Music

Wax The Van residents and guests ease you into the weekend with a fine selection of Disco/Balearic/House/Funk vinyl.

Free entry all night.

Youngblood Brass Band flouts convention in an ecstatic, raucous, incendiary fashion, taking the form of a New Orleans brass band and morphing it into a punked-out hip-hop behemoth of groove and purpose.

The ten-member ensemble, born in Madison, Wisconsin, now hails from all over the US (Madison, Brooklyn, Nashville, Minneapolis, Chicago) and has been unleashing their crash course in genre-bending on stages worldwide since 2000. What other band can claim the honour of having their music spun by DJs like Questlove (of The Roots), working with hip-hop luminaries like Talib Kweli,...

Highest Grade and Eyes Open Promotions present Ba Ba Boom, Exeter’s finest regular reggae dance sessions featuring Highest Grade Sound System playing the latest cuts in dancehall, conscious vibes and classic roots reggae.

9pm-2am

Free until 10pm, £3 after.

Over 18s

Funk & Soul & Rock & Roll from Screaming Al Kershaw of The Computers

9pm-2am

Often described as ‘Steeleye Span on acid’, Trembling Bells are noted for their collaborations with both Bonnie Prince Billy and Mike Heron of the incredible String Band. Their music combines a potent witches brew of acid rock, traditional folk, prog and psychedelia, synthesising traditional folk forms with the bathetic romanticism of country music, the deceptive complexity of medieval music and the swagger of classic rock. With a new album, The Sovereign Self, Trembling Bells reach new, heavier and darker depths.

Having released five cracking LPs in six years, in addition to a...

An unrelenting voodoo trance experience, combining a heady mix of folk and blues roots of the deep south with out-and-out funk and dance.

After years of performing and recording several albums with The Souldiers, the Dutch – New Zealand ensemble comprising Joost van Dyck, sister Cato van Dyck and New Zealand guitarist Daniel ‘Da Freez’ Johnston, em- barked on a new journey and formed My Baby in 2012, working their magic in the Smusic Studio in Amsterdam to release Loves Voodoo! in 2013. A performance at Noorderslag in 2014 made way for a tour schedule that has brought My Baby all...

A summer terrace party from Ripe and Hold It Down – the terrace will transform into a paradise for all to enjoy.

Ripe and Hold It Down have carefully selected DJ’s who will perfectly compliment the Height of Summer.

10pm-2am

£5 on the door, over 18s

In its nearly twenty year history, New York City’s Easy Star Records has produced numerous best-selling, trendsetting reggae albums. The label’s first tour pairs UK upstarts Backbeat Soundsystem, a band laden with groove, drawing on funk, ska, pop and dub influences, with US reggae/rock band Passafire. Expect an unrivalled live energy from these guys.

Backbeat Soundsystem

Backbeat Soundsystem have made a name for themselves on the UK festival and independent venue circuit over the past four years through their outstanding and consistent live performances. A band that’s...

Frank Zielhorst, conductor

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra brings the best of classical music with spectacular lasers and indoor fireworks to Exeter Great Hall this August.

Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Overture Shostakovich Waltz II from Jazz Suite No.2 Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess Ravel Bolero Handel Largo from Xerxes Stravinsky The Firebird: Infernal Dance and Finale Wagner Tannhäuser Overture John Williams Memoirs of a Geisha Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances AUDIENCE CHOICE – see below! Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture

AUDIENCE CHOICE – the most popular...