247 Magazine - May issue

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Lucy Rose Indie scene queen

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Cadence Recordings The regions best drum ‘n’ bass

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label celebrates its 15th birthday

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Rocker Covers

Meet Bristol’s new supercharged new rockabilly project

Animal Pro Surfer We talk healthy addictions to Newquay’s Alan Stokes

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Lucy Rose

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cadence RecoRdings The regions best drum ‘n’ bass

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Hundreds gigs & club nights inside

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Meet Bristol’s new supercharged new rockabilly project

animaL PRo suRfeR We talk healthy addictions

to Newquay’s Alan Stokes

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Is there lots on in the South West this month or what!

Festival fans have Dot to Dot, Love Saves The Day and many more to choose from, while clubbers will love Cadence Records (page 14) 15th birthday drum ‘n’ bass bash or how about Love Riots huge summer party? See Recommended, News and of course our extended listings section (page 37) for loads more ideas. Go out, it’s good for you. Probably. We’ve got lots of interesting features lineup for you this month – our interview with cover star and indie darling, Lucy Rose (page 12) will inspire you and we’ve also introduce you to Bristol’s new supercharged new rockabilly project, The Rocker Covers (page 16) and talk to pro surfer and laidback dude Alan Stokes (page 18).

On a style tip, this month’s fashion shoot, shot by Cornish photographer, Jessica Augarde (page 23) will make you feel like revamping your summer wardrobe – you have been warned! Or, you could take the cheaper option and just invest in a cool summer tee, see page 21 for our favorites!

Enjoy your month and the issue!

Rachael D’Cruze Editor

Contents illustration by Jess John “My ‘hipster’ drawing was based on the youth subculture of today’s fashion and music. It points at trends in society and looks in to the pressures of what is meant to be ‘cool’. The idea of ‘cool’ and therefore the hipster culture that seems to be dominating the high street is weirdly uncomfortable, I tried to convey this within complex patterns in my drawing of the ‘hipster’”, explains Plymouth based illustrator Jess John, who did this piece entirely by black pens (plus a lot of time and patience).

Jess has been working as an illustrator since graduating from Plymouth in 2011 in Fine Art. “With a lot of help and encouragement I picked up the pencils and ditched my contemporary practice and haven’t looked back since,” she tells us honestly. You can see more of her awesome work and even get yourself some merch at www.jessjohn.co.uk

Features

Lucy Rose 12 // Cadence Recordings 14 The Rocker Covers 16 // Alan Stokes 18

Listings

Theatre/Art 38 // Films 39 // Gig Guide 41 // Clubbing 49

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News 7 // Fashion 23 // Style Hunter 26 // Food 29 Music Reviews 31 // Racket from the pit 44 Snapped 53 // Competitions 54 magazine | 5

News Feed Yes Sir Boss play South Devon Arts Centre’s opening night Brand new arts and entertainment venue, the South Devon Arts Centre, in Totnes, South Devon, is set to open its doors on Friday 31 May with a spectacular night, which will be hosted by broadcasting legend Bob Harris OBE. Performing will be Yes Sir Boss, Jake Morley, JP Cooper, Mae & The Midnight Fairground and Rebecca Maze. Tickets cost £8 in advance or £10 on the door. The opening weekend will also welcome top TV comedian Patrick Monahan on Saturday 1 June, and will host a new work from National Theatre playwright Peter Oswald on Sunday 2 June. The arts centre, which is bringing 11 new jobs to Totnes, will become the new home of the Studio Lounge, which has built an international reputation by playing host to some of the UK’s biggest new bands, as well as artists from across Europe, America, Australia and Africa. Many different classes and workshops will be held there, and there’ll be special events specifically aimed at young people.

Find out more or buy tickets at www.southdevonarts.co.uk

Jelly Jazz 20th Birthday Party The world renowned Jelly Jazz celebrates 2 decades of jazzing up the south west of England with a mahoosive part at H20 on Plymouth’s Barbican on May 4. As well as Jelly Jazz’s Pete Isaac and Griff, extra special guests with include Chris Goss (Hospital Records, London) and Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45's, London). £5 on the door, kicks off at 9.30pm. www.jellyjazz.com

ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL MUSIC SHOW 2013 Southwest's premier music industry and music technology show celebrates its 5th year anniversary on Saturday 18 May at Exeter Phoenix. Organised by social enterprise Sound Gallery Studios, this unique event brings with it hundreds of visitors and an impressive guest speaker lineup featuring Peter Gabriel and Led Zeppelin percussionist Hossam Ramzy, Big Country’s Tony Butler, Bristol Drum n Bass producer and Roni Size engineer D-Product, MU officer Paul Gray, Martin Walker (Sound On Sound), drummer Ash Soan (Adele, Squeeze, Del Amitri) and Steve Knightley from Show of Hands. Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree) will be delivering a Vintage Analogue Synth masterclass at the show. Musicians Union regional officer Paul Gray will also deliver a session on everything you wanted to know about playing live, royalties, music publishing, contracts and more. Other notable guests include certified Ableton trainer Martin Delaney, Reason demonstrator Gary Bromham, producer Lee Fletcher (Unsung productions), DJ erbNdub, producer Gavin Monaghan (Scott Matthews), Tim Bowness (No-Man), Nick Tarbitt (Integrity records) and Andy Watts (Seahorses). The event will also include Q & A sessions, stalls and live demos showcasing all the latest products from Yamaha Music, AVID (ProTools), Ableton (Live 9, PUSH), 2Twenty2 Agency (Bitwig, Teenage Engineering), Propellerhead/Reason, Time + Space, BakTraK, Clicksound, Quested Monitors, TFPro, Super Audio Mastering, Alphasphere, hungersleep records as well as live music, studio competitions, the legendary Prize Draw and the aftershow party on the terrace organised

by JamTheChannel! So what are you waiting for? Come and meet the music industry and play with all the latest gear! www.analogue-to-digital.com

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Boardmasters line-up expanded The second wave of artists announced for Boardmasters Festival, 7-11th August at Watergate Bay, will certainly get you chomping at the bit if you haven’t already got yourself a ticket.

Headliners Ben Howard, Basement Jaxx and The Vaccines will be joined by Everything Everything, Simian Mobile Disco, north London duo, Man Like Me, bassline breakthrough artist XXXY, hip hop legend Grandmaster Flash, Delphic, Little Comets, Clean Bandit, Cosmo Jarvis, The Other Tribe, Dusky, T Williams, Bondax, Gorgon City, Monki, Maribou City, Panda and Eton Messy. The announcements don’t stop there with Dinosaur Pile Up, Crowns, Dark Horses, I Am Giant, Gnarwolves, Bloody Knees, Steve Smyth, The Sea Young Aviators, Rat Attack, Bad Channels and Remember December also added to the bill giving the more hardened rock fan something to get their head banging fix. Over on Fistral Beach, the beach sessions hear the harmonious sounds of The Lake Poets and Steve Smyth in addition to greatly anticipated headliners The 1975 and Benjamin Francis Leftwich.

Tickets are now on sale at www.boardmasters.co.uk

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Love Riot’s 7th Birthday Love Riot are celebrating 7 years of Cornish debachury with massive summer party on Sunday 26 May at Crasken Farm, Helston. Moullinex and Xinobi – two of Europe's hottest dance music producers will be playing, along with lots more to be announced shortly. To top it off, there's free camping and for those of you who like to go all out, the dress theme is rainbow - as in seven colours of the rainbow. Although, the organisers assure us anyone dressed as George, Zippy or Bungle will still be welcome! Tickets cost £12 from www.loveriot.co.uk WIN TICKETS We’ve got a set of tickets for Love Riots 7th Birthday Bash to give away. See www.247magazine.co.uk to win.

The Somerwick Sessions Folk outfit, Lily & Meg, and Dream-pop duo, The White Bicycles, will be hosting a springtime special of the popular live music showcase ‘The Somerwick Sessions’ on Saturday the May 18 at The Barefoot Amphitheatre, near Helston, Cornwall. The impressive amphitheatre is landscaped on the edge of a cliff and has panormaic sea views to one side, and a view over Looe Bar beach on the other. The event will be headlined by Swanage Duo, 'Saturday Sun', who are hotly tipped by Q Magazine and BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson. The rest of the line up consists of popular local acts, Lily & Meg, The White Bicycles, Rafiki, Black Persuasion and The Lantern Quartet. To top off the festival feel, local artists and craftspeople will be displaying and selling their wares, whilst refreshments will be provided by local caterers Soup de Jour, La Creperie de Sophie, The Rebel Brewing Company and Cornish Orchards Cider.Tickets cost £10 or £7 with valid student I.D and are available from Sheoak Guitars in Falmouth and Falmouth University’s Tremough Campus Shop.

A limited number will also be available at the gate. See www. facebook.com/somerwicksessions

Figure 8 Festival Figure 8 Festival is back after raising a whopping £5,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support last year. This year’s event will take place at Bristol’s Trinity Centre on Saturday September 28. Acts already confirmed for the 2013 charity festival include Bristol’s Goan Dogs, singer/ songwriter Katie Malco and London shoegaze troupe, Velveteen. They will be joined by a host of other top Bristol musicians - including Oliver Wilde, Pete Roe and Sarah Proudfoot, multi-instrumentalist She Makes War, former Men Diamler man Richard Abberline and Leeds rockers ALASKA. There’ll be a festival pre-party at a secret alternative Bristol venue on Friday September 27. Tickets now on sale, priced £18.50adv + bf, via Bristol Ticket Shop and TicketWeb. See www.figure8festival. co.uk

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The team behind the legendary all nighter dance club, The Monastery have announced a series of reunion nights this summer, kicking off on 11 May at Bohemia, Torquay. For the unaware, Monastery was an all night dance club based in a converted church in the heart of Torquay; it opened every Saturday from 11pm until 7am, didn’t serve alcohol and had every big name Hard House D.J in the country playing there. It was a private members club with over 15,000 members from across the country and was full with 600 clubbers every single week. Unfortunately the club lost its license in 2001 but since then they have held three reunions all of which sold out. One of the team, Sally Harris said ”The Westcoutry clubbing scene has slowly been dying over the past few years, now it’s time to breathe some life back into it, bring back those nights where it didn’t matter what age you were, what you wore, whether you were gay or straight, black or white. All that mattered was that you all came together to enjoy yourselves, feel safe and escape the reality of real life for a few hours.” So with that in mind Sally and her team are starting putting on six events during 2013.

She said “For those of you who experienced it all those years ago, you know what I’m talking about! For those who didn’t, you will soon realise what been part of the Monastery family is all about!” With a Hard House/ Hard Trance music policy expect a mix of new cutting edge music with a few of the old favourite classics thrown in. Headliners for the 11 May event include Andy Whitby & Cally Gage, alongside the old residents Kev Smoothound Walters and Ben McGowan.

More info at www.themonasterytorquay.co.uk

DANCE STAGE ADDED TO PLYMOUTH VOLKS FEST Due to popular demand, a new dance stage has been added to this years Plymouth Volks Fest on 24-27 May at Newnham Park, Plymouth. Over 35 dance acts ad DJ’s have been added, headlined by breaks specialist, Krafty Kuts who headlines Saturday night! He is joined over the weekend by Ed Real, John OO Fleming, Claudia Cazacu, Agnelli & Nelson, Tom costelloe and many more. On Sunday, Exeter’s Dark Knights take over the outdoor stage with DJ’s Dizzit, Nick Coles, Kelly Jay & Gavin Quiet keeping everyone moving! Other live bands playing at the festival include The Levellers, Seth Lakeman, Zion Train, Ruarri Joseph and many more, weekend tickets (inc free camping) and day tickets from www.plymouthvolksfest.com

NASS ACTS ANNOUNCED The National Action Sports Show (NASS) and music festival have announced there full music line up for this years event on 11-13 July. Taking place at the Roya Bath and West Showground, NAS (who is also headlining the Glastonbury Dance Village at the end of June) and Katy B headline, along with the likes of Hadouken, Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, Monsta, Ram Records Andy C and more.

There are also stage takeovers from Drum and Bass arena, Ram Records and Bristol’s Motion club. It’s not all about the music though, as over 10,000 people are expected to witness the amazing World Cup skate, BMX, inline & FMX comps held over the weekend. Some of the sports top stars are expected to battle it out for a big money prize fund, and there are open public courses for festival goers to try the tricks for themselves, see more information at www.nassfest.com www.247magazine.co.uk

Recommended 24-26 May Vegfest

Plymouth Featuring over 100 artists from across the UK, tattoo competitions, custom car/bike show and ten live bands including Land of the Giants, Jessica and the Rabbits, Rockafellaband and The Mighty Offbeats make this set to be the best convention so far for all SW body art fans. www.plymouthtattooconvention.com

Bristol The biggest veggie event anywhere in the world this year (as far as we know).

Over 120 stalls including food, bodycare, accessories, fashion, merchandise and information, nutrition, health, campaigns and lifestyle talks, cookery demos, cinema and big live acts each evening. The excellent Caravan Palace headline on Friday night, supported

by Kitten & the Hip and The Boxettes. Saturday night sees Manchester’s Happy Mondays play live with their original line up, supported

by The Farm, 808 State and a Peter Hook DJ set. www.bristol.vegfest.co.uk

13 – 27 May Eat Drink Bristol

24-27 May Run to the Sun

11-12 May Tattoo Conversion

Bristol An innovative concept dreamt up by chef Josh Eggleton of the Pony and Trap and farmer Luke Hasell, they created Eat Drink Bristol Fashion with the sole aim of showcasing Bristol’s thriving food scene. Set in a network of Tipi’s in Queens Square, there is a 100 seater restaurant on one side with a different chef / restaurant taking charge each night. The other side hosts a bar with tapas menu and live bands playing every night. It’s a unique pop-up idea and takes indulging in good food and drink to a different level! www.eatdrinkevents.co.uk

Newquay After 26 years, this is the last ever Run to the Sun, so you’re guaranteed it’s going to be extra special. With over 10,000 people attending it’s all about celebrating the classic VW and with over 500 cars taking part in the Show’n’shine on the Sunday at Newquay airport. Entertainment wise, guests include Subfocus, Anne Savage, Mistajam, DJ Hype, DJ Fresh, Zinc and many more as well as live bands, comedy, silent discos and beach parties. Weekend and day tickets from www. runtothesun.co.uk

25-27 May Upfest

14-18 May Big Mouth Theatre Royal, Plymouth Bigmouth has captivated audiences across Belgium and the Netherlands, making its UK debut in 2012 for just 10 performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it received universal critical and audience acclaim. It now comes to Plymouth and in a tour de force performance; Valentijn Dhaenens pays tribute to 2,500 years of oration.

Ingeniously weaving together fragments of seminal speeches from the Grand Inquisitor and Socrates to Mohammed Ali and Osama Bin Laden, Bigmouth shows that the tricks of rhetoric have hardly changed. www.theatreroyal.com

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Southville, Bristol Europe’s biggest street art festival sees over 250 international street artists transform South Bristol as they consume over two miles of the city to paint live across the weekend and create over 30,000 square foot of artwork. A selection of the biggest names in international graffiti culture from a total of 50 countries includes artists such as DALeast (China), Faith47 (South Africa), C215 (France), Peeta (Italy) as well as Bristol natives Turroe and Inkie.

Artists will paint to a soundtrack of live music of Funk, Soul, Reggae and old school hip hop from 40 street buskers as well as music from Invader FM, King Kong Sound System, Tribe Steppaz Sound System, Woman presents & Tobacco Factory music. The event is free and runs from 11am-8m each day. www.upfest.co.uk

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26 May Love Saves Sunday Bristol Attended by a sold-out crowd of 10,000, Love Saves The Day's 2012 debut brought a world-class electronic music festival to the heart of Bristol in Castle Park, uniting international acts with the best of the city's thriving local scene. This years event is already sold out so the promoters launched an extra day, Love Saves Sunday to cater for demand. Line up includes Julio Bashmore, Soul II Soul, Ms Dynamite, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, Jacques Greene, Ben UFO, EZ, B-Traits and many more, this deserves your attention. www.lovesavestheday.org

26 May Souloud Attic, Torquay Usually found tearing up the likes of DC10 in Ibiza, Timo Maas jets in to Torbay play an exclusive 3-hour set at Souloud – intimate, loud and personal. There is no better setting for Timo to unleash the magic as this year he’ll release his long awaited new artist album, celebrate 10 years as a resident at DC10 in Ibiza, help Cocoon commemorate their 100th release and continue to reinforce his reputation as one of German electronic music’s most colourful characters. This will be one special night.

