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Issue 99 | May 09 Director: Nigel Muntz Editor: Lauren Taverner Brown lauren@outofhand.co.uk Design: Adrian Howe Antony Reynolds Dan Hayman Design Intern: Nia Gould Production: Kaspar Walker Advertising: Nigel Muntz Nick Tuckfield sales@outofhand.co.uk Cover: Image by Paul Hampartsoumian Contents: Illustration by Adam Ruff Contributing Aldo Vanucci, Arash Torabi, Backbone, Writers: SUPERDUPERDAN, John Barker, NME, Alan Butler.

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ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM RUFF Adam studied at Plymouth College of Art for about five years, completing two courses and leaving two as they weren’t his cuppa tea. He completed an AVCE at age 16 and an ND in Moving Image with a side order of some NCFEs, and graduated in 2007. Since then, he’s been working on personal illustration projects, and has done some freelance illustration work for a handful of clients around Plymouth. Recently Adam has been made a business partner

by Daniel Cottenham at new vintage clothing shop Faux Couture. He has lived in Plymouth all his life (Mutley to be specific) and his inspiration are the “oddballs” he sees along his travels, tentacles and anything surreal. John Casey is his favourite illustrator. He says Rachel Goodyear and Zeptonn are sick too. In the future he would love to have his own studio, pushing work out everyday for lots of people with lots of cash!. http://ruffsketches.blogspot.com/

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08 News 21 Retail Therapy 23 Fashion

14 The F word

Summer festival madness goes global!

00 Street Art (back next month) 26 Music Reviews 27 Demo Reviews 50 Snapped!

LISTINGS 28 Arts & Performing Arts 31 Film 33 Live 39 Clubs

16 Breakin’ Convention

Innovative hip hop theatre with Jonzi D

19 Subheavy

South West dubstep legends

20 Carpetface

We find out why there’s No Sleep Til Bude…

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NEWS Happy Birthday Love Riot

Photo: Nia Gould

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If you right… If you missed missed out out on on those those ticket ticket comps, comps, don’t don’t fret. fret. The The second second instalment instalment of of The The FF Word Word has has another load another load of of festival festival tickets tickets to to give give away away –– see see pages pages 18 18 && 19 19 and and good good luck! luck!

In In other other news, news, we’d we’d like like to to say say aa big thanks big thanks to to all who attended all who attended our our birthday birthday party party last last month month (see (see Snapped Snapped for for pictures!), pictures!), it it was was loads loads of of fun. fun. Special Special thanks to the thanks to the team team at at ride ride café, café, Red Red Bull Bull and and all all our our prize prize sponsors sponsors for for making making the the party party go go off off with with aa bang. bang. This This month month we we are are also also gearing up for gearing up for aa very very special special June June edition edition as as we we prepare prepare to to celebrate celebrate our our 100th 100th issue. issue.

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One of Cornwall’s best loved club nights, Love Riot celebrates it’s third birthday this month. After kicking off in 2006 as the launch party for Cornish clothing label SLUT, Love Riot gained a reputation for being one of the South West’s finest party brands, committed to bringing the best dance music to the region (with atmospheres so electric, some partygoers feel the need to crowdsurf!) With local talent at the helm in resident DJ Ry Spencely (famed for his slick mixes), and Cornish boy band Bugga, big names like Jeremy Healy, Hoxton Whores and Hed Kandi’s Luke Neville also regularly grace the decks for Love Riot. Luke told us, “Love Riot certainly are dedicated party animals. When I played there, the place was jumping. Loads of girls and guys, people crowd surfing, and it was packed till the end. For pure unadulterated energy, Love Riot’s gotta be one of the best nights in the country!” Love Riot debut in Falmouth on 3 May at Mango Tangos and have a massive fancy dress party at Sandsifter, nr Hayle on 23 May, where Luke Neville will be headlining. (The theme is animals!) loveriot.co.uk

Photo: Matt Holloway

Rip Curl Search Newquay

The Rip Curl Pro Store in Newquay recently launched the first ever national Wetsuit Amnesty to support the brand’s global commitment to protecting the environment. Rip Curl’s pioneering project gives old unused wetsuits a new lease of life as they’re crushed into Resurrection Rubber and reused in manufacturing new products, cutting down on waste in local landfills and materials produced to create new products. You can take your suit into your local Rip Curl Pro store throughout the summer but if you hit the Newquay store from 6pm on 2 May for the launch of the Wetsuit Amnesty, Rip Curl are offering pairs of Project Resurrection sandals in return for all wetsuits brought in for recycling. Rip Curl pro rider Jayce Robinson (pictured) said, “This is such an cool event for the South West, Rip Curl have the largest range of ecological products in the surf sports industry, it’s great that locals can get involved with producing more sustainable products.” On the day there will be an official WCT SEARCH location announcement (live from Australia), a screening of surf film “Relentless Revolution – Powers of Three”, live music and team signings in-store, followed by an after party at the Koola bar (Newquay). Who knew recycling could be so much fun? Visit ripcurl.com or go to Rip Curl, 61 Bank Street, Newquay.

If you couldn’t make it to the launch, don’t fret. Rip Curl’s Newquay Pro store are offering 247 readers the chance to win their own pair of Project Resurrection Flip Flops, made from recycled neoprene, a Rip Curl Planet Pack and Travel guide. To win, email 247@ outofhand.co.uk with a picture of you wearing your dodgiest wetsuit! The most hilarious suit will be randomly picked as the winner. Competition closes 20 May 2009.

THE EDGE Email news to: 247@outofhand.co.uk DANCE ACADEMY PLYMOUTH: Gone but not forgotten. Its now been three years since the police raids.

In last month’s F Word feature, we included the BEARDED THEORY FESTIVAL in the round up, but unfortunately printed the wrong ticket prices, they’re not £81/£37.50 as published, they are a much nicer £45/£5. Bearded Theory is at Bradley Nook Farm, Derbyshire from 15 – 17 May with performances from Neville Staple, Dreadzone Sound System, Zetan Spore, Sunfish, Rory Mcleod and many more.

This year, Bearded Theory donate their profits to Shelter (last year they donated to Oxfam), and they’re also making an official Guinness World Record attempt to have the most people in one designated gathering wearing false beards!

See beardedtheory.co.uk for more info.

FIVEFINGERS are some of the newest fitness/sports shoes available. Developed to give all the benefits of going barefoot (including correcting bad posture), these are suitable for everything from rock climbing to yoga. More like gloves than trainers, the shoes have a non slip, protective grip that actually encourages you to change the way you move, allowing your feet to move in the way they have evolved to, rather than squashing them into unnaturally shaped footwear. Neat!

Fivefingers.co.uk From 19 – 23 May, Truro College’s art and design department decamps to the streets as they set up home in a marquee on Lemon Quay.

Students will be exhibiting work as part of CROSSING ZEBRAS, an event that aims to celebrate the diversity and excellence of work produced by Truro College students. From textiles to graphics and jewellery to fine art, there’s an array of wonderful work to be seen. The title of the event references the variety of pathways and opportunities available within the creative industries. Admission is free.

Kazbar in Bude has changed its name to ROGUE NIGHTCLUB. The club has had a huge refit which included a new stage being fitted, new lighting and sound system and an overhaul of the rest of the venue. Rogue will reopen on 1 May with an appearance from DJ Format at No Sleep Til Bude. The night also sees the launch of Carpetface & Audible’s EP Baboon Shampoo. Read our interview with Carpetface on page 13!

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NEWS Run To The Sun Legendary Newquay based VW and music festival Run To The Sun has been going for 22 years now, and has grown into one of the largest, most popular VW/custom car and music festivals in the UK. Attracting around 80,000 to 100,000 people to Cornwall each year, the queues of VW traffic travelling down to Newquay for the festival at the start of the bank holiday weekend can stretch several kilometres. RTTS 09 promises to be one of the best yet, with festival goers and VW fans taking over Trevelgue Holiday Park from 22 – 25 May. The line up includes Pendulum (DJ set), Grooverider, Judge Jules, Dave Pearce, Hed Kandi, Hobo Jones and The Junkyard Dogs, Rudi’s Message, 4 Tons of Funk, and Vicious Disco. There’s also a comedy arena, and new for 2009, a silent disco. Adult tickets are £81, Child £37.50 (tickets include one weeks camping) – if you’re feeling lucky, make sure you check out our ticket comp in this month’s F Word round up. runtothesun.co.uk

Pure comes to Newquay

One of the biggest clubbing brands in the UK is set to establish a base in Newquay this month. Pure, the team behind the legendary Heaven in London and Pure club in Manchester, are taking over the unloved Tall Trees venue and giving it a makeover worthy of any Ibizan hotspot with a Funktion 1 sound system, new lighting throughout, and several areas over different floors, including The Island, a space for VIP clientele to chill out.

Intending to put Newquay firmly on the map for top summer clubbing destinations, Pure opens on 22 May, just in time for the bank holiday weekend.

Time For Afternoon-Tee

It’s tee-time! Afternoon-Tee. co.uk returns to Plymouth on 10 May. Held at the University of Plymouth’s Student Union, the event includes a sample sale from small, niche fashion and apparel brands, both local and national, from Applied to pimpmyhoodie. co.uk. Music ranges from indie to hip hop, and funk to breakbeat, with performances throughout the day throughout several rooms at the Students Union from the likes of The Scribes (full live band), Auction For The Promise Club, DJ Darko, Necta Selecta and DJ Pandamonium to name just a few.

Don’t miss this fab free event.

The Surf Screen Set up to showcase independent, creative perspectives on surf culture, and to support new filmmaking talent, The Surf Screen is a not for profit organisation that aims to nurture a more sustainable and inspirational scene. Californian artists Thomas Campbell’s eagerly awaited surf film The Present is the focus of The Surf Screen’s current UK 10-date mini tour. Filmed in surf spots in West Africa, New Zealand, Hawaii and California in Super 16mm film, The Present harks back to one of surfing’s longest running aspects off the beach: the surf tour movie. Catch the movie at a selection of intimate venues including Woodlane Theatre, Woodlane Campus, Falmouth on 2 May, The Lighthouse Centre in Poole on 9 May, The Cube Cinema in Bristol on 10 May, Braunton Village Hall, Braunton on 16 May, Reel Cinema Kingsbridge on 17 May, and St Merryn Village Hall, St Merryn on 23 May. thesurfscreen.com

Sandsifter Reopens A fantastic venue that is fast becoming legendary, The Sandsifter is once again open for another summer of partying and music.

Based 200m from the beach at Godrevy, Gwithian (near Hayle), the Cornish club/bar/restaurant/café/fun house has a reputation for hosting some of the county’s best club nights and musical talent. Food at the Sandsifter includes their classic menu full of fresh local produce, and after they successfully hosted the first Freepour cocktail competition last summer it’s safe to say that the drinks menu will be top notch too. With music from the Cuban Brothers and Jelly Jazz already this year, the rest of the summer season looks to be another roaring success. On 1 May, Sandsifter welcomes shiny-happy funky mashups from Falmouth based DJ outfit Hong Kong Ping Pong (£3 entry, 9-2am), and on 2 May Sir Vinyl Of The Fattest return to give the new sound system at the ‘Sifter a bass fuelled seeing to as they celebrate their first birthday (£5 entry, 9-2am). Search facebook.com for Sandsifter to keep up to speed with events.

Radio 1 DJ SCOTT MILLS will be at Berties in Newquay on 23 May, spinning his favourite dancefloor fillers. Tickets to see the cheeky chap cost £8 and the club is open ‘til 4am.

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CHUMBAWUMBA and Farrah will be at Plymouth Guildhall on 4 May for a gig for Trade Unions for a Sustainable Future’s Mayday Festival. Tickets are £10adv (£15otd). Before the evening gig, there will be DJS, music, food, a licensed bar and more from 12pm – 5pm. See plymouth-tuc. co.uk for more info.

Glamour Kills Clothing (the New York based clothing company that already sponsors bands like You Me At Six) are running a competition for a new band to WIN A YEAR’S WORTH OF SPONSORSHIP from them! This will include loads of free merchandise which will no doubt be of great help to the hoards of ‘not-so-rich’ new bands touring the country.

Competing bands are being asked to write the Glamour Kills Clothing company a theme tune and post the track on their MySpace page! Full details at glamourkills.com and the closing date is 10 May. North Devon indie label CHEEKY MONKEY RECORDS have signed local band The Counterfeit Club. The four piece formed in Spring 08 and they have quickly built up a good local fanbase. Their upbeat, indie rock style, encompasses catchy riffs, heavy rhythm guitar and memorable basslines.

The band are currently in the studio recording their debut album These Are Interesting Times with producer Adam Layland. It will be available to buy in June. Check out cheekymonkeyrecords. com or myspace.com/ thecounterfeitclub If you missed the TECHNICS DMC South West Heats, (or you just want to see some of that turntable trickery again!) there is a follow up night on 24 May at The White Rabbit in Plymouth featuring all the local DJs who competed in the regional heats, with a South West based live act as a headliner (TBC). DJs on the night will include the Technics DMC Heats 2008 winner DJ Pandamonium and the newly crowned 2009 winner!

For more info see techniqueshiphop.co.uk Dublin band THE UPGRADES release their new album ‘Take A Risk’ on Torbay’s SYWP Records on 4 May. The alt/ punk/ska band also have some gigs around the region this month – catch them at Rude Bar in Torquay on 18 May, Cider Press Torquay on 19 May, and at The White Rabbit in Plymouth on 20 May.

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Puma go retro

We just had to show you these little beauts – Puma are currently reissuing styles from their archives, and the Easy Rider III’s are the latest addition to their retro line. Staying true to the original 1978 mix of lightweight nylon and suede materials, these iconic trainers are a nod to the 80s trend currently whipping fashionistas into a frenzy. Get yours now from size-online.co.uk (RRP £55).

Land and Sea

On 30 – 31 May free lifestyle show Land and Sea will take over Plymouth Hoe. With everything from a skate ramp to bouncy castles and a 37ft off road landrover track, this is a showcase of everything to do with the land and the sea. Also joining the fun will be Plymouth Argyle with a 5-a-side footie pitch, a climbing wall, as well as stalls and displays from Paignton Zoo, South West War Games and more. Pirate FM willl be doing live broadcasts from the event, and you can even have a go on a Segway (those funny two wheeled things). See redrokevents.co.uk for more!

Burlesque Ball

If you are looking for a memorable night out over the last Bank Holiday weekend this month, look no further than the Poldark Party. Set in the grounds of an historic tin mine near Helston in Cornwall, the unusual venue hosts their annual Burlesque Ball on 23 May with live stage performances from local dance supremos, and a musical journey from funky house to electro/breakbeat.

From 10pm – 4.30am, partygoers will be treated to a festival atmosphere with entertainment across several rooms, including a full burlesque menu in the cabaret room, with performances from Dolly L’amour, and the much anticipated return to Cornwall by Elvis Presley Quartet. Fancy dress is of course compulsory, burlesque costumes and mad hats are essential. Only advanced tickets are available as this event always sells out. For further information and details on buses running from all major towns, call 01736 350984.

Calling all VW enthusiasts!

Plymouth Volksfest takes place at the end of May at Newnham Park in Plymouth. From 22 – 25 May, Volksfest takes over the picturesque park on the outskirts of Plymouth for a festival style showcase of fabulous VWs and local musical talent. The line up features performances from the likes of Dreadzone, Stereo MCs, Plymouth rockers Two Spot Gobi, Celtic party animals Mad Dog Mcrea, Willie and the Bandits, Black Friday, Circus of Sound, Rusty Angels, Port Bandanas, and up and coming Cornish act Auction For The Promise Club. With weekend passes starting at just £25 (until 13 May when they go up to £30) and day tickets at £20, and on site camping available, there’s also a paintball course, bmxing, a surf simulator, a DBS mixing workshop for budding DJs and much more, which should keep everyone entertained! See plymouthvolksfest.co.uk for more info.

A small boutique style music festival filled with local talent takes place this year from 11 – 12 September at Filham Park in Ivybridge. Formerly known as the Filham Music Festival, this year’s Ivylive will see performances from local talent like The Days, Two Spot Gobi, Ella The Van Daniels, Mad Dog Mcrea, Less Than Me, Hillside Heroes, Aviatronics, The Delahays, Port Bandanas, and Rusty Angels amongst many more.

With overnight camping available and space for 5000 festival goers to attend, Ivylive will also feature kids entertainment and a large marquee for acoustic performances (as well as an undercover viewing area for the main stage in the event of rain…

Tickets start at just £8 for music only Saturday tickets (earlybird discount price, available for limited time), and are on sale from 1 May at ivylive.co.uk

Welcome to the second instalment of The F Word, our summer festivals feature. This month, we take you around the world to some of the most amazing festivals on the planet, as well as updating you on fabulous festys closer to home… Look out for more ticket competitions too!

GO GLOBALU YOUR OFFICIAL GUIDE TO SUMMER FESTIVAL MADNESS

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WHO: Friendly Fires, Fujiya and Miyagi, The Big Pink, Mr Oizo, Tortoise, The Matthew WHERE: Herbert Big Band, Joe Goddard Athens, Greece e (Hot Chip), Shit Robot, 3 Chairs, WHEN:12 – 14 Jun Ebony Bones, A Mountain Of One and many more HOW MUCH: Three day pass €80, one day passes from €30 WHY: Billing itself as an “Innovative Music, Moving Image and New Media festival”, the event has become one of the most talked about, leading live music events in Greece. Held at the Benaki Museum and the next-door Technopolis industrial factory, the three-day and night event has put Athens on the map musically, showcasing experimental to accomplished leftfield talent and well-known bands.

WEB: synch.gr

WIN a pair of tickets! Send an email with SYNCH in the subject line. Competition ends 31 May and is for tickets only – you must sort your own travel and accommodation.

WHO: Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Flaming Lips, Editors, Mando Diao, The Streets, Peter Fox, Sitter Valley, WHERE: Cold War Kids, The Gaslight Switzerland h, ric Zu Nr Anthem, The Sounds, Biffy – 28 June WHEN: 26 Clyro, Get Well Soon, The Aggrolites as well as some of the best acts from Germany and Switzerland.

HOW MUCH: 3 day pass £75, 2 day pass £57, 1 day pass £35 (under 12s go free) WHY: This is Switzerland’s number one music festival, is totally affordable (camping is included in the ticket price, and if you’re clever you can find cheap travel options) and has a diverse, top quality lineup over four stages/arenas.

