Family fun for the post-rave generation of parents. Helping parents be responsibly irresponsible since 2013.
DJs Cakeboy (Rocstar Recordings) plus resident Little My play (grown up) dance music on the multi-sensory dancefloor with glitter cannons, bubbles and giant parachute dance. Craft tables with giant mural, themed crafts and playdoh table. Play area with tents and tunnels and baby chillout space with mats and small ballpool. Licensed bar, free transfer tattoos, glowsticks and Happy Monkeys smoothies at the end. Cafe Bar serving savoury and sweet treats for ravers young and old...
The High Kings, the true heirs of Ireland’s folk heritage, are the most exciting Irish folk group to come along in years. Comprising Brian Dunphy, Finbarr Clancy, Martin Furey and Darren Holden, they are all Internationally acclaimed singers of Irish folk songs.
A quartet of accomplished musical pedigrees, the band first exploded onto the Irish folk music scene in 2008. They have sold out hundreds of shows, in Ireland, the UK, Germany and the US, made numerous TV appearances and achieved multi platinum status.
The High Kings showcase their incredible versatility and skills...
Cornish gypsy-folk band 3 Daft Monkeys’ 4-piece line-up features Athene on fiddle, Tim on 12-string guitar & vocals, Lukas on bass guitar and Richie on percussion, adding a fuller and richer sound. The band weave world music influences around classic folk melodies and their passion, intensity and sheer joy of life mixed with their infectious dancing rhythms will leave you breathless, enthralled and exhilarated. The desire to dance at one of their live shows is irresistible! So come along and dance yourself silly in support of community radio station Phonic FM!
A quirky arts market offering original, handmade and locally crafted goods.
Exeter’s well established alternative Christmas market is back. Exeter Phoenix will be bursting at the seams with artists and crafters selling their wares. From quirky little stocking fillers to unique, hand crafted jewellery, homewares, ceramics and screen prints to make you chuckle, there is something for everyone at Unique Boutique. If someone needs to mind the shopping bags the Café Bar will be serving up seasonal treats, and as always, Exeter Phoenix will be full of festive cheer.
THE ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL Adventure Film Festival is back for a fifth year at Exeter Phoenix. Featuring the best in extreme sports and adventure films, experience a festival of adrenaline-pumping action through a selection of films that celebrate pushing minds and body to the limits. From mountain biking to skiing, kayaking to base-jumping, arduous expeditions to world firsts, each of our three exciting film programmes includes something for every thrill seeker.
FILMS: UNREAL Dir. Anthill Films, Producer Teton Gravity Research and Anthill Films, 15 mins
Sfter volunteering for a brain-imaging experiment meant to locate the part of the brain that lights up when you’re in love, Rob emerges with more questions than answers.
Can brain scans read our minds? Are we our brains? How can you map the mind?
The show includes a specially constructed MRI-hat that will record Robert’s real-time brain activity in the show.
For Stephen Venables a new route up the world’s highest mountain without oxygen was just the start of a whole new series of adventures. In this stunning new talk he recounts his narrow escape from death in the Indian Himalaya, first ascents in Nepal and sailing to the mountains of Tierra del Fuego, South Georgia and Antarctica.
Stephen Venables, mountaineer, writer, broadcaster and public speaker, was the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen. Everest was a thrilling highlight in a career which has taken Stephen right through...
University of Exeter Footlights proudly presents The Phantom of the Opera coming to the Exeter Northcott in January 2016.
"Let it heighten each sensation."
Paris, 1883: the Opera house is ablaze with a haunting. Christine, full of grief over the death of her father, steps in to cover the sick Prima Donna Carlotta at the Opera’s gala. Upon hearing her, the Phantom is breathlessly captivated by her magical voice. Isolated for centuries by his ghoulish demeanor, he is crippled by a desire to love and to be loved. Thus, in despair, he lures Christine into his lair. In true...
Superlatives are used far too frequently in the music business, but Tankus the Henge truly are the ultimate feel-good band. They come from a background of vaudeville and gypsy carnival, but it’s coupled with a commercial songwriting nous and flair for showmanship that makes them even greater than the sum of their parts.
Blessed with a charismatic cast of characters, Tankus the Henge are uplifting, uninhibited, eccentric, wondrously energetic and beautifully tuneful. One of the best live bands you’ll ever see. Any other band who billed themselves as ‘the most fantastic band in the...
This November, singer-songwriter Ellie Williams returns to Exeter Phoenix to preview tracks from her forthcoming album, Osito.
Ellie made a name for herself with her debut album Unseen, which broke fan-funding records, and Fin’s Song, which raised funds for NSPCC and reached Number One in the Amazon MP3 charts. Thyroid Cancer halted Ellie’s progress However, less than 10 months after beginning treatment, Ellie followed a sold out show at Exeter Phoenix with a UK tour in support of her 2nd album, Hope, supporting acclaimed artists such as Suzanne Vega, Joan Armatrading, Seth Lakeman...