1 JunE Noisy Neighbours Bristol Following on their sell out event at the Passenger Shed in the heart of Bristol last summer, the Noisy Neighbours crew return to an all new venue, the Hand Arena on the outskirts of Bristol on Sat 1st June. With a capacity for 5,000 people over multiple arenas (with hosts including DnB Assassins & SeventySeven), the event will be powered by the mighty Valve Sound System and sees over 50 artists playing everything from house to D’n’B, hip hop and bassline at this new venue. The line-up includes headline performances from Delvin, Mimosa, Skism, Drumsound and Bassline Smith, Dillinja, Westwood, Kaze, Hatcha and many, many more. www.noisyneighbours.com

3 June Eddie Izzard Eden Project, St Austell Comic genius and marathon running hero Eddie Izzard will be performing at the Eden Sessions as part of his 2013 tour Force Majeure. Along with his lavish on-stage costumes, Eddie is famed for his improvised, observational humour, which sees him pursue tangents of history, politics, cross-dressing and popular culture. Since making his debut on the comedy circuit in the late 1980s, Eddie has notched up an impressive catalogue of work, including hit shows Glorious, Dress to Kill and Circle. www.edensessions.com

31 May – 2 June Respect Festival Exeter Exeter’s annual celebration of diversity, using performing and creative arts to engage the wider community in saying no to racism and all forms of prejudice. Over 20,000 people are expected over the weekend at Belmont Park, entertainment includes Community Stage, Phonic FM Outdoor Stage, Music Café, Play Area, Dance Workshops, Youth Music Workshops, Stories, Cabaret Tipi, Fire Service Demos, Campaigns, Communities, NEW Wellbeing Zone, Food & Licensed Bar. The launch party on Fri 31 May at the Lemon Grove includes sets from Artwork (Magnetic Man), Don Letts, Crissy Criss & Engine Earz Experiment. www. exeter-respect.org

8 June Kisstory Bristol The sell-out London club night Kisstory is returning to Bristol on the 8th June 2013 at the O2 Academy. Kiss FM’s daily Kisstory show at 11am provides the best in old skool & anthems and bringing the biggest garage, house & R&B anthems to Bristol will be Kiss DJ’s NEEV and Steve Smart alongside live PA’s from Dennis G performing ‘Sambucca’ and Sweet Female Attitude performing ‘Flowers’. Kisstory nights are all about the best dance, hip-hop, R&B and garage anthems, tickets are on sale now on Aloud.com so get your early bird tickets before they sell out!

For more info check www.kissfmuk.com

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Entering on a rapid ascent from recording a self- funded album as an unsigned artist in her parent’s house, to being signed to Columbia only four records in, Lucy Rose has swept effortlessly to the forefront of the Indie scene.

247’s Lucy Reynolds talks to the porcelainskinned siren about Counting Crows and success ahead of her dates in Exeter this month and headlining at Lemonfest and Beachbreak Live in June

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Modest and humble in her approach to her recent success, the 23-year-old from Warwickshire found her self having recorded her debut album as an unsigned artist to reaching number 13 in the UK Album charts. Lucy explains ‘I wasn’t really thinking about it [success] when I was recording, I was so pleased to finally be getting the songs out of my mind and creating them in real life’. Ever since the release of her album Lucy has been in high demand: She recently returned from a tour of the USA and Canada where she fulfilled her wish of cruising around, driving for ’10 hours a day- and I only got pulled over once! She explained that ‘it was scary heading over there, being so big and impossible but it was so much fun!’

With 2012 being so successful: Playing an exclusive ‘3D’ Binaural set for Radio 1’s Rob Dan Bank show: ‘it was nice to play songs acoustically and hear them exactly how they were played in the room’ and the self- proclaimed unexpected success of the album it is no wonder she was asked to tour with the mighty Counting Crows; ‘I got a phone call late one night when I was playing Back Gammon saying we had just been offered the Europe/UK support, did I want to? Of course I said yes immediately’. Lucy starts her tour with the Crows on the 16th April through to the 26th. Touring does not end there however, she begins her first Headline UK tour on the 27th April in Leeds carrying right through to the Summer festivals. Touring must be so effortless and easy for Lucy Rose you would think, yet she explains ‘My nerves will never leave me and it’s pretty crazy going on tour and playing music to so many people now but I appreciate it more than anything…’

The latest single: Shiver has a beautiful rawness to its whispered sound allowing art to imitate life giving this impeccably written song real depth. Moreover it is accompanied by a haunting video that, as Lucy puts it, ‘makes the viewer remember everything they want to forget’ it has already reached well over 300,000 views on YouTube and is set to be a very successful single. Yet Lucy remains so endearingly humble: ‘I don’t know what makes a successful record at all, it’s just what came out when I sat down one day with my guitar. When I wrote it, I didn’t think anyone would really hear it’ perhaps this is what makes her music so attractive; she writes for herself about the real and tangible experiences. It’s not all about ramming the music down our throats and selling records, she has said in the past that she wanted the growth of the album to be organic, through word of mouth. Well… it certainly worked.

It is no wonder she has been asked to play at the all new Beachbreak Live event in Newquay on 20-24th June and headline Lemonfest on the 1st of June in Newton Abbot, we are safe in the knowledge that she will make both of these festivals unmissable. We asked Lucy what she thought of the local talent such as the hugely successful Ben Howard and upcoming artist: Ryan Keen: ‘I have played with both artists and both are great. So I’m guessing the South West is providing’ The effortlessness of her talent is inspirational and well suited to our county- as she puts it, ‘Devon and Cornwall is a beautiful part of the world’ so make sure you don’t miss out on this one…

“I got a phone call late one night when I was playing Back Gammon saying we had been offered the support for Counting Crows”

Listen the latest single, Shiver here

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You can catch Lucy playing Exeter Phoenix on May 20th, Dot to dot Festival in Bristol on May 25th, headlining Lemonfest, Newton Abbot on June 1st and appearing alongside Jake Bugg and Devlin at Breakbreak Live, Newquay on 20-24th June. See www.lucyrosemusic.com

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Cadence Recordings Independent South West based label, Cadence Recordings have been at the heart of the drum ‘n’ bass scene for the last 15 years. 247’s Aldo Vanucci catches up with the labels Ste Gould and talks proudest moments, One Direction, ice cream flavours and doing it for yourself

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Tell us a bit about yourself and your record label?

Cadence Recordings is run by myself, Ste Gould, and my old friend, Chris Clark. We began jointly from a frame of mind of wanting to create a future in the music business doing something we enjoy and are passionate about. By chance we met Simon Huxtable AKA Aural Imbalance who was looking for an outlet to showcase his production skills, while we were seeking a direction regarding music policy. Cadence was born and shortly our first vinyl 12" was releases early 1998. Cadence exists to release the very best in deep emotive spaced out drum ‘n’ bass. It's a massive part of who we are and it's a labour of love.

You've been around since the early days of the Internet – how has running a label changed in that time?

Yeah well, things have changed loads in terms of the way we operate...In the early days there were more proper record shops that stocked our physical releases, sadly it’s more virtual stores. These days it's a lot more digital in terms of distribution and we keep physical sales more exclusive. It's sad in some ways as we do love the vinyl but in other ways we get more music out quicker from the point of signing so our listeners get more fresh music more regularly which can only be a good thing. The online world is great from a social sense and it's nice being in regular contact with the labels fans from round the world.

If you could sign anyone who would it be?

I can honestly say that I think we are already releasing some of the best artists already...if I had to go for a big name I'd like to get Goldie on board for what's he's done for D&B and that he's from Wolves my old stomping ground. Goldie released a tune years ago called Sensual and it's just exquisite so I'd love to release something like that.

If you had to compare your label to an ice cream flavour what wouldit be?

Rum ‘n’ raisin…a connoisseur’s choice for those that know.

Can you give any upcoming producers some tips on how to get ahead?

Do it because you love it and make music for yourself. Find your own sound and express yourself on the deepest level.

It's all about realizing what's important, which I think is to truly love what you do.

My dad is still waiting for me to get a proper job, how do you explain what you do to the older generation?

My folks get it...my dad used to be my drive me to and from the block of flats that I did pirate radio on when I was 15 [laughs]. Chris has been around music all his life, his Dad is a special Jazz drummer, which help gave him the passion. They're into the music, which is really cool and they're starting to see things really picking up for us in what we do.

One Direction are thinking of trying a drum n bass tune, would you release it?

(Ste)Nah, unless it was ridiculously brilliant and ground breaking…so it's still nah.

(Chris) Yes, especially if Aural Imbalance gets too remix and could help support future music on our labels.

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Which film or book has had a big effect on you and what you do?

I love Bladerunner – it’s a classic film visually but the soundtrack is amazing and I know its hugely influential to many. I'm not reading many books these days but the last one was superstar dj's by Dom Phillips – I enjoyed it as it referenced the era that I grew up in and was first immersed in electronic music , I've been reading electronic music mags from the very beginning…I remember the first copies of mixmag etc.

“...my dad used to be my drive me to and from the block of flats that I did pirate radio on when I was 15 ...”

My so-called-career has been governed by three words: determination over ability - what three words describe yours?

Labour of lovehalf of the year.

Post-tour, whWhat's been your proudest moment as a label boss?

Wow. I can't some it up into one instance but over the years there have been many magic moments like getting the 1st 12" vinyls back from pressing and seeing the finished product of Aural imbalances Album Legacy to reading emails from people all around the world sharing their stories of where they heard the labels music. I know we're both proud of the friendships that have grown over time not only for us as label bosses but with the artists and fans alike. Our commitment to the labels in changing times, not giving up. Plus the pleasure of releasing the deep, atmospheric electronic associated with Cadence.

If you could go back 10 years would you do anything differently?

Certainly not, being a creative enterprise it's something you become passionate about, love and enjoy ultimately become…once the music gets you it takes up residence in your soul. All the lessons you learn along the way certainly help you appreciate what you've got.

How does being based in the southwest affect what you do?

Living in the southwest is great from an inspiration point of view.

The coastal scenes definitely shine through in the labels identity. From the early days our music has been international which is great thing, we've had an online presence for sometime which certainly helps.

Listen the latest single, Shiver here

To celebrate 15 years in the business we are hosting a big atmospheric drum ‘n’ bass party on the 24th May at The Attic in Torquay. See www.movementinsound.com

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Introducing…

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Rocker Covers

Meet Bristol’s new supercharged new rockabilly project, that transforms pop songs with a whole lot of bass-slappin’, fret-twanging and snare-shuffling How did you guys meet and when did you form The Rocker Covers?

We were playing together in other bands performing original material. Then while on tour in Germany in 2010 with one of the bands, there was a day off and we thought we’d go busking. We picked a few classic pop and rock songs to busk, and people seemed to really like it. We went busking again when we returned to the UK and people kept coming up to us, asking us to play bars and private parties etc. and it really developed from there. We recorded the Revved Up album, and were offered more and more gigs and festivals to play.

We love your mechanics outfits – did you used to work in a garage, or do you just dig cars and stuff?

[Lughs] No, we haven’t ever worked in garages, but The Rocker Covers name is of course a play on words, and a rocker cover being part of a car engine. We do all love vintage cars and 50s music, so the retro mechanics clothes seemed to fit!

Of course there will be more classic rock and pop songs done in The Rocker Covers’ style, but there are a few more flavours on the new album, including country, ska and rhythm ’n’ blues.

Where did you record the new album?

Everything is recorded ourselves in Scott’s own Dog House Music Studio. That way we can take time to play around with guitar sounds etc., and as we rehearse there, we sometimes arrange songs and record them straight away.

When can we expect it?

The album just needs mixing and mastering, so we hope it will be released in the summer.

Do you write your own songs too, or is it strictly covers only?

We are still involved in other projects playing original stuff, and the whole idea of The Rocker Covers is to play our retro style versions of modern songs, so it’ll stay strictly covers!

We heard that Revved Up, was recorded on a Revox tape machine?

Yeah, we record everything ourselves and have a 1967 valve tape machine to warm things up!

As a band, what is your long term goal?

We love making music, recording, releasing records and playing gigs, and we plan to keep doing that for as long a possible.

Awesome. Tell us about your success on YouTube.

The video for “American Idiot” has had a lot of hits on YouTube. We recorded the video in our friend’s hot rod shop, called Valley Gas. It was great fun making the video, surrounded by all those cool cars, while the mechanics kept working!

We’ve seen you guys live a couple of times now – you really do put on a sterling show. Is playing live what’s it’s all about for you?

We really enjoy playing live, and we think and hope that comes across to the audience.

How do you decide which songs to give your unique rockabilly twist? Are these songs you particularly like yourselves, or just those you know will work well?

Generally, we try and pick songs that will stand the test of time, not throw away pops songs. But occasionally we choose a song we don’t really like, to see what it would have sounded like if it was made in 1950s or 60s.

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How do you find Bristol’s music scene?

We live in and around Bristol now, but actually Scott is from Newbury and Kris and Bob are from Worcester.

The Rocker Covers are Kris ‘Rock-It’ There are a lot venues Passmore, Scott ‘Mad Man’ Milsom and bands in Bristol and (Coffin Nails and Rock-It Dogs) and Ian ‘Boss’ Bostic (Rock-It Dogs). See they we have played at quite play next month at Ink Fest in Weston a few places in the city, Super Mare and keep an eye on www. but we’ve always enjoyed therockercovers.com for more gig taking to the road and dates and to watch their videos. playing further a field too. magazine | 17

Lifelong

Passion Interview: Emma Henderson

Pro surfer Alan Stokes from Newquay talks about his passion, lifestyle and being an Animal Pro Rider

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fter discovering a foam belly board behind the garden shed in Aldershot, Alan moved to Cornwall with his family at the tender age of 6, taking the belly board with him. Since then he has been enthusiastically riding waves and is now a pro surfer sponsored by Animal.

Surfing isn’t simply a sport or a job to Alan; it’s a lifestyle that he illustrates as a “healthy addiction that helps me makes sense of the world”. Sharing his passion with his sisters and dad, Alan surfs every day and even managed to bag a fellow pro surfer girlfriend. Whilst growing up, Alan looked up to other pro surfers, “Kelly Slater and Tom Curren were my greatest influences, their style and approach to riding waves really got me thinking”.

positively. It “makes it more accessible to people and is a sport that makes you feel good”, which he wants to share with people. Whilst surfing in Cornwall all year round, Alan still enjoys getting away in the winter when the waters turn icy cold and injuries become more likely to occur. Australia’s beautiful coastlines and amazing waves are another favourite attraction of Alan’s when Cornwall’s weather turns chilly.

His favourite competition is currently the British Nationals as it was “held in good solid waves on my local beach in Newquay, making it pretty special for me.” Apart from British competitions, Alan also enjoys competing in Brazil, “because the people are so passionate over there”.

“Surfing is a healthy addiction Alan has been a team rider for Animal since he was 14 years old. that helps me Cornwall played a huge part of Alan’s They have helped him carve out childhood; he believes you become his professional competitive surfing make sense of a product of your environment. career, which he is extremely proud So growing up on the beach and of and is glad to be involved in their immersing himself in the surrounding the world” surfing history. Animal are one of the only environment heavily influenced him. Alan’s brands started in Great Britain that active lifestyle and personality meant that surfing would always have been attractive to him, but he feels the “underlying pull of surfing is just being out there in natures raw energy and tapping into it when you ride a wave”.

The slower paced Cornish momentum also contributes towards the surfing way of life. “Cornwall is beautiful and the people are laid back and friendly” which supports the stereotype surrounding it. Alan so deeply embraces surfing that he has no idea what he would be doing if he wasn’t a professional surfer.

When it comes to surfing locations and competitions, Alan still loves Fistral beach where he first learnt to ride waves. In order to prepare for competitions and keep training, he surfs all over the world, yet Cornwall is always special to him – “the surf is challenging and fun, I’ve travelled so much, but I’ve never found anywhere like here, it’s a very diverse and exciting place for me”.

Proud to be Cornish, Alan celebrates Newquay’s recent blossoming as the UK’s surfing capital

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have made a name for themselves among their larger American rivals. Animal’s sponsor has helped Alan progress, not only financially by making him able to go out and pursue his sport, but the people he works with at Animal are supportive and passionate about what they do and their team riders which has greatly helped him over the years.

When Alan isn’t surfing, which isn’t very often as he surfs all day every day, he plays the guitar and writes music. He is also very interested in photography, mainly of water and waves…

Finally, I asked Alan to sum up surfing in one word, he answered ‘ unbelievable’. An answer that comes hardly surprisingly for someone who literally eats, breaths and sleeps his passion of riding the waves.

Find out more about Alan at his website www.alanstokes.co.uk and www.animal.co.uk/team-riders/surf/alan-stokes

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Retail Therapy Time for Tee. Skip into spring wearing one of these fresh t-shirts.

Parrot Tee

You’ll feel free as a bird in this quirky tee with wide neckline and parrot design from Quicksilver. ‘So Free’ tee, £30, by Quiksilver www.quiksilver.com 0207 392 4020.

Hipster Tee

T-shirts don’t get much better than this one by Jess John, who did the illustration on this month’s contents page – illustration at its best. ‘Hipster’ tee, £18, by Jess John – www.jessjohn.co.uk

Wolf Tee

Come over all Native American in this super cool tee from Volcom. ‘Embrace The Strange’ tee, £27.99, by Volcom @ Surfdome.com www.surfdome.com

Diamond Tee WOLF WHISTLE tee

We think you’ll agree that this simple tee is pretty stunning! The design was hand drawn in the mountains of Norway by Falmouth Uni illustration graduate, Silje Marie Kristiansen. ‘Wolf Whistle’ tee, £25, by $LUT - www.slut.co.uk

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A striking design, sure to get some attention from the ladies! There’s an interesting story behind this tee too – it’s been created by a guy who spent years knocking out masterpieces for Damien Hirst and recently decided to jack it all in and move back home to Porthleven. He’s now agreed to knock out the odd masterpiece for $LUT instead. ‘Diamond’ tee, £25, by $LUT www.slut.co.uk

Owl Tee

We love the colour, shape and cool design on this flattering tee by Numph.