WEB: openairsg.ch

WHO: Kings of Leon, Killers, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, Mystery Jets, Lily Allen, TV On The Radio, Late Of The Pier, Paul Weller, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas HOW MUCH:

WHERE: Benicas sim, East coast of Spain

WHEN: 16 – 19 July

£155 (VIP £276 approx)

WHY: It’s the festival’s fifteenth birthday this year. Well known as

Spains largest music festival, Benicassim has it all – amazing line up with over 100 artists performing over four stages, amazing beaches (and weather) and a brilliant atmosphere. You can camp there from 13 – 21 July and make a proper holiday of it. As if seeing Caleb from Kings of Leon performing on stage on a hot, sweaty summers evening after a day of soaking up the sun on a Spanish beach wasn’t enough…

WEB: fiberfib.com WHO: Oasis, Bloc Party and Aphex

Twin + Hecker, Digitalism (live), Simian Mobile Disco (live), The Faint, Klaxons, Filthy Dukes, Foals and Diplo will host his own stage. : RE WHEolis, Germany HOW MUTCH: 3 day ticket €90+BF, Ferrop 2 day ticket €70+BF, day ticket €45 +BF N: WHEJuly WHY: Now in it’s 12th year, Melt! is a 17 – 19 unique music festival on the Ferropolis peninsula set against a breathtaking backdrop of five huge hulking coal mining diggers that tower into the sky. WEB: meltfestival.com WHO: Live performances from

Etnica, Gms, Kox Box, Tristan, Broken Toy, Laughing Buddah, Prometheus, Fearsome Engine, Allaby, System7, Ace Ventura, Perfect WHERE: Stranger, Rinkadink with Dj sets from Monte Gelato, Rome Shane Goby, Gino, Meditronica, Dj WHEN: 31 July – 3 August Loopus (Fabula Rec), Aes Dana, Deadbeat, Younger Brother, Dj Pena, Eat Static and many more.

HOW MUCH: €60 until 30 Apr, then €75 until 10 July, €100 on the door.

WHY: Previously known as the Sonica Festival, Europe’s leading festival of contemporary music, art and culture returns for it’s fourth year as Reloaded. Located at a protected site surrounded by trees, river and waterfalls, this festival is inspired by ecology, better living and renewable resources and features three massive environmentally-inspired dance floors; Solar, Lunar and Gaia featuring some of the worlds leading underground names in psychedelic, techno, progressive, electro, chill out and world music.

WEB: re-loaded.org/en/ WIN a pair of tickets! Send an email with RELOADED in the subject line. Competition ends 31 May and is for tickets only – you must sort your own travel and accommodation.

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WHO: Arctic Monkeys, Andy C and

MC GQ, Chase and Status, Sub Focus and MC Jakes, Fabio and Grooverider, Moby, Caspa & Rusko, DJ Marky and Dynamite MC, with : E WHERin Fortress, more to be announced.

Petrovarad HOW MUCH: Early bird 4 day rbia Novi Sad, Se festival tickets £72 ly Ju 12 WHEN:9 – WHY: Now in it’s 10th year, Exit was born from a student-initiated uprising against a regime that restricted Serbia’s contact with the rest of the world. It has since become a worldrecognised festival that is visited by tens of thousands of people from all over the world every year.

WEB: exitfest.org

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WHO: It’s all pretty spontaneous…

HOW MUTCH: See website for details WHY: Money is not actually necessary

at Burning Man. Gifting is the key to acquiring what you need, and the only things sold are ice and coffee. Water is gold. : N Radical self expression E Sept WH ust – 1 is encouraged, and 25 Aug strangers are welcome.

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WHO: The line up includes Grooverider on the Friday, Judge Jules and Dave Pearce on Saturday and a Hed Kandi mashup on Sunday. Live music from local bands including Hobo Jones and The Junkyard Dogs and Rudi’s Message is hosted in the second arena, there’s also a comedy arena, and new for 2009, a silent disco arena.

HOW MUCH: Adult: £81, Child £37.50 (tickets include one weeks camping) WHY: The annual festival is one of the largest custom car, VW and dance festivals in Europe, with a big convoy of vee dubs travelling down to Cornwall every year, and the VW Show ‘n’ Shine in Tregunnel Car Park in Newquay on the Sunday.

WEB: runtothesun.co.uk

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WHERE: Tre velgue Holiday Park, Newquay 22 – 25 May

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WHO: The Prodigy, Orbital, Pendulum, Armin Van Buuren, Sasha, Erol Alkan, David Guetta, Carl Cox, Tiga, Fabio and WHERE: Grooverider, Richie Hawtin.

Long Marston Airfield , Stratford Upon Avon HOW MUCH: £115.00/ VIP £165.00 WHEN: 24 – 25 July WHY: Expect heavy beats and high energy hooks as 55,000 people congregate at the Long Marston Airfields for a non-stop electronic weekender that brings together 150 acts over 16 stages. New for 2009 is ‘The Godskitchen Boombox’, a huge rectangular structure that will house state-of-the-art DJ equipment in the Godskitchen Arena (Europe’s largest marquee), with an astounding combination of lighting and visuals.

WEB: globalgathering.co.uk

WIN a pair of tickets! Send an email with GLOBAL in the subject line to 247@outofhand.co.uk. Competition ends 31 May and is for tickets only – you must sort your own travel and accommodation.

WHO: Baddies, Sam Isaac, Floors and Walls, The Xcerts, Redtrack, Cosmo Jarvis How muCH: £20, kids under 10 go free WHY: This is the fourth year of WHE The Wyl RE: Leopallooza, the South West’s fastest d WHE es, Cornwall growing non-corporate live music event.

1 Augu N: Although it could hold up to 5000, there are WIN a pair of tickets! Send an email with RUN TO THE SUN in the st (12p m – 1a only 1500 tickets available, so there’s no sardine m) subject line to 247@outofhand.co.uk. Competition ends 11 May and is factor! The site is constructed using reclaimed for tickets only – you must sort your own travel and accommodation. materials, giving stages and bars a handcrafted feel. Parking and camping facilities are on site. Expect eccentric additions, edgy extras and some of the best new bands. WEB: leopallooza.com WHO: NERD, Scratch Perverts, High Contrast, Shy FX, Chase & Status, Tinchy WIN a pair of tickets! Send an email with LEOPALLOOZA in the Stryder, The Nextmen, Sub Focus, subject line to 247@outofhand.co.uk. Competition ends 31 May and Chipmunk, Freestylers, Jaguar Skills, is for tickets only – you must sort your own travel and accommodation.

Crissy Cris, Charlie G, Freerange DJs, Stamina MC and more…

HOW MUCH: Adult weekend WHO: The Streets, Cypress Hill, Calvin with camping £64.99, Child Bath Harris, Roots Manuva, The King Blues, Le weekend with camping £34.99, WHERE: Theund, Sac Vs Pip, Dreadzonet wgro Family weekend with camping £40. and West Sho t HOW MUCH: Charger ticket £89, Shepton Mallet, Somerse WHY: The event features the best in Weekend music ticket £54.99, one day action sports including skateboarding, WHEN: 10 – 12 July music ticket £29.99 BMX, freestyle moto x, parkour, roller ay WHY: This is the ultimate surf, skate, derby, mountain biking and inline skating Newqu : E R t sun, sea and music festival. See some of as well as a world class music bill over the three days, with WHE N: 5 – 9 Augus the world’s best surfers battle it out in the a capacity of 15,000 and arenas both indoor and out. This WHE 5 star WQS with $100,000 up for grabs. year there will also be a public park so everyone can get Sponsors, energy drink Relentless, are no strangers stuck in regardless of ability. The Relentless BMX Dirt to extreme sports, proven by the Relentless Aerial Championships are also due to be held at Assault tow-in surf sessions. Skatewear legends Vans NASS, and the dirt track is larger than ever also sponsor Boardmasters, so expect some awesome this year. It’s going to be a rush! displays at the park from both skaters and bmxers. The WEB: relentlessnass.com two day music festival (formerly known as Unleashed) that takes place at the top of the cliffs at Watergate Bay and the WIN a pair of tickets! Send an email with NASS in the subject line Beach Sessions down at Fistral Beach brings some of the UK’s to 247@outofhand.co.uk. Competition ends 31 May and is for hottest musical talent to Newquay. tickets only – you must sort your own travel and accommodation.

WEB: relentlessboardmasters.com WHO: Evan Dando, Noah and the Whale, Chris Watson, Richard Strange, Mik Artistik, The Lani Singers, My Window Faces South, DJ Gaz Mayall, AJ’s Big WHE Band, Braga Tanga, Wurlitza, One Minute Disco St Germ RE: How muCH: £105 (adult weekend ticket), £40 Cornw ans, Saltash all , (child weekend ticket), day tickets from £12 - £30 WH WHY: The event takes place in the hundreds 24 – 26EN: July of acres of 18th-century landscaped riverside parkland of the Port Eliot Estate, home of the Earl and Countess of St Germans. An eclectic mix of music, cabaret, DJs, dance, comedy, film, art, amazing local food and entertainment will fill the beautiful grounds of Port Eliot Estate. The festival’s literary roots mean that many authors attend, giving readings and workshops as part of this very special festival.

WEB: porteliotfestival.com

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WIN a pair of tickets! Send an email with BOARDMASTERS in the subject line to 247@outofhand.co.uk. Competition ends 31 May and is for tickets only – you must sort your own travel and accommodation.

WHO: The lineup is kept WHERE: in under wraps…

A secret location HOW MUCH: Adult £99, Teen e Northamptonshir £59, Child £25, Under 5s go free.

WHEN: WHY: Shambala has a brilliant ust Aug 30 – 27 reputation with a big kids area, workshops, carnival antics and a roller disco. This year a new tranquil meadow is being added, with a boating lake, hot tubs, saunas and healing. Last year, Shambala was voted as one of the leading environmentally friendly festivals in the UK. Expect fancy dress, a strong community spirit, knitting circles and ukulele lessons, as well as amazing music. Apparently, this festival is the closest the UK gets to Burning Man style madness, but with a family appeal. WEB: shambalafestival.org

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“MC, DJ, graffiti and dance battling are essential to artistic development. If it becomes this nice culture where everyone shares their work and it’s all cute, it’ll lose its edge.”

Hello Jonzi. Where are you right now?

I’m in a studio at Sadler’s Wells (very prestigious dance house in Central London) after having done an interview with Hiphop.com.

Tell us a bit about Breaking Convention It’s an international festival of hip hop dance theatre. We’re in our sixth year now, and we’ve been doing Sadler’s Wells in London for the last few years. We toured two years ago, and we’re very happy to say that we’re touring again, with a stellar line-up. I’m excited about playing Plymouth Theatre Royal in particular, because we’ve never done anything like this in the region. After going down there to research, it was just fantastic to find the most amazing dancers in the area. It’s going to be incredible: possibly one of the best in the UK. What inspired you to create the event?

It comes as a result of my own polarised influences. I’ve been into hip hop since 1982, and I’ve also been in the theatre for just as long. I used to rap, do a bit of sampling and a bit of breaking. And then, quite separately, I was also involved in contemporary dance. After developing in both areas, I didn’t want to deny either of them, so I pulled them together in a show called ‘Lyrikal Fearta’ in ’95, and I haven’t looked back since then.

Why do you think festivals like Breakin’ Convention need to exist?

It’s down to the ever-developing culture of hip hop. You’ll see how the hip hop technique has permeated different kinds of music and influenced them greatly – like sampling and mixing. Also, there’s been a great development in graffiti art in advertising and so on, with graffiti artists now able to earn a living from their work. Where hip hop dance is concerned, I think that its natural development is actually in the theatre.

I don’t even see it as strange or unusual. The culture is old enough now to be able to create articulate theatre.

What message are you conveying to the community?

I’d like to think that the hip hop community can feel proud that spaces like Plymouth Theatre Royal are taking us seriously. And I think that we’re blowing a breath of fresh air into the theatre community, with a whole new audience and a whole exciting new energy.

Will he be at the Plymouth show?

Yes, he will. He’s now in a crew called VII Gems Dance Division, and he’s coming to present one of the lost dances in hip hop culture called The Rock.

This is really exciting, and it will motivate the whole nation about hip hop culture.

Hip hop culture is a lot more acceptable than it was last decade, and young people are now formally taught breakdancing, MCing and production skills. Has this taken away some of its rebellion?

Yes, it already has. Once things are institutionalised and codified, and when there’s “a way” to do things, then it becomes a bit staid. The way to counteract that is to create more and more opportunities to perform and battle: MC, DJ, graffiti and dance battling are essential to artistic development. If it becomes this nice culture where everyone shares their work and it’s all cute, it’ll lose its edge. But if we keep to the gladiatorial spirit of the battle, we’ll be fine.

What was the most challenging part of putting on Breakin’ Convention?

We’ve already done the most challenging bit, which was convincing theatres that this is worth having. Also, holding the auditions (for local acts to take part in the show) in Plymouth was difficult, because we had really good work to choose from. This is a good thing, but bad in a way because you’re always going to have to disappoint someone. But on the actual day, we’ll have some outdoor events featuring some of the crews who didn’t make it into the main festival.

We’re doing our best to incorporate everyone who wants to be a part of it.

What was the process of getting the artists involved?

Internationally, it was a case of me dreaming, basically! In Korea, we had one of the best hip hop art crews in the world.

We also worked with Salah, in France, who is tagged ‘The Charlie Chaplin of Hip-Hop!’ He’s probably the most charismatic personality in hip hop dance at the moment. Then we’ve got somebody who is single-handedly one of the greatest influences on breaking: Ken Swift from the original Rocksteady Crew.

Breakin’ Convention is at Plymouth Theatre Royal from 22 – 23 May. Each day, there will be freestyling, graff jams and DJs from 4pm. The main show kicks off at 7pm. See breakinconvention.com for more information.

Tickets are available from theatreroyal.com.

Images: Paul Hampartsoumian/Ben Dowden / Words: Arash Torabi

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Image: James Measom Words: Arash Torabi

DJ and promoter Necta Selecta is hugely instrumental in bringing dubstep to the South West.

Having lived, DJd and raved in London, he’s been immersed in dubstep at all its stages, and now with his regular night Subheavy, he’s at the forefront of the scene that’s also been blossoming recently in the region. The Subheavy CV includes sets from innovators such as Mala, Skream, Benga, Appleblim, N-type, Plastician, Hatcha, Joker, Jakes and Rusko.

Subheavy celebrates its second birthday at the end of the month. Enter Necta Selecta, whose Subheavy rig gives ravers’ ears a regular seeing to.

Tell us about your recent tour of Switzerland…

That was a Skull Disco farewell tour. The guys now describe Skull Disco as a “completed project” and are both focusing on other things. It was a brilliant opportunity to get an international booking from my association with them, before they finally laid it to rest.

What was it like establishing a night in Plymouth, for what was an unknown style a couple of years ago?

Plymouth’s a notoriously tricky egg to crack compared to other similar-sized cities. We started before there was much demand for dubstep: it seemed to be blowing up everywhere but here.

There was also extra work involved, building our own sound system and décor. But it’s also been easy because dubstep has seen a massive surge in popularity.

Let’s hear about your rig: You need a system with good bass response to fully appreciate dubstep. When we started the night, the basslines were more pure sub-bass oriented. The only rig that was doing it for me in Plymouth was the Dr Mad Killers sound system at a reggae night in Maggies. I realised that theirs were probably the best you could get for that really deep bass, before you get into silly money. I tracked down some second hand ones, and we linked the two rigs together. I was good mates with Tim from Dr Mad Killers anyway, so it all fell into place nicely.

How did Subheavy start and how has it got to where you are now?

As the scene’s mushroomed, it feels more like a proper dubstep rave: people know the big tunes, calling for rewinds and letting out a big cheer at the end. We’re really grateful to everyone who turned up and contributed, especially in the early days when the numbers were a bit thin on the ground.

We started a bit later in Falmouth, at the Rugby Club. They welcomed us with open arms.

You have a connection with the highly influential and leftfield dubstep label, Skull Disco Records, which folded recently.

I met Appleblim (co-ran Skull Disco) in Plymouth in 1990, and we got on instantly. Shackleton (also co-ran Skull Disco) lived with someone he worked with in London about ten years later.

We all used to go raving together at FWD>> in the early days.

They DJd at some warehouse parties I was involved with, and I DJd at their parties. They set up the label to release their music, and are now big in the game. I’ve since been included on some Skull Disco-themed line-ups, including the first Dub Pressure in Brighton, Bloc Festival ‘08 and a recent Swiss tour. Also, Zeke, who designed the amazing and distinctive Skull Disco artwork, designed us a sick Subheavy logo.

Is vinyl still important in dubstep?

It’s still important and a big part of the scene. As a raver, I blatantly prefer dubplates and vinyl for their sound quality, as well as aesthetically and visually. As a DJ, I prefer vinyl spinning on Technics, but I’m not a total purist about it. The sound system plays a very important role too. It’s all part of striving to achieve the highest possible quality of sound in the dance.

You make Subheavy happen, but do you get help?

Yes, quite a bit. Sterling work from Stef, Ali, Tim, Tom, Chris, Ben, Snook, Vyrus, Staf in Plymouth and George, Will, Scott, Jake and Jonny in Cornwall. All the other support DJs and the NFP MCs of course. Sorry if I left anyone else out! Big shout and thanks also to Eddie & Maggie, Arthur and the rest of the staff at both Maggies and the Rugby Club.

Coming up:

• Subheavy and Back Then Presents Pure Jungle (1993- 1995) on Fri 8 May at Maggies, Bretonside, Plymouth.

• Subheavy Second Birthday (‘The Big One’) on Friday 29 May at Maggies, Bretonside, Plymouth: Digital Mystikz and hosts Youngsta and DJ Kromestar.

• Subheavy Second Birthday on Saturday 30 May at Rugby Club, Falmouth, with DJ Kromestar.

• Rat & Emu, Thurs 4 June, Student Union bar, Dartington Arts College nr Totnes, 8-1am, with DJs Necta Selecta & DeepThought. Non-students welcome if they email/text names: subheavydubstep@yahoo.co.uk or 07723 347591. myspace.com/subheavy magazine | 19

Unless you’re into jazz or surfing, the town of Bude in North Cornwall probably hasn’t appeared on your radar of late. Well, now it might, as Bude undergoes somewhat of a night-time renaissance. With new pubs and clubs in the ascendant, and talent from afar relocating to immerse themselves in its eternal seaside charm, things look peachy for those pushing Bude’s evening social scene forward. Leading light in Bude’s burgeoning music reawakening is Adam Russell, aka Carpetface, a London transfer now fully stitched into the Bude locale. On the threshold of releasing a new 5 track ep called, interestingly, the ‘Baboon Shampoo EP’, I caught up with him to have a chat about life in his world. Except I couldn’t actually catch up with him, fast and stealth-like that he is, so we settled on a Facebook interview. No one’s too busy for Facebook.

Hi Carpet, how’s your day?

Hectic and positive – been sorting out artwork for our new release and bookings in USA, Croatia and Holland, plus getting the gear ready for our 2009 French Alps tour. I recently gave up “impurities” so was grafting from 7am after basically being smashed every day for the last eight years!

