A comedy of betrayal. Following his award winning show Bravo Figaro, Mark Thomas tells his true story of how Britain’s biggest arms manufacturer (BAE Systems) came to spy on a comedian. A tale of hubris, planes, demos and undercover deceit told by an award winning performer.
Ten years ago an activist and close friend of Mark’s was exposed as a spy for BAE Systems infiltrating the movement. Now Mark wants to find him and has some questions to ask. This is a true story. The show picks up from where the award winning Bravo Figaro left off in style using interviews from friends,...
Gillie Kleiman and Sara Lindstrom present A Lyrical Dance Concert - A Pop Musical Cabaret
A Lyrical Dance Concert is a party in a comedy double act in a cabaret show in a gig in an experimental dance performance. Number-by-ridiculous-number, the lyrics of chart hits past and present are danced out – stretched, turned, lifted and thrown. With joyful irreverence and serious fun, the show insists that pop music belongs to us and can do what we want it to do. Get your glad-rags on, grab a drink and a pal, and giggle along with this mixed-up whirlwind of glamorous divas, guitar solos...
Winner of five major comedy awards. 24-hour-show luminary. Novelist. Watson (host of BBC’s We Need Answers, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mock The Week regular and star of cult Radio 4 series Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better) returns to the road.
This is his darkest, most personal show yet. Luckily, also his funniest. Book early.
Jane Mason’s work explores ways in which the movements of bodies and objects in space can create ‘image worlds’ of great affective resonance and tenderness.
The initial trigger for Life Forces came from her father’s old slide projector and his archive of slides.
Joined by writer/performer Phil Smith, Life Forces offers a meditation on memory’s place in the face of uncertain futures, and on transformation and change as the core ground of being, the ‘life force’ that links everything and everyone.
Power up your ray guns, slip on your neon legwarmers and make sure you’ve applied your dinosaur repellant liberally…
This New Year’s Eve we invite you to send yourself spinning through time. From prehistoric dinosaur days through gothic victoriana, eightie’s electronica to future space odyssey, join us for live music and time-warped happenings.
Join the Phoenix for:
Live music and DJs Nineteenth century absinthe bar Walkaround cyborgsVictorian burlesque 80’s silent disco Robot dance-off Daft as Punk Rock & Roll bands Live electronica and light show 50’s Pin-up...
Hold it Down presents Grandmaster Flash plus support
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip-hop. Theirs was a pioneering union between one DJ and five rapping MCs. Grandmaster Flash not only devised various techniques but also designed turntable and mixing equipment. Formed in the South Bronx, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were one of the first rap posses, responsible for such masterpieces as ‘The Message’, ‘Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel’, and ‘White Lines’.
The combination of Grandmaster Flash’s turntable...
The Mysterious Freakshow & Exeter Phoenix present The Steampunk Yule Ball 2
The Steampunk Yule Ball is back for its second year with the crème de la crème of the UK and US Steampunk scene. An unusual evening of Music, Comedy, Performance Art, Cabaret, and Elegant Couture. Featuring: Professor Elemental, The Mysterious Freakshow, BB Blackdog, Birthrite, Lord Montague Jacques Fromage III, The Wattingers, Miss Von Trapp, Inna Sketchi Manna, Tea Duelling, Steampunk Market, DJ’s and still more acts to be confirmed.
‘Good folk songs are like dangerous ideas, forcing us to re-imagine who we are and the institutions that support us.’
Folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Luke Daniels’ talents as a singer-songwriter are becoming widely recognised. Immaculate acoustic guitar playing and insightful, honest lyrics exploring love, life, doubt and faith and the idea that happiness and hope spring from what we have in common, rather than what we can acquire as individuals.
Over the course of a twenty-year career Daniels has already earned his place on the UK Folk scene as a virtuoso...
Two innovative musical pals, both established solo folk artists in their own right, come together from their respective corners of Britain for a night of sparkling acoustic tunes.
The Pictish Trail is the nom de plume of Johnny Lynch, a Scottish musician who spent some time running Fence Records alongside Kenny Anderson (King Creosote). His music is a sonorous mixture of acoustic-driven balladry and lo-fi synthesised pop, that has been described as ‘a post-summer trove of sun-warped electro, anamorphic folk’ (Plan B Magazine).
Fish, the critically acclaimed progressive rock singer/songwriter, and former lead singer of Marillion, brings his extensive 13-date tour to Exeter.
Billed as The Moveable Feast Tour this nationwide trek is named after his new album A Feast Of Consequences. Fish will perform songs from the new album, as well as his solo album tracks, including early Marillion classics.
Fish operates outside of ‘the industry’ and so this new release will be available via www.fishheadsclub.com