‘Le Ann Box’ tee, £19.99, by Numph @ Surfdome.com - www.surfdome.com

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Denim stars & stripes shorts, ÂŁ18 by Bravel Soul and detail pocket t-shirt, ÂŁ10

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Urban Brights

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Floral playsuit, £40 by Animal and denim aztec waistcoat, £22 by Brave Soul

Pink jeans, £35 and striped t-shirt , £25 both Animal

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Denim stars & stripes shorts, £18 by Bravel Soul and detail pocket t-shirt, £10

Men's zip hoody, £15 by Brave Soul, beige shorts, £40 by Animal and striped t-shirt, £25 by Animal

Number vest , £10

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Blue lightweight festival jacket, £23 by Brave Soul and t-shirt, £22 by Animal

Isabel Ramos, 19 Jacket: Zara, Shirt: Zara, Necklace: Zara, Leggings: Topshop, Shoes: Topshop

Sophie Whyler, 19 Jacket: Topshop, Scarf: Vintage Shop

Ashley Coward, 20 Bag: New Look, Scarf: TK Maxx, Top: H&M, Shorts: New Look

Ryan Rogers, 19 Jacket: Topman, Shirt: Primark, Jeans: H&M, Shoes: New Look.

Tom Porter, 20 Jacket: eBay, T-shirt: Sharks Band, Jeans: Levis, Shoes: Dr Martins

Benjamin Butcher, 23 Jeans: Uniqlo, Boots: Levis Chukka, Jacket: Peter Storm, Watch: Timex Explorer

Farah Walters, 19 Primark: Leggings, Jacket: Home Label, Shoes: CAT

Ryan Brkovic, 23 Hoody: Nike 6.0, Beanie: The Hundreds, Jeans: Quicksilver, Shoes: Vans.

Kari-Anne, 19 Jumper: Top Shop, Scarf: Topshop, Leggings: Topshop

Slivia , 19 Shoes: Converse, Jacket: H&M, Cardigan: H&M, Shorts: Topshop

Gina Shord, 20 Shoes: Converse, Coat: Topshop, Shirt: New Look, Leggings: Topshop

Ruth Dans, 23 Body Warmer: Fat Face, Shoes: Vans, Jeans: Topshop

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Eating Out

Set yourself up for the day with one of these hearty breakfasts.

Photos courtesy of Friska

Breakfast like a king Plymouth

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Me N U

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The Cosy Club

The arty and stylish Me N U (pronounced “me & you”) specialises in Tapas, and they also serve a top-notch breakfast every day until noon. Its interior is contemporary and chic, with plenty of light to show the variety of paintings on its walls. There are also images of iconic stars such as Elvis, Sean Connery and The Beatles, and on the Saturday morning I visited the place was bubbling with a friendly crowd, munching away to the gentle sounds of Roy Orbison and other similar songs from his era.

As well as the regular full English, breakfasts include smoked salmon with scrambled egg and also a full vegetarian cooked breakfast, which is what I had. The scrambled eggs were cooked to absolute perfection - creamy and fluffy, and came lightly and subtly garnished, served with quality granary toasted bread. The breakfast also included two vegetarian sausages of very high quality – crispy, tasty and soft, lightly grilled tomatoes, beans and mushrooms. And you get sauté potatoes, a nice touch and a refreshing change from the standard hash browns. The coffee was delicious with a rich texture and nutty taste, and so I just had to have another. With its generous portions, tasty food, friendly service and good quality all the way, Me N U ticks every box.

Recently opened and just a five minute walk from Temple Meads, Friskas has a lovely open feel with big central benches, a few smaller tables and a couple of breakfast bars for the solo eater.

You can also see right through to the kitchen, which always shows confidence in the quality of the food. There’s hot and cold lunches and an evening menu too with plenty of global dishes; Vietnamese noodles, Malaysian Laska and Mexican pulled pork.

There’s an international feel to the breakfast options too. A peanut butter and jelly toastie is second only to waffles as the definitive American starter, but this meat fiend couldn’t get past the Spanish eggs. Two chunky slices of proper crusty brown bread get a poached egg apiece with a generous portion of chorizo crumbs and parsley scattered all over. The portion size is just enough to fill you up without feeling guilty and the firm chorizo goes beautifully with the soft and runny egg. I’d prefer a bit more heat from the chorizo but then I’m a sucker for punch.

A freshly-squeezed OJ rounds it off nicely (and properly fresh it is too). There’s even more choice on the breakfast menu at weekends, so I’ll have to find an excuse to come back again.

In contrast to the imposing grand facade of Taunton's Cosy Club, the interior, which is flooded with natural light thanks to the huge windows, is an eclectic mix of wood, mismatched vintage furniture and exposed brick. The warm feeling I got from the cool surroundings extended to the breakfast menu (actually brunch and they serve it until 6pm…).

Aside from the run of the mill full English breakfast and vegetarian counterpart, there are lots of exciting dishes to choose from including steak and eggs, ham hock hash and creamed scrambled eggs. I was feeling a little eggy myself, so opted for the ‘cosy eggs’. - two poached eggs with hollandaise sauce on a toasted English muffin with smoked bacon (although I could have chosen spinach and mushrooms, or paid £1 extra for Severn and Wye smoked salmon or chorizo sausage).

The English muffin was fluffy and light, layered with a generous portion of tasty (and not fatty) smoked bacon, with the perfectly cooked poached eggs on top. I often find restaurants ruin things with over use of hollandaise sauce, so was impressed the The Cosy Club used sparingly with extra on the side – perfecto! My breakfast cost £5.95 and was worth every penny – recommended.

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New Music Backbone

SAVAGES

Silence Yourself (Matador) More wonderfully pretentious than a sackful of Wilde quotes, London all-woman quartet, Savages, kick off their début album with an aural excerpt from a revered John Cassavetes flick before diving head-first into a black soup of Siouxsie howls, creepy guitar pirouettes and black steel rhythms.

Despite all the self-aggrandizing talk, they deliver a hefty goth punch, taking a '70s-riven template of post-punk despair/desire and forging anti-pop future-classics like 'I Am Here', 'City's Full' and the uber-volatile 'Husbands'; with Jehnny Beth's chillto-the-bone trills'n'whoops doffing a cap to Polly Harvey, Patti Smith, Diamanda Galas, Crass and the aforementioned Siouxsie Sioux. As far as pinpoint accuracy in post-punk revivalism goes, these London lasses have fucking nailed it.

ICE, SEA, DEAD PEOPLE If It’s Broken, Break It More (Broken Toy Records)

It's a fine line between dissonant art-rock and childish incompetence. In the hands of ISDP things err towards the latter. Adolescent petulance abounds, from that stupid moniker through to the stroppy vocals and the songs' dogged insistence on going nowhere whilst probably thinking that they're the first to go there. It's fine if you're a 16-year old music fan and you only listen to what Kerrang! thrusts in your face every Wednesday but if hastily assembled rot like 'Ultra Silence' and 'Pro Life Forever' is the best we can do after The Fall, Jesus & Marychain, Mclusky and Part Chimp then the future of homegrown anti-pop is nothing but shit-slops in a coke can. Ice, Sea, Awful Band. Get it? Don't.

DINOSAUR PILEUP Nature Nurture (So)

Matt Bigland is a skinny man with a big vision, and it's so singular that no-one else is allowed in to spoil it. So this sophomore album is, once again, all his own work, from hi-hats to bottom bass string, and puts paid to the belief that solo venture equals no quality filter. 'Nature Nurture' is brimful of A-grade, post-grunge angst-pop, with more blatant pickpocketing than a Dan Brown novel. 'Peninsula' sounds like a smarter Ash; 'Heather' bulldozes in on a bass-growling Nirvana riff; and 'White T-Shirt And Jeans' (and others) revels in its languorous Weezer worldview. Once you forget to recall comparisons the likes of 'Draw A Line', 'Start Again' and 'Lip Hook Kiss' are simply gut-punchingly wonderful.

IGGY & THE STOOGES Ready To Die (Fat Possum)

In the 40 years since Iggy & The Stooges seminal 'Raw Power', rock'n'roll has undergone more reinventions than Howard Marks. Unfortunately, despite the Godlike Genius of Iggy Pop, and despite the huge legacy that The Stooges left in their wake, and despite the collective years of experience on board, 'Ready To Die' is a pretty conservative and lifeless dribble of a record that only serves to highlight Iggy Pop's waning vigour.

Which is a shame when you consider that the neoGoth stomp of 'Burn' and the cringe-worthy 'Sex & Money' would probably have sounded vital and cutting edge before the mid-'70s were rinsed of any rebellious worth. As it is, that title may allude to a different meaning than was initially intended.

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THE PHYSICS HOUSE BAND

Horizons/Rapture (Blood & Biscuits)

You can thank, chronologically, Magma, Gong, Sparks, Cardiacs, Jaga Jazzist, Battles and Mars Volta for the general acceptance of prog/math rock in the 21st century underground. And you can thank youthful Brighton trio, The Physics House Band, for picking up the baton and running with it into a netherworld of twinkling, jizzy-jazz polyrhythms and synthetic graffiti on this, their début instrumental mini-album. However, theirs is a more reined in beast, the likes of 'Obelisk Monolith' (pow!) and 'Abraxical Solapse' (boff!) relying on relatively easily-digested prog tropes that retain a certain warmth within the frankly illegal time changes and staccato wizardry.

Ridiculous yet charmingly so. Technical yet humanly so. Nonsense yet brilliantly so. You get the drift.

GOLDBLADE

The Terror Of Modern Life (Overground) Straddling the line between sonic situationism and Johnny Bravo cartooncore, Goldblade have always been the court jesters at the modern punk party, getting more absurd with every bare-chested strut and stolen riff. Six albums in and they've expanded their range to please all the punky people all the time. 'Someone Stole My Brain' is the Pistols-goindustrial, 'They Kiss Like Humans...' pilfers from early '80s Britpunks GBH, 'Hey You! Elastic Face' is overcooked Social Distortion twang, while the sub-Clash, cod-reggae of 'Serious Business' is a travesty. Throughout all these badly titled ditties, John Robb is warbling and yelping like someone who's never heard a song in his life. I like the man, I like the politics, but this is a bit of a mess.

SOUTHPORT Southern Soul (Various Artists)

Old punks on the rampage! Indeed, you may remember Simon Wells from the first incarnation of London pop-punk legends, Snuff. Well move with the times guv'nor, that was donkey's years ago.

His 'new' band, Southport, have been around since the turn of the millennium but they've really hit their stride with 'Southern Soul' – an album that cares not for the surplus frills and spills of their youngers, relying instead on straight-ahead, heart-felt melodic punk motifs (to wit: brilliant opener 'Slide') with elements of Teenage Fanclub-esque country rock (to wit: the bittersweet 'The Last Time'). And there's a spiffing punkified version of 'I Shot The Sheriff' that pushes Wells' voice into territory he should venture far more often. Tops.

BAD IDEAS Compromise (Fond Of Life)

Earnest acoustic-rock is Sam Cook's stock-in-trade and his Leeds-via-Lincoln ensemble, Bad Ideas, have steadily been honing their craft over the past few years with a modest amount of success. Their third long-player, 'Compromise', betrays Sam's love of melodic punk-ish standard-bearers from The Gaslight Anthem ('Shells & Stones') to Alkaline Trio ('Lincoln') to Frank Turner ('Simple Connections') whist never losing sight of his own inherent creativity and inner voice. And what an outer voice! – an emotionally fraught and understated warble that manages to sidestep pop-punk pitfalls and remain accessible and believable. Given the quality of these songs, and with a hefty leg-up, Bad Ideas could easily cut it with the top dogs. Over to you.

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Bodyscrub Ethereal [Phobiq]

Sasha Carassi's Phobiq imprint has been a regular favourite of yours truly for quite some time, you can usually rely on them providing some speaker shaking big room techno that you know will work well in those peak time sets. However, this new release by Bodyscrub proves its' place as quite a quirky little set opener as well (as I found out on Friday when I checked it out and opened my set at Colabs with it). With two mixes to choose from, it's the remix from Drumcode favourite Sam Paganini that is the version of choice, building really well with filtered synth stabs and a twisted percussive groove that builds really effectively and certainly sets the mood.

Samuel L Session Dystopian Life [Klap Klap]

It's quite often the simplest of grooves that work the best in a set and this production from Samuel L Session definitely hits the spot. It's been such an inspiration that I played it at both Colabs and the Country Club Reunion this weekend and it was one of the standout tracks of both sets. I've often found with Samuel L Session's work, since his early material way back when he was releasing on Cycle that he concentrates on injecting some real funk into a track. Some rather intricate drum work comes into play with an absolute monster of a synth and a funky vocal, which on first listen begs to be played.

Can see this being cained all summer.

Dynamo City

One Night In Hackney (2013 Mixes) [Stay Up Forever Remixes] There is no denying the sheer impact this London based parody of 'One Night in NYC' by The Horrorist had when it first touched down in 2003.

The sheer cheek of the lyrics detailing a visit to a free party in London and the blatant alcohol and narcotic consumption that followed always manages to make many of us smile. Stepping up to the task of remixing are Chris Liberator and Sterling Moss, who tweak the acid riff to new proportions, Pet Duo who take the Schranz route and Phuture Doom who manage to provide a reasonable interpretation.

However it's the laid back and rather spellbinding remix from D.A.V.E The Drummer that wins pride of place in the box for me.

Timothy Alexander Sentience [Sonic Groove]

This is quite a diverse release, but one thing that's appealing about the whole package is all four tracks are dark and broody. While Timothy Alexander is not a name this author is familiar with, Adam X's Sonic Groove label has been ever consistent with releasing some charming material for the past eighteen years. On 'Sentience' it's cut number II that is the highlight, with a distorted kick drum underpinning a solid groove, reminding me of the rather wonderful 'Pitch Hiker' by 'Pilldriver'. It may sound quite simplistic in arrangement but when played at the right time of night, this can really help develop a set into some more aggressive places and certainly received a good reaction on the weekend.

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The Primitives

Everything’s Shining Bright (Cherry Red) Geniuses in the art of marrying sweetness with punk rock, The Primitives are a hugely influential femalefronted band from the mid-’80s. Anyone who loves Veronica Falls’ new album (or pretty much anything on labels like Slumberland and Fortuna POP) needs this two-disc set, which is the band’s entire output on their own independent label, Lazy Records. It captures the band at the rawest, just before they hit the big time with Crash (which is actually included, but as a very early rough demo). Highlights: Stop Killing Me, Buzz Buzz Buzz, Really Stupid and Thru the Flowers. Look out for Scared to Get Happy, a various artists box set dedicated entirely to this era, also on Cherry Red, coming very soon.

Morrissey Kill Uncle (Parlophone)

Another gem from the early ‘90s is given the remaster treatment, this time with a complete makeover, including a totally different sleeve and artwork to the original, a different running order and two bonus tracks sprinkled into it, rather than shoved on at the end. This was the Mozfather’s second solo album, just before long-term collaborators Boz Boorer and Alain Whyte came onboard. In many ways it’s different to his other albums, with more subtleties, such as the swing on Sing Your Life. Madness producers Langer & Winstanley are at the helm, and the band’s bass guitarist Mark “Bedders” Bedford is also present (he really shines on Found Found Found). And we forgive him the dodgy Asian Rut.

Inspiral Carpets Life- Extended Edition (Mute)

With the recent interest (and mass hysteria) for the early ‘90s works of Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, it seems natural that fellow Mancs, Inspiral Carpets should go for a piece of the action.

And so here is the expanded version of their classic debut, padded out with non-album EP tracks and a live DVD, recorded at Manchester G-Mex, at the height of their popularity. Since the ‘90s, everything‘s been revived constantly, so it’s hard for anything to sound dated. Add to this the Inspirals’ love of punked-up psych-pop/garage, and they actually remain very current. And the themes of unemployment and domestic violence on This Is How It Feels are more relevant now than ever.

Ghost Capsules Ghost Capsules (O Solo)

This electronic quartet is the latest project from Tim Simenon of Bomb the Bass. Vocalist, Laura Gomez has a dark folk singing style, which could fit as comfortably into a spooky setting such as say, Marissa Nadler’s eerie psych folk. But it suits Simenon and co’s twisted electro house very nicely, floating on top of rigid and meaty basslines. House, electro and techno have been around for decades now, so what really counts now is creativity and flow. This works as an album, even though a lot of the tracks sound similar. It’s almost like a DJ mix, with a girl singing on top. And Tim Simenon’s been doing this since day zero, so relax folks: you’re in good hands!

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Anna von Hausswolff Ceremony (City Slang)

After impressing us all at her recent Bristol gig with Efterklang, this album proves Anna Von Hausswolff is a true gem in this pop princess world in which we live. Dark and brooding, like Joy Division crossed with the soundtrack to an indie flick set in the depths of a dying forest – this is music with real depth and the power to conjure up vivid images. Anna’s vocals don’t kick in until halfway through track two, and when they do, the comparison to Kate Bush almost makes itself. ‘Mountains Crave’ employs that Anna Calvi grandeur, while a beautiful organ sound introduces us to ‘Goodbye’ – accessibly eerie punctuated with stark, spellbinding vocals a la John Grant. A mighty fine album.

Deerhunter Monomania (4AD)

Deerhunter is back – after a cracking offering in 2010 with ‘Halcyon Digest’, the group has come up with a modern-day take on the early Noughties NYC avant garde - with a nod towards the spic sounds of Joy Formidable. Organised confusion makes this album sound messy, but in a good way. Like Beck backed by a band of 20-something rockers. With catchy beats and scuzzy guitars, there are definite hints of The Strokes here, mixed with a Grouplove energy to create cool, party songs, dancefloor fillers. Lyrically, it’s pretty sound and even cutesy in places, with "I've been lookin for some humming bees." What’s more, they even commandeer some Queen lyrics: "I'm a poor boy, from a poor family."

Gabrielle Aplin English Rain (Parlophone)

Opener ‘Panic Cord’ is a sweet, soothing song with sniffs of Lisa Loeb; that is until Aplin breathes ‘Do Rah Me Fah So La Ti’ – which is a tad cringesome.

