Once voted as ‘the musician least likely to survive the 60s’, over four decades later ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker has proved them all wrong, returning to the UK after living abroad for many years, with a formidable quartet of funk and jazz giant Pee Wee Ellis (tenor sax), Alec Dankworth (bass) and Ghanaian percussionist Abass Dodoo.
The music is a healthy mix of Thelonius Monk, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, plus originals from Messrs Ellis and Baker – a challenging and fresh sound with Baker and Dodoo providing a perfect powerhouse of rhythms.
The Last Post is a brand new first class performance, devised and delivered by Kilter Theatre. Set to an original “harmony-drenched, melancholy-tinged” live score and performed at extremely close quarters in the back of Mobile Sorting Office 451 – a lovingly converted bright red van crammed with retro-chic details from a much-traveled life, a thousand items of real mail and seating for just 17. The Sorting Office will be situated in the grounds of the Exeter Phoenix Car Park.
A redundant Post Master seeks solace in the bosom of an infamous Great Aunt but finds himself instead...
John Spiers & Jon Boden are well known for their involvement as founding members of the big band folk phenomenon that is Bellowhead. They have played together as a duo for over 10 years now and have established themselves as a very well respected act on the English traditional music scene.
Together they play fiddle, guitar, assorted squeezebox instruments, a stomp box and they both sing – a combination which sounds like a two-man-one-man-band! Their music is equally at home playing to 50 people in the intimate setting of the back room of a pub, or 10,000 on the main stage at...
Festival faves Hobo Jones and The Junkyard Dogs play wild acoustic versions of classic tunes interspersed with on-stage antics guaranteed to get you bouncing and laughing. Tramp-rock at its finest, irreverent, cheeky and ferociously funny!
Pyrates play sea shanties with attitude, which always turns into a sing-along, amidst a veritable Arh-mageddon of naughty nautical chants ‘n’ cheers.
This West Midlands-based band gained a significant following in the late 1980s with two critically acclaimed albums, The Eight Legged Groove Machine and Hup.
Mainstream chart success followed with their third album in 1991, which included the hits The Size of a Cow, and Dizzy performed with Vic Reeves.
The band split in 1994, but after a seven year sabbatical, they reformed and continue to play their old numbers, along with new material.
Exeter Pride, the region's biggest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) parade takes place on 23 March. Here is a complete guide to what's on in the run up to and on the day of the parade:
Tuesday 19 March
Fusion Club Night Vaults Bar & Club, Gandy Street, Exeter A club night to kick off Exeter Pride. Free entry and drinks promos, 9pm-2am.
Thursday 21 March
University Pride Think and Action Day The Forum, University of Exeter Performances by student groups, accapella singers, dance, music, plus a series of mini lectures, all welcome, free,...
Bristol-based festival favourites The Zen Hussies blend a diverse range of genres – R&B, ska, swing, rockabilly, calypso – into their own punked-up swingska sound. This six-piece present a high octane music revue, guaranteed to set the even the most troubled feet dancing.
17 & 18 January Alaska 7.30pm, Northcott Theatre One man goes in search of adventure and freedom...but is soon plunged into a nightmarish world of extreme survival, haunted by all things living and dead. Boldly following in the intrepid footsteps of Bear Grylls and Ray Mears, Alaska is a tragi-comic riot of Pythonesque dottiness guaranteed to leave you spellbound. Tickets: £12.50 (£10.50), student standby £8, 01392 493493 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 20 January Don’t Even Want to Be On Telly Anyway 8pm, Exeter Phoenix A show full of fun, idiocy and handsomeness from the 2011 and 2012 Chortle...
Artist Steven Paige is currently resident artist at Double Elephant, tasked with responding to the Leonard Baskin & Ted Hughes archive based at University of Exeter. Not a regularly practicing printmaker, his approach to the residency is a much conceptual as materials based.
For the workshop on 31 October, Steven will present aspects of the archive that he has found intriguing – namely how Baskin worked and corresponded with Hughes, how text/writing works with the image, including the notion of the press or publishing of works, and, as it is auspiciously Hallowe'en, how a...
I would like to talk breakfast groups. OAC Ltd have been to many breakfast group meetings in and around Exeter in our time and indeed still do. What about you? Does your MD see a regular expenses claim for breakfast, if so, what do tell him he gets for his investment? What do you, maybe as the one who spends pounds putting on the lbs every week want from breakfast meeting, is a good breakfast the whole story? I have had bad breakfasts at great breakfast meetings. What makes it work?
Do you have a regular business lunch meeting? Which time of day is best? Lets face it, if we had the...
