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...
A rollercoaster ride through the mind-boggling mysteries of everyday life…
Olive is always daydreaming. She daydreams about what’s going on inside her cat’s head, or about that weird picture above her bed of a steam train puffing out of a fireplace… Then one day, on her way to school, another very odd train chugs into the station- it’s studded with olives, for one thing, and there’s no driver….So Olive boldly jumps aboard and, WOOHOO, she’s driving her very own dream train and it can take her absolutely anywhere!
Written by Daniel Jamieson, Olive & the Dream Train is a...
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.
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 SHOWING:
THE LAST EXPLORERS OF THE RIO SANTA CRUZ Dir. Tom Allen, Producer Tom Allen and Leon McCarron, 48 mins
Hot on the heels of the recently released and critically acclaimed album MOONBUILDING 2703 AD on Kompakt records, The Orb announce a full UK headline tour.
Epic…brilliant.‘ 8/10 MIXMAG
‘Moonbuilding…’ finds the duo in fine form. Long may they continue.‘ 8/10 DROWNED IN SOUND
‘The Orb’s talent for arch ambient techno is undimmed.‘ 4/5 THE GUARDIAN
‘Paterson’s space academy can still churn out excellent results. A 40 minute trip through Balearic ambience, juddering breakbeats, pitched down motoric rhythms and narcotic induced house.‘ 8/10 MOJO
After beginning his Uncarved Block tour here last year, Tom Baxter returns to Exeter Phoenix.
After gathering broad critical and public acclaim for his first two albums – Feather & Stone and Skybound – Tom took time out to rediscover his passion for the guitar and love of song-writing. It was a journey that took him from the wilds of Devon, through the foothills of India, the mountains of Southern Spain, and ended in California. The end result was The Uncarved Block – Part One which showcases his masterful guitar-playing and the raw, confessionary depth of his lyrics and voice...