And I had a lovely mackerel and watercress sandwich.

means half the rubbish associated with the hip-hop scene instantly goes out the window and you end up with people laughing and looking silly while they dance to funky music, much better than popping caps in asses etc. I’m also running another night called Electroshock celebrating 21 years of electro, acid and techno. Now Bianca’s running the Kazbar we’re turning it around - music on Friday nights is more diverse and really good! It should help put Bude on the map as a wicked place to visit or in my case drop the city and move to.

I just hope they never put a train station here or it’ll turn into Blackpool within a year.

Lucky this magazine doesn’t circulate in Blackpool…

Well they do have a nice rollercoaster there. No wait that’s Alton Towers. I rest my case. What I mean is: come to Bude, its great, unless you’re a rude, troublemaking, polluting twat.

Don’t get me wrong I always look for the best in people but rarely find it. Maybe I’m the twat...

You moved down here in 2005 to mix your debut album Have Mic Will Travel, and now run your studio and record label, Newbias from here. Tell me the pitfalls of living away from the big smoke.

It was supposed to be temporary but I fell in love with the place and stayed - much of mine and Audible’s job is to play clubs in cities all over the world and after a tour the sound of Nice. So listen, Bude really seems to be jumping out of the the sea is so much more appealing than screams of “HELP! trench with its music scene this year. I know you’re going I’m being mugged!” or “I’m a stripe you bludd!” You get the picture (get me doe). London made me write out of reaction to be involved in the new Kazbar (Bude nightclub) with to the things that went on there, which while interesting and Bianca Perry at the helm. Put us in the loop: often exciting were mostly pretty dark. I found so many I run the No Sleep Til Bude nights on the last Friday of every genuine people here. So much peace by the sea. Once I was month and they’re a very silly affair indeed. It’s hip hop, funk, out of the thick of it, away from the industry, away from running soul, breaks, reggae, dancehall and so on, and I get the warehouse parties and all that crime I could kind of take stock chance to get some amazingly talented mates from the music of myself and get an aerial view of my project and actually biz down to play, finish the bastard… Pitfalls? There aren’t many really but…

DJ, play live and host it with my mic-buddy Audible, and also get people To read about Carpetface’s thoughts on the pitfalls of country living, working with punk legend Keith Levene to come in fancy and much more, go to 247magazine.co.uk dress! A hip hop night where you CARPETFACE & AUDIBLE’s 5-track “Baboon Shampoo can’t look cool EP” is out mid-May on ITUNES and 12” vinyl. For more or hard (because info on the release and tour dates visit the following sites: you’re dressed as something silly) carpetfaceandaudible.com / myspace.com/carpetfaces

“We play hip hop, funk, soul, breaks, reggae, dancehall… I get the chance to get some amazingly talented mates from the music biz down to play… and everyone comes in fancy dress!”

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RETAIL THERAPY Urban street style with a hip hop flavour is easy when you know how…

Arcus ladies Combo Stars jacket

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This sweet jacket from skate/snow brand Arcus will see you through the unpredictable summer weather we’re bound to get. attlasnowboards.com

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These headphones are louder than your music. Guaranteed.

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Reece wears Louie trainers by DuFFS £50, Alpinestars Top Riders tee £24, Alpinestars Furies jacket £60, Alpinestars black corp logo 210 fitted cap £17, trousers models own, Prime skate deck £29.99

Sweet Spot The Prime Team Riders get some air time…

Photography: Bailey and Cresswell at Clash & Clash

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Lucien wears Alpinestars crown 210 fitted cap £17, Alpinestars black crush tee £35, and Alpinestars Vroom hoodie £70

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Music Breaks & Beats

Rock/Indie

Jazz / Funk

Starkey Starkbass (Lo Dubs)

This is the second CD in the Lo Dubs mix collection, focusing on US and UK grime, riddim and synth bass styles. Starkey was generous enough to provide some linear notes for the uneducated to get educated!

With tracks from the likes of Kotchy, Drop The Lime, Cardopusher, Stenchman and a whole host more the CD bangs hard. Well executed and well packaged. All in, a good fun mix CD full of Lazer Synths and Big Big Bass lines.

SUPERDUPERDAN

Guru

Lost & Found (7 Grand Records)

Urban / Hip Hop

Dance

Electronica

Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD)

Album number 4 from Glasgow’s kings and queens of the 60s-inspired sulky pop. Singer Tracyanne is an exceptional storyteller, with a dreamy voice that sounds richer and more mature with every album. The Spector-esque style of Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen (Concretes, Peter Bjorn & John) brings

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New York cool isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, at least, not any more. The Virgins’ retro art-disco sonics are clearly designed for catwalks, industry love-ins and dim fan-boys/girls who need a new Strokes every year to justify their indie credentials at Black Canvas their beloved club ‘nites’. You’re welcome Rise to them chumps. I’ll stick with the superior (Cool & Deadly) Floridian punk trio, Virgins, who opt for sweaty-balled, darned-socked substance over rehashed and over-marketed style.

Black Canvas is vocalist Mr Melody and So there.

MC Rider Shafique, with production from Pressure Drop’s Chubby J. Reggae is a huge Backbone influence on their vocal styles, and rhythms are mainly hip-hop, with excursions into Metric other styles. Shafique’s lyrical skills are best Fantasies displayed on ‘Once Again’, which blends (Metric Music International) an Eastern influence with a dancehall beat.

The album’s mood is generally laidback, and Four albums in and nomadic electrolyrics are conscious nearly all the way- this rockers, Metric, have decided to go it alone works better on some tracks than others.

– setting up a global DIY operation to allow, Highlight: the breaktastic ‘We Fear Not’ you assume, for more creative control. Not (co-produced by Ed Solo)- an ode to the soundboy who is about to meet a nasty end. that they’re a band who push the envelope, although they do put the faux-danger of, Proper stuff. say, Garbage to shame. ‘Fantasies’ moves Arash Torabi at an easily infused and understood pace while Emily Haines child-like purr tempers the quasi-industrial throb like a pink cushion Man Like Me cover on an electric chair. Mildly impressive.

Man Like Me Backbone (Our Time Records) out the true magic of the Camera Obscura formula: dark and sinister and yet joyous and uplifting at the same time. Genius.

Arash Torabi

Guru’s solo career has been quite a hit and miss affair, yes Jazzmatazz is essential but by the time he got to Vol 4 it was wearing thin. For a while now he has been using producers that when compared to primo, like most would, aren’t up there. On this album you feel that compared to most MCs Guru still holds his own but the beats are just okay rather than classic. I always felt that Guru did best without cameos and guest spots by others. A quality release but Partly sung, partly rapped, MLM’s lyrics grab you from the start. You can’t lay a tag on not an essential one. it – they’ve got their own thing going on, Aldo Vanucci drawing on various electronic influences, and they’re adventurous enough with sound to hold your interest throughout the Q-Tip album. The latest single London Town is The Renaissance the strongest track: a tale of back-in-the(Universal) day garage, set to a goodtime house beat.

The most impressive line is on ‘Falafal’: ‘£5 The long awaited second solo album from 12” just the down the road, fuck that 79p much loved ex A Tribe Called Quest MC download.’ Now you’re talking, son! They delivers the goods! With various sneaky play The Lanes in Bristol on 9 May. but scarce bits of material and shelved Arash Torabi projects adding to the tension of hungry fans, this couldn’t have come sooner.

But it’s been worth the wait. With the immediate standout tracks such as Gettin’ Up, ManwomenBoogie, and We Fight/ We Love paving the way, the rest of the set grows upon each listen, and with Q-tip at the controls, the album has a very live and warm feel, sounding classic yet totally current. A pioneer still pushing boundaries.

Andy Mac

Drum & Bass

The Maccabees Wall Of Arms (Fiction)

They’re quite special, The Maccabees.

Building their own melancholy-draped Eden of Epic between the Mystery Jets and Arcade Fire, ‘Wall Of Arms’ reaches far beyond the indie threshold; unearthing a worldly kind of weariness, beautifully netted by Orlando Weeks’ effortlessly heart-wrenching voice. The South London quintet are far, far better than the bands you think they sound like. In six months time you’ll wish you’d realised this earlier. Now step to it.

Backbone

The Virgins The Virgins (Atlantic)

In Case Of Fire Align The Planets

(Search And Destroy) Getting back to power-trio basics, Northern Ireland’s In Case Of Fire hit paydirt with an album that packs a weighty punch and draws fiery melodies from burning-heart dynamics. If Therapy? had benefited from modern recording technology they may have sounded as epic as ‘The Cleansing’; although Steven Robinson’s vast vocal range lends the band a more proggy, Cedric Bixler-esque bent, especially on the monumental ‘Plan A’. An auspicious debut.

Backbone

Various

Moondance: Ultimate Old Skool Anthems (New State Music) This 3 disc compilation is full of old skool classics! It will hit the spot for many generations - even younger ravers will recognise samples and beats that have been re-used in later years. CD1 will hit home with the free party ravers who took over fields and warehouses in the 90s, whilst CD2 has some massive remixes by the likes of Slipmatt, Billy Bunter, and Rat Pack. CD3 starts creeping into the jungle era with anthems from the likes of Omnio Trio, Q-Project and DJ Hype. This album is either going to bring back memories or teach you a thing or two. Either way, it’s a must for any raver!

UK Rocka (Infidelity D&B)

DEMOS DEMO OF THE MONTH Exeter punks, OK PILOT, have knocked out four new songs in honest DIY fashion, just for the hell of it. And why not? Especially when a couple of those songs – ‘Shivers’ and ‘Good Health’ – are, arguably, two of their finest towering achievements. The former is the kind of emotionally magnificent song Samiam wish they could still write; the latter is a very welcome change of pace that proves the band are primed for new approaches. The other two songs are fucking brilliant too: sexualized rock’n’roll throbalongs that probably wouldn’t clean up after themselves. Filthy buggers. myspace.com/okpilot

ROCK SHOW DEMO OF THE MONTH This month we have picked the Captian Pillbecker EP by FREDDY FELCH PROJECT. They have only been together a short while but if their first EP is anything to go by then expect these guys to be everywhere this year. We played this on the show and have had so much interest it’s been played many times now - it’s very infectious. If you want a track played on The Rock Show you can now email it to us on rockshow@ phonic.fm. myspace.com/freddyfelchproject

Hear these demos on the Rock Show on Phonic FM 106.8FM in Exeter or online at phonic.fm, every Friday from 10pm – 12am with Mike James, John LB and Dan. Sailing in on a nautical theme, Plymouth’s DR. AKE deliver an interesting line in wonky new wave with lovely lyrical passages that, collectively, reads like a litany of subconscious urges and reveries. In a Janner accent. Released through local label Onec (onec.tv), ‘Stonehouse Dreams’ is the point where sea shanty meets indie abstraction and – as is often said about bands that inevitably do – doesn’t sound like anything else. Apart from a bit of XTC, maybe, but they’re long gone. You may not fall in love with Dr. Ake straight away but you will want to see them again and it could get serious as time goes on. myspace.com/docake From the get-go, Torquay’s curiously monikered GENESIS 4:13 (Jack Davis to his dark priest) is hell-bent on constructing dystopian, instrumental loops and doomscapes designed to disorientate and disturb. Good start. And it gets unnervingly better.

‘Lilith’ is pure Quatermass/Hammer horror suspense – all atonal shivers and synth frights – while ‘Tempest’ is the kind of paranoid, industro-electronica that Charles Manson might have conjured up in his seedy bedsit had he been a child of the ‘90s.

One can safely assume that the English Riviera is not a major inspiration for Genesis Jack’s work. myspace.com/462461621 SOME SORT OF THREAT, aka Rory Matthews, isn’t your average 15 year-old Exeter lad. Nurtured on a diet of positive punk and the countless Frank Turners and Billy Braggs of the world, his understanding and interpretation of the solo shtick is heartening, and naturally free of the jaded cynicism of us so-called adults. He may sing simple allegories about missing trains, hanging out late at night and protest politics, but such disarming honesty and realism will serve him well over the next few years when hormones and ideas are raging through his system like rabies. myspace.com/somesortofthreat Forget hardcore, forget screamo, forget black metal, Devon quartet, NOISE ANNOYS SIMON, are here to remind us that not all men

in bands are testosterone-frenzied coprolites. Debut album ‘You Say It, I’ll Know It’ is brimming with pretty indie-pop wistfulness, taking the parochial strum of Teenage Fanclub and marrying it to a Guided By Voices-esque thrust. Of course, they’re no strangers to the genre. Guitarist, Simon Bish, was in Peel faves, Thrilled Skinny, during the early ‘90s and other members have cut their teeth in many fine bands. Dedication, then. It’s all you need. myspace.com/noiseannoyssimon From London, TRANSFERE PROJECT! is Laura Mardon, her acoustic guitar and lots of charming extra bits like alarm clocks, accordion and toy glockenspiel. She’s quite an unusual lass (check her video biog on Myspace) which only adds to the attraction of songs such as ‘Trenches’, ‘Stepney’ and ‘Don’t Cut Those Lines’: bittersweet, reflective ditties inspired by everyday, personal-as-political situations and conversations, stuffed with neat couplets like “The cocaine nights, well, where did they get me? / My holy grail was somewhere near Stepney”. Endearingly uplifting. myspace.com/transfereproject LULLA VIOLET‘s singer clearly thinks he is Thom Yorke but I won’t say anything if you don’t. On their ‘Lordess’ EP, the Chichester quartet do the whole trad Radiohead thing quite well, as it happens – alienation, atmospherics, solemn chords, wretched wailing – but everyone knows that sounding like Radiohead sets you up for a fall. Look what happened to Muse in the early days before they took over the universe? I predict that Lulla Violet will transmogrify into another entity altogether within a couple years and that people will mob them. Until then, enjoy their developmental, if derivative, period. myspace.com/lullaviolet Meanwhile, over on Murdoch-Space…

I always get into trouble when reviewing South West roots-reggae bands because they’re usually, quite literally, pale imitations of the real deal.

BACKBEAT SOUND SYSTEM, on the other hand, are a substantially superior proposition. This is because a) they don’t sound like middle class hippies playing at being ‘streetsmart’ b) they sing about survival not smoking weed or ‘peace’ and 3) they have fucking great tunes that honour the lineage of reggae rather than shame it. And the club remixes are neat too. Stellar stuff. myspace.com/backbeatsoundsystem Torbay isn’t exactly a hotbed of neo-metal activity but that was before CHICK RIDES ARTIST reared their youthful phizogs. Although, with a name like that, I hope they get the feminist onslaught they deserve.

Musically, it’s business as usual: 36 Crazyfists guitar riffs, double kick drum patterns, earnestly harmonic choruses and screamoid breakdowns.

Are there any more dots left to join? If there are, I’m sure CRA will incorporate them once someone has invented them. Expect a proper EP later in the year. myspace.com/chickridesartist I worry about people like Cornwall’s Simon Mosley. A one-man band may seem like a novel concept to anyone under the age of 15 but ONLY MOSES looks suspiciously like the work of a control freak who has yet to realise that his songs are rather rubbish. So he uses his feet to play kick and snare, whilst warbling like a resident pub singer and playing bluesy riffs on a slightly overdriven guitar. We call that a busker round these parts.

Maybe he could play hi-hats between his armpits? And pluck a harp with his nose? The possibilities are endless. myspace.com/onlymoses Ex-My Darkest Day honcho, Damon Morey, is back in the saddle with mood-rockers SANDFIRE SIREN, and it’s all a bit too melodramatic for me, especially with all the talk of majestic oceans and the ‘beauty of solitude’. The Cornish band’s single, ‘Open Arms’, is so overblown you half-expect bats to fly out of the speakers but, sadly, they don’t. I think I’m supposed to feel moved by the climbing refrain and minor chord modulation but, instead, I feel like listening to Pearl Jam. Their (selfreleased) debut album ‘Oscar...November...Echo’ is imminent. myspace.com/sandfiresiren

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5 May Plymouth

UNBRANDING, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, plymouth.ac.uk Unbranded is a one day free exhibition exploring the themes of consumerism, counter-culture and social hacking. Feel the thrills of free-trade shopping! Enjoy the freedom of adbusting! Discover the power of TV-B-Gone! Wonder at Supersocial advertising! Experience the liberation of the debranding station! All this and much much more! 30% extra free! The exhibition poses questions about the society we live in and our role as consumers and intends to highlight the possible alternatives. The event is a packed day of installations, screenings, workshops, interactive media and open source refreshments, and is produced by the university’s final year students of BA/BSc Digital Art & Technology. Open from 12pm – 6pm.

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Haunted” brings his hugely entertaining evening of psychic abilities back to Truro by popular demand.

6 May Plymouth

COMEDY NIGHT, The B Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican, Plymouth PL1 2NJ, 01752 242021, theb-bar.blogspot.com, 8.30pm, £8 A return engagement with humour and heckling at Plymouth’s most theatrical watering hole.

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7 – 8 May Plymouth

NATIONAL THEATRE NEW CONNECTIONS 2009, Drum Theatre, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7pm, £4 New Connections is the world’s most ambitious new writing programme for young actors creating theatre, giving 11 – 19 year olds the change to perform and produce new plays both on stage and behind the scenes. This year four youth groups will perform new pieces of work written by some of the countries leading playwrights.

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DEREK ACORAH, Hall for Cornwall, Back Quay, TR1 2LL, 01872 262466, hallforcornwall. co.uk, 7.30pm, £16 If you feel your nights need a bit more bump in them, then how about an evening with Derek Acorah? The star of “Most

7 May Penzance

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THE BLANK ALBUM, Acorn Arts Centre, Parade St, 01736 365520, acornartscentre.co.uk, 8pm, £13/ £10 A live music, comedy and dance show that literally rocks! Performed with guitars, fiddle, cello, percussion and voice these performers create a live sound score by both playing - and dancing with - their instruments. An exceptional comic dance/ theatre piece that embraces the surreal and fast pace of popular culture.

8 May Bodmin

SURFING TOMMIES, Helland Village Hall, Bodmin, 01726 879500, carntocove.co.uk, 7.30pm, £7 Carn to Cove is Cornwall’s rural arts touring scheme. They hope to amuse, entertain and generally bowl over communities around Cornwall with the latest live performances in their own halls and community centres. Set during the First World War, this poignant drama by Alan Kent follows the lives of three members of the Devon and Cornwall Light Infantry on an incredible journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders. We meet mazed beauties, mad male voice choirs and the first surfers. This darkly mischievous play comments on life in the trenches and current conflicts around the world. Rich in Cornish dialect and decadence, this new

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Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, Plymouth 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.30pm, £16 - £10 An explosive new stage adaptation of The Who’s legendary album transformed into an iconic rock opera that appeals to rebels and adolescents of all ages. Set in London and Brighton during the 1960s mod scene, Quadrophenia charts the path of Jimmy, a hedonistic, style conscious teenager who hates his job, can’t connect with his parents and lives for the music and mod scene that makes it all bearable. Rolling Stone Magazine recognized Quadrophenia as one of the greatest albums of all time and this stage show is a glorious tribute that musical brilliance and the sentiment behind it. Music, lyrics and concept by Pete Townsend. Stage adaption

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9 May – 25 July Plymouth

SPACE AGE: EXPLORATION, DESIGN AND POPULAR CULTURE. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus, 01752 304774, plymouthmuseum.gov.uk This touring exhibition will take you on a journey from early astronomy via the space race of the 1950s and 1960s and bring you up to date with the cutting edge technology of today. Touch a real life meteorite, see an original Russian Cosmonaut Suit, play Space Invaders – and discover how you manage in space when you really need to go!!