‘Please Don’t Say You Love Me’ warrants comparisons to Ed Sheeran, the simple guitar picking, sincere lyrics and earnest vocals to the point where you wonder if it’s a cover (that comes later in the form of ‘Power of Love’ from the John Lewis Xmas ad). ‘How Do You Feel Today’ has a more mature sound, deeper tones and folky vibes (complete with sweet strings) akin to Lucy Rose.

The second half of the album, from ‘Home’ and ‘Salvation’ ventures into Adele territory in terms of power and poignancy – though things tail off towards the end.

St Pierre Snake Invasion Everyone’s Entitled To My Opinion Beardown Records)

They've been making waves in Bristol and beyond of late, gaining a rep for putting on outstanding live shows but how does their EP compare? Opening track 'Call The Coroner', launches headfirst into manic screams which punch you in the gut. Punky, energetic and fun; Bristol's answer Pulled Apart By Horses and good bedfellows with Exeter rebel-rousers The Computers. 'U.S.S.A' is a forceful belter, Rage Against The Machine worthy guitars meet more impressive vocals. 'Hey Kids! Do The Choke Stroke' opens with some almost Kings of Leon-esque vocals and pretty tame clapping action, but builds into a Rocket From The Crypt-influenced crescendo with hints of Buzzcocks.

Saving the best til last, 'Say No To Stop Motion' harnesses that raw Nirvana appeal of tracks such as 'Aneurysm' cept this is more in your face. lads. Please.

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Bomb The Bass In The Sun O Solo records

Back around the late 80s Bomb The Bass hit the number one spot in the UK chart with a record called Beat Dis, entirely made up of other peoples records, now sixth album later they release their sixth album.

Times have changed and so has their approach, now made up of a vocalist and producer Tim Simenon, this album comes on like a left field Prodigy album, nice choppy beats, sonic assaults but with lush vocals and melodies. The samples have gone replaced by layered synths and electronic strings but the music is still as essential as ever. Bomb the Bass have had peaks and lows in their career, this feels like they are about to crest another hill, if you like to get lost in music or want something interesting for a long journey then this is for you.

Various Artists America 2 Kitsune

After last months Paris collection, uber cool and always top notch label Kitsune come with a slice of American synth paradise. The tracks are pretty much split between dance floor and head music but all retain killer productions. In the past Kitsune have pushed names like Bloc Party, Klaxons and Two Door Cinema Club with dancey electro mixes, no one on this album is anywhere near that level but some surely will be soon. I love everything that Gigamesh has done and the track on here is no exception and the album opener by Ghost is my new favourite sunset song. Newcomers Haerts deliver a pure pop hit with a nice edge to it. If you like French electronic music with catchy hooks and stella productions then this album is for you.

Dope D.O.D. Da Roach 3s music

I like hip hop. I like a lot of different styles. This album is pretty much sold to me with everything I usually dislike, dark, industrial and deep. Though the guests are dope as hell, Redman, Kool Keith and Noisia. That said, maybe it's the grey weather, maybe it's the carb overload my body is struggling with but I'm really hooked into this, as is Liam Howlett who gave it props. This is dirty, mean, jump around and mosh hip hop that is never gonna bother the charts but I can see doing very well, gathering fans from rock, metal and hip hop areas.

For this who remember what it was like when Adam F was working with a list rappers this is what this feels like to me.

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Late Night Tales After Dark label tbc by ben at echo empire The late night tales compilations have usually gotten big name djs and producers to compile some of their favourite tracks, the albums usually give an insight into their tastes and what inspired them, as well as bringing to the fore some wicked lost classics. This album does the same but the compiler isn't the usual household name, but he should be.

Bill Brewster co writer of extremely authoritative books about music and djing, so as you would expect this has some amazing tunes on it, most of these tunes I don't know and pretty much all I would buy having heard them. This is a dubbed out session, perfect for getting warmed up for a night out or winding down after one, I've spent my entire adult life collecting music and this guy and his music selection makes me realise I need to work harder. www.247magazine.co.uk

Opportunities College / UNI open days this month Fancy a change in direction or thought about taking up a new skill? Get yourself along to one of these forthcoming open days to get the lowdown on what’s involved and what you can gain from it.

FEELING CREATIVE? Plymouth College of Art is a specialist school for artists, run by artists. Based in Plymouth, combining over a century’s worth of history with up-to-the-minute thinking and cutting-edge facilities – including a brand new £7.7m art, craft and digital design wing opening in Sept 2013, see what they have to offer at their open day on 11th May and 1st June. Book your place at www.plymouthart.ac.uk Falmouth University have a special foundation diploma in Art and Design open day on 24th May and a general undergraduate open day on 19th June – book you place at www.falmouth.ac.uk South Devon College have an open day on Weds 15th May for you can see all the different opportunities they have – from college to university level courses.. Info at www.southdevon.ac.uk City of Bristol College host their next open day on Weds 22nd May, contact them via www.cityofbristol.ac.uk Study in Cornwall… Cornwall College host their May fayre on 11th May at the St Austell campus. The fayre combines various activities such as car boot fair, craft fair and information zones about studying at the college alongside others events on the day to help raise money for Children’s Hospice South West, Little Harbour and the Cornwall College Volunteer Kenya programme..

See www.cornwall.ac.uk for info

Media Internships If you’re focused on getting yourself a career in the media, don’t underestimate the importance of doing an internship. Careers in media have never been so popular and their have never been more graduates, keen to get that all important first step on the career ladder.

As great as getting yourself a degree or equivalent qualification is, it’s simply not enough to get you a job anymore. The people who get the hotly contested media jobs, are those who have an edge and nothing gives you an edge like the practical hands on experience you get from being an intern.

Internships are typically unpaid, and last from a few weeks to a few months. You can expect to be treated as one of the team and to get a good overview of how the company you intern with operates. Your mentor should provide you with a varied workload and offer feedback on any work you do, as well as letting you observe anything of interest that’s going on.

Impress your mentor with a can-do attitude and you may land yourself a job – a willingness to work for free in return for experience speaks volumes of your dedication and strength of character. Remember that they’ll be well connected within the media industry, so even if their isn’t a vacancy where you intern, they may well put in a good word with someone else or provide you with the killer reference that lands you your dream job.

Interested? Start by identifying where you’d like to go. Somewhere that fits your interests and goals, but also somewhere practical – you need to be able to get there regularly and be on time. Write or send an email to the person in charge, making sure you find out their name and address it to them personally, be keen and enthusiastic and sell yourself with examples of your work. How could they resist?

Past 247 Interns where are they now?

Paul Evans is now editor of Surf Europe.

Mark Gurney produces a youth magazine Lauren Taverner Brown works for Coffin on Cake PR Rachael D'Cruze is now editor of 247 magazine and freelances for national consumer magazines too.

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Listings Your essential guide to the best events taking place over the next month

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Film 39 Live 43 Clubs 49

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Theatre /Art

Compiled by our very own culture vulture, Alan Butler

THEATRE 14 - 18 May Plymouth BIGMOUTH, TR2 via Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.45pm, £9 - £13 In a tour de force performance, Valentijn Dhaenens pays tribute to 2,500 years of oration.

Ingeniously weaving together fragments of seminal speeches from the Grand Inquisitor and Socrates to Mohammed Ali and Osama Bin Laden, Bigmouth shows that the tricks of rhetoric have hardly changed. Through an exhilarating soundscape, Dhaenens traverses sermons, declarations of war, farewells, final arguments, victory speeches and eulogies from across time. Bigmouth has captivated audiences across Belgium and the Netherlands, making its UK debut in 2012 for just 10 performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it received universal critical and audience acclaim.

DANCE

7 - 11 May Bristol MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY, Bristol Hippodrome, 10 St Augustines Parade, 0844 8713012, bristolhippodrome.org. uk, 7.30pm, £10 - £38.50 Sleeping Beauty sees Bourne return to the music of Tchaikovsky to complete the trio of ballet masterworks that started with Nutcracker! and the international smash hit, Swan Lake. This timeless fairy tale, about a young girl cursed to sleep for 100 years, was turned into a legendary ballet in 1890.

We meet our heroine, Aurora, at her Christening, when fairies and vampires fed the gothic imagination, before the story moves forward a century to the modern day. A gothic romance for all ages.

THEATRE

7 – 11 May Truro BIRDSONG, Hall for Cornwall, Black Quay, TR1 2LL, 01872 262466, hallforcornwall.co.uk 7.30pm, £10 - £28 A mesmerising story of love, courage and sacrifice is now brought to the stage in this critically acclaimed version of Sebastian Faulks’s bestselling novel. An epic tale of love and war set both before and during the Great War. In pre war France, a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, embarks on a passionate and dangerous affair with the beautiful Isabelle Azaire that turns their world upside down.

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As the war breaks out over the idyll of his former life, Stephen must lead his men through the carnage of the Battle of the Somme and through the sprawling tunnels that lie deep under ground. Faced with the unprecedented horror of the war Stephen clings to the memory of Isabelle as his world explodes around him. Recently aired over Christmas on BBC 1 and following on from the hit West End production, this brand new adaptation marks the very first touring production of the play.

ART

24 May – 6 July Exeter AGAINST ALL ODDS: LOW PROFILE, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Exeter, 01392 667080, exeterphoenix.org.uk 10am - 5.30pm, Admission Free An exhibition of recent works by collaborative duo LOW PROFILE spanning live performance, video, installation and artists’ publication.

Their work investigates ideas around survival, preparedness and perseverance, testing their own commitment to keeping going and not giving up. Drawing on a range of cultural reference points they address themes of everyday survival with humour, absurdity and a light touch, actively calling into question notions of expertise, usefulness and redundancy.

By setting up situations that are inviting and engaging, LOW PROFILE’s idiosyncratic embrace of the impossible, the endless and the

obsessive, magnify and put on show our experiences of everyday life.

EVENT

25 May Plymouth STEPPING INTO PLYMOUTH’S LGBT PAST, Royal Parade, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2TR, 07746410593, plymhistoryfest. wordpress.com/toursandwalks, 11am - 12pm, Admission Free Discover more about a previously hidden aspect of Plymouth’s history with a family-friendly walk around city centre sites that have relevance to the local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

As shown in the Pride in Our Past exhibition last year, the history of Plymouth's LGBT communities is a vital part of the history of the city and this walk will draw on the themes and content of this exhibition enabling participants to witness some of the former pubs, clubs and spaces of note first hand and heard recollections of how valuable these sites were to communities forced to remain discrete due to laws and attitudes of the time.

COMEDY

26 May Bristol JACK DEE OVERVIEW, Bristol Hippodrome, 10 St Augustines Parade, 0844 8713012, bristolhippodrome.org.uk, 8pm, £22 After a six-year absence from Stand-Up, he’s back, agonising over the slightest of annoyances and misdemeanours. Where’s he been?

Appearing on shows like QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats and Have I Got News For You, hosting Radio 4’s legendary I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, co-writing and starring in four series of BBC 2’s hit sitcom Lead Balloon and writing his memoirs, Thanks For Nothing which he modestly dedicated to himself - 'Without whom none of this would have been possible.' Why is he touring again? 'I want to spend less time with my family' says Jack.

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Until 31 May Plymouth CHEZ PAULETTE AND THE SUNSET STRIP, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, Drakes Circus, 01752 267131, plymouth. ac.uk 7.30pm, Café open 1pm – 3pm daily Set in the hills of the Sunset Strip, Chez Paulette, one of the new European-style coffee houses that emerged in Los Angeles in the late 1950’s, attracted film stars, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rita Hayworth and Jack Nicholson. This Hollywood haven was run by the artist’s father, Max Lewin, an occasional actor and immigrant from Europe. Chez Paulette was so smooth that a set of the café was featured, with Max as host, in the detective series 77 Sunset Strip.

Chez Paulette has been reconstructed again, this time in Plymouth. Come along and experience that lure of the after-dark; sip an espresso, watch a detective movie, and bring that European culture that travelled to Hollywood back again. www.247magazine.co.uk

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Films

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (3D) Released: 9 May Dir: J.J. Abrams Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve 2012/US/TBC

Load the photon torpedoes and watch out for those pesky Klingons as the USS Enterprise is heading back at warp speed to the big screen after 2009’s successful reboot. This time round Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) has to lead a manhunt for an individual called John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), who is rumoured to be the illustrious villain of Treks of yesteryear Khan. He has launched an attack on Earth and Starfleet. Thankfully the outstanding cast and director from the previous film are still on board and with the latest version in 3D this could be one to keep the Trekkies happy for a light-year or two.

DEAD MAN DOWN (15)

Released: May 3 Dir: Niels Arden Oplev Starring: Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace and Dominic Cooper 2012/US/118 min This stylish New York crime thriller’s plot mixes equals parts of twisted double crossing of The Departed with the revenge mechanics of Kill Bill. Victor (Colin Farrell) is gangster with a grudge against his crime kingpin, Alphonse (Dominic Cooper). He is secretly seeking vengeance for the havoc that his boss has wrought on his family. But Victor falls for a young woman who discovers his plan and blackmails him to undertake retribution on her behalf. This should be dark, gritty and punchy entertainment.

EPIC 3D (TBC)

Released: 24 May Director: Chris Wedge Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé Knowles 2012/US/TBC The director of Ice Age turns his animated magic to this tale of a teenager who finds herself transported to a deep forest where a battle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group of characters in order to save their world and return to hers. Should be fun for the kids and hopefully epic.

THE GREAT GATSBY 3D (TBC)

Released:16 May Dir: Baz Luhrmann Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire 2012/US/TBC Glitzy adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, where the downtrodden Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) is lured into the lavish world of playboy Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio).

But Nick soon discovers that although Gatsby’s life might seem like a glamorous affair it is just as emotionally fraught and tragic as everyone else. The novel the film is based on is an American classic and if anyone can do the source material justice it’s Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge) who should provide plenty of visual pizzazz.

THE EYE OF THE STORM (15)

FAST & FURIOUS 6

THE HANGOVER PART III (TBC)

This film is a drama about a family who are making heavy weather of the slow death of the head of the family Elizabeth Hunter, (Charlotte Rampling). She is a overbearing mother who is in controlling of all her staff and children lives. As her obedient son (Geoffrey Rush) and daughter (Judy Davis) are drawn to her deathbed she reveals a secret that shakes the very foundations of this once stable family. This film features a great cast and should be worth a watch for the performances alone.

Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) enlists the help of Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) and their team to help bring a rival gang to justice in exchange for clean criminal records. Expect plenty of shinning cars and explosive chases in this sixth film in the series (when will they ever stop making them!).

It’s third time lucky for the Wolfpack as Phil (Bradley Cooper), Allen (Zach Galifianakis) and Stu (Ed Helms) go on a road-trip that can only end up in drunken, drug-induced mess the following morning.

According to the poster this is part of a trilogy, the cynic inside me says this is merely a sequel rather than the end of a narrative arch. Anyway, hopefully it will be as funny as the first film and leave the stag party – memory loss story mechanic on the scrapheap!

Released May 3 Dir: Fred Schepisi Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis 2012/US/119 min

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Released 31 May Dir: Justin Lin Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson 2012/US/TBC

Released 24 May Director: Todd Phillips Stars: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms 2012/US/TBC

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Gig Guide Bristol Thu 09 May LUCO The Fleece 7.30pm £13 in adv.

Supported by Mutant Vinyl, Talk in Code & Electric Jane - local showcase night.

ATHLETE O2 Academy 7pm £18.50.

Supported by Eliza and the Bear & George Extra.

KIT DOWNES QUINTET Colston Hall, 8pm, £10. At once both dark and detailed, colourful and chaotic, this Quintet is the new project from UK pianist and composer Kit Downes.

LENG TCH'E Exchange, 7.30pm, £6.

Supported by Oblivionized, Atomck & Acid Shark.

Fri 10 May THE RAMONA FLOWERS Louisiana 7.30pm, £6 in adv. Supported by The Slumbertones, Peyote & Joe Richardson.

THE HAXAN CLOAK Exchange, 7.30pm, £10. Supported by ERAAS, Necro Deathmort & Sonance.

UK SUBS The Fleece 7.30pm £10 in adv.

Incredibly, 2010 marked the fifth decade in which the U.K.Subs had continually graced the Punk Rock scene. supported by Dragster.

SIR PAUL Fiddlers 7.30pm £5. Supported by Radio Nasties & Yes Rebels.

THE STRINGERBESSANT BAND Thekla 7pm £11. Gary & Jack from Reef and Them Is Me return to the road 2 years after their release of their much acclaimed debut "Yard".

This time round you can see Gary Stringer and Jack Bessant perform their unique acoustic/ electric versions with a full band lineup featuring REEF drummer Dominic Greensmith and Bassist/guitarist Amy Newton Supported

by Leander Morales / Jake Meeking.

JULIE DOIRON Thekla (Top Deck) 7pm £8.

Supported by Eamon McGarth.

THE TWANG & CAST O2 Academy 6.30pm £16. Two indie veterans get together to play a very special show.

FEAR OF FICTION PRESENTS Start the Bus 10pm-3am, £6.50 Guests New Palace Talkies.

Sat 11 May STILL CORNERS Louisiana 7.30pm, £9 in adv Exquisite new album Strange Pleasures out on May 6th via Sub Pop. Support from Woman's Hour and Law of Motion.

LWEIS WATSON The Fleece 7pm £15 in adv. Supported by Luke Concannon, Meadowlark, Katie Sky & Stokes William.

SUPER SONIC Fiddlers 7.30pm £8.

Supported by The Wires WOLF PEOPLE Exchange, 7pm, £9.

Sun 12 May MATT BERRY The Fleece 7.30pm £13. returns to the road with his band The Maypoles to launch his brand new musical masterpiece 'Kill the Wolf' this spring.

