkable audience rapport Features on BBC TV’s Countryfile, BBC Breakfast and Andrew Marr shows and regular airplay by the likes of Mark Radcliffe, Bob Harris, Mike Harding, Johnnie Walker and Simon Mayo...

Alt-J are Live in Concert

Event Date: 
02/12/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Westpoint Arena, Clyst St Mary, Exeter

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...

Life in the Met Office

Event Date: 
01/12/2015 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

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...

Comedian Tom Binns

Event Date: 
14/12/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Triverton Community Arts Theatre, Tiverton

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.

In 2010 he made the comedy headlines for...

Christmas Gala : I Got Gershwin

Event Date: 
05/12/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Great Hall, Exeter University

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,...

Eloise and the Curse of the Golden Whisk

Event Date: 
09/12/2015 - 7:00pm to 09/01/2016 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

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?

Served up with lashings...

Plunge

Event Date: 
01/12/2015 - 7:00pm to 05/12/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

"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...

Wonderland

Event Date: 
31/12/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

A night of curiosity and wonder...

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...

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