11 – 12 May Exeter

EDge 09, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, 01392 667080, exeterphoenix. org.uk, 8pm, £9/£7 The 11 dancers from EDge, the postgraduate performance company of the London Contemporary Dance school, perform a selection of new work from an international line up of choreographers.

They will also present a selection of shorter works created specifically for the company by up and coming dance artists. This varied programme of work promises a rewarding evening of dance, performed by an exciting new generation of contemporary dancers.

12 – 16 May Truro

BE NEAR ME, Hall for Cornwall, Back Quay, TR1 2LL, 01872 262466, hallforcornwall.co.uk, 7.30pm, £16 - £7 Presented by the Donmar Warehouse and the National Theatre of Scotland, this play tells the story of an Oxford-educated Catholic priest who is assigned to a parish in a dispirited Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast. Lonely and adrift he befriends two unstable teenagers from the local school and is drawn into their exotic world. As events spin out of control he is forced to face his greatest trial yet.

Adapted from The Booker Prize nominated novel by Andrew O”Hagan, Be Near Me is a compelling and moving story about love, morality and regret.

13 May Plymouth

WHALE RIDING WEATHER Theatre 1, The Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, 01752 585050,

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peninsula-arts.co.uk 8pm, £5 Produced in association with the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor (Canada) this play is a humorous and empathetic exploration of the tangled relationship between three emotionally hungry and interdependent men: Lyle, an aging queen; Auto, his beautiful younger lover; and, Auto’s equally beautiful provocative young trick, Jude. Not suitable for children, contains brief nudity

A sell-out show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Paperweight is the absurd tale of two men trapped in mindless office jobs. As the pressure of work and the ever present threat of the ringing telephone increases, chaos descends. An (almost!) silent comedy of escalating intensity and surprising tenderness.

14 May – 10 Jun Plymouth

THE SYNCRETIC SENSE, Plymouth Arts Centre, 01752 206114, plymouthartscentre.org The first UK retrospective exhibition of the pioneering cybernetic artist Roy Ascott,, curated in collaboration with i-DAT (Institute for Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth). This exhibition explores the influences and rhetoric of Roy Ascott’s work, mapping the impact, history and development of technology and looking to the future of Web2 and Second life.

MORE CITIES, Cube 3 Gallery, 1st floor mezzanine, Portland Square Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, 01752 585050, peninsula-arts.co.uk Christopher McNamara has been described as one of Detroit’s most significant cultural workers. This new installation of video dioramas and retrospective screening offers up an overview of his work over the past five years. In each one, there is a concern for language in its cinematic, textual, and spoken forms and, through looking at them together, we come to see a case for the collapsing of borders.

19 – 20 May Exeter

THE CENTRE AND ITS OPPOSITE, Exeter Northcott, Stocker Road, 01392 493493, exeternorthcott.co.uk, 2.30pm/7.30pm, £24 - £14.50 Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with another exciting and varied programme of worldclass dance. The Centre and its Opposite is a brand-new work from contemporary choreographer Garry Stewart, Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre. This stylish and dynamic piece is set to a rhythmic, powerfully electronic soundscape and presents the audience with an intense explosion of rapid fire classical ballet fused with hard-edged contemporary dance.

21 May Plymouth

FORKED, The B Bar, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 01752 242021, theb-bar.blogspot. com, 8pm, £4 A night of spoken word to inspire, delight, and provoke, hosted by Mama Tokus.

This month, Forked features the talents of Excentral Tempest, an underground MC and one of the most exciting performers on the spoken word scene, who has been described as inspirational by Scroobius Pip. She’s joined by Ash Dickinson with a performance of surreal, hilarious social commentary and wicked word play.

23 May Plymouth

PAPERWEIGHT, Acorn Arts Centre, Parade St, 01736 365520, acornartscentre.co.uk, 8pm, £8

Until 24 May Plymouth

24 – 25 May Plymouth

BREAKIN’ CONVENTION, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7pm, £16 An International Festival of Hip Hop Dance Theatre. Freestyling, graff jams, DJs from 4pm then the main show at 7pm. Breakin Convention is a unique festival of hip hop dance theatre. With rave reviews and sell-out shows at Sadler’s Wells in London for five years, the festival is now on tour, giving you the chance to see some of the best hip hop dancers on the planet!

Witness the world’s greatest B-boys, Korea’s MyoSung, plus American legend Ken Swift with his crew VII Gems Rock Division, and French entertainer Salah, who mixes hip hop dance with mime and clowning to magical effect! With local acts, DJs and freestyle sessions in the foyer, all hosted by hip hop legend Jonzi D, this is no ordinary night at the theatre…

26 May Falmouth

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PHRASED & CONFUSED

Exeter Phoenix , Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS, 01392 667080, exeterphoenix.org.uk, £10 “Which would you save if your house was on fire – your books or your records?”

This is the question that inspired Phrased & Confused, the irresistibly playful mix of song-writing genius and spoken word. The tour stops in Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre this month, blending music and poetry to serve up a lyrical feast. It’s a live literature event with everything you’d expect from a music gig: great sound, good lights and a really relaxed environment. Included in the line up are Woodpigeon, Canada’s up and coming kings and queens of lush folk pop. We gave their album a top review in last month’s 247, and you can check out an exclusive interview with the band by Arash Torabi right now on our blogs page at 247magazine.co.uk. Woodpigeon also have a new single, “Cities Of Weather”, out on 18 May on End Of The Road Records. They are joined by Murray Lachlan Young, Aoife Mannix & Janie Armour & Dead Poets.

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MARK STEEL: WHAT’S GOING ON? Acorn Arts Centre, Parade St, 01736 365520, acornartscentre. co.uk, 8pm, £15/£13 Taking the theme of his new book What’s Going On?, BAFTA Award nominated standup comedian Mark Steel will be doing a special show at St.John’s Hall! Intelligent insights into everything from the war in Iraq to supermarkets come under the scrutiny of Mark’s sharply observed, bitingly funny, poignant and politically charged comedy gunfire. Suitable for ages 12+

PREVIEW PERFORMANCE/ THIRD YEAR SHOWCASE Theatre 1, The Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, 01752 585050, peninsula-arts.co.uk 7.30pm, £5 The Theatre and Performance Department at the University of Plymouth present a ‘Preview Performance’ of its next London Showcase 2009. This will be an evening of innovative and challenging new contemporary performance work devised and performed by final year Theatre and Performance students. Come and see the next generation of skilled theatre makers on trail to fame and fortune.

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24 May – 19 Jun Plymouth

TELLTALES, Babahogs, 19b Well Lane, 01326 211718, babahogs.com Telltales is a new night for writing in Cornwall. On the last Tuesday of every month at 7pm, writers and word enthusiasts meet for tea and cake (corkage is just £1 if you want to bring booze) and to listen to each other’s work.

From poetry to short stories and novel extracts, people can come along to read any kind of written work aloud. Set up by writers Chelsey Flood and Clare Howdle, Telltales aims to kickstart a vibrant writing community in Falmouth. Telltale also showcases work from professional guest writers. For more info and to submit work, see wordslikepictures.com/telltales

UNDER THE INFLUENCE, Drum Theatre, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.45pm, £12 Through a variety of forms, the company surprises, confronts, excites and seduces an increasingly active and self-conscious audience. This brand new performance immerses the audience in the atmosphere of an outrageous house party, questioning the sense of losing yourself to achieve happiness. Last year, Ontroerend Goed’s “life-affirming, crazy, mixed-up show ‘Once And For All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen’ staged 13 teenagers challenging preconceived notions about adolescence.

They were awarded with another Fringe First in Edinburgh and a Herald Angel Award. This show at the Drum promises to be no less vibrant and exciting.

28 May Penzance

28 May Plymouth

Until 30 May Plymouth

ELLIE HARRISON, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AT, 01752 203427 Glasgow based artist Ellie Harrison is currently artist in residence at Plymouth College of Art, and the Plymouth College of Art Press has just published her 40 page full colour book, ‘Confessions Of A Recovering Data Collector’ (£10). The release of the book co-incides with her solo exhibition at Plymouth College of Art (in the Viewpoint Gallery from 22 April).

Ellie used to collect data – over five years she documented and recorded information about almost every aspect of her daily routine – including photographing and cataloging 1,640 meals and snacks for her project Eat 22. But the data collecting took its toll, and she had to quit! This project is about her re-invention of her role as an artist.

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Gardens In Autumn (PG)

27 May: Exeter Phoenix, 01392

667080, exeterphoenix.org.uk Dir.Otar Iosseliani Starring: Severin Blanchet, Jacynthe Jaquet, Michel Piccoli.

2006/Italy/France/Russia/115 mins When Vincent, a government minister (Blanchet), is forced to resign from office, the familiar perks (stretch limo, obligatory mansion and golddigging mistress) also become a thing of the past. This darkly comic counter-culture movie shows Vincent thriving in his new-found freedom. He rediscovers the love of his family and with the support of his mother (Michel Piccoli in drag) and through time spent with long-lost friends, he is able to rediscover the small pleasures of life.

Get Carter (18)

7 May: Jill Craigie Cinema, University of Plymouth, 01752 60060, plymouth.ac.uk Director: Mike Hodges, starring Michael Caine. 1971/UK/112 mins This classic of British cinema is a thrilling revenge saga with arguably the coolest character to grace our screens.

The film follows Michael Caine’s London gangster, Carter, returning to his hometown of Newcastle to unravel the mysterious death of his brother. A brutal and unflinching rampage of revenge follows as Caine eats up the screen in director Mike Hodge’s career highpoint.

Il Divo (15)

9 – 10 May: The Poly,

Falmouth, 01326 212 300, thepoly.org. Dir: Paolo Sorrentino, starring Toni Servillo and Anna Bonaiuto 2008/Italy/117 mins This magnificent and loopy depiction of post-war Italian politics traces Guilio Andreotti’s years in power. Andreotti was prime minister seven times from the 70s to the 90s: the film examines how he maintained his power base while being accused of alleged ties to the mafia. With a wonderfully grotesque (though subtle) lead performance by Toni Servillo, driving rock score, non-linear narrative, and swooping camerawork this fabulous epic will leave you gasping. Imagine two periods of Martin Scorsese’s career overlapping (both the early energy of Mean Streets with the visually operatic qualities of Casino) and you are in the right ballpark.

A word of advice: enjoy this flow and bravura of this movie while not worrying too much if you are a bit lost.

In The Loop (15)

15 – 21 May: The Poly,

Falmouth, 01326 212 300, thepoly.org 22 – 28 May: Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, 01752 206114,

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Dir. Armando Iannucci, starring Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander 2008/UK/105 mins The US President and UK Prime Minister suddenly fancy a war. But it’ll be quick this time. The US General Miller (Gandolfini) doesn’t think so and the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Hollander), agrees with him. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on television, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one (Chris Addison) can sleep with the right intern and if they can both stop the PM’s chief strategist Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war. From Armando Iannucci, the comic-genius behind The Thick Of It comes this biting satire on British-US relations and the lunacy of war.

Dark,very funny, and potty-mouthed – and directed at relentless pace Juno (12a)

25 May: The Church Rooms, Lostwithiel, 01208 873242, lostinfilm.org Dir: Jason Reitman, starring Ellen Page and Michael Cera USA/2007/96 mins When a one night stand with her best friend leaves 15 year old Juno MacGuff pregnant she finds herself coming of age in the most drastic manner. In this touching comedy from Jason Reitman (son of Ivan the director of Ghostbusters), the

issue of teen pregnancy and adoption is dramatised in a way that is not polarising or depressing.

Let The Right One In (15)

1 – 7 May: The Poly,

Falmouth, 01326 212300, thepoly.org 1 – 7 May: Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, 01752 206114, plymouthartscentre.org Dir: Tomas Alfredsson, starring Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson 2008/Sweden/114 mins Let the Right One In is an absorbing and ethereal tale of friendship, rejection and unconditional love. It is also a Swedish vampire film with more bite than Dracula after a visit to the dentist. Bullied at school, 12-year-old Oskar dreams of revenge. He imagines a time when he’ll be ready to stand up to his tormentors.

That day nears when he meets strange new neighbour Eli and, as their friendship grows, Oskar realises that she will change his life forever as she is a creature of the night. Absolutely fang-tastic!

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Milk (15

20 May: Exeter Phoenix, 01392 667080, exeterphoenix.org.uk

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Dir: Gus Van Sant, starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and James Franco. 2008/ USA/128 mins Acclaimed filmmaker Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Paranoid Park) captures a pivotal moment in the gay movement’s struggle for civil rights with this skilfully and tenderly observed account of the life and work of Harvey Milk. The first openly homosexual man voted into significant U.S. public office in 1977, Milk’s brief but committed career inspired a generation of activists before he was assassinated the following year by a disturbed colleague. The phenomenal cast includes Josh Brolin, Diego Luna and James Franco, but the standout performance comes from Sean Penn whose turn as the charismatic politician glows with passion, humanity and wit.

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (TBC)

14 May: Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth, 01752 60060, plymouth.ac.uk Dir: Stephen Frears 1985/UK/97 mins This is the story of two former school friends who take over an old launderette and set about converting it into the finest launderette in London, complete with video screens. This is no simple feat in 1980s Britain though, especially when one of the friends is Asian whilst the other is a working-class white whose punkish friends belong to the national front. This film is stand-out achievement for British Cinema and a wake-up call for gay pride on screen. It’s funny and touching without ever patronising the subject matter and is well worth your attention.

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Dir: Gavin Hood, starring Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds and Liev Schreiber. 2009/US/97 mins

This film does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s all about the early years of Wolverine and how he became one of the X-men. Hugh Jackman plays the mutant superhero who has a major falling out with adoptive brother Victor Creed after his girlfriend is killed by his only living relative. The two live separate lives until they are united by the evil Stryker who wants to rid the world of the mutant problem. This is one of the years early blockbusters and is shaping up to be one of the best with fan favourite Gambit making an appearance in the series for the first time. Should be X-cellent.

Waveriders (PG)

29 May – 4 Jun: Plymouth

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Released: 8 May STAR TREK (TBC)

Dir: J.J Abrams, starring Chris Pine, Simon Pegg and Zachary Quinto 2009/US/126 mins

Star Trek fans rejoice as the man behind Lost and Cloverfield takes on science fiction’s most precious commodity. This is a chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members during their time at Starfleet Academy. The cast features hot Brittalent Simon Pegg as Scotty and fresh from his turn as Sylar in Heroes, Zachary Quinto plays Spock. The effects will be out of this world, but reinventing Star Trek is like reinventing the wheel, and this film could certainly risk the wrath of the Trekkies. Verdict: Keep watching the skies.

Arts Centre, Plymouth, 01752 206114, plymouthartscentre.org Dir: Joel Conroy 2008/Ireland/80 mins Surfing’s “cold paradise” is what a visibly chilly Kelly Slater wryly calls it, as this raw, heartfelt love-letter claims Ireland is the unlikely spiritual motherland of wave-riding. Conroy’s documentary starts gripping hard when it reveals the remarkable life of the original soul-surfer, George Freeth. Conroy follows the Irish riders who have spent their lives exploring surfing’s green hidden gem en route to an extraordinary coda. In 2007, a colossal storm churned up the biggest swell ever to hit Ireland – the footage of the tiny figures riding these ferocious 50ft monsters goes past awe-inspiring into something almost indefina

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Fri. 01

Bideford

PIXEL. Palladium Club. Lower Gunstone. 4pm - 12am, £free.

Exmouth

BOBKATZ . Famous Old Barrel.

Princess Street, EX8 1JA. 9pm – 11pm Pop/Punk . 01395 276650.

Over 15 with parent/guardian

Ilfracombe

ZAMBA. The Landmark Theatre Beer Festival. 9pm. myspace.com/ zambaband

Penryn

THE HAND AND ICHI. Miss Peapods. Commercial Road. TR10 8FG. £6. 8 till midnight.

English folk songs cross bred with dessert camp fire blues supported by ichi, an exraordinary one man band from japan. myspace.com/thehand myspace.com/ichijapan, 01326 374424 / misspeapod.co.uk.

St Austell

THE FANTASTICS. The Jelly Jazz 16th Birthday Party | Part 1 at The South West Showdown - The Eden Arts Cafe/Eden Project.

7pm - 12.30am. £16. myspace.com/ thefantasticsfunk + DJs Pete Isaac & Griff

Sat. 02

Bideford

MUD MUNKEY. Palladium Club.

Lower Gunstone. 4pm-12am.

Dawlish

BOBKATZ. Lansdowne. 8 Park Road, 9.45pm – 12am.

Falmouth

ROADHOUSE. The Prince Of Wales. 4 Market Strand. Touring Rock Blues Band

Millbrook

LOUIS ELIOT & THE EMBERS’.

The Celtic Rally Beer Festival.

(01752 815848). myspace.com/ louiseliot

Newton Abbott

SINGING SATURDAY. Courtenay Centre. Kingsteignton Rd, TQ12 2QA. £10 / £5 concessions.

10.30am - 3.30pm. Folk and World Music singing workshop for 8 to 18 year olds with vocalists from the Roots A Capella group, and professional singers Paul Wilson and Claire Anstee 01837 53754. wrenmusic.co.uk

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VIPERS DREAM. Miss Peapods.

Commercial Road. £free, 8 till 12pm. Jazz and bossa nova band. myspace.com/vipersdream

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BHODAZAFFA. Gaslights Bar. Station Hill. £free. myspace.com/ bhodazaffa

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MAYDAY MAYHEM. The Melting Pot Cafe. Krowji, the Old Grammar School, West Park, 7.00pm 11.45pm. £7/6 conc. Live Bands: Hedra + BragaTanga + Dalla.

Bodmin

LOWENDER FESTIVAL, Colliford Lake. Local band festival with loads of bands playing through the day - see lowender.co.uk for more info

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MAY DAY. Plymouth Guildhall.

Guildhall Sq, PL1 2AD. Advanced Tickets £10. Tickets on the door £15. 7pm - 11pm. Chumbawamba will be bombarding the crowd with ideas, tunes and a good time. Plus support from London guitar-pop band Farrah 01752 208709. plymouth-tuc.co.uk THE CREEPSHOW. White Rabbit.