Supported by Pugwash.

HISTORY OF APPLE PIE Thekla, 7.30pm, £7. Support from Duck House and Follow the Sun. THE BAD PLUS Colston Hall, 8pm, £17.50.

A jazz trio from the United States, who are breaking down the walls of jazz convention and have created an uncompromising body of work.

MY STORY Louisiana 7.30pm, £5 in adv. Supported by Race Car Hearts & FormerFriends.

Mon 13 May DRIVE THROUGH THERAPY The Fleece 7.30pm £5 adv. Supported by The Void, The Three Faces of Eve & Broken Kick. Local band showcase night.

HIGHLIVES Louisiana 7.30pm, £5.

Supported by Arizona Law & Riot of the Reckless.

MCFLY Colston Hall, 7pm, £Sold Out. THE DEFILED Exchange, 7.30pm, £8.50.

Supported by Malefice, Breed 77 & Her Dark Embrace.

Tues 14 May BALTHAZAR Louisiana 7.30pm, £6. An alternative pop band, with rock, electro and hiphop influences, formed at the end of 2004 in Kortrijk-Belgium.

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BASS DRUM OF DEATH Exchange, 7.30pm, £6. Supported by Yes Rebels & Factotum.

Wed 15 May TESSERACT The Fleece 7.30pm £10 in adv. Supported by The Algorithm, Enochiam Theory & Red Sea Fire.

ALT J O2 Academy 7pm, £Sold Out JESSE VENTURA Stag and Hounds, 8pm, £free Support from Blowgoat, Horse in Transit & Black Art. MADELEINE BLACK Louisiana 7.30pm, £5. Supported by Broken Kick, Metastate & Western Approach.

Thurs 16 May ARCANE ROOTS Louisiana 7pm, £tbc.

Support from The James Cleaver Quintet.

THE TAME The Fleece 7.30pm £5 in adv.

Local band showcase, supported by Evacees, Sons & Zepher.

THE TRICKS Start the Bus 8.30pm-11.30pm £free. The Tricks are largely an independent, DIY success story, building a devoted army of fans through near continuous live activity. Their “49 Mercury EP’ is a collection of upbeat, catchy guitar pop tracks that reference the bands influences from The Strokes to Bruce Springsteen to The Clash and is a perfect introduction to The Tricks.

Support from Hungry Kids of Hungry.

THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION Thekla, 7pm, £9. After forming over a decade ago, New Zealand indie-rock outfit The Phoenix Foundation have finally found their way into the public consciousness, thanks to their award-winning soundtrack score for Waititi's 2010 film 'Boy' and 4th album 'Buffalo'.

ALLAH-LAS Exchange, 7.30pm, £9. Suppor

Fri 17 May LORD HURON Thekla, 7pm, £8. The musical personality of Ben Schneider, a Michiganborn visual arts major currently residing in Los Angeles. Support from Nataly Dawn.

SLEEPING WITH SIRENS O2 Academy 6.30pm, £Sold Out RIOT NOISE Louisiana 7.30pm, £5. The band release their debut album ‘Stand For Something’ on June 3rd 2013. With a sell-out show at Bristol’s O2 Academy 2 to preview the album, an additional Bristol date has been added at The Louisiana. Support from Koshiro, New Device & With What Remains.

ST PETERS HOSPICE PRESENTS The Fleece 7.30pm £10 in adv. St Peter's Hospice launch night for this years "Party For Pete" season which takes place in September each year. All proceeds from this event will go directly to St Peter's Hospice. Bands playing include The Rinky Dinks, The Longest Johns & KoaSound B. LAID BLAK Fiddlers 7.30pm £7. Supported

by Miss Blackman Suchy, DJ Bungy, Joe Peng & DJ Parkie.

WHY WE LOVE Exchange, 7.30pm, £5.

Supported by Winter Milan & Big Dreams NNTS PRESENTS Start the Bus 10pm-3am £3/£2. Seapony playing live.

Sat 18 May BRIGHT STREET Louisiana 7.30pm, £4 in adv. Support from Shake the Tree, Beartown Zodiac & Michael Vickers.

SPIERS & BODEN Colston Hall, 8pm, £15.

The finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene" (The Guardian) invite fans to suggest local folk gems they should perform on this special tour.

PIERCE THE EVIL The Fleece 7.30pm £12 adv. Support from Woe Is Me. SUUNS Exchange, 7pm, £9.

LOOSE LIP PRESENTS Start the Bus 10pm3am £3/£2. Royal Canoe playing live.

Sun 19 May 12 BAND INDIE / ALT ALL DAYER The Fleece 1.30pm £5 in adv. Bands playing include Clifton Arcade, Montrose, The Tramp Aviators, The Bourgeoisie ,Tourists, The Leaves, The Red Tears, The Hartletts, Crooked Daniel, Matchstick People & The Milk Race.

SOPHIE DELILA Louisiana 7.30pm, £7 in adv. This girl is the real deal” is how one leading British tabloid describes Sophie Delila.

A Parisian-bred singer, pianist, guitarist, writer and producer, she is currently seducing Europe with her brand of soulful melodic pop.

HOW TO DRESS WELL Thekla, 7.30pm, £9.

The stage name of songwriter and producer Tom Krell. Krell’s burgeoning career began in

2009 when, having just moved from Brooklyn to Berlin, his songs began to emerge online via a hugely prolific string of free, digital EPs posted in anonymity on his blog.

NEW MUSIC IN THE SOUTHWEST Colston Hall 2, 8pm, £10. CMV presents a programme representing the best of the South West's new music scene.

SAM HALMARACK & THE MISERABITES Exchange, 9pm, £10/£7.

NNTS PRESENTS Start the Bus 8.30pm11pm £free. Windowspeak, His Clancyness & Weary Band playing live.

Mon 20 May GENTLEMANS DUB CLUB O2 Academy 7pm, £12.50 Originating from Leeds, Gentleman’s Dub Club showcase their latest set ahead of the upcoming festival season.

LEE THOMPSONS SKA ORCHESTRA The Fleece 7.30pm £15 in adv.

SENSES FAIL Thekla, 6.30pm, £11.

Supported by Marmozets / Handguns.

THE MIGHTY ZOOTS Louisiana 7pm, £tbc.

Support from American You, Colin & I'm Designer.

Tues 21 May THE SUMMER SET Thekla, 6.30pm, £10.

Featuring: Action Item / Natives YOUNG KATO Louisiana 7.30pm, £5 in adv.

Support from Meadowlark & Flags.

PAPER AEROPLANES Colston Hall 2, 7.30pm, £8. Described as folky, acoustic, well-crafted, haunting and emotive -but let your ears make up their own mind.

MELVINS ENDLESS RESIDENCY - DAY ONE The Exchange 7.30pm, £15 Playing Lysol, Eggnog & Houdini.

Weds 22 May THE BESNARD LAKES The Fleece 7.30pm £10 in adv. Supported by Sweet Jane.

SOUTH DIVIDE Louisiana 8pm, £5 in adv.

Support from Skies, Manners & City of Six. MELVINS ENDLESS RESIDENCY - DAY TWO The Exchange 7.30pm, £15 Playing Bullhead & Stoner Witch.

Thurs 23 May DUTCH UNCLES The Fleece, 7.30pm, £8.50 in adv. Supported by Sky Larkin & Tiers.

BEASTY TRAPS The Exchange 7.30pm, £5 Supported by The Magnetic Leaves, Block & No Godzilla No. YOUNG BLOOD BRASS BAND Fiddlers 7.30pm £12.

THE BEARDS Louisiana 7.30pm, £8.50 in adv. The concept of The Beards is simple – A rock band that exclusively perform songs about just one subject: Beards. With a threealbum back catalogue of crowd favourites like If Your Dad Doesn’t Have a Beard,You’ve Got Two Mums, You Should Consider Sex with a Bearded Man and No Beard, No Good, The Beards continue in their ceaseless journey to make the world a more beard-friendly place.

Fri 24 May PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING The Fleece, 7.30pm, £10 in adv. Supported by Lalu Kalae & The Crisis Project.

CONTROL Louisiana 7.30pm, £8 in adv.

Support from Not Since the Accident & Disruptive Influence.

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES Colston Hall, 7.30pm, £29.50. The rabble rousing Grammy Award-winner, godfather of the alternative country scene is back on tour in the UK. Steve Earle and his talented band put on an extensive live show filled with old favourites.

ALLISTER The Exchange 7.30pm, £15 Supported by Heros for Hire.

NNTS PRESENTS Start the Bus 10pm-3am £3/£2. Sulk & Towns playing live.

Sat 25 May DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL The Fleece / Thekla / O2 Academy / Exchange / Louisiana / Trinity / Start the Bus, 7.30pm-3am, £20 in adv. Loads of bands playing across all these venues including Dry the River, Tom Odell, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Lucy Rose, The 1975, Beans on Toast, Bo Ningen, Chapel Club and many many more. See www. dottodotfestival.co.uk for full details.

THE ROVING CROWS Louisiana 7.30pm, £8 in adv. Support from Sarsh Proudfoot & Tom Mitchell.

SOUL DESTROYERS Fiddlers 7.30pm £16 in adv.

Sun 26 May PRINCESS CHELSEA Louisiana 7.30pm, £7 adv. Princess Chelsea is the recording project of New Zealand based composer, Chelsea Nikkel. Nikkel has spent the better part of her twenties developing her production and engineering skills and the result is her debut ‘Lil’ Golden Book’ – a home experiment that has been called “a triumph of high concept production”.

EVIE MILLER Louisiana 7.30pm, £4 in adv.

Support from Kate McGill, Sarah R-K & Alice Berry.

FUCKED UP The Fleece, 7.30pm, £15 in adv.

Supported by Titus Andronicus & Metz.

NNTS PRESENTS Start the Bus 10pm-3am £3/£2. Ital playing live.

Tues 28 May TRIBES Thekla, 7pm, £12.50.

STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO The Fleece, 7.30pm, £12.50 in adv. Supported by Gaz Brookfield CHARLIE PARR Louisiana 7.30pm, £10 adv. Many people play roots music, but few modern musicians live those roots like Minnesota’s Charlie Parr. Recording since the earliest days of the 21st century, Parr’s heartfelt and plaintive original folk blues and traditional spirituals don’t strive for authenticity: They are authentic. Supported by Boat to Row & My Two Toms.

THE COMPUTERS The Exchange 7.30pm, £6.50 Supported by The Dead Formats & Radio Nasties.

CHARLIE BOYER & THE VOYEURS Start the Bus 8pm-11pm £6 Perfectly channeling mid-70s NYC art punk in the back room of a scuzzed up East End pub, Charlie took the sounds of one blank generation and blasted them out to another.

Wed 29 May TONIGHT ALIVE The Fleece, 7.30pm, £10 in adv. Supported by Transit & Gavin Bulter.

THE DUNWELLS Louisiana 7.30pm, £10 adv. Utterly natural. There’s no more fitting description for both the music of The Dunwells as well as the story of their magical rise from the pubs of Leeds, England to an American record deal and a stunning debut album in just two short years.

ED HARCOURT Colston Hall 2, 8pm, £12.50.

The inimitable Ed Harcourt releases his new single ‘Hey Little Bruiser’ March 25th, on CCCLX, the new label set up by Sean Adams, founder of Drowned in Sound.

DYNAMITE PUSSY CLUB The Exchange 7.30pm, £3 Supported by The Bad Joke That Ended Well & Narco Lounge Combo.

Thu 30 May THE HANDSOME FAMILY The Fleece, 7.30pm, £12 in adv. Supported by Snowapple & Gerard Starkie.

TYGA O2 Academy 7pm, £20 Tyga's third album Hotel California is out now - catch rising star Tyga and his charismatic swagger live, supported by P-Money.

THE CHRISTIANS Thekla, 7pm, £18.50.

Formed in Liverpool in 1986 The Christians went on to become one of the UK's biggest soul bands with hits like 'Ideal World' and 'Harvest for the World'. A unique blend of soul, gospel and heartfelt acoustic pop, topped off by Garry Christian's distinctive vocals.

Still sporting the Raybans, incredibly rich and sultry voice and the string of gorgeous songs that made a million women swoon.

SAM EASON Louisiana 7.30pm, £5 adv.

Supported by Joe Probert, Harry Gould, Adam Britton & Ben Cooling.

Fri 31 May JILTED GENERATION The Fleece, 7.30pm, £10 in adv. Jilted Generation - The World's Only full live tribute band to The Prodigy have been tearing it up around the UK and parts of Europe for over 7 years - supported

by Hypercharger.

COASTS Louisiana 7.30pm, £5 adv.

Conceived almost a year ago, this Bristol-born five-piece has a wealth of musical knowledge, which becomes glaringly apparent through their concise, catchy song structures and animated and dynamic live performances.

Supported by Auction for the Promise Club & Ayre Point.

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Devon Thu 02 May EXETER

BACKBENCH REBELLION Cavern, Queen St, 8pm-1am, £4 in adv. Supported by The Darlingtons & The Sherpas.

TREETOP FLYERS Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £7.

Treetop Flyers have a quintessentially vintage American West Coast sound. Displaying strong Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young influences, the band also betray an admiration for the British folk sounds of the 1970s, with whispers of Nick Drake and Fairport Convention amidst the canyon croons.

Fri 03 May BIDEFORD

SPLODGENESSABOUNDS Palladium Club, 8pm, £10. Supported by Double Barrell.

EXETER

MR WOODNOTE Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £9.

The Australian sax player Mikey Melican and guests combine saxophones, loopstations, beatboxing and sometimes flutes to create a potent mix of jazz-infused hip hop and dub heavy basslines.

WOOLACOMBE

IFUNK The Red Barn, 9pm, £free.

Sat 04 May BIDEFORD

BOOM BOOM ROOM Palladium Club, 8pm, £3 DJ Wendy May playing ska, soul & funk.

EXETER

TOM McRAE Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £14. The Mercury Prize and Brit Award nominee plays Exeter Phoenix following the release of his album, The Alphabet of Hurricanes.

Sun 05 May BIDEFORD

IFUNK Crabby Dicks, 9pm, £free.

S.E.X Palladium Club, 8pm, £3 Supported by Kaned, original rock.

EXETER

SACRILAGE SUNDAY Exeter Phoenix, 7.30pm, £4. Bands playing include The Way of Purity, Backhand Saloon, Cambion & Transhuman.

Mon 06 May MODBURY

PINEAPPLE The White Hart Pub, 9pm, £free.

Part of the Modbury Fair.

Wed 08 May Plymouth

CAFE ACOUSTICA B-Bar, Castle St, Barbican, 8.30pm, £free. Fortnightly showcase of unplugged talent, hosted by singer-songwriter Jessie Mullen.

BENG BENG COCKTAIL White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 8pm, £tbc.

Thurs 09 May BIDEFORD

CHEMICAL COLD Palladium Club, 8pm, £1.50 Supported by Dirty Colours & Two Tone - local bands.

Exeter

LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, 8.30pm, £free.

SCOUTS Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £4. one of the hottest new Australian indie bands of the moment. They are currently in Australia’s Top 5 National Airplay chart and their Track Told You So is one of the most played songs on Australian Radio this year being on rotation at Tripple J alone for 8 months.

Plymouth

LUKAS DRINKWATER B-Bar, Castle St, Barbican, 9pm, £2. Best known as bassplayer with 3 Daft Monkeys, the folk power-trio who tour Europe supporting the likes of The Levellers & Bellowhead, and headlining festivals in their own right.

Fri 10 May Bideford

ROUGH CUT Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £3. Supported by Slaughered Lamb & Hell Bent of Heaven.

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CABARET VOLTAIRE Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £5 Things have gone all continental for this special French-themed Electro-Swing night. The fancy-dress theme is 1920s Paris; think Surrealism, music halls like Folies Bergère and Moulin Rouge, and Picasso. Lamuzgueul, the infamous swing octet, will play.

SOUTH WEST LIVE, Angel Bar, 32 Queen Street, 9pm, £free. Boasting some of the best up-&-coming & already well established bands in the South West.

Plymouth

THIRST 4 LIVE Thirst, Vauxhall St, 9pm, £2 from 11pm.

CRAIG SUTTON FLAMENCO THIEF B-Bar, Castle St, Barbican, 9pm, £3. a fast rising star of the UK acoustic scene. He’s been dazzling audiences throughout the South West with his breathtaking and unique take on flamenco and now he is getting recognition for his experimental style throughout the UK.

Sat 11 May Bideford

FLAMIN RATRODS Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £3 Rockabilily.

EXETER

SHARKS Cavern, 8pm-2.30am, £7. UK punk band who have played with the likes of Gallows, The Ghost of a Thousand, Fucked Up, Baby Shambles, The King Blues, Girls, and The Gaslight Anthem. Supported by Bleach Blood (Itch from The King Blues new band) and Skaters, melodic pop punk fom the US.

Plymouth

BEHOLDER White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 7pm, £5. Support from Bull Riff Stampede, Warcrab & Camion.

THE WATERBOARDERS The Last Shop Standing Record shop, Bretonside Bus Station, 7pm, £free.

PLYMOUTH TATTOO CONVENTION Plymouth Guildhall 7pm, £25/£15. Loads of bands playing including Land of the Giants, The Black Diamond, The Jefferson, Jessica and the Rabbits, The mighty Offbeats and more.

Sun 12 May EXETER

DEFILED Cavern, 7pm, £8.50. Advance Promotions is very proud to announce a South Coast tour for a band they have followed since a chance support slot at the 100 capacity Hamptons in Southampton back in 2009.

Riding high in the iTunes chart with new single 'Sleeper' from their forthcoming LP 'Daggers'.

