Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (24-26 June).
THEATRE
Spamalot Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Theatre Stage by Stage returns with another high-energy, high comedy explosion! This spectacular staging of the award-winning Broadway and West End show features all the classic characters, including The Knights who Say Ni and the ferocious Frenchmen with a taste for elderberries. If you like dancing nuns, singing cows and all the silliness of Monty Python then this show will be your ‘Holy Grail’! Always look on the bright side of life...
On Saturday 1st October, Exeter’s 4th Oxjam music festival will be buzzing through the walls of Timepiece Bar, Timepiece Courtyard and Old Timers Bar.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Oxfam’s national music festival, Oxjam, and the team of eager volunteers are already working as hard as ever to make Exeter’s Takeover the best yet!
To help make Oxjam Exeter Takeover a success, the volunteers are currently organising a series of fun, exciting and even challenging fundraising events, including: a Buskathon with a number of talented, local artists; a pre Oxjam ‘warm up’...
Chamber Philharmonia Cologne will be Classics from Germany performing on Tuesday 23rd August 2016 at 7.30 pm in St David’s Church in Exeter
Concerti Virtuosi
Mozart
Divertimento for Strings in F Minor KV 138
Borne
Carmen-Fantasy for Flute and Orchestra
Paganini
The carnival of Venice for Violin and Orchestra op.10
Chamber Philharmonia Cologne (Germany)
We are very happy to propose you a diverse program ranging from Antonio Vivaldi to W.A. Mozart, Francois Borne, Gioacchino Rossini and Niccolo Paganini.
Michele Stodart is a solo artist as well as bassist, vocalist and co-songwriter with the much-loved, Mercury-Prize-nominated and double platinum sellers The Magic Numbers. The band released their fourth studio album, Alias, in 2014 with several critics calling it their finest to date, receiving four stars in Q and Uncut. Over the summer of 2014-15, The Magic Numbers supported Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Super Furry Animals and Train on their recent arena tour.
Over a decade since The Magic Numbers landed in the top ten with their double-platinum-selling debut album, Michele...
Is there really such a thing as a hillbilly band covering rock classics? You betcha. They are called Hayseed Dixie and they play Rockgrass.
Barley Scotch is on lead vocals, fiddle and guitar. The Reverend Don-Wayne Reno is on banjo, Deacon Dale Reno is on mandolin and guitar and Jake ‘Bakesnake’ Byers is on acoustic bass. Hayseed Dixie are an awesome live band, who have, to date, released 9 albums. The latest, Killer Grass was released in 2010. A live DVD entitled No Sleep ’til Liverpool is also available.
Songs by artists such as Kiss, Outkast, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith...
Exeter’s finest art-rock band curate an evening for music fans with eclectic tastes. Featuring guest bands hand-picked by PatternPusher including headliners Moriaty.
Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate offer a fusion of world, afrobeat, hip-hop, folk and reggae, which has charted in the World Music iTunes top ten. It defies description but demands attention. They have been nominated for multiple music awards including Best Act and Best Cross Cultural Collaboration.
Broken Brass Ensemble injects the traditional New Orleans brass with a fusion of hiphop, funk, soul, dance, jazz (and much more) and turn it into a blazing mixture of energy.
They’re taking brass to a new level, creating a 2.0 version of the vibrant New Orleans brass sound and this eclectic and energetic sound has been running up a storm over Europe.
Live they deliver hard-hitting brass sounds and their interactive and riotous live shows have seen them conquer crowds all over Europe.
They have sold out shows in UK venues in London, Manchester, Exeter, Norwich only...
Steve Cradock of Ocean Colour Scene recently mentioned of The Mocking Birds, who currently split their time between London and their native roots of Exeter.
The band released their debut single Choose Life back in late 2015 in association with online retailer Atom Retro and are about to announce details of a double A side single for release in July 2016.
The band recently sold out their hometown show at The Bike Shed in Exeter and began a monthly London residency at The Silver Bullet in April. Recent support for the lads has come from the likes of 6 Music & BBC...