Unit 14, Bretonside. Canadian punkabilly stalwarts, The Creepshow, bring the party with the pomade, opting for the kind of all-thrills rock’n’roll revue that bares its claws as well as its tender side. Our Vince Lee raises the bar high, while Midlands punk’n’rollers, Dragster, toss Bourbon all over it and fellate the landlord + Vince Lee - myspace.com/vinceleemusic + Dragster - myspace.com/ dragstersuicide

TRUE METAL TOUR. Palladium Club. Lower Gunstone. £3 / £2 members. 4pm-12am. Great music.

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or pint of ale, or get involved and learn some traditional folk dances.. 01326 212168.

THE DAYS. The Hippo. 9 Bath Street. 8pm. £6. myspace.com/ thedaysmusic THE DELAHAYS. Jack Chams Lounge Bar. Indie/funk & hip-hop. myspace.com/thedelahays

SMOKESTACK BLUES JAM. Exeter Phoenix. Bradninch Place, Gandy Street. 8pm.

JULES. Tiger Bills. 7 North Street Exeter. Free. 7pm-9pm. With a voice like Natalie Merchant, this indie musician’s influences range from Ani Difranco to Blind Melon. She’ll sing to your soul & challenge your heart to feel! JulieYount.com

Tue. 05

Exeter

A FINE DAY FOR SAILING. Album Launch. City Gate cellar bar.

8.30pm. Fat Battery & Simon Bish.

Penryn

STEVE BUCKLEY TRIO Miss Peapods. Commercial Road. £7/£5. 8pm-12am. Internationally acclaimed uk sax star. 01326 374424 / misspeapod.co.uk/

Redruth

GASLIGHTS OPEN MIC NIGHT. Gaslights Bar, Station Hill. With Hed Luv & passman (Every Wednesday)

Thu. 07

Exeter

VIRGINS. Cavern Club. Queen

Street. Not to be confused with those NYC disco-clods, this myspace.

JAM NIGHT. Palladium Club. Lower com/virginsofflorida. Virgins is a Gunstone. 4pm-12am. Come and grubby, old-school punk band from join in no charge. 01237478860.

Orlando, Florida, featuring ex-members of New Mexican Disaster Squad Exeter + The Cut Ups - myspace.com/ DESECRATION. Cavern Club. thecutupsfromexeter Queen Street. £5 after 9, £3 b4 PADDY JOHNSTON’S LOVE 9. 8pm-1am. Welsh Death Metal EXPLOSION. Exeter Picture Legends return to the Exeter cavern for House. 51, Bartholomew Street Plymouth a one-off gig, with support from Red THE DELAHAYS. James Street West, 8pm. myspace.com/ Vaults. Indie/funk & hip-hop. myspace. Mist, Desolated and Cachexic . 01392 paddyjohnstonsloveexplosion + Stuart 495370 com/thedelahays Wilson - stuartwills.com + Nicky Swann - myspace.com/nickyswann Falmouth SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE Falmouth Custom House Quay, £Free.

OPEN MIC. The Custom House Exeter midday - midnight. hosted by Simon Quay, TR11 3JT. £Free. midday SONIC BOM SIX. Cavern Club Drinkwater. All singer/songwriters midnight. hosted by Lukas Drinkwater. . Queen Street. EX4 3RP. 7pm. welcome to come and perform. 01326 A lively and varied evening of Support from Random Hand 212168. entertainment. New performers always myspace.com/randomhand welcome. 01326 212168.

Plymouth Falmouth SON OF DAVE. B-bar. Castle Torrington MORNING WOOD ROCK. The Street, The Barbican, 9pm. £10.

ZAMBA. Torrington Mayfair Day, Prince Of Wales. 4 Market Strand, Harmonica blues meets techno in the The Newmarket Inn. 9.30pm.

Soul/Blues Band headline form of this Fedora-wearing myspace.com/zambaband one-man-band and beatboxer who Ilfracombe MAY 4TH BE WITH YOU. Bunch of mutters obscenities while he loops his Grapes. 36 High Street, £free. from stomps. The future of blues.

4pm onwards. The Padawans - kicking PORTICO QUARTET WORKSHOP. Bideford Barbican Theatre, Castle off at 4pm and on late into the night CHICARGO MUSIC EXPLOSION. Street, The Barbican. 1pm. The with covers of the Foo Fighters, Kings Palladium Club. Lower Gunstone. internationally-famed Portico Quartet of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay and EX392DE. 4pm-12am. Acts from leads a workshop for young people.

In lots of good time sweet and greasy pub America tbc. 01237478860. conjunction with Peninsula Arts. Tel: rock - may the fourth be with you.

01752 242021 Boscastle PORTICO QUARTET. Barbican Falmouth LOUIS ELIOT & THE EMBERS’ .

Theatre, Castle Street, The CORNISH BRETON FOLK The Napoleon Inn. (01840 250204).

Barbican PL1 2NJ. 8pm. £15.

MUSIC DANCE WITH THE myspace.com/louiseliot BARBARELLAS. £Free. 9pm Festival headliners who have been Exeter 11.30pm The Custom House Quay, causing a quiet storm in international TR11 3JT. A relaxed and sociable jazz circles performances featuring the SIMON SWARBRICK AND KENNY evening, where you can just soak up hypnotic signature sound of the hang- WATKINS. The Clifford Suite, The Barnfield Theatre. £9.50 (£8) the atmosphere with a glass of wine drum. But is it jazz? You decide.

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IVE Tour time for the ‘Arm again. In this instance, we were joined by Falmouth trio, BANGERS – a band of loveable rogues whose command of Jawbreakeresque melodic punk with Dagnasty hooks has never been bettered; not in this country at least. And I got to witness it twelve, joyful times.

Worcester (Evolution, 15 March). Homeboys RED; THE RESISTANCE bade a fond farewell with a penultimate show that felt like a bit of a damp squib.

Usually, their righteous hardcore strikes deep – maybe the impending split had sapped their spirits. New kids on the block, TERRORHAWK, played a rambunctious form of punk rock but their singer’s ridiculous squeal reduced them to a bit of a laughing stock.

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Birmingham (Madhouse, 16 March). The Madhouse is an inspiring, one-stop music co-op. Every city should have one. But not every city could cope with IDIOSYNC: the kind of jittery, messy funk-punk ensemble who should spend less time listening to their friends tell them how good they are. Conversely, emo-punkers, MAYCOMB, were T-Cut to perfection with neat harmonies but, ultimately, disposable songs.

Leeds. Some idiot, who shall remain nameless*, mistook the oil filter on our van for the starting motor and subsequently punctured it. Cue urban oil spill of Exxon proportions. Meanwhile, local boys, THE DAUNTLESS ELITE, were causing a fraternal celebration with easily digestible chunks of melodic punk (Packhorse, Leeds, 17 March).

Durham. Very pretty place. The venue, alas, was a shit-hole which suited fem-fronted hardcore punks, THE ZOMBIE HEADHUNTERS, and their early Distillers-style fury (Durham University, 18 March). Acoustic duo, ONSIND, faced towards each other as if to proffer mutual reassurance, playing political songs with humour and humility.

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Kingston. First up, Exeter’s MARSHALL TELLER were a decent enough punk rock trio (Fighting Cocks, Kingston, 20 March). But then Southampton pop-punks, DEATH AT SEA, had to spoil the party with an abysmally misguided notion of professionalism coupled with the painful sight of all their family cheering them on like a particularly unctuous Battle of the Bands heat.

Strutting hardcore lads, IMMORTAL YOUTH, redressed the balance but not in a way that championed originality.

Cambridge. We always love playing Cam (Portland Arms, 22 March). Before us, UNITED SNAKES and BREAK THE HABIT proffered scratchy garage and punchy hardcore respectively. After us, post-hardcore parvenus, THE TUPOLEV GHOST, proved that the British can do jagged, nervy rock as good as the Yanks, but not quite as thrilling as These Arms Are Snakes, mind.

Back home, and we’re weaving our way through the middle-aged throng to catch sight of SETH LAKEMAN at the White Rabbit (Plymouth, 24 March).

Of course he’s got a fantastic voice. Of course he fiddled and strummed masterfully. Of course the band embellished his Jethro Tull-meets-Richard Thompson intimations. But unless you were up close and personal, things seemed to blur into one extended Britfolk jam. A great jam, nonetheless.

The Plymouth date of our tour introduced Falmouth’s CROCUS to the city (White Rabbit, 27 March). Quite spectacular, too. Like Converge laced with rat poison, the band’s unforgiving noise and leg-wobbling antics was closer to performance art than rock show, and all the better for it. Exeter’s OK PILOT were reliably ace, even when Chris Moynan cruelly abandoned his bass during the last song, like a spurned ex-lover.

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Portsmouth (Fawcett Inn, 28 March). Despite some numbskulls heckling from the ‘normal’ end of the pub, LIVERS & LUNGS ploughed a gloriously Drag The River-esque folk furrow; Exeter’s BROTHERS bashed out three-chord garage scree to their hearts’ content; and acoustic teen sensation, SOME SORT OF THREAT crammed as many poignant words as possible into his simple ditties, evidently keen to share his sense of urgency with all present.

Tour over. Sniffle. Neil from Consolation Prizefighter’s ‘side-project’, THE ROOFTOP GAMBLER, sidestepped Big Noise in favour of a faintly countrified motif that had echoes of The Gun Club, Calexico and Burning Airlines with a baritone voice that tickled you into submission (White Rabbit, Plymouth, 2 April). Quite lovely. James MacGregor’s HEAD OF PROGRAMMES, in full band mode, proffered a similar exercise in subtlety but with trademark downbeat demeanour and majestic black-cloud vignettes.

Save the best ‘til last? Too fucking right. Georgia’s BARONESS. One of the greatest low-end, progressive punk-metal ensembles that ever was (Croft, Bristol, 12 April). It’s sheer folly to get drawn into Mastodon comparisons.

John Baizley’s maniacal glare, the knee-trembling psyche build-ups, the mighty snarl, the bi-guitar odysseys and the raw Southern/punk rock power all add up to a band possessed with almost metaphysical potency. In contrast BIG NATURAL’s drum and bass assault was a tad primitive, while openers, London’s seasoned PALEHORSE, made awesome use of two thunderous basses, Envy-stroke-Big Black dynamics and abstrusely sludgetastic rhythms.

I’m off to downtune my guitar. See-ya bye.

LIVE DANI WILDE BAND. Globe Hotel Topsham. Fore Street Topsham Exeter. £8 Advance. 8pm. An explosive mix of Janis Joplin and high tension R n’ B from this hotly tipped songstress. 01392 873407. myspace. com/daniwildemusic

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Plymouth

LATIN JAZZ CUBAN NIGHT. B-bar.

Castle Street, The Barbican. 8pm. £free. Special Festival edition of this weekly Cuban dance session, with DJ Power Lisboa.

MAMA TOKUS AND THE SONS OF BITCHES & THOMAS FORD Falmouth SUPPORT. Barbican Theatre, Castle THE PISTOLEROS. The Prince Of Street, The Barbican, 8pm. £7.50.

Wales. 4 Market Strand.

Mama Tokus presides over an evening of her own blues, soul, stories and Plymouth cabaret, taking us down to the edge WILLI & THE BANDITS. B-bar. of the swamp. And back. Tel: 01752 Castle Street, The Barbican, 242021 8.30pm. £5. Slide blues meets rootsy JILL COLE. Blues Bar & Grill. 8 The surf-sound in the laid-back form of this outstanding local band. Tel: 01752 Parade., Barbican PL1 2LJ. 9pm. £free. Blues-rock singer-songwriter 242021 who regular features at this top JAZZACADABRA. The Barbican Barbican spot. Tel: 01752 257345 Jazz Cafe. 11 The parade, The CHERRY LEE LEWIS. The Barbican, PL1 2JL. 10pm. £2.

Refectory. Plymouth Gin, Southside Smooth and mainstream jazz.

Street, The Barbican. 8pm. £7.50.

MAD DOG MCREA. The Hippo.

She’s a 5ft-nothing-23-year-old-white 9 Bath Street. 8pm. myspace.com/ girl from North Wales who gets her maddogmcrea + Matthew Board kicks out of scratchy old vinyl, roaring myspace.com/matthewboard + The vocals and battered old guitars, adding Family Tree her fresh perspective to blues ‘n’ roots Shaldon music.

THE WIRELESS. Thistle Park BOBKATZ. Ferryboat inn. Fore Street, Shaldon, Devon 9pm – 11pm Tavern. Sutton Road, Coxside.

9.30pm. £free. Rockin’ acoustic 01626 872340 combo performing interpretations of classic tunes from the last 50 years + original material. info@ thewirelessradio.co.uk Bideford PAUL POULTON PROJECT. Tideford Palladium Club. Lower Gunstone.

LOUIS ELIOT & THE EMBERS’.

4pm-12am. Live music tbc.

The Rod & Line. (01752 851323) 01237478860. myspace.com/louiseliot

CLUB

Sat. 09

Bude

ZAMBA. Inn On The Green, Crooklets Beach. 9.30pm. myspace. com/zambaband

Exeter

TINY TIN LADY. Exeter Phoenix.

Bradninch Place, Gandy Street.

8pm. £6.50. myspace.com/tinytinlady + Rosa Rebecka - myspace.com/ rosarebecka + Jenna - myspace.com/ jennadwitts

Falmouth

WHEAL ROCK. The Prince Of Wales. 4 Market Strand. Greenday/ Clapton/U2

Great Torrington

SPEED THE PLOUGH 13. The Plough Arts Centre. 9 – 11 Fore Street. 8pm. Box Office: 01805 624624.

Penryn

VIRGINS. Miss Peapods.

Commercial Road. Not to be confused with those NYC disco-clods, this myspace.com/virginsofflorida.

Virgins is a grubby, old-school punk band from Orlando, Florida, featuring ex-members of New Mexican Disaster Squad + The Cut Ups - myspace.com/ thecutupsfromexeter

Backbone (johnsycash@yahoo.co.uk)

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Calstock

WALTER STRAUSS. Calstock Hall.

The Quay, Calstock. £8. 7.30pm.

Singer/songwriter guitarist from the USA on a short tour of the UK 01822832414. calstockhall.org

Exeter

THE ACORN. Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street. 8pm/£10 (£8) A Canadian alt-folk quintet recently seen supporting Elbow and their label mates, the similarly sounding Fleet Foxes. The band add eclectic instrumentation to the solid base supplied by the vivid songwriting of singer/guitarist Rolf Klausener.

OTIS GIBBS. Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street.

8pm. £6. myspace.com/otisgibbs

Mon. 11 Falmouth

CORNISH BRETON FOLK MUSIC DANCE WITH THE BARBARELLAS. £Free. 9pm - 11.30pm The Custom House Quay, A relaxed and sociable evening, where you can just soak up the

LIVE

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atmosphere with a glass of wine or pint of ale, or get involved and learn some traditional folk dances.. 01326 212168.

SHEARWATER. The Poly, 24 Church Street. myspace.com/ shearwater. Another gem from the musical hotbed that is Austin, Texas.

Shearwater proffer beautifully stark songs hewn from the genius mind of singer, guitarist and banjo player, Jonathan Meiburg.

Tue. 12

with politically astute observations.

Similarly, Random Hand’s metal-ska mélange is winning hearts the world over + Gecko + A War Against Sound - myspace.com/awaragainstsound

Fri. 15 Bideford

KIERAN HALPIN. Palladium Club.

Lower Gunstone. 4pm-12am. Great music tbc. 01237478860.

Exeter

CRUSH UK . Prospect Inn. The Bideford Quay, Exeter, Devon EX2 4AN. JAM NIGHT. Palladium Club. Lower 9.30pm – 11.30pm. Pop/rock. 01392 Gunstone. 4pm-12am. Come and 273152. myspace.com/martinweller join in no charge. 01237 478860 THE DELAHAYS. Belushi’s. Indie/ funk & hip-hop. myspace.com/ Falmouth thedelahays SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE at 9PM. The Custom House Quay, Falmouth £Free. midday - midnight. hosted ROCK N ROLL EXPLOSION 1950’S

by Simon Drinkwater. All singer/ ROCK ‘N’ ROLL. The Prince Of songwriters welcome to come and Wales. 4 Market Strand. perform. 01326 212168.

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Plymouth

CAFE ACOUSTICA. The B-bar.

Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, 8pm. £2. Our monthly showcase of unplugged talent, hosted by singer-songwriter Jessie Mullen, with Mel Rout, Will McNicol and Lemanis.

Thu. 14

Exeter

CRAZY ARM. Cavern Exeter. 83-84 Queen St. Plymouth based, roots-punk quartet. myspace.com/crazyarm PHRASED & CONFUSED WOODPIGEON. Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street. 8pm/£10 (£8) This tour combines the blissed-out orchestral pop of Canada’s best kept secret Woodpigeon with the dark, satirical wordsmith Murray Lachlan Young.

Expected by many to follow Arcade Fire as the next great Canadian breakout band. myspace.com/woodpigeon

Falmouth

OPEN MIC 9PM. The Custom House Quay, TR11 3JT. £Free. midday – midnight. hosted by Lukas Drinkwater. A lively and varied evening of entertainment. New performers always welcome.. 01326 212168.

Plymouth

RANDOM HAND & SONIC BOOM SIX. White Rabbit. Unit 14, Bretonside. Promoting their new album, ‘City Of Thieves’, SB6 are skanking back into the West country with their urban mash-up of punk rock, hip-hop and ska, coupled

MOSES GUNN. Miss Peapods.

Commercial Road. TR10 8FG. 8 till midnight. £free dirty funk soul band. myspace.com/ mosesgunnband

Penzance

PO’ GIRL WITH SUPPORT FROM THE CARRIVICK SISTERS. Acorn Arts Centre. Parade Street, £15.

8pm - 11pm. Using elements of jazz, country and european folk music whlie retaining a punk-rock ethos, Canadians Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira are multi-instrumentalists. 01736 365 520. acornartscentre.co.uk

Plymouth

OUT TO GRASS. The B-bar.

Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, 8pm. £3. Our favourite pleasant pluckers return for a hoedown with their five-part harmonies, their bluegrass covers of popular tunes and high-octane entertainment. Think of them as Plymouth’s Hayseed Dixie.

Tavistock

Exeter

Falmouth

WHERE’S IT 2. The Prince Of Wales. 4 Market Strand.

Liskeard

THE BUCKET BOYS. Carnglaze Carverns, St.Neot, Liskeard, PL14 6HQ. 8pm £10/concs.£7.50. Support from Poslips.

Penryn

ORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY JAZZ. Miss Peapods. Commercial Road. TR10 8FG. £5 on the door 8 till midnight. Trumpet, alto sax, double bass and drums(influenced by ornette coleman, ari hoenig and jeff ballard)

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BREED 77 PLUS SUSPERIA. Palladium Club. Lower Gunstone.

EX392DE. 4pm- 1am. £10. Great night. 01237478860.