Wed 15 May Bideford

WE THE ISLES Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £3 Local band.

EXETER

MIDGE URE Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £18.

Fronting Ultravox, Midge had nine top 10 albums and sold in excess of 20 million records in the UK alone before moving on to an equally successful solo career. His most successful song though remains the multi million selling Do They Know It’s Christmas, which he co-wrote with Bob Geldof.

Thu 16 May Exeter

HOBO JONES & THE JUNKYARD DOGS Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £10. Tramp-rock that is irreverent, cheeky and ferociously funny!

Pyrates play sea shanties with attitude, which always turns into a sing-along, amidst a veritable Arh-mageddon of naughty nautical chants ‘n’ cheers. In aid of Phonic FM. LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, 8.30pm, £free.

ANDY (FROM THERAPY) Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £11 For the last 20 plus years, singer/guitarist Andy Cairns has helped redefine the global rock scene thanks to his work in Therapy? With the blessing of his band mates, he embarks on his first ever solo acoustic tour.

Plymouth

THE HYPE THEORY White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 8pm, £5. one of the hottest up and coming pop punk bands in the

UK with massively catchy hooks and the ability to bring an absolute party to the room every time they play live. Supported by Anavae.

RADICAL DANCE FACTION Plough Arts Centre 8pm, £tbc. Founded in 1986 and reformed in 2006, the band have always played a big part in the UK's free party scene.

Thier music combines Ska, Dub and a DIY punk attitude. Support from Sons of Gods and DJ Unity.

Fri 17 May

Mon 27 May

Bideford

EXMOUTH

Exeter

PLYMOUTH

IFUNK Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £3.

Funk and soul covers band.

THE COMPUTERS Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £tbc. The Computers fuse garage rock’n’roll with 80’s hardcore. Think Black Flag playing Chuck Berry or The Nerve Agents covering Elvis Costello and you’re getting the picture.

Plymouth

JONATHAN GEE TRIO B-Bar, Castle St, Barbican, 9pm, £3. The Jonathan Gee Trio is ‘a brilliant gem’ of contemporary jazz piano, and its leader has worked with some of the biggest names in jazz.

TORRINGTON

CHRIS MILLINGTON Plough Arts Centre 8pm, £tbc.

Sat 18 May Bideford

9 YARDS Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £3. Pop & rock covers band

EXMOUTH

KATZ Exmouth Festival, Manor Gardens, St Andrews Rd 6.30pm-7.30pm, £free SCOTT IAN - SPEAKING WORDS TOUR White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 8pm, £15 A very entertaining and funny, filled session with stories from his 30+ years of travelling around the world. The night concludes with a Q & A where the audience gets to ask Scott what they want to know.

WESTWARD HO!

IFUNK Waterfront Inn, 3pm onwards £free.

Supported by Garden Club & The Rivals

Tue 28 May PLYMOUTH

HOUSE VS' HURRICANE White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 7.30pm, £6 Supported by Elithia.

Wed 29 May EXMOUTH

BIG ED & THE RED ROCKERS The Exmouth Arms 8.30pm-10.30pm, £free.

MARTIN WELLER Exmouth Festival, Manor Gardens, St Andrews Rd 6.30pm-7.30pm, £free

SUFFOCATION White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 8pm, £13 THE WIRELESS Blackjacks 9.30pm, £free.

Exeter

PLYMOUTH

Wed 22 May

Exeter

GENTLEMANS DUB CLUB Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £tbc. This nine-piece band from Leeds present a highly energetic live show of dub, ska and roots reggae, combining tight grooves and a heavyweight sound.

Thurs 23 May Exeter

LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, 8.30pm, £free.

GADJO Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £tbc. A mix of gypsy-cumbia, balkanic-ska and reggaeswing to get you dancing.

GREAT CYNICS Cavern, Queen St, 8pm-1am, £5 in adv. From London and all over. Amazing bouncy pop-folk-punk! Last seen with We Are The Ocean. For fans of Tom Gabel, Sidekicks, Lemonheads. Supported by Exit Wounds & Pups.

Plymouth

FORKED B-Bar, Castle St, Barbican, 9pm, £7/£5. Premium performance poetry and spoken word entertainment, courtesy of Apples & Snakes, England's leading organisation for performance poetry.

Fri 24 May Bideford

THE RIVALS Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £3. Modbeat pop rock.

Plymouth

ADAM PIGGOTT & JAYNE FRREMAN B-Bar 9pm, £3. Combining powerful acoustic guitar and ukulele with their own take on the genres of folk and Americana.

THE WIRELESS Thistle Park Brewhouse 9.30pm, £free.

PLYMOUTH VOLKS FEST Newnham Park, Plympton. Now in it's sixth year, over 150 live acts including The Levellers, Seth Lakeman, Alabama 3, Hazel O'Connor, Zion Train, Mad Dog Mcrea, Land of the Giants, Ruarri Joseph and many more spread across five stages over three nights in this location 10mins from Plymouth city centre. 60 + family and childrens activities, huge gathering of VW's with supporting traders - more info and tickets from www.plymouthvlksfest.co.uk

Sat 25 May Bideford

KING HAMMOND Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £10. Ska/reggae legend

KINGSBRIDGE

Thu 30 May LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, 8.30pm, £free.

NOMEANSNO Cavern, Queen St, 8pm-1am, £11 in adv. a progressive punk band from Vancouver, Canada. Originators of math-rock, thrash-punk and post-hardcore. One of the greatest punk rock bands of all time and first time playing at The Cavern!

PLYMOUTH

THE SKINTS White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 8pm, £11. Incredible East London Ska and reggae band. They earned their formidable reputation live. Their 2nd album in 2012, 'Part & Parcel', mixed Jamaican styles with pop hooks, grimey raps, filthy basslines and a punk rock work ethic to create a sound familiar to newcomers, yet unique below the surface.

TORRINGTON

JON SEVINK & DAN DONNELLY Plough Arts Centre 8pm, £tbc.

Fri 31 May Bideford

SWAGGA Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £10 Supported by The Butterfly Effect.

Exeter

SENSES FAIL Cavern, Queen St, 8pm-1am, £10 in adv. An American screamo band from Ridgewood, New Jersey. They are about to release their 4th studio album The Fire, a release that captures Senses Fail at the absolute top of their game.

THE SKINTS Exeter Phoenix, 7.30pm, £11.50 A reggae and dub band mixing Jamaican styles with pop hooks, grimey raps, filthy basslines and a punk rock ethic to create a sound familiar to newcomers, yet unique below the surface.

PLYMOUTH

HEART IN HAND White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 8pm, £tbc. a melodic hardcore band from the South Coast who mix furious hardcore and slamming breakdowns with beautiful melodic licks, supported by Demorliser.

LOST IN SPACE B-Bar 9pm, £3. A stomping seven-piece party band, with raunchy female vocals, a full brass section, funky bass, rocking guitar and more percussion than you can shake a stick at, playing funky ska and retro grooves, all with an edge of jazz and soul.

THE WIRELESS The Millbridge 9pm-11pm, £free.

TORRINGTON

SETH LAKEMAN Plough Arts Centre 8pm, £tbc. Folk legend playing a local gig!

THE WIRELESS The Creeks End 9pm11.30pm, £free.

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Cornwall Fri 03 May Truro

B-SIDE Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 7pm, £5 in adv Live bands, supported by resident DJ. PEOPLE STRING FOUNDATION TRIO Vertigo, 9pm, £free.

Sat 04 May rEDRUTH

JEFFERY NUTHIN Gaslights Bar, 9pm, £free

ST IVES

EVEN NINE Lifeboat Inn, 9pm

Mon 06 May FALMOUTH

SAXON Princess Pavilion, 8pm, £tbc.

Supported by The Quireboys and Redline.

Thurs 09 May Liskeard

P.A.U.L & DETROIT BREAKDOWN Barley Sheaf, Church St 9pm, £free Hold on to your hats, the Yanks are in town. Blistering blues rock.

Truro

LIVE BANDS Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 9pm, £free. Showcasing some of the best local musicians.

Fri 10 May FALMOUTH

STRAWDOGS Prince of Wales, 8pm, £free.

rEDRUTH

FURNEAUX Gaslights Bar, 9pm, £free

Truro

B-SIDE Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 7pm, £5 in adv Live bands, supported by resident DJ.

Sat 11 May FALMOUTH

THE BUBBLE Prince of Wales, 8pm, £free.

rEDRUTH

CHESTER Gaslights Bar, 9pm, £free.

ST ANGES

EVEN NINE Driftwood Spars, 9pm

Sun 12 May FALMOUTH

BOB SEYMOUR Prince of Wales, 8pm

Tue 14 May TRURO

THE COMPUTERS Bunters, Little Castle St, 7pm, £7/£5 in adv. The band have just released their second album ‘Love Triangles, Hate Squares’. The 11 track follow up to their debut ‘This Is The Computers’ was released on 29th April 2013 on One Little Indian – support from Crowns and PJP Band.

Thu 16 May Liskeard

SOUTHERN JELLY Barley Sheaf, Church St 9pm, £free Bob South & Friends playing some top classics.

Truro

LIVE BANDS Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 9pm, £free. Showcasing some of the best local musicians.

Fri 17 May FALMOUTH

STONE HEARTED MAMAS Prince of Wales, 9.30pm

Truro

B-SIDE Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 7pm, £5 in adv Live bands, supported by resident DJ.

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DEVILS CREEK Prince of Wales, 9.30pm BOOGALOO DUDES Quayside Inn, Arwenack St 9pm-late, £free.

rEDRUTH

RANDOM ACTS OF PANIC Gaslights Bar, 9pm, £free.

Sun 19 May FALMOUTH

BOB (Edison) Prince of Wales, 5pm

Wed 22 May Truro

GIG LIVE IN THE GARDEN WITH KAJ Vertigo, 9pm, £free.

Thurs 23 May FALMOUTH

EVEN NINE Watermans, 9pm

Liskeard

BANANA THIEVES Barley Sheaf, Church St 9pm, £free. Cracking band. Plenty of Ska, New Wave, Groove, you name it, they play it...

TrurO

LIVE BANDS Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 9pm, £free. Showcasing some of the best local musicians.

Fri 24 May FALMOUTH

SCARECROWS Prince of Wales, 9.30pm STONE COUNTRY Quayside Inn, Arwenack St 9pm-late, £free.

Truro

B-SIDE Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 7pm, £5 in adv Live bands, supported by resident DJ.

Sat 25 May FALMOUTH

BARRACODDAS Prince of Wales, 9.30pm WEAZLEDUST Quayside Inn, Arwenack St 9pm-late, £free.

Liskeard

METAL FATIGUE Barley Sheaf, Church St 9pm, £free. Covers band.

PENZANCE

TREREIFE HOUSE BEER FESTIVAL Trefereife House, £3.50/£2 CAMRA memebrs. Over 30 ales, ciders, perries and wines. Entertainment featuring Blue Horyzon, Flats and Sharps, Tom Dale, The Liam Jordan and Jenny Bishop band, DJ’s Nigel Pengelly and Indian Billy and of course the brilliant ska act, Rudi’s Message, as well as Doc Mustard, College Cappers and the Infamous Broken Down.

rEDRUTH

SASHI MAXWELL Gaslights Bar, 9pm, £free.

Sun 26 May FALMOUTH

ADAM PIGGOTT & JAYNE FREEMAN Prince of Wales, 5pm

TRURO

MACMILLIAN IN THE MIX - SUPER SUNDAY Bunters, Little Castle St, 2pm10.30pm, £8 Cider Festival with bands playing including The Scribes, The Superficials, Goon Farm, Moneyshot, Andy Shaw, Tredanek, Darren Roberts, Lola Rose & DJ Chris Yung.

Thu 30 May Liskeard

VINCE LEE & THE BIG COMBO Barley Sheaf, Church St 9pm, £free. International, top notch blues R&B band.

NEWQUAY

REEF Lusty Glaze Beach 7pm, £19.

Supported by Jonny Fenner and his band the Jeremiahs.

Fri 31 May FALMOUTH

HIGH VOLTAGE Prince of Wales, 9.30pm

Sat 01 June rEDRUTH

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'Maggots, maggots, maggots, in, in, in!'

We toured with them recently and they were great. Three months later and they’re simply brilliant. Step forward, MUNCIE GIRLS, to claim your award for biggest leap of progress from a pop-punk ensemble with a collective age that still couldn't qualify for a pension (White Rabbit, Plymouth, 20th March). Oi, LITTLE CROOKED SONS! Stop unashamedly pilfering from The Computers! They live in the same town as you, for fucksakes! Openers, Plymouth young guns, SHIP OF FOOLS, were blissfully unconcerned with how we might take their rough’n’ready teen punk-metal noise.

I last saw STIFF LITTLE FINGERS in 1989 and they were a damp squib. Quite what happened since then to transform the band into a grizzly, fizzling powerhouse is anyone’s guess but Jake Burns has rediscovered his mojo and breathed new life into gems like 'Straw Dogs' and 'Tin Soldiers' (C103, Plymouth, 25th March). Another past-blast, London folk-punk proles, THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG, managed to make a fine fist of their arcane hits, especially ‘Ironmasters’, with Stefan Cush’s rabid leftist rants putting paid to any mellowing-with-age preconceptions.

The second Armagedd’on Festival was a veritable hoot (various venues, Plymouth, 29-30th March). How could it not be with THE SOCIAL CLUB’s Weezer-meets-Hold-Steady cuteness, BRUNEL’s brusque post-hardcore tangents, DAMERELS’ voluminous garage crank, DREXL’s ferocious schizo-punk, SOFT SON’s Pavementesque scruff-pop, THE PJP BAND’s artful and epic indie wiles, WOAHNOWS’ hyperactive power-punk scramble, RUBY KID’s realist raps’n’rants and LUKE SCOTT DUMPER’s acoustic soprano croonfest? How, indeed.

Searing country rock doesn't come better than Indiana troubadooby, AUSTIN LUCAS (Bristol Croft, 3rd April). The emotional weight of his songs was heart-wrenching but he was easily matched by his backing band, Tennessee quintet, GLOSSARY’s own set, which combined the timeless thrust of The Band with the prairie crunch of Lucero; Joey and Kelly Kneiser trading vocals that soothed like a warm balm. Bringing up the rear were ELLEN COX and her happygo-folksy acoustic wiles, and LOU HANMAN thrashing out her band, Caves' bittersweet punk-pop on a lonesome overdriven guitar.

Wessex anarcho-intelligentsia, THE SUBHUMANS, have never been anything less than amazing (Maggie's, Plymouth, 5th April).

No exception here. The only discernible difference is Dick Lucas' weathered phizog. Everything else – the passion, the power, the precision – are as vital as they were 30 years ago. Here’s to another three decades of self-belief. Before them, BUS STATION LOONIES sounded revitalised and full of saucy satire; while THE NEWSREADERS and THESE CREEPS tumbled through their collective rackets, TC coming out on top by penning more of their own tunes.

Thatcher croaked (Ritz Hotel, London, 8th April). Rejoice, indeed.

But, remember kidults, it’s not the demise of Thatch that we should celebrate but the eventual death of the demonic turbo-capitalism that she perpetuated. Until then the organic cider’s on ice. One-off showtime! So it went that RAD PITT – made up of folk who serve(d) their time in Crazy Arm, FTO and Bearfight – formed to play just once, and cheered up many a punkster punter thanks to their 15 minute party-hardcore jams and Mark Colwill's self-baiting banter (White Rabbit, Plymouth, 12th April). Three in one night? Easy. First up, Exeter's SOME SORT OF THREAT showcased some nifty new acoustic licks to embellish his kitchen sink confessions (Fortescue, Plymouth, 13th April); then over to the White Rabbit (main room) where 30-something punk-pops, THE ATARIS, were singing ditties about being troubled teenagers in love; which left erstwhile melodic punk trio, SOUTHPORT, to clean up after the emo-fest with their cockney banter and cock-eyed vignettes (entrance bar). Lovely jubbly. See-ya bye.

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Clubbing Bristol MONDAYS

BED Bunker, The Triangle, 10pm-3am. £see flyers/reps The only monday for Bristol Uni. Music policy ranges from credible commercial to upbeat electro party beats and underground dance. This combined with their unique style of club decoration creates Bristol’s finest weekly Monday student night.

DISCORD The Thekla, The Grove, 10pm3am. £Free before 10.30pm / £3 with NUS / £4 after midnight The residents spew out a full tilt, wall to wall, pit ramming mix of the rock, metal, punk & alternative anthems. Info www.theklabristol.co.uk

TUESDAYS

YOLO The Thekla, The Grove, 10pm3am. £Free before 11pm / £3 with NUS / £4. A night with a stupid name for serious partying. Covering a load of great genres including hip hop, dubstep, garage, drum and bass, funk, grime, house, bashment and anything else you can throwdown to, plus regular special guest DJs

WEDNESDAYS

KILLA DISCO Syndicate, 10pm-3am. £4/£3 Killa Disko has well and truly put it's stamp on the mid-week scene. Expect more drinks, beats and bass than your body can handle, with a music policy of playing the freshest tunes from indie to house, drum'n 'bass, hip-hop and dubstep.

More info and guestlist from www. killadisko.com PROPAGANDA Bunker, The Triangle, 10pm-3.30am. £4/£3 The UK's biggest indie night started right here in Bristol and is still going strong! Expect Propaganda in the main room playing Indie, alternative, pop-punk, dubstep & drum 'n bass with DJ Dan and The Postman. Room Two: is Pop'aganda playing credible pop, party and cheese. Students and non-students are welcome and there is NO dress code and drinks deals galore.

