Gemfest is back for it’s 5th year of festival fundraising! Over £20,000 was raised for Hospiscare and The Brain Tumour Charity at the last 3 events.
Organised by local Brain Tumour ‘survivor’ and her team, there will be a day event (11am-4pm) packed with family activities topped off with a variety of live music and entertainment (see website for full line up) in the evening from 6pm. So no reason to be bored this Easter Sunday! Come and warm up for the festival season, there’s something for everyone – guaranteed. And don’t forget to wear your wellies – it is a festival after all...
The Friday Modulation and Phonic FM are proud to present legendary mod-revival band Secret Affair.
Take two ambitious musicians, mix in a chunk of bitterness, add the end of the punk era and you have the recipe of how it all started…. Secret Affair are one of the top Mod revival bands and are back in Exeter for the 1st time in over 35 years.
With hits like Time For Action, Let Your Heart Dance and My World, they perform with energy and angst and have delighted crowds at gigs and festivals for over 3 decades.
Secret Affair never disappoint and we can’t wait to have...
Ferocious Dog are the new noise on the block – and are surprising everyone with their rapid ascent. There is no way they’re following any hipster templates – fronted by a big burly man with a mohican who sings impassioned political songs of broken Britain whilst his band seethes like a punky Levellers – they are the music business’s worst nightmare – a great band who are going to make it without anyone’s permission’ LOUDER THAN WAR
In China, 2015 was the year of the Sheep – but in Nottinghamshire and countless venues and festivals in the UK it was the year of the Dog. The year that...
Dutch-based Zappatika are leading exponents of the challenging music of Frank Zappa who regularly play with a range of Zappa alumni to help keep the great man’s legacy.
Expect stimulating re-interpretations of classic tracks rather than slavish copies, with on-stage antics, improvised sections and a sprinkling of Zappatika’s own Zappa-inspired material. Prepare to be zapped by numbers such as My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Moma, Kozmic Debris, The Torture Never Stops, Filthy Habits, Wonderful Wino, I am the Slime, Eat That Question, Zoot Allures, Black Napkins, Andy, Why does it Hurt...
A masterful musician and captivating songwriter, John is recognised as one of the most creative guitarists on the circuit. Referencing a diverse collection of world genres, expect an explosion of textures and influences, blending eastern melodies with jaw-dropping guitar.
Fairhurst epitomises the sound of modern British blues and sits comfortably at the forefront of blues and Rock & Roll in the UK.
Lætitia Sadier sometimes known as Seaya Sadier is a French musician best known as the singer of the band Stereolab. Sadier was working as a nanny when she met McCarthy guitarist Tim Gane at a gig in Paris during the late 1980s. Sadier was disillusioned with the rock scene in France, and soon moved to London to be with Gane and to pursue her career. She contributed vocals to McCarthy’s final albums and when McCarthy broke up in1990 and she and Gane immediately formed the hugely influential Stereolab.
Find Me Finding You, is the new album from Lætitia’s new ensemble.
With his highly anticipated second album I Swear I Flew garnering rave reviews and nationwide radio play, strengthened by extensive touring which included support sets for the legendary Seal, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, Cara Dillon, The Feeling and Ben Ottewell of Gomez, it’s safe to say that 2016 has been a hell of year for Winter Mountain!
In the spring of 2017 Joe takes his full band on the road for the first time. Together they are a blistering, shimmering 4 piece comprised of exemplary musicians who recreate and re-energise the soulful, folk-rock songs from both of the...
The second Yorkston/Thorne/Khan album represents a confluence of currents, among them the north Indian sarangi; jazz-tinged bass, reminiscent in places of Danny Thompson; acoustic guitar that owes a debt to Elizabeth Cotton, Dick Gaughan and Mississippi John Hurt; and three very different vocalists. The combination is unusual: YTK’s Everything Sacred, released in 2016, may be the only precedent. Yet while, on paper, the constituent elements might seem disparate, the new album is, if anything, even more coherent than its predecessor.
YTK released their first album, Everything Sacred...
Gentleman’s Dub Club was formed in 2006 in the basement of number 44 Headingley Lane, Leeds. Spurred on by the vibrant Dub scene in the city, GDC found their initial inspiration skanking in front of the mighty Iration Steppas Sound System at Leeds West Indian Centre’s infamous Sub Dub gathering. Since that time, Gentleman’s Dub Club has become an internationally recognised live outfit with a reputation for inciting uncontrollable levels of dance floor energy on the live stage.
With their unique blend of Dub, Reggae, Ska and mayhem, the GDC have performed everywhere from Goa to...
Comedy superstar John Bishop is coming here to warm up his brand new show WINGING IT in autumn 2017!
It will have been 3 years since his last tour and WINGING IT is gearing up to be his biggest and best yet. John is very much looking forward to this new adventure and can’t wait to be back on the road again.
John has achieved huge success with a number of his own comedy, entertainment and documentary shows including ‘John Bishop’s Australia’ (BBC1), ‘John Bishop’s Britain’ (BBC1); ‘John Bishop’s Only Joking’ (Sky1); ‘The John Bishop Show’ (BBC1); ‘The John Bishop Christmas...