Falmouth

CORNISH BRETON FOLK MUSIC; DANCE WITH THE BARBARELLAS. £Free. 9pm 11.30pm The ‘front. Custom House Quay. A relaxed and sociable evening, where you can just soak up the atmosphere with a glass of wine or pint of ale, or get involved and learn some traditional folk dances.. 01326 212168.

BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. The Prince Of Wales. 4 Market Strand.

Tue. 19

Bideford

JAM NIGHT. Palladium Club. Lower Gunstone. EX392DE. 4pm-12am.

Come and join in no charge 01237478860.

Exeter

ONE ESKIMO. The Cavern , 83-84 Queen St, 8pm. £6adv. Standing show. myspace.com/oneeskimo Plymouth (see 16th) MOUNT THE CURB with ONE ESKIMO. The Hippo. 9 Bath Street. Support from Woodnote Parade myspace.com/woodnoteparade Doors 9pm-3am, £5 All Night. £15 STAR FUCKING HIPSTERS. The Coaches from TQ, Newton Abbot, Teignmouth. One Eskimo are a 4-piece Hub. 1 Mary Arches Street, 7pm.

Featuring Leftover Crack’s Stza band who’s album is uniquely backed up by a series of animations, produced alongside members of The Slackers, Bouncing Souls and The World Inferno

by Passion Pictures, the team behind Friendship Society, SFH get back to the Gorillaz. The Kedellas, Hillside scuzzy punk rock supergroup basics, Heroes & Os Vampiros. DJs: EKC & hitting the UK for the first time. + Bannocks Moral Dilemma - myspace.com/ THE WIRELESS. The Mill Bridge. moraldilemmalondon Molesworth Road. 9pm. £free.

JULES. The Picture House. 51 Rockin’ acoustic combo performing interpretations of classic tunes from the Bartholomew Street West . £Free.

7pm-9pm. Live music in support of a last 50 years + original material. new art exhibition by Brenda Lambert: info@thewirelessradio.co.uk inspirart.com JulieYount.com

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Mon. 18

CLUB

ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS. Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street. Doors 8.30pm/£13.50 /standing. The brainchild of comedian and actor Adrian Edmondson, they play punk songs on folk instruments giving songs

by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers and the rest a traditional celtic feel. thebadshepherds.com ZAMBA. Havana. The Quay.

9.30pm. myspace.com/zambaband

THE WIRELESS. Tavistock Inn. Brook Street. 9pm. £free.

Rockin’ acoustic combo performing interpretations of classic tunes from the Exeter last 50 years + original material.

YANN TIERSEN. Exeter Phoenix, info@thewirelessradio.co.uk Gandy Street. Doors 8pm/£14 (£12) /standing. Best known as the composer of the haunting soundtrack to the 2001 film Amelie, Breton multi instrumentalist Yann Bideford Tiersen’s minimalist style has drawn AUCTION FOR THE PROMISE CLUB. Palladium Club. comparisons with the likes of Michael Lower Gunstone. EX392DE. Nyman and Philip Glass. myspace.

4pm-12am. Live music tbc. com/yanntiersencomposer 01237478860. myspace.com/ Exmouth auctionforthepromiseclub CRUSH UK. PHOENIX. 31 Dawlish Exmouth Road, 8pm - 10pm.

Sat. 16

Age limit: Over 18. 01395 269113 SHOW OF HANDS. Pavilion (RNLI fund raiser). showofhands.co.uk

CRUSH UK. Lansdowne. 8 Park Road, 9.45pm – Midnight Age limit: Over 18. 01626 863201. myspace.com/martinweller

Falmouth SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE

The Custom House Quay, £Free. midday - midnight. hosted by Simon Drinkwater. All singer/songwriters welcome to come and perform.

01326 212168.

Wed. 20

Penryn

MARTIN HARLEY. Miss Peapods.

Commercial Road. 8 till midnight. £7 peapods or poly 01326 212300.

Roots/blues solo acoustic set . 01326 374424 / misspeapod.co.uk.

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THE DELAHAYS. The Barbican Live Lounge . Indie/funk & hip-hop. myspace.com/thedelahays THE SLACKERS. White Rabbit.

Unit 14, Bretonside. Ska, roots, rock steady and soul revivalists of the highest calibre, New Yorkers, The Slackers, make a welcome return to the UK led by the irrepressible Vic Ruggiero + Too Hot - myspace. com/toohotska + The Upgrades myspace.com/theupgrades + The Restraints

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MAXIMUM BEARD PRESENTS. Voodoo Lounge. 1 The Moneycentre Precinct, Drake Circus, £3 on the door. 8.30pm 2am. Plymouth based post-folk band The Dharma Bums return after a six month hiatus, armed with new songs and new members. Support from Fisherman’s Mission and more TBC 01752 262288. thedharmabums.net

CLUB Thu. 21

Exeter

JULIE FOWLIS. Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street. 8pm/£14 (£12) 2008 BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year has taken the folk roots scene by storm in the last few years, singing ancient songs from the Hebrides in Gaelic in beautiful, restrained settings and played by renowned musicians. myspace.com/juliefowlis

Falmouth

OPEN MIC Custom House Quay, TR11 3JT. £Free. midday - midnight hosted by Lukas Drinkwater. A lively and varied evening of entertainment. New performers always welcome.. 01326 212168.

Plymouth

KERNUYCK. The Hippo. 9 Bath Street. Support from Minor Triumph & Fatty Chan.

Truro

AUCTION FOR THE PROMISE CLUB. Bunters Bar. TR1 3DL. 8pm.

Fri. 22

Bideford

HELENA AND TIGER LILY. Palladium Club. Lower Gunstone.

EX392DE. 4pm-12am. Live music tbc. 01237478860

Cullumpton

Polzeath

LOUIS ELIOT & THE EMBERS’.

Carters.

Sat. 23

Bideford

CONVULSIONS. Palladium Club.

Lower Gunstone. 4pm-12am. Great music tbc. 01237478860.

Exeter

RORY ELLIS. The Exeter Phoenix, Voodoo Lounge. Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, £10.50 in Advance £12 on the door. Doors 8pm.

Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080. myspace.com/roryellis + Richard James.

Falmouth

BAKA BEYOND. Princess Pavilion.

41 Melvill Road, £12.50. myspace. com/bakabeyond Box office 01326 211222.

Plymouth

MOUNT THE CURB. THE VOLKS FESTIVAL. Plymouth. 21:00 00:00. Festival tickets: £25 all weekend pass. DJs: Electric Kills Children, Dirty Disco, Jack Bannocks, Savo, Trainwreck Disco

Torrington

THE LOUISE PARKER QUARTET. The Plough Arts Centre. 9-11 Fore Street, £12/£10/£9. Box Office: 01805 624624

Sun. 24

Exeter

OVERDOG. The Prince Of Wales.

4 Market Strand, TR11 3DB.

JEFF LANG. Bridge Inn Topsham.

Bridge Hill Topsham. EX3. £10.

8.00pm. Aussie slide guitarist gaining rave reviews after his last year’s appearance at Glastonbury - think John Butler meets Jack Johnson.

01392 873862. myspace.com/ jefflangmusic

Perranporth

Exeter

BOBKATZ. MANOR HOTEL. 2-4 Fore Street, EX15 1JL. 9pm - 11pm.

Falmouth

AUCTION FOR THE PROMISE CLUB. The Watering Hole. 19 St. Pirans Rd. 8pm.

Plymouth

LEMANIS. The B-bar. Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ. 8pm. £3. myspace.com/lemanisband Multiinstrumentalists play excellent original orchestral indie pop and covers.

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BOBKATZ. Double locks. Canal Banks, EX2 6LT. 3pm – 5pm.

01392 256947

Mon. 25 Penryn

Miss Peapods. Commercial Road.

TR10 8FG £10 peapods, jam or poly 01326 212300. 8 till midnight.

LIVE Street level folk-pop, overdriven psychedelic meditations, desert blues and syrian party bangers in this once in a lifetime tour. thepoly.org

Tue. 26 Bideford

KERNUYCK. Palladium Club.

Lower Gunstone, 4pm-12am.

CLUB

Falmouth

SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE @ 9PM. The Custom House Quay, TR11 3JT. £Free. midday - midnight. Hosted by Simon Drinkwater. All singer/songwriters welcome to come and perform.

01326 212168.

Wed. 27

PHOENIX SOUNDS. Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street. 8pm

Honiton

JOHNNY WINTER. Honiton Motel.

Turks Head Lane, £20. 8.00pm.

Legendary Texas guitar slinger set to blow East Devon awake ! 01404 43440.

Plymouth

Penzance

Plymouth

CAFE ACOUSTICA. The B-Bar. Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ. £2, 8pm.

Our monthly showcase of unplugged talent, hosted by singer-songwriter Jessie Mullen, with Jimmy Buddha Om, Jo Horsey and Josh Harper.

Exeter

IGNOMINIOUS INCARCERATION. Hub. Mary Arches Street. £6 on the door, £5. 7pm Support from Osmium, Out Of Enemies, Decadent City & The Dead Lay Waiting.

Falmouth

OPEN MIC Custom House Quay, TR11 3JT. £Free. midday - midnight. Hosted by Lukas Drinkwater. A lively and varied evening of entertainment. New performers always welcome. 01326 212168.

Fri. 29

JULES. The Acoustic Cafe. The Parish Rooms - Next Door To The Bedford Hotel, Plymouth Road.

This concert is in aid of the SANTA ROSA FUND: http://santarosafund.org/ TBC. 7pm-11pm. . JulieYount.com

Tavistock

KATHRYN TICKELL BAND. The Wharf, Canal Road, £15/£17.

Telephone 01822 611166. tavistockwharf.com myspace.com/ kathryntickellband

THE JOHANNA GRAHAM TRIO. Renaissance cafe, Wharfside shopping centre. 7.30pm.

01736366277

Bideford

ZAMBA. The Joiners. 9.30pm. myspace.com/zambaband LAZY. Palladium Club. Lower Gunstone. EX392DE. 4pm-12am.

Live music tbc. 01237478860.

Plymouth

Exeter

JAM NIGHT. Palladium Club.

Lower Gunstone. EX392DE. 4pm12am. Come and join in no charge.

01237478860.

Thu. 28

Sat. 30 Bideford

Totnes

THE FILTHY SIX. The Jelly Jazz 16th Birthday Party | Part 2. The Civic Hall, Market Square. 8pm 12am. Tickets: £10 advance. from Drift Record Shop, Totnes 01803 866828 (no booking fee) jellyjazz.com. Tickets on the door: £13. DJs Pete Isaac & Griff

Sun. 31

Exeter

TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED. The Cavern , 83-84 Queen St, EX4 3RP. £6adv. 8pm. myspace. com/triggerthebloodshed + Red Mist - myspace.com/redmistuk + Cryostorm - myspace.com/ cryostormband THE HANDSOME FAMILY. Exeter Phoenix. Bradninch Place, Gandy Street. 8pm. £12 (£10) The Handsome Family are husband-andwife altcountry duo Brett and Rennie Sparks from New Mexico. She writes the blackly comical lyrics and he sings them, his warm voice betraying tender affection, grave amusement and just occasionally, utterly immoral abandon. myspace.com/thehandsomefamily

Exmouth

BOBKATZ. First & Last. 10 Church St, EX8 1PE. 5pm - 7pm .

NEMO JONES. The B-Bar. Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ. 8pm, £3.

Ex-Faithless guitarist and soulfulvoiced Devon-based singer-songwriter Nemo Jones.

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Mondays

Exeter

MONDAY MADNESS. Arena Summerland St. 10pm-2.30am, Advance tickets £3 available from reps and the student guild. Exeter’s biggest student, with weekly themes.

THE MONDAY MIXER.Timepiece.

Little Castle Street.

DJ Spin Doctor.

Falmouth

BAR 150 Remedies. The Moor. 10pm2am, £free. D’n’B, reggae, indie etc.

19th DECONSTRUCTED THE BEACH Gylly Beach Cafe, Cliff Road. 6pm-12am, £free. Cannes comes to Cornwall; a white isle set from Deconstructed’s Kingsley Marshall and Karl Phillips, followed by a premiere of film shorts, all on the soft sand of Gylly beach.

Newquay

MONDAY NIGHT PROJECT, Barracuda, Cliff Rd, 9pm-late, £free B4 10pm. £1.50 drinks all night. Chart, party and dance.

SUPER CHY MONDAYS. The Chy & Koola, 12 Beach Rd. 10pm3.30am, £4/£2. DJ’s Robin Parris & Proof playing hip hop, funk, party, breaks, indie, rock, dance, grime, R’n’B, reggae, D’n’B, gypsy swing kinda thing & cheap booze for locals!

Plymouth

BIG NIGHT OUT. Varsity, Derrys Cross. 9pm-2am. More party, dance tunes whilst the drink flows.

FUNKOLOGY. Revolution. Derrys Cross, 8pm-2am, £tbc. Fusing funk, hip hop & breaks.

STUDENT NIGHT. Oceana, Barbican Leisure Park. 7pm-2am, £5/£4 NUS. Plymouth’s biggest student night with 70’s, 80’s, 90’s party in the New York Disco, Commercial classics in the Ice House.

WONKEY LEGS Ride. North Hill.

10pm-4am, £2. Mash-up session with Aldo Vanucci & friends.

St Austell

Valbonne. 9.30pm-late, £5.

Commercial night.

Cross. 9pm-2am, £2/free B4 10pm.

All the best funky house, classic disco, rare beats & R’n’B. Tuesdays

BASSFUNK & UNLEASHED. White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, £2/ Exeter free B4 11pm. Breakbeat, drum CAFE SABROSO. Latin & Salsa.. & bass and hip hop with residents Timepiece. Little Castle Street.

Bossa, Darko, Tuskan, Pinz, Swiv, Rasco, Special guest on the 10th DJ Food. £7adv, Script MC and Benny C. 10-1am. + Support: Heavy Stylus and BIG WEDNESDAY. Ride Guests. myspace.com/strictlykev .

Cafe,Tavistock Place. 9pm-2am, Exmouth £2. Wonky Ben - Hook up, kick back, rock OFFICE PARTY Fahrenheit, The out. £1 drinks deals, this night is rammed Parade. 10pm-2.30am, £2/free B4 every week!

11pm. Commercial night.

BOOGIE NIGHTS C103.103 Union St. 10pm-2am, £1. In assos with Falmouth UPSU, Plymouth’s biggest student night, CHILL OUT SOUNDS. Remedies. different themes and guests each week. £free, 10pm-2am. Chilled sounds.

GLITCH! Shades. £2/£1 NUS, 10pm - GAME ON. Varsity, Derrys Cross.

10pm-2am, £1. Commerical night. late. Indie-electro, nu-rave & I.D.M. HUSH. Oceana. Barbican Leisure Newquay Park, 9pm-3am, £tbc. The best in LOCALS NIGHT. The Beach. funk, hip-hop and R&B with resident DJ 10pm-2am, £tbc. DJ Gary Roberts does Benny Blanco. his thing on a party tip.

PARTY NIGHT . Walkabout, Derrys Penzance Cross. 10pm-2am, £free. DJ Marcus PLAY. The Barn Club. 10pm-2am, Clarke with commercial tunes.

Entry £3 b4 12pm, £4 after. HALF JUZZY’S HARD ONES. Zero’s, 24 PRICE entry b4 12pm for students Lockyer St, 10.30pm-2am, £free. with ID. Buses running from hayle. Bouncy house, trance & hard Trance with Student night with commercial tunes.

DJ Juzzy B. SOUL NATION. View 2, Vauxhall St. Plymouth 9pm-2am, £tbc. Soul, funk & Motown.

LOVE TUESDAYS. Ride Cafe.

10pm-4am, £free. Wonkey Ben & Matt St Austell Burley spinning funk, breaks, hip hop BOOGIE NIGHT. Puls-8, 14-16 High whilst the drinks are all £1.50.

Cross St. 8:30pm-1am, £3. Ultimate TWO’S DAY. Revolution. 8pm-late. over 25s Party Night.

Funky house and dance classics.

St Ives

Wednesdays

Exeter

HIGHEST GRADE SOUND SYSTEM. Amber Rooms, 161 Sidwell St. 9pm12am, £free. Dancehall & reggae vibes.

LEGENDS. The student Night .

Timepiece. Little Castle Street timepiecenightclub.co.uk THE ANGEL GUM CLUB. CHECK THE FLAVA! The Angel Bar. 32 Queen Street, EX4 3SR. £free, 9pm till 1am. DJ Dropsteady + Funk Breaks / Groovy Soul / Nu-Jazz / Re-edits / Hiphop / Reggae

Exmouth

QUIDS IN. Fahrenheit. The Parade.

10pm-2.30am, £2/£1 NUS. Student night that does what it says on the tin!

Falmouth

DA PULSE. Shades, 4 Quay Hilll.11pm-2am, £2/£1 NUS. An eclectic mix of electro, minimal, techno, breaks and drum & bass with Da Pulse.

LADIES NIGHT. Remedies, The Moor. 10pm-2am, £free. Free shot for the ladies. Chart and cheese music.

Q.COLLECTIVE Q. Bar, 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-late, £free. A mix n blend of all things funky.

Newquay

BIG STUDENT NIGHT. Party Puls-8. BIG WEDNESDAY. The Beach, 9pm-2am, £4/£2 NUS. DJ Lloydie Central Sq, 9pm-1am, £free. Indie, playing the party classics. rock, R’n’B, hip hop, funk & soul with Truro DJ Kai. STUDENT NIGHT. L2 Nightclub, THE JUMP OFF. Red Square.

Calenick Street 9.30pm - 1.30am, 10pm-2am, £2/free B4 10pm. Hip £tbc. Truro’s busiest student night . hop, R’n’B & Crunk with DJ Proof.

Torquay

MONDAY’S FUN HOUSE. The

Plymouth

BEATAMIX. Revolution, Derrys

RUMOURS. Iso Bar, Street-an-Pol. 11pm-3am, £3/£5. Electro, funky, bassline house and dance classics with Charlie G and local residents on rotation.

Torquay

FLAVA. Park Lane, 1 Torwood St. 8pm-1am, £tbc. Urban selector night with Face playing hip hop, R’n’B, dancehall, garage, funk & soul.

Truro

STUDENT NIGHT The Office, 1 River Walk. 9pm-2am, £3/free B4 10.30pm. Featuring the latest dance tunes and drinks deals with resident DJ Booney. Special guest special guest DJ Matthew Horne on the 20th.

THE BIG MIX WITH DJ PAUL BLEE L2, Calenick St. 9.30pm-1am, £3.

Featuring the latest tunes and drinks deals.

Thursdays Camborne

STUDENT NIGHT. The Corn Exchange, 19 Commercial St. 9pm1am, £5/£1 B4 10.30pm. Student night with commercial tunes. Exeter INVASION OF THE RECORD SNATCHERS. Amber Rooms, 161 Sidwell St. Random selection of tunes, 9pm-2am.