WANTED RECORDS Big Chill Bar, 10pm-3am. £free Killa

THURSDAYS

PRESSURE The Thekla, The Grove, 9.30pm-3am. £4/Free entry before 10pm. Pressure is Bristol's best credible indie and alternative club night, Mr SteveBob playing cutting-edge indie and classic alternative anthems, plus regular live guest appearances on the top deck. All that AND 2 for 1 drinks all night long, it's a sure fire winner.

2nd May PHATS Syndicate,

Nelson St, 8.30pm - 3am,£9.50. Hip hop with Professor Green performing live.

23rd May WIDE EYES LAUNCH PARTY Blue Mountain, 10pm 4am,£8/£5 in adv. Wide Eyes is set to be a weekly night starting in September showcasing the hottest in underground talent. We have decided to pull a one-off launch party at Blue Mountain to give you a taste of whats to come. guests for htis one-off include Roska, Girl Unit, TBA & Wide Eyes residents.

FRIDAYS

EDEN Syndicate, 10pm-4am. £6/£5/£4 Bristols biggest commerical Friday club session, with over 2,000 people every week! Drinks deals from £1.70 and a music policy of commerical, chart, dubstep, D'n'B and hip hop.

FIFTYONE27 The Thekla, The Grove, 10pm-4am. £5 before midnight / more after. Showcasing some of the biggest names in house, garage, techno & bass music in an intimate Bristol city centre location every week. FREE guestlists always available - see Facebook - www facebook.com/fiftyone27 RAMSHACKLE O2 Academy, Frogmore St, 10.30pm-3.30am. £4. Bristols busiest weeekdn indie and alternative night, with residents The Postman, Nick Baber, Chezney and special guests each month.

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WARREN The Croft, 10pm-late. £free B4 12am. Weekly session playing hip hop, reggae, dub, ghetto disco, jungle and more.

Guests include Meat Katie, Cut La Roc, Doc Moody, Janette Slack and more.

FUNK FROM THE TRUCK XXL Motion 10pm - late, £14.50.

Funk, hip hop and breaks from Big Daddy Kane (live), DJ Yoda (classic hip hop set), Krafty Kuts, TY (Live), Chickpea and residents.

10pm - 5am, £6 in adv. D'n'B with Total Science, Zero T, The insiders, Superior Selectionz, Finesse, Koast and guests.

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3rd May

THIS IS OUR SOUND Lakota 10pm - 6am, £15/£12 in adv.

A 20yr history of D'n'B with DJ Rap, Aphrodite, Randall, Kenny Ken, Nicky Blackmarlet, Byran Gee and more over three rooms.

10th May

BRISTOL SOUNDS Basement 45 10pm - 4am, £6 in adv.

Guests DJ Die, Dazee and more for a D'n'B session. Old Skool in the back room with Holby, DJ Rootz & Bladderman.

10th May MAYHEM Motion 9pm

- late, £5. Guests Lenzman, Klute, Artifical Intelligence, Millions Like Us, Bromley, Josh Butler, Copy Paste Soul and many more.

10th May

DIRTY NOTE Bank of Stokes Croft 10pm-4am, £5. Dirty Note returns to The Bank of Stokes Croft, this time with OM Unit supported by Lenkemz, Jaydrop, Paperchase & Dema Dres.

31st May INTRIGUE Dojo Lounge 31st May

INTUITION 1st BIRTHDAY Timbuk 2 10pm - 4am, £7/£6/£4 in adv. Intuition celebrate 12months of D'n'B parties with guests Loxy & Ruffhouse. Room 2 - House, Garage, 2-Step and Dub Vibes from The Werk Djs, 808 Bronx, Forma, Broken Content, Amity, Mossy and Joe Habit.

31st May

PIFF Lakota 11pm5am, £5 Guests Tsuba featuring Milton Jackson, supported by Kevin Griffiths & Jamoe Trench.

31st May

RUN TINGS CRU - REVOLUTION TIME TOUR Trinty 11pm-5am, £10/£5 adv Jungle, D'n'B & reggae with YT Live, The Innerheart Band, Serial Killaz, Run Tingz Cru, Blackout JA, Dossa (Austria), J Man & Prank All-stars.

Hosts - Carasel & Redskin

SATURDAYS

SECTION 18 The Black Swan 10pm - 6am, £11 in adv. Techno and gabba night with Gancher & Ruin, Detest, Scamp, Robyn Chaos, Believe, Suburbass, David Green, The Criminal and more over three rooms.

ENCORE Bunker, The Triangle, 10pm3.30am. £4/£3 Big weekend party GET SEXY Syndicate, 10pm-3am. £free B4 11pm/£2 B4 12am, more after.

Get Sexy and be one of 2000 sexy people at this superclub with two rooms of fun to choose from, whatever ever your music taste, they've got it covered! Add to that, a awesome atmosphere, great drink prices and there's only one thing to do - get sexy!

POP CONFESSIONAL The Thekla, The Grove, 9.30pm-4am. £5 before midnight / more after. Come and be blessed, your host for the evening is Father Valentine Spinoza who will be spinning all your favourite guilty pop pleasures until the wee small hours of Sunday morning, leaving you ready for Mass in the morning. Expect shameless dancing to tunes you know you shouldn’t, pop-priests and naughty-nuns, dressing up of all kinds, outrageous dance moves and pure party vibes the Lord himself would be proud of.

FIVE DOLLAR SHAKE Timbuk 2 10pm - 4am, £5 Headliner James D'Ley, supported by Wonkinson, X-Ray Ted, Duke Stone, Brownstone, Big Pharmaa and more.

- 5am, £6. House / Techno with Giom & Adam Kent supported by Renny C, Old Skool Scott-e, Shawn Fleming, Craig Brown & Van Max.

10th May

HOUSEWORK The Motorcycle Showroom 11pm - 4am, £8/£7. guests Kassem Mosse (Live) and a secret guest from Hessle Audio, plus residents Shanti Celeste, Golesworthy & Gram Rcy.

10th May

RED DREAD AUDIO Lakota 10pm - 6am, £10/£7 in adv. Boom Bap Hip HOp Festival launch party with Mickey Finn & MC Det, Dirty Dike (Aldum launch set), Insideinfo & MC Texas, Jam Baxter, Dabbla, Miss Conduct, Jack Wittz and more.

10th May

17th May 17th May

WONKA-VISION Motion 9pm - late, £5. Rolling into Motion for one very special night of madness to get you in the mood for Summer festival season. This promises to be a very special party featuring Outside Decor

by Arcadia and an all-star lineup of DJS and live acts guaranteed to tantalise and excite. Expect a Arcadia Spectacular and DJ's Jack Beats, Hot Cakes playing live, featuring Deekline, Ed Solo, JFB & MC Rubi Dan. Other guests include Daddy Skitz Showcase, Reso, DJ Derek and other rooms hosted by Asbo Disco and Bambi Legs.

24th May GHETTO FUNK The

Lanes 10pm - 4am, £free Ghetto Funk Presents in association with Tremor Soundsystem and David & Goliath Promotions. Guests The Funk Hunters, Howla, Kotch & Bear Twists.

24th May

LUCKY NUMBER 002 Timbuk 2 10pm - 4am, £5 B4 12am Mutant Bass/Rave/Breakcore/Bassline/ Fidget/Dubstep with Kanji Kenetic, Yeah Buzz, Matt:Scratch, Womble and more.

24th May

RUN - BANK HOLIDAY SPECIAL Motion 10pm - late, £16.50.

Two warehouse D'n'B special with Roni Size, Calyx & Teebee, Neosignal, Delta Heavy, TC, Newham Generals, N-Type, Mampi Swift, D*Minds, Enei, Kasra and more.

31st May

BURLESQUE OR BUST CABARET SHOW - BASS & TENSE AFTER PARTY Motion 7pm - late, £15.

A club night with a difference! Sapphira has hand picked the world’s best artists, curating two events that promise to provide an unparalelled experience. Performing dazzling group routines, Synchronised balloon popping and Spell binding solos.

4th May WERK Timbuk 2 11pm 4th May RED BULL MUSIC

ACADEMY BRISTOL SESSION Blue Mountain 10pm - 6am, £10/£7.50/£5.

After party for the Red Bull Lectures taking place earlier in the day at Hamilton House, guests playing include John Talabot, Pinch, Andres & Justin Vandervolgen.

11th May PSYANIDE 10th

BIRTHDAY Arc Bar 10pm - 4am, £6 Pystrance night headlined by Omega Flight and supported Rich Nelson, Pieman & Q.P.A

11th May

4OURS TB2 11pm 5am, £5/£4/£3 in adv. House and techno night with guests Marquis Hamkes & Shandy from Crazy Legs.

11th May

TOTALLY 'ARDCORE Motion 10pm - 4am, £8. Hardcore, old skool and jungle night with Hixxy, Klubfiller, Marc Smith, Technikore, Slipmatt, Billy Daniel Bunter, Vibes, Miss Special K and many more. Tickets from www. motionbristol.com

11th May

SUBATOMIC Lakota 10pm - 6am, £10/£7 in adv. Old skool, jungle, dubstep, breaks and bass with Dodge & Fuski, DJ Bungy & MC Joe Peng, Laid Blak (DJ Set), Run Tingz Cru, Jinx in Dub and more.

11th May WEAPON OF CHOICE

PRESENT END OF LEVEL BOSS MUSIC EP LAUNCH Basement 45 10pm - 3am, £6 Mylo Stone & Percy Filth, Mistafire, Maldini (Bad Company), Split Prophets, Demorus and more.

18th May

DRAMA Dojo 11pm 5am, £7/£5 in adv. Like a fine wine, Drama just keeps getting better with age, marking their sixth birthday with Andre Crom, Billy Disney, Greg Shaw & Deep.

18th May

HYETAI Exchange 11pm - 4am, £10 otdv. Hyetal 'Modern Worship' album launch with Hyetal playing live, supported by Peveerelist, Vessel, Fairhorns, The Kelly Twins and Basement hosted by Idle Hands.

18th May

OXIDE & NEUTRINO Basement 45 11pm - 5am, £7 in adv.

Garage and bass with Oxide & Neutrino (So Solid crew, playing a live PA), supported by Kevin Real Deal and more.

18th May

RAVE ON AVON Lakota 2pm - 6am, Daytime free, £10/£8 in adv. Daytime stages include Lakota garden and Coroners Court. Night wise, expect a range of DJ's covering D'n'B, jungle, dub, ska, funk, house, breals and garage across both venues. One wristband allows you to hop between all venues on Stokes Croft during the night.

18th May

SUB:URBIA Timbuk 2 11pm-5am, £6/£5 B4 12am. After a year-long hiatus, this night returns with a showcase of some of the heaviest hitters of Bristol's Bass Music scene including Arkist, Wedge & Gatekeeper, with a second room hosted by BA1 Records who recently blew the crowds away in the Tangent Dome at Arc Festival!

25th May

ROOM 237 Timbuk 2 11pm-5am, £6/£5. Room 1 hosted

by Room 237 with guests Answer Code Request (3 hour set, Ostgut Ton, MDR, Berghain / Berlin), Black Amiga & Ambiotic Compounds. Room 2 hosted by Tape Echo with Ossia, Transient, Neka & more.

25th May

LIQUIFYAH Basement 45 11pm - 5am, £7/£5 with flyer.

Unofficial Love Saves the Day after party, playing D'n'B, dubstep and glitch hop with Dimension, Skankandbass, Despicable Youth, Foreign Conspiracy and many more.

25th May

LOVE SAVES THE NIGHT Motion 10pm - late, £Sold Out. One of the two official after parties for Love Saves the Day. Guests Bononbo (DJ Set), Redlight, Dusky, Apex Collective, Eats Everything, Oneman v's Jackmaster and the Tunnel hosted by Eton Messy.

25th May

LOVE SAVES THE NIGHT Lakota 10pm - 6am, £tbc. One of the official after parties for Love Saves the Day festival which sold out months ago.

Guests playing at the after party include Simian Mobile Disco (DJ Set), Will Saul (aka Close), Ben Pearce, Shapes DJ's, Maxxi Soundsystem, Christope & Lukas and more.

1st June NOISY NEIGHBOURS

The Hand arena, Clevedon, Nr Bristol 12pm - late, £35 in adv. New one-day dance festival, following on from their debut sell out event in the heart of Bristol last summer. Three areans' and over 100 artists playing including Devlin, Mimosa, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Skism, BBC Radio 1's Tim Westwood, Dillinja, K-AZE, Hathcha, DJ Die, Cyantific, Sean Hughes, Will Clarke and many more. Full details and tickets from www.noisyneighbours.com

1st June WERK Timbuk 2 11pm

- 5am, £6. House / Techno with Colin Dale supported by Rektchordz, Clair Napierski, Renny C, Phil Paske, Craig Brown and many more.

8th June

LIAM LOVES LIFE 2 Blue Mountain 9pm - 6am, £10/£7/£5 in adv. Hardcore, old skool, D'n'B, jungle & techno fundraiser, guests playing include Miss Special K, Demize, Chris Fear, Marcus Allen, Alton X and many more.

SUNDAYS

BRISTOL

26th May SOUL TRAIN SUNDAY

Shore / Queen Shilling / The Lanes / Music Train 10pm - 3am, £7.50 in adv.

After parties spread across four venues with the Urban Train playing 90's/00's tunes at Shore, The Original Discotrain at Queen Shilling with 70's/80's club classics, the Original Funk Train at The Lanes playing funk 45's, jazz, funk and rare groove.

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Clubbing Cornwall MONDAYS

Falmouth

STUDENT NIGHT. Toast. 18 Church St. until 1am. £free. Monday night is student night at toast with lots of £2 drink deals!

STUDENT NIGHT. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-late. £free. Monkey T of Simian Sound playing guilty pleasures on the decks.

Newquay

BOMB MONDAY. Belushi’s. 9.30pmlate. £free The finest in House music with DJ Justin Harris and all Bombs only £2 all night long makes this the place to be on a Monday night SUPER CHY MONDAYS. The Chy & Koola. 12 Beach Road. 10pm-4am, £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!

St Austell

BIG STUDENT NIGHT. The Club. 14 High Cross St. 10pm-2am. £4/£2 NUS. DJ Dean playing the party classics. All drinks £1.50.

Truro

STUDENT NIGHT. L2 Nightclub.

Calenick St. 10pm-2.30am. £free B4 11pm/£3 after. DJ Matt Wing + Guests playing Chart, Commerical, Dance ,HipHop, Dubstep and more.

TUESDAYS

Penzance

TUESDAYS Sound Nightclub. Branwell Mill, Market Jew Street 11pm-3am. £free before midnight if you collect a wristband from Bar One and £4 after DJs Boris & DS playing chart and commercial bangers!

WEDNESDAYS

Bude

RENAISSANCE. Rogue Nightclub. 38 The Strand. 10pm-2.30am, £3. Chart hits & club classics.

Falmouth

OPEN DECKS. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 9pm-late. £free. Hosted by Selecta Demo.

All aspiring DJs welcome.

SOUL FUNK & JUNK. Five Degrees West, 7 Grove Place. 9pm-late. £free. As it says on the tin!

THURSDAYS

Falmouth

THURSDAYS. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-late. £free. The best local DJ’s & Live Bands.

MANGLED THURSDAYS. Upstairs at Mango Tango. 15a Killigrew St. 9pm-2am. £1. Hip Hop, Drum ‘n’ Bass, House, Techno, Electro & Breaks with DJ T3chnical, DJ Jezza and Green Renegade.

Truro

WEEKEND WARM-UP. L2 Nightclub, Calenick St. 10pm-2.30am. £free. Start the weekend early, special drink deals and resident DJ.

FRIDAYS

Bodmin

in adv. Spinforth started his weekly (now bi-weekly*) Scour for the Ghetto Funk website back in January 2011, assisted by fellow Hong Kong Ping Ponger's Morphosis and Fat Harry. His quest was to seek out the choicest cuts from the freshest, often unheard of, producers ploughing their trade on SoundCloud.

The Scour has blossomed into a bit of a phenomenon, unearthing some of the finest producers to not yet have their tracks out in the DJ scene! Guests tonight include WBBL, X-Ray Ted, Hong Kong Ping Pong, The Fritz and DJ Fada.

24th May

PRESSURE ROOTS Falmouth Rugby Club, 9pm-late £8.

Regae and roots with Earl Sixteen Along side Nick Manasseh

Newquay

Eclipse Nightclub. Victoria Square 10pm-late. £7/£5 B4 11pm. Chart and party tunes with guest DJ’s every week.

Camborne

KRIS NEBROSO, The Clipper, 9pm – 1am, £free. A night of Chart, Dance (inc.

House, Dubstep, D’n’B), Cheese, Party, R’n’B, Oldies & Motown.

Falmouth

SATURDAY. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-2am. Always a massive night with the DJs spinning the best music for you to dance and drink to. See weekly invites for line-ups!

Penzance

PORTHTOWAN

SOUND SATURDAYS. Sound Nightclub.

Branwell Mill, Market Jew Street.

11pm-4am. £5 (non special guest nights only). DJs Boris & DS playing chart and commercial bangers!

24th-27th May

RUN TO THE SUN Trevelgue Holiday Park, Weekend camping tickets £75 / Day tickets £28, from www.runtothesun.co.uk. The last ever Run to the Sun and it's set to be an epic weekender of sun, sea and parties.

Guests platying over the three days include Sub Focus, Mistajam, Anne Savge, Zinc, Gorgan City, DJ Fresh, DJ Hype, Beaka, Skeptiks and many more.

REWIND FRIDAYS. Sound Nightclub.

Branwell Mill. 11pm-4am. £5 all night.