SCANDALOUS. Timepiece, Little Castle St. 9pm-1.30am, £2 B4 11pm. Fresh mix of R’n’B with Aldo Vanucci & JSR. WEEKEND WARM-UP. Arena, Summerland St. 9pm - 2am, £2/ free for ladies & NUS B4 11.30pm.

Cheese, R’n’B & chart, very busy student night!

Dance Dance Dance Summer Boat Party

28 May Mayflower Steps & White Rabbit, Plymouth The boat party departs from The Mayflower Steps on the Barbican in Plymouth at 2pm. With an afterparty at the White Rabbit, this is a minimal house/techno style party with DJs Ministere, Krafty Sounds, Fynndalux and Audioslut, with guests Bump, The Magnet and Redbelly from Jam The Channel. Tickets for boat party and White Rabbit are £6, White Rabbit only is £2.

Exmouth

LADIES NIGHT. Samantha’s, St Andrews Rd. 9.30pm-2am, £tbc.

Ladies discount and chart tunes.

BABES & BOOTNECKS. Fahrenheit, 7 The Parade. 10pm2.30am, £3. Classic tunes, get dirty!

Falmouth

FAT HARRYS DISCO MACHINE GUN. Shades, 4 Quay Hilll. 11pm2am, £2. Disco classics and tunes TINY MUSIC. Remedies, The Moor.

10pm-2am, £free. Rock, indie and alternative music.

Newquay

CONFLICT ROCK NIGHT. Red Square. 9pm-2am, £free. DJ Kai spinning rock, indie, electro, punk, ska & metal.

STUDENT NIGHT. The Beach, Central Sq. £2. Top DJs, podium dancers, beach games and giveaways.

DRUM AND BASS. Corkers. 9pm2am, £tbc. Drum and bass from DJ Re-Defeat amd DJ Fibua plus guests.

WEEKEND WARM-UP. Sailors, 11-17 Fore St. 9pm-2am, £tbc.

Commercial dance & party with Pete Jordan.

Plymouth

DISCO RIOT ROMANCE. Ride, North Hill.10pm-4am, £free. Featuring DJ Debbie Deluxe, Jammy F & Craig Morton: specialists in rock, indie, electro, punk, funk & ‘80s.

EASY LISTENING. View 2, Vauxhall St. 9pm-2am, £free. Blues & jazz.

ESSENTIAL. Oceana, Barbican Leisure Park. 7pm-2am, £3/ free before 10pm. 70’s, 80’s, 90’s party in the New York Disco, House/R’n’B in the Ice House.

GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER. Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque. 9pm-2am, £tbc. A unique night for talented artists to impress a live audience.

ROCK NIGHT C103. 103 Union St. 10pm-2.30am, £ftbc. Mark Williams new home, rock and more rock all night.

THURSDAY HOE DOWN. Zero’s.

24 Lockyer St. 10.30pm-2am, £free.

Gay night with resident DJ Stev-e playing club classics, chart R&B & Euro dance.

28th DANCE DANCE DANCE SUMMER BOAT PARTY ft. JAM THE CHANNEL Mayflower Steps, The Barbican & The White Rabbit, Bretonside Bretonside Bus Station.

Boat party 2pm-7pm, After-party

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CLUB 10pm-4am £6 Boat + Rabbbit, £2 White Rabbit only.

Minimal house and techno with resident DJs Ministère, Krafty Sounds, Fynndalux and Audioslut and guests Bump, The Magnet & Redbelly from JTC. Info: 07517207358

Redruth

STUDENT PARTY NIGHT. Twilight Zone, Little Vauxhall. 9pm-1am, £1.

Expect chart & commercial tunes across the board.

St Austell

BEATS AND PIECES. Puls-8, 14-16 High Cross St. 9pm-1am, £4/£2 NUS. DJ Stan Collins and BK One.

Torquay

14th REMIX. Bohemia. 39 Torwood St. £tbc, 10.30pm - 3am.

New weekly gay club night launching with top London DJs & live entertainment. www.club-remix.co.uk.

WEEKEND WARM-UP. The Valbonne. 9.30pm-3am, £3/txt ‘mini’ to 82085 for free admission B4 12am. Freshest mix of RnB and Commercial Dance THE THURSDAY DISCOTHEQUE. Play. Victoria Parade, £free B4 12am. Commercial night.

Truro

MID WEEK MADNESS The Office, 1 River Walk. 9pm-2am, £tbc.

Emergency staff special with free entry, early start to the weekend.

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Xclusive. NV Nightclub. 9.30pm2am, £3/£2. Sexy Urban Music / Grime / Hip Hop / Bassline / Garage . Residents Killa B & DJ Ugly with weekly guests.

8th HOLD IT DOWN PRESENTS MR SCRUFF Lemon Grove, Cornwall House, 9pm-2am, £12/£10 in adv. A special night with Mr Scruff.

15th WRECKREATION Exeter Phoenix, 9pm-2am, £tbc A special night with The Freestylers playing live with MC Darrison, supported by Swing Mr, Gomez, Fred V, Grafix, Mr Puckey, Freerange DJ’s, Don Johnston, Dr Gonzo and South West Ho! host the second room with Ez Pz, Mystical Tommy, King Connerz, Sonic Youthclub & Skint.

22nd DJ DEEKLINE PRESENTED BY CABARET VOLTAIRE. Exeter Cavern. Queen Street, £6 in adv, 9pm-2.30am. The biggest name in party breaks comes to Exeter to play breaks, d’n’b & dubstep. www,myspace.com/cabaretvoltairedevon.

Exmouth

THE WEEKEND WARM-UP. Samantha’s, St Andrews Rd. 9.30pm-2am, £tbc. Start the weekend in style, cheesy tunes, NUS discounts and drinks promos.

TIMEWARP. Fahrenheit. 7 The Parade. 10pm-3.30am, £5/£3 B4 11pm. Requests and chart toons all night!

Falmouth

FRIDAY NIGHTS. Toast. 5.30pm2am. £free. Funk, soul, motown and Jazz music.

Barnstaple WEEKEND WARM-UP. Remedies.

8th DECEPTIVEMOTION 1ST 10pm-2am, £free. Chart n cheese with BRITHDAY. The Underground. Inn Matt Shepherd.

On The Square, The Square, £5 in 15th DUBIOUS SOUND, Q-Bar, advance from www.theticketsellers. on the Moor, 9.30pm-2am, £free. co.uk or £6 on the door. 7pm-1am.

Fattest bass, dirtiest riddims, sexiest D’n’B with Network & IC3, Maxxi P & grooves.

Johnny G, DJ Baz & Impact MC.

Fridays

Bideford

FUNKY FRIDAYS. Caesar’s Palace,

King St. 11pm, £4. All the classics, a DJ and no rules whatsoever.

Bude

PARTY NIGHT. Kazbar, 38 The Strand. 10pm- late, £3/free B4 11pm. Commercial dance.

Exeter

COLLISION HOLD IT DOWN. Timepiece, Little Castle St, 11pm2am, £tbc. Indie night with DJ Tezza (Phonic FM) & guests playing the best in new, current and classic indie and alternative tunes. Upstairs, Residents Mr Onions, Heavy Stylus and guests spin hip-hop, breaks, soul, jazz, broken beat and more.

FRIDAYS ARENA. Summerland St. 9pm-3am, £5/£4/Free B4 11pm.

Commercial tunes, no trainers.

SOUNDS OF THE UNEXPECTED. Amber Rooms, 161 Sidwell St. 10pm-3am, £2/free B4 11pm. 60’s, 70’s global funk, beats.

Hayle

1st HONG KONG PING PONG CLUB The Sandsifter, 1 Godrevy Towans, 9pm-2am, £3. The HKPP Club starts its Sandsifter residency on the first Friday of the month dropping party funk, breaks and beats.

Newquay

C.O.D.E. RED. Red Square (upstairs). 10pm-4am, £free. Bringing you drum and bass with gresidents on a weekly basis with special guests.

FLIRT. Sailors, Fore St. 9.30pm2am, £ladies free. Chart/dance & retro tunes to shake your booty with John London.

FUNKY FRIDAY BEACH PARTY. The Beach Nightclub. 9pm-3am, £tbc. Chart/dance & retro tunes.

MASH UP FRIDAY, Barracuda, Cliff Rd, 9pm-late, £free B4 10pm. The freshest new music, electro and mash ups.

THANK FUNK IT’S FRIDAYS. Berties Nightclub. East St, 10pm4am, £tbc. Join resident DJ Will.B for his

CLUB Chart mash-up mix TWISTED ROCK NIGHT. Berties.

11pm-3am, £4/£3. DJ Kai playing the best punk, rock, metal and indie.

1st CODE RED SW AWARDS FREE AFTER PARTY . Red Square, 12pm-5am, £free. Special after party for the South West Drum and Bass Awards being held at Eden, come here afterwards to finish the night in style with residents and winners playing live. After Party supported by Rockstar Energy Drink.

22nd OLD SKOOL NIGHT .

Barracuda, Cliff Rd, 9pm-late, £tbc.

The legendary DJ Slipmatt will be playing an awesome old skool with a hint of new electro thrown in.

Penryn

8th RESIDENTIAL DANCE HOME DJ’S Miss Peapods. Commercial Road, £free entry. 8pm till 12am.

29th DANCE NIGHT, Miss

Peapods. Commercial Road, £free entry. 8pm till 12am.

Ads and Damo, dj’s in dresses

Penzance

CLUB 2K FRIDAYS. Club 2k, Branwell Mills, 10.30pm-4am, £tbc.

Chart cheese dance and reggae. First 50 get free entry wrist bands for following week, drinks from Ł1.50, DJ’s CQ, Boris and Max Honeyman DIRTY DISCO Bar 2k, Bramwells Mill. 10pm-3.30am, £free. Chunky, funky house and electro with Charlie G, Tommie Quick, Greg Zizique, Mark B & Ashley Thomas.

RETRO:SPECTIVE. Barn Club, Eastern Green. 10.30pm - 4am. 80p entry B4 12 with flyer more after.

Dj Tony Douglas & Jurassic Dave 70s & 80s fancy dress welcome.

TEMPTATION. Secrets. Branwells Lane, 10.30-3am, £5. 2 Poles, Private booths, Beautiful women, VIP dance areas, catering for stag and hen night. Info secretspenzance.com

Plymouth

CRISIS. White Rabbit. Bretonside Bus Station. £1. 12am - 5am. An eclectic hot mix of Indie/Punk/Rock/HipHop/Funk/80’s. Served to you by JC & OZ. 07886821408. whiterabbitradio.com DIRTY STOP OUT. Revolution.

Derry Cross. £free until 11pm. DJ Rob and Clubroom Session mixing Club Classics, Dance Anthems, RnB and Chart.

Main Bar: Classic RnB, Soul, Hip Hop, Garage and Urban House. revolution-bars. co.uk DJ APACHE. View 2, Vauxhall St. £5/£4/£3/free B4 10.30pm, 9pmlate. Soul, swing, R’n’B, Motown & funk classics with DJ Apache.

DJ PARKER. Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place. 10pm-2am. Playing quality hip hop, funk and breaks.

DOLLY MIXTURES. Zero’s, 24 Lockyer St. 10.30pm-4am, £4. Gay night with resident DJs Stev-E & Juzzy

B play cheese, chart R’n’B, dance and hard house.

ELECTRIC KITCHEN. Ride Club, North Hill. 10pm-5am. Jac the Disco, Steve & Pnut spin electro, souful and electir tech house, whilst Pnut also takes care of the ground floor with party vibes.

FUNKY FRIDAYS. The Treasury, Royal Parade. 9pm-3am, £tbc.

Funky grooves.

FUNKY FRIDAYS. Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque, Vauxhall St. 8pm-late, £tbc. Funky grooves all night.

GET TWISTED. Voodoo Lounge.

9pm-2am, £tbc. Breakbeat & drum & bass with resident DJs Dragonfly & Nutzdog plus regular guest DJs & MCs. HOUSEAHOLICS. 45 Degrees, Union St. 8pm-3am, £free B4 10pm. Dirty, jackin, electro & funky house with resident Damien James plus special guests.

ROCK SHOW C103. 103 Union St. 10pm-3.30am. £5/£4/£3 B4 11pm.

Rock with Mark Williams playing Rock, indie and punk.

DETENTION. Oceana. £free before 10.30pm £4 after. 70’s, 80’s, 90’s party in the New York Disco, house & RnB in the Ice House.

1st Systematic, The Candy Store, 99-101 Union St, 10pm-5am, £12/£10/£8. More hard dance with the BK & Kid Kaos, supported by residents.

8th SPECTRUM OF SOUND, Voodoo Lounge, Drake Circus, 10pm-4am, £tbc. Techon, breaks and psytrance with Exocet, Bomber, Torsion Jim, DJ Contort, Alex Smith & Missmashed.

8th Systematic, The Candy Store, 99-101 Union St, 10pm-5am, £10/£8/£6. More hard dance with the Rob Tissera & Cally Cage, supported by residents.

8th SUBHEAVY & BACK THEN PRESENTS ‘PURE JUNGLE’ at Maggies, Bretonside, £5.10-4am.

Celebrating the golden era of Jungle (93-95.) 10K Subheavy sound. 2 hour old skool (91-93) warm up. Freebies for early arrivals. www.myspace.com/subheavy.

07723347591.

29th Systematic, The Candy Store, 99-101 Union St, 10pm-5am, £10/£8/£6. More hard dance with the Trance Generators, supported by residents.

29th SUBHEAVY 2ND BIRTHDAY - “THE BIG ONE”’ at Maggies, Bretonside, Tickets £10 from Really Good & Bigga Records.

10pm-4am. The Big One” 2 birthday bash featuring Coki [Digital Mystiks], Youngsta & Toast [Rinse fm / Fwd>>], Kromestar[a.k.a. Ironsoul and Droid] plus Subheavy residents.Fortified 10K Subheavy sound. www.myspace.com/ subheavy 07723347591.

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CLUB 22nd SW D’n’B WEEKENDER Pt 1 The Grove £10, 9pm-3am.

D’n’B with Nicky Blackmarket, TC, Jaydan, Mr Nice, Miss Represent, Klimax, Uno & Phazer.

St Austell

BIG WEEKEND. Puls-8. 10:30pm2am, £6 B4 11pm. Start the weekend with DJ Lloyd.

HOUSE RULES. Queens Head, North St. £free. 8pm -12am. Groovy house music laid down by Dj’s Si and Mat. Expect friendly atmosphere and to hear some house music classics. Occasional guest Dj’s.Info 07868143721.

1st The south west showdown FEAT the south west drum and bass awards .

Eden Project, 7pm-12.30am, £16 in adv. D’n’B, Breaks, Funk, jazz, hip hop and soul. Acts include Andy C, Grooverider, Jungle Drummer, DJ Fu, Krafty Kutz, Rennie Pilgrem, The Fantastic’s (live) and lots more DJ’s inc Jelly Jazz amongst others.

Deadline for June: 12th May

£5. Two rooms, one for Dance and R ‘n’B and one for pure filthy cheese.

Happy Birthday Jelly Jazz Feat The Filthy Six

Bude

30 MAY Civic Hall, Totnes They’re legends in their own lifetime, the Jelly Jazz guys. DJs Pete Isaac and Griff have been keeping dancefloors funky for 16 years now, in the South West and beyond. That’s right.

Sixteen years of the best soul, funk, jazz, latin, brazilian, Afro-funk, hip hop and funky breaks from both DJs and live bands. And there’s no sign of the Jelly Jazz powerhouse relenting – no sir! Join them to celebrate their birthday with some top notch jazz from one of the UK’s most exciting soul jazz outfits, The Filthy Six, with a big ol’ party at the Civic Hall in Totnes.

This jazzy sextet comprises some of London’s hottest musicians, whose talents are regularly called upon by the likes of Mark Ronson, Basement Jaxx, Richard Ashcroft, Hard Fi and Amy Winehouse to name just a few. Get your tickets now, because these gigs always sell out. Tickets are £10 adv (£13 otd) and are available from Drift Records in Totnes (01803 866828) or online at jellyjazz.com.

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St Ives

KaPoW!! Guitars vs Beats the Isobar Is Dead. 11pm - 3am £Ladies FREE/£2/£3 Robin Parris plays Guitars vs Beats.

Torquay

EVOLUTION UNDER 18’S. Play, Harbourside, 7pm-10.30pm, £5/£4.

Under 18’s night, commercial dance all night.

FRIDAYS. The Valbonne. 10pm2.30am, £2/free B4 12am.Commercial tunes.

FULL TILT. Bohemia. £6/£4 B4 11pm, 10.30pm-late. Hard dance night with regular guests and special nights.

LADIES NIGHT. The Venue. 9pm1am, £3/ladies free all night. The biggest party in town.

8th HINDSIGHT PRESENTS NICK THE KID’S BIRTHDAY BASH. Bohemia Nightclub. £12 on the door, 11pm – 4am Hard dance night with Andrea Montorsi (Italy), Phil York (First ever Hindsight appearance), Kevin Energy (Frantic, Freeformation, Nu Energy Collective), Nick The Kid & Dean Zone (Southwest vs London Hard Trance B2B) Jonez (Hindsight) + Giveaways a plenty!

Big up to Nick the Kid for his recent win at the Hard Dance Awards too!

Truro

8th AUDIO PRESSURE, The

Office. 9pm-3am, £10. D’n’B with Alix Perez, Nu-Tone and Danny Bryd. Support from Klimax, Distance, Premise, Mannerz b2b STV Hustle, Freerange DJ’s, Benny C & Matti S. 8th TRANZACTION BIG BEACH BALL L2 Nightclub, Calenick St. 10pm-3am, £6 B4 11pm. Hard dance night celebrates it’s 9th birthday with with Mark EG and DJ Vibes, supported by Kelly Jay and residents. Satisfaction host the Shipwreacked T4 Party downstairs with drinking & beach games and the wet T-shirt comp!

15th NOTHING BUT THE 90’S The Office. 10pm-2am, £5 b4 10pm. Special night with Radio 1’s JK & Joel.

29th Hip Hop The Office. 10pm2am, £5 b4 10pm. Special night with Jaguar Skills (Radio 1) playing hip hop.

Saturdays Bideford

CLUB CHEESE SANDWICH. Ceasar’s Palace. 10.30pm – 3am,

PARTY NIGHT. Rogue Nightlcub.

10pm-late, £3/£free B4 11pm.

Commercial dance.

Exeter

METAL NIGHT, Artful Dodger, St Davids, 10pm-3am, £tbc. Metal night with guest bands.

POSITIVE PARTY NIGHT. Arena, Summerland St. 9pm-3am, £6. The latest chart and party hits, smart dress only, no trainers or scuffy clothes, make an effort please!

INFILTRATE EX4, Fore St. 10pmlate, Entry £5 all night, girls get in free before 11pm.

Playing Hip Hop, RnB, Grime, Dubstep with DJ UGLY and guests.

World beat. Timepiece.

8pm-1.30am, £4/£2 B4 11pm. DJ A mixed bag of hip hop, disco, funk, techno classics, ‘60s, indie & deep house.

Basically anything goes!

STRICTLY VINYL. The Angel.

Queen St. 9pm - 2am. £free. Proper job old skool, funk, reggae, breaks and hip hop. Bump and grind with the Angel residents! Info: 01392 432611.

NICHE MARKET. Amber Rooms.

9pm-late, £free B4 11pm. Tracing the roots of rock n roll each week playing a selection of the finest soul, beat, mod, ska, punk, new wave, indie, rock and pop with DJ Top Cat. Digital Passion. NV Nightclub.

9.30pm-2am, £3/£2. Electronic dance music / house / electro / breaks & techno.

Weekly residents on rotation with Dead Robot, Alex McNamara, Steve Hiltermann + weekly guests.

2nd EXETER SOUL CLUB. Voodoo Lounge, Exeter Phoenix.

Gandy Street, £6. 8pm-1am. The best Northern & Modern soul djs Dr Pickles, Andy Wagner + residents Mick Lloyd & Mr Mischief 07826523254. facebook: ExeterSoulClub.

9th THE HERBALISER Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place Gandy Street, Doors: tbc, £12/£10.50 in adv.

23rd WAX THE VAN ALLDAYER. Phoenix Terrace. Gandy Street. £free. 3pm - Close. Disco/soul/reggae/ house/balearic djs Spider/Phil Banks/ Steve Waller/Mustard/Benji/First Aid/ Pharma/Charity Shop Sound System Info:

07826523254. facebook - Wax The Van Disco Machine.

30th KINKY & QUIRKY’S BURLESQUE AND BOOGIE Havana, Quayside Exeter 8pm-1am, £56/£5 in adv Kinky & Quirky’s eclectic burlesque extravaganza offers Exeter’s retro lovin’ cats and kittens a night of old school glamour, great music, comedy, dancin’ and fun!

Exmouth

HEATWAVE. Fahrenheit. 10pm3.30am, £5. Chart & dance to celebrate the weekend.

SATURDAYS. Samantha’s. 9.30pm2am, £tbc. The biggest and best night out in Exmouth, chart anthems and drinks promos.

Falmouth

SATURDAY NIGHTS. Toast. 8pm to 2am, £free. Twisted electronica. myspace.com/toast_falmouth.

16th HOLD IT DOWN PRESENT MAMPI SWIFT The Stannary, Tremough Campus, Penryn, £12.50, 9pm-2am. Drum and Bass & Dubstep with Mampi Swift, Sub Focus and Plastician.

30th SUBHEAVY Falmouth Rugby Club, Dracaena Ave, tickets £6 from Jam, 32 High St, 9pm-2am.

End of term party with Kromestar a.k.a.

Ironsoul and Subheavy resident djs.

Subheavy sound system. www.myspace. com/subheavy 07723347591

Hayle

9th MR CLEAN Sandsifter, 1

Godrevy Towans, 9pm-2am, £3.

Live electro funk and soul with a live DJ Set from SHACK UP! Dj’s Tim Dwelly and Roger Whybrow.

15th BLACC JAZZ V’S DROP! Sandsifter, 1 Godrevy Towans, 9pm-2am, £3. Live Sax, percussionbreaks beats and pieces music for the loud minority!

23rd Love Riot The Sandsifter 1 Godrevy Towans, Gwithian, 9pm-3am, £8.

Luke Neville (Hed Kandi) & Ry Spenceley playing twisted funked up, electro, disco house. In the lounge with Get Waxy playing funk n’ latin mash ups, disco, soul + dancey breaks, alongside Cornwalls original Superstar DJ, the legend that is Nigel Pengelly.

29th ALDO VANUCCI Sandsifter, 1 Godrevy Towans, 9pm-2am, £3.

CLUB Music for the head hips and feet!

Barbican Theatre, Castle Street. DJ Power Lisboa plays the best in Cuban and tunes. From Son to Salsa, 23rd MAD HATTER’S TEA PARTY. Cuban-inspired from New York Soul to latino hip hop. 8pm.

Poldark PartY! Poldark Mine, Nr Free. Info: 01752 242021 Helston, 10pm-4.30am, £14. Wild FRESH CITY Candy Store. 10pmcostume party above Poldark Mine. 3 5am, £5/£3. Main room: R&B, hip hop rooms; Live acts, cabaret and funky house and bashment from DJ Jonezy, DJ Snake DJ’s. Outrageous dress compulsory. Info: and Danny Fresh. Room 2: Garage Love myspace.com/faze_two with Mr Flexx and residents spinning Liskeard garage.

PARTY NIGHT. Walkabout, Derrys 21st JON’S HOUSE.. The Cross. 10pm-2am, £free. Latest chart Fountain.. The Parade, Liskeard, & dance hits with DJ Darren Watts.

Cornwall, £free, 8.30pm - late. DJD PROVOKE. Revolution, Derrys & MIG Playing an eclectic mix of house, Cross. 8pm-2am, £3/free B4 10pm.

Deep House, Detroit techno, Acid house, Dubstep, Breaks and old skool breaks and A collection of R’n’B, chart, funky house & disco over two floors. electro. 07818086961.

RIDE DJ’S. Ride Cafe, Tavistock Newquay Place. 10pm-2am. DJ’s on a weekly GO OUT FOR A FIVER. Berties rotation- Aldo Vanucci, Matt Taylor and Nightclub. East St, 10.30pm - 4am, Bad Adams. £5 Night out! 2 Drinks, cloakroom SEXY SOULFUL FUNKY AND ticket & club entry all for just £5!

HOUSE. Annabel’s Cabaret and Resident DJ Will.B spins his Floorfiller Discotheque. 8pm-late, £tbc. mash-up.

SUPER DUPER DAN. Ride Club HOUSE RULES. Chy. 10.30pm10pm-5am, £tbc. Playing a marathon 3.30am, £5. House all the way! mash up set of hip hop and electro.

THE BIG WEEKEND. The Beach.

THE WEEKEND. Oceana. 7pm10.30pm-3.30am, £4/free B4 11pm. 2am, £free b4 10.30pm £5 after.

DJs Kai & Leon playing Rnb, dance, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s party in the New York Disco, party, indie, garage, 70s funk & soul House/RnB in the Ice House. over 3 floors.

ZERO’S. Zero’s, Lockyer St. PASSION. Sailors. 9.30pm-2am, 10pm-4am, £4. Regular gay night with £tbc. Chart, dance & retro tunes to shake resident DJ and friends playing club your booty with DJs John London & Pete classics, handbag, uplifting house & Jordan. camp classics.

23rd OCEANTRIBE PRESENTS 2nd GARAGE CATS / RELAPSE Red Square Gover Lane, TRANSPORTER STATION White 9pm till 5am, £free entry all night.

Rabbit, Bretonside, 10pm-4am £4.

Minimal techno & tech house with Chris Anything but Garage! Guest DJ Nick Keate Allen, Tom Rox & Ando.

(White Collar Criminals) alongside Joe 23rd SCOTT MILLS Berties, McCabe & DJ Px. Expect facepainting, 9pm-late, £tbc. The sound of the Radio tuckshop, graff and skaters doing their 1 afternoon drivetime sessions, LIVE in thing. info@whiterabbituk.com Newquay. Don’t forget, he loves you too!

2nd ROOTS STREET. Fortescue 23rd SUBWAY’S LIVE DJ SET Cellar Bar, Mutley Plain. £3, 8pmThe Barracuda, Cliff Rd, 9pm till 12am. More roots and reggae with DJ 5am, £tbc. Subways front man Billy Derek & DJ Crusty.

Lunn will be playing an indie set on the 2nd PENDULUM (DJ SET) C103, Saturday night during the Run to the Sun Union St. £12, 10pm-4am. Rocky weekend.

D’n’B as El Hornet from Pendulum plays an 23rd UTAH SAINTS The Koola, exclusive DJ set, supported by Tuskan, Mr 12 Beach Rd, 9pm-late, £tbc. Don’t Nice, Bossa, Maxxi P & more. Room 2 by miss these dance legedns, suport comes the Plymouth DJ Spciety playing dubstep, from DJ Tim Nice. breaks and minimal tunes.

Penzance 16th MOUNT THE CURB MASH LUVD-UP Barn Club. 10.30pm-4am, UP The Hippo, 9 Bath St, Doors £8/£7/£6. Party night, drinks deals, 9pm - 3am, commercial tunes, with resident Djs Tony £5. Live bands with ONE ESKIMO, The Douglas and DJ Max Honeyman. More info Kedellas, Hillside Heroes, Os Vampiros & at barnclub.com DJs EKC & Bannocks Plymouth 23rd SW D’n’B WEEKENDER BAC BAR North Hill, 10pm - late Pt 2 White Rabbit £10, 9pm-5am.

Free Entry. Hosted by Dj Skank Marvin D’n’B with Bryan G, Phantasy, Ruffstuff, with bi-weekly guests playing an eclectic Destruction, Tuskan, Bluenote & Tommy G. urban selection from hip hop and reggae to 23rd A WONDER THROUGH dubstep and breaks.

THE MIND OF KEV ATTWOOD (A BEAT THE CLOCK. Varsity. Derrys NIGHT OF FILM/MUSIC) Cross. 9pm-2am. Drinks promos Fortescue Cellar Bar, Mutley Plain, & deals.

8pm-12am, £free. Kev Attwood & DJ APACHE. View 2. Vauxhall St. DJ Crusty 9pm-late, £5/£4/£3/free B4 10pm.

23rd PREMONITION V’S Soul, swing, R’n’B, Motown & funk classics with DJ Apache in the main room RESONATE The Hippo, £12/£10, 10pm-5am. Hard dance night present & Ryan Platts downstairs playing funky the Mayhem Ball with Uberdruck (from house, classic soul & Motown.

Germany), Caly & Juice, Iain Cross, Pete FREE CUBA PARTY. The B-bar,

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St Austell

BIG WEEKEND. Puls-8. 9pm-2am, £6 B4 11pm. Club anthems, grooves and classics with resident DJ’s.

St Ives

16th THE HONG KONG PING

PONG CLUB The Iso Bar, Tregenna Place. 10pm-3am, £5/£3 B4 12am.

Party funk, breaks, beats and yodelling.

30th GENERAL MIDI’S ‘OPERATION OVERDRIVE’ ALBUM TOUR! The Iso Bar, Tregenna Place, 10pm - 3am, £5 b4 11 / £6 after. Simian Sounds team up with the UK’s longest running Breaks night ‘Beatz & Bobz’ to bring you the mighty ‘General Midi’ on his eagerly anticipated ‘Operation Overdrive’ Album Tour. Not only that but the Crow Rooms will be hosted by those pesky funkers ‘Hong Kong Ping Pong’ who’ve been creating quite a stir wherever they play.

Deadline for June: 12th May

Club Flyer Packs Relaunched

There is nothing worse at the end of your night out than stepping outside the club to be faced with an army of flyer distributors thrusting 20 different glossy bits of card into your hands...

Well, fear no more, as Out of Hand proudly announce the re-launch of their popular flyer packs! Expect to find these distributed outside the best club nights and events across the region – from Swindon to Swansea, Plymouth to Penzance. They will also be available in your local record store, coffee shops, clothing outlets, college/universities, bars and other suitable places! During the first two weeks of every month, the pack will contain the market leading music and lifestyle guide, ahem…that’s this lovely little mag… as well as flyers from events all over the South West.

To get involved or book flyers for your own nights into the Out Of Hand flyer pack, please contact ricky@ outofhand.co.uk or call 0117 953 6363 for more info.

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Torquay

KINDA FUNKY. Bohemia. 41 Torwood St. 10pm-4am, £tbc.Funk, R’n’B & soul with resident DJs Paul Bowden, Ben McGowan, Iain McKenzie and guests.

SATURDAYS Play. 26 Victoria, Harbourside. 10pm-2am, £tbc.

Commercial dance.

THE BIGGEST PARTY IN TOWN. The Valbonne. 10pm-3am, £5/£4 B4 11.30pm/£2.50 B4 10.30pm.

Commercial & uplifting house, anything goes.

Totnes

30th THE JELLY JAZZ 16TH

BIRTHDAY PARTY - PART 2 The Civic Hall, Market Square, 8pm 12am, Tickets: £13 / £10 in adv The Filthy Six LIVE, supported by DJs Pete Isaac & Griff Info line: 07966 258631

Truro

EVIL GENIUS, THE ONE EYED CAT. One Eyed Cat. 116 Kenwyn St, £free, 9pm-1am The latest funky, sexy, dirty house music brought to you by Dr Evil Genius. 07968 433227. evil-genius. me.uk SATURDAYS L2. Calenick St. 9pm-2am, £5. Chart and cheese with DJ Paul Blee, house and trance with DJ Marc Holden.

THE BIG NIGHT OUT The Office, 1 River Walk. 9pm-2am, £tbc. Weekend party for over 21’s.

9th BOCA 45 The Old Grammar

School, 19 St Mary St. 9pm-2am, £6. Funk Soul & B-boy breaks with support from Blacc Jazz.

23rd Jelly Jazz. The Old Grammar School,19 St. Mary’s Street, 9pm-2am, £5. Jelly Jazz returns with its incendiary sound of Jazz Soul Funk latin Beats and Breaks with Support from Blacc Jazz Info 01872 278559. jellyjazz.com 30th SHANGHAI DISCO The Old Grammar School, 19 St Mary’s St. 9pm - 2am. £free Robin Parris playing Hip Hop, Funk, Party Breaks & Beats.

Sundays Exeter

WORLDBEAT. Timepiece. Little Castle St, 8pm-12.30am, £2/free B4 9pm. The wind-down session with some serious grinding! Expect the best in Afro, reggae, ragga, Spanish, salsa, Arabic & R’n’B flavas. Well worth checking out.

3rd BANK HOLIDAY BASSLINE SPECIAL Exeter Phoenix, Bradnich Place, 9pm-2am, £10/£8. For the

first time in Exeter a whole evening of Bassline, Niche, Garage, 2 Step n UK Funky with The Wideboys, H Two O (dj set) Mikee B (Dreemteam), Niceness b2b M dot Pizzle, Cuttarolla, MCs: Majestic, G - Fellow, Human Evo 3rd CREAM TRANCE Arena Nightclub, 10pm-3am, £12/£10 in adv. Guests include Adam Sheridan, Riley & Durrant, Paul Hillyer, Louis Guerrero & Simon Pitt. Expect full Cream event production.

24th SW D’n’B WEEKENDER Pt 3 The Grove £10, 9pm-3am.

Rounding off a heaqvy weekend of D’n’B with Shy FX, Taxman, Crissy Criss, Erb’n’Dub, Maxxi P, Karisma, Slyde & Carlos.

Falmouth

3rd LOVE RIOT Mango Tangos 6/7 Church Street. 9pm-2am £6/£7. More house fuelled madness with BUGGA, Ry Spenceley and Guests. Love Riot’s long awaited debut in Falmouth town. info@slut.co.uk Hayle

24th BLOOD & FIRE BBQ Sandsifter, 1 Godrevy Towans, 9pm-2am, £free. Sunday from 1pm hosted by Fat Boy Slims Crate Digger Aldo Vanucci Newquay

BELUSHI’S LAZY SUNDAY. Belushi’s, Fore St. 9pm onwards, £free. Enjoy uninterrupted ocean views on the sun terrace with a sizzling bbq and chilled live acoustic music.

RELOADED. Sailors, Fore St. £tbc, 9pm-late. Round the weekend off with commercial tunes.

3rd SOUTH WEST BREAKBEAT AWARDS AFTER PARTY, The Koola Bar/Chy Bar, 12 Beach Road. 9pm-4am, from £5. Breaks and Dubstep with the Drumattic Twins (Album Launch) Nick Thayer, T_! (Dubstep), Richie Balboa Vs Will Streetwise, Rektchordz Freerange Djs, Hong Kong Ping Pong & Simian Sounds.

3rd DJ FILTHY RICH. The Barracuda, Cliff Rd. 9pm-til, £tbc.

Rich is the most promising DJ and producer in the UK at present.

23rd DRUM AND BASS. The Barracuda, Cliff Rd. 9pm-til, £tbc.

Special D’n’B night with Ray Kieth and Jungle Drummer v’s DJ Fu.

24th OCEANTRIBE PRESENTS RELAPSE Red Square, Gover Lane, 9pm till 5am, £free entry all night. Round two with Minimal techno & tech house with Chris Allen, Tom Rox & Ando.

24th JAGUAR SKILLS The Koola, 12 Beach Rd, 9pm-late, £tbc. Hip hop special with support from DJ Proof.

Penzance

SUNDAYS WITH BORIS. Club 2k.

Branwell Lane, 7pm - 3am Live entertainment with DJ Boris.

Plymouth

CHURCH OF ZERO’S SUNDAY SESSIONS. Zero’s , 24 Lockyer St, 10pm-2am, £free. Regular gay night with resident DJ Stev-E playing chart, R&B, bouncey house & trance.

LOVE R’N’B. Revolution, Derrys Cross. 10pm-2am. £free. R’n’B all night.

SUNDAY LOVE VIEW 2. Vauxhall St. £tbc, 9pm-late. Music for lovers, whatever they may be!

THE SUNDAY CLUB. Ride Club.

9pm-4am. DJ Super Duper Dan serves up party mashups as you recoever from your come down!

3rd BANK HOLIDAY CRISIS White Rabbit, Bretonside, 8pm3am £1. JC & Oz, info@whiterabbituk. com 3rd Systematic, River Tarmar, 5pm-9pm, / after party 10pm-4am £tbc. More hard dance with the residents playing the best Tech Trance, Hard Trance & Techno from 5pm - 9pm mixed by the Systematic faithful, before the after party at Candy Store with the rest of the party crew.

24th HOUSEBREAKZ SUMMER BOAT PARTY. Voodoo Lounge.

1 The Money Centre. Boat & Afterparty: £8 / Afterparty only £3.

7pm- 4am. Boat departs Barbican at 7pm for a 3hr Boat Party. DJ’s playing House, Electro and Breaks. Party continues at Voodoo Lounge Club until 4am. Info: 07751726731. www.housebreakz.co.uk.

24th TECHNICS DMC NIGHT. The White Rabbit. £tbc. 10pm til late. Hip hop night with DJ Pandamonium and local DJ’s.

Torquay

SUNDAY NIGHTS. Play Nightclub 10pm-late, £4. Drinks deals and commercial tunes

The 247 Festibull was super crammed at Ride Café last month, as we celebrated our ninth birthday and our bumper festival issue at the same time. Our friends at Red Bull pulled off the feat of making the Café look like a mini festival and you lovely lot brought the party vibe. Oh, and as is traditional at festivals, it rained. Luckily lots of people had their wellies on…

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