80's, 90's & 00's music from resident DJ's, al drinks £2 and selected special events in room two - see below!

DELUXX. Blue Bar, Beach Rd, Eastcliff, 9pm-12am, £free. Funk and soul DJ's

St Ives

ROLLER DISCO. St Ives Guilhall.

8.30pm-10.30pm. £6/£4 Back to the 80’s theme, over 18’s session, Dj’s playing the Best 70s ,80s, soul, funk, disco and club classic’s. Tickets and info at http://80sneonfancydress.com/RollerDiscos-in-Cornwall-2011-W10569.aspx

Truro

FUNKY FRIDAYS. L2 Nightclub. Calenick St. 10pm-2.30am. £free all night. DJ Tom Wills playing all the best tunes. Lots of drink promotions inc. all shots £1.50.

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY. The Office. 10pmlate. £3. Start the weekend as you mean to go on with DJ Simon James. Inc Truro Festival after party on 12th April.

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SATURDAYS

DJ EDGE. Belushi’s. Fore St. 10pm till late. £free. A live DJ night with a selection of Hip Hop (mainly old school) , Funk, Electro, Soul, 80’s/90’s Pop. GORGEOUS. Berties. East St. 11pm4am, £6/£4. Cornwall’s largest nightclub with resident Video DJ Will.B playing your favourite music up together from a wide variety of genres including dance , R&B ♫, chart, party & floorfillers.

PASSION. Sailors. Fore St. 10.30pm4am. £tbc. Chart, dance & retro tunes to shake your booty with John London PARRIS NIGHTS. Chy Bar, 12 Beach Rd 10pm-4am. £free. The best house music all night, from deep, bassline laden grooves to shameless hands in the air anthems. with Robin Parris and guests.

FRIDAY NIGHTS. Toast. 18 Church St. 6.30pm-2am. £free. Something different every week FRIDAYS. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-2am. Only the best DJs from the area playing for your aural pleasure.

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Office, 9pm-4am £8/£6 in adv. Two of Cornwall's biggest Hardcore organisations from the late 90's - TNT & Dark Ages have surfaced once again and joined forces to bring back that unforgettable Hard dance vibe we all had and enjoyed back in the day! Guests include Scorpio, Hektek, Miss Fit, Terminatrix, Jamie Bell and more.

Newquay

17th May

THE NEW AM LAUNCH PARTYThe Office. 9pm-late. £5/£4 in adv.

PARTY Falmouth RFC, 9pm-2am £8/£6

31st May THE REBIRTH The

COHABIT Library Bar, 10pm-late, £3. Fiction, Pop Clique & LUM combine for this night, bringing something special to Newquay. Expect bouncing deep grooves all night with Fiction (Jose Hugo & Justin Harris), Pop Clique (The Discoguns) & LUM (Piers Kirwan & Kyle Edwards).

SKANK & STOMP The Office. 9pm-late. £tbc.

10th May SCOUR RECORDS

Nightclub, Calnick St, 10pm-3am, £5.

Hard dance returns to the club with Lisa Pin-up & Mark EG, supported by Tommie Quick, Greg Zizque, Ashley T & Tom Willz in the main room.

Bodmin

FRIDAYS Rogue Nightclub. 38 The Strand. 10.30pm-3.30am. £5. Resident JelyBean.

Falmouth

24th May ELECTRIED Pt 2 L2

FRESH FRIDAYS. Berties 9.30pm-late, £free. Fridays have a Fresh feel about them with amazing £2 drinks offers to start the weekend. If you’re a member It’s free entry with a new loyalty card all night .

I CANDY. Sailors. Fore St. 10.30pm4am, £free entry with a handbag!

Newquays busiest Friday night with the best in Chart, RnB, Dance and Party.

ITS A FRIDAY THING. Belushi’s 9.30pmlate, £free. For up front House music and things connected with DJ Justin Harris.

SUPER CHY LIVE. The Chy Bar. 9pm3am, £free. A selection of the best rock, roots and reggae bands from 10pm.

BACK TO THE CLASSICS Eclipse Nightclub. Victoria Square 10pm-3am. £5/£3 B4 11pm. 80’s & 90’s night, over 25’s but mature over 18’s welcome.

Bude

at the door for a free CD.

3rd May

10th May

17th May LADIES EVENING The 24th May

AUXILIARY Live Bar, River St, 9pm-2am, £3/£2 B4 12am. Special night with Freerange DJ's headlining alongside Snatch the Wax DJ's supported by Raptus, Borgasm, Terra Tactics, Squashbox and many more. Get your hands on an event flyer and hand it in

St Austell

THE BIG ONE. The Club. 14 High Cross St. 10pm-2am. £6. Massive party night with DJ Stevie G playing RnB, Dance, Hip Hop and DnB.

Truro

SATURDAY SOCIAL. L2 Nightclub.

Calenick St. 10pm-2.30am. £5/free B4 11pm. DJ Matt Wing in Room 1 playing Chart & Commerical. DJ Jason M & Snatch the Wax in Room 2 playing House, Electro, Party Breaks.

CORNWALLS BEST SATURDAY. The Office. 1 River Walk. 10pm-2.30am. £5.

Weekend party for over 21’s.

SUNDAYS

Falmouth

OPEN JAM. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 6pm-late. £free. Hosted by Perry followed at 10pm with Titan Sound finishing off your weekend with PRESSURE DROP RootsRockReggae/Digital Dancehall.

HELSTON

26th May

LOVE RIOT Crasken Farm, 9pm-3am, £5. A massive summer party on a quaint Cornish country farm, featuring two of Europe's hottest dance music producers, and lots more to be announced shortly. Guests include Moullinex & Xinob, supported by residents Ry Spenceley, The Barons, Mullins and more. To top it off, there's free camping and for those of you who like to go all out, the dress theme is Rainbow - as in seven colours of the rainbow. Although anyone dressed as George, Zippy or Bungle will still be welcome!

Penzance

26th May

MR WIDE AWAKE. Sound Nightclub. Branwell Mill. 11pm5am. £5 B4 1am. CJ Beatz with MC Fontz taking over the main room! Joined by guest DJ Proof alongside residents Boris, DS and CQ. Loads of R&B, hip-hop, dancehall & garage! Pure party vibes.

Truro

26th May

MACMILLAN IN THE MIX The Office. 2pm-10.30pm. £tbc

Penzance

PORTHLEVEN

4th/5th May

MASKED BALL Beacon Cragg, 2pm-1.30am, £40 from www.maskedball.net. An amazinglydressed crowd, a grand ballroom and a rabbit hole all set on an incredible cliff top location along with a smattering of the best party performers in the UK can mean just one thing – The Masked Ball is back. With eight curated and themed arenas, guests include Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (DJ set), Jack Beats, The Cuban Brothers, DJ Yoda, The Other Tribe, Adamski, Ben Pearce, Lee John and Karma Kid – along with more than 40 of Cornwall’s best tunesmiths. With improved camping facilities, new themed arenas and an extra day - Super Sunday, this event is firmly established and regarded as one of the best annual parties in Cornwall, try it to see what everyone is talking about!

PORTREATH

18th May

WAX ON WAX OFF. The Atlantic Bar, 9pm-1.30am, £free. A monthly excursion into all things deep and danceable with your resident record / vinyl / wax / 45 / plastic / tunage selectors to get groovy in the mix. Bongo-Winn will be getting rhythmical on the skins.

PENZance

SOUND SATURDAYS. Sound Nightclub.

Branwell Mill, Market Jew Street.

11pm-4am. £5 (non special guest nights only). DJs B

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Clubbing Devon MONDAYS

Exeter

MONDAY NIGHT MADNESS. Arena.

Summerland St. 10pm-2.30am. £4.50/£2adv available from reps and the student guild. Exeters biggest and best student night. MONDAYS. Timepiece.

Little Castle St. 7.30pm-1am. £free.

Cheesy pop mash up!

6th May & 3rd June

RAINBOW MONDAYS. Mama Stones, 9pm-1am. £3. Pop, dance and disco with Ollie B & Iain McKenzie. LGBT friendly night too.

Plymouth

FUZZY LOGIC. Oceana. Barbican Leisure Park, 9pm-3am, £tbc. Student night, big tunes, cheap drinks and loads of fellow students - what’s not to like about this?!

MONDAY MELTDOWN. C103. Union St. 10pm– late. £3.Every hour the drinks prices meltdown, expect tunes (D’n’B, dubstep, chart, cheese and anthems), free raffle and giveaways from Size? and Freestyle Tattoo’s.

TUESDAYS

Exeter

CAFE SABROSO/WONKEY LEGS & T.O.T.T.Y. Timepiece, Little Castle St. 7.30pm-1.30am, £free. Salsa, Samba and Merengue with DJ Ricardo in the bar, Wonkey Legs in the main room with dubstep and D’n’B from Aldo Vanucci. CHEESY TUESDAYS. Arena.

Summerland St. 10pm-2.30am. £4.50 A huge slice of cheese from the 80’s, 90’s & 00’s sandwiched in between all the biggest student anthems.

EXIT The Cellar Door 9pm-late £4/£3 in adv. After an absolute belter of a set at the birthday bash, MTD is back on the headline slot with a bag full of tunes fresh off the paradise club press.

Support comes from residents Wonka and Josh TooGood as well as Cuzo and the Big Like House DJ's

7th May

Plymouth

MASH HITS Voodoo Lounge 8pm2am. £free Night of mashed up musical mayhem.

WEDNESDAYS

Exeter

STUDENT NIGHT. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 7.30pm-1.30am. £free. Student disco classics and current cheesey faves.

This is a night run by students for students.

Plymouth

BOOGIE NIGHTS C103, Union St, 9pm - late, £3 NUS. Plymouth’s long running and most successful Weds student night is back for it’s 9th year.

COWPOW. The Dairy, 25 Bretonside.

6pm-late. Student night, chart popping classics.

DESIRE Thirst. Vauxhall St. 9pm-2.30am. £2 from 11pm. DJ Jonezy and guests.

SHENANIGANS. Varsity, Derrys Cross, 7pm-3am, £free. Midweek party with drinks deals.

VIBE. Oceana. Barbican Leisure Park, 9pm-3am, £free with flyer B4 11pm/£3.

All your urban favourites from old-skool to new-skool, with DJ Jonezy.

Torquay

MOST WANTED. The Green Ginger, Winter Garden, Fleet Walk. 9pm-2am. £free. DJ Max, £1.50 drinks deals.

THURSDAYS

Exeter

HELLZAPOPPIN! Cellar Door, 4 The Quay. 9pm-2am, £2/free B4 11pm. Funk, jazz and electro swing with DJ Dodgy Style.

FUZZY LOGIC. Arena Nightclub, Summerland St. 9.30pm-2.30am. £5.Student night playing the biggest and best tunes, with some great drink deals.

WONKEY LEGS. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 10.30pm-2am, £3. Plymouth's ten year old club night comes to Exeter resident Aldo Vanucci drops the biggest and best drum n bass and dub step all night long.

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Occasional theme nights and guest djs check Facebook for more details.

Plymouth

ROCK SHOW. H20, The Barbican. 10pmlate. £2. New weekly rock night from Chris Wheelie and guests. Expect unk, rock, ska, reggae and more.

YOLO. Oceana, Barbican Leisure Park, The Barbican. 9pm-4am. £tbc. Official student night, special guests each week, supported by residents from the Upbeat DJ Soc and Urban Knights.

FRIDAYS

Barnstaple

VENUE. The Venue. The Strand. 10pm3am. £5. Commerical night

BIDEFORD

FUNKY FRIDAYS. Caesar’s Palace. King St. 11pm. £4. All the classics, a DJ and no rules whatsoever.

Exeter

COLLISION. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 7.30pm-2am. £3. Expect everything from Indie anthems, alt Rock, Punk to Electro....

FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER. Arena.

Summerland St. 10pm-3am. £free entry with sticker/wristband. Feel good party atmosphere, with the very best dance, chart, party and R'n'B. ANGEL PRESENTS... Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 10pm-2am. £free. Different guests playing each week, check with bar for details.

3rd May & 7th June

MAGIC HAT STAND Cavern Club, 9pm3am £5 in adv. The Magic Hatstand is a unique night full of fun and mischief with a fabulous Psychedelic Hatstand at its heart.

CABARET VOLTAIRE The Cavern 9pm-2am £6 in adv.

Guests and support from Mr Puckey and DonJohnston.

FBK VIP The Cavern 9pm-3am £4 in adv. A night of nothing but great Garage music & Grime beatz with S T Don, Jawgee, Frenzy, Spinna, Mr Keating and many more.

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24th May ONE LION The Cellar

Door, 9pm - 3am, £tbc. Headliner Chester P (Taskforce), supported by Ramson Badbonez and Three Headed Beast, supported by residents.

31st May EXETER RESPECT

LAUNCH PARTY The Lemon Grove, Exeter University 9pm - 2am, £12 in adv. The official launch to this years festival, Beatz & Bobz host the main room with Artwork (Magnetic Man), Don Letts, Engine Earz Experiement & Lewah. Room two hosted by Rinseout who bring the D'n'B with Crissy Criss & Tantrm Desire, supported by Mr Nice, Maxxi P, Simplistic, Freshold & Catalyst.

FBK DUSK TIL DAWN 2 COUNTDOWN The Cavern 9pm-3.30am £6 in adv. A night of D'n'B with Athys & Duster, MS Shabba D, Ironlung, Pasey, Sparka, Roma, Maccy, St Don and many more.

31st May

Plymouth

BORDERLINE. C103. 103 Union St. 10pm-3.30am. £2/members £1.

Alternative night with DJ Konrad playing rock alternative punk in the main room whilst DJ’s Synn & Aides play Metal, supported by Lavis and Nobes in the Underground playing D’n’B, indie, nostalgia and filthy cheese.

CRISIS. White Rabbit. Bretonside Bus Station. £2. 11pm-5am. An eclectic hot mix of Indie/Punk/Rock/Hip-Hop/ Funk/80’s. Served to you by JC & OZ. FUNKY FRIDAYS. The Treasury. Royal Parade. 9pm-3am, £tbc. Funky grooves.

FUNKY FRIDAYS. Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque, Vauxhall St. 8.30pm3pm. £tbc. Funky grooves all night.

GLITTERATI Revolution, Derrys Cross.

9pm-3am. £tbc House night with killer vodka drink deals.

INDIE NIGHT Mint, Union St, 9pm-3am. £free Indie night with DJ Tony.

Torquay

FULL TILT FRIDAYS. Bohemia Nightclub.

41 Torwood St. 11pm-3am. £4 B4 12pm/£5 after. DJs on rotation.

THE GREEN GINGER. The Green ginger, Winter Garden, Fleet Walk. 9pm-3am. £1.

DJ Jake with all the latest chart and dance.

2 4 £10 cocktail pitchers.

LADIES NIGHT. The Venue. 13 Torwood St. 9pm-1am. £3/ladies £free all night.

The biggest night in the bay.

Torquay

24th May

CADENCE RECORDINGS. The Attic, 13 Torwood St. 9pm-3am. £5 Celebrating 15yrs of releasing D'n'B music, tonight they party hard with Aural Imbalance, Orange N Blue, Bass Flo, Tidal, Default Disruptor and many more.

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Exeter

ANGEL PRESENTS... Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 10pm-2am. £free. Different guests playing each week, check with bar for details.

ESSENTIAL SATURDAY. Arena.

Summerland St. 10pm-3.30am. £6.50otd.

Best in Dance, Chart, Party and RnB. INDIE CLUB. Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen St. 8pm-2.30am. £free B4 9pm. The best in Indie/Alternative & Electro Sounds from DJS Jake and Paddy. With live guests.

SATURDAYS. The Monkey Suit. 161 Sidwell St. 9pm-3am. £free. Guest DJs dropping all things funky.

WOBBLE. Timepiece. 7.30pm-2am, £3 B4 11pm with flyer. Mr. Onions lets rip, dropping everything anything from R’n’B to Indie, Jazz to Pop, Funk to Rock, Drum & Bass to House.

BLOW YOUR WIG The Bikeshed Theatre, Fore St, 9pm-2am £1 With DJ Louie Louie. Playing 50's R&B, Jump Jive, Rockabilly, 60's Garage, Surf rock, Northern Soul and other cool vintage sounds. Vintage and retro attire welcomed for this Tarrantino and Bettie Page inspired, cocktail fueled night.

ZERO TERRACE PARTY Exeter Phoenix, 9pm-2am £5 Deep house and techno night with Dan Wild (Just Jack), Rowlandz and Jay Sanders.

DEEP END PRESENTS PREDITAH, Cellar Door, 10pm-late, £5/£3 early bird tickets. Preditah supported by Mystery, Pulsar, Scruloose, Wolf, Krepz. Hosted by MC's JMan, Siege and Danja. Grime & Dubstep Tickets available from www.

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SCRATCH PERVERTS Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy St, 9pm - 2am, £10 in adv. Headliners Scratch Perverts supported by Hold It Down and Jungle Jam residents including Jackie Chat, Phrixus, Jawgee, Angel Dust, Biometrix, Deekay, Matt Anderson, Marvin Vital and many more over three rooms.

Plymouth

SATURDAY FORUM. Jack Chams. 50 Ebrington St. Live show and DJ sets.

FRESH CITY. Crash Manor. Union St. 10pm-4am. £4 B4 midnight with flyer.

R&B, Hip Hop, Bashment and UK Funky with residents DJ Jonezy, DJ Snake and DJ Badness.

FREE CUBA PARTY. The B-bar.

Barbican Theatre, Castle St. 8pm. £free. Cocktails, Latin music, a steamy atmosphere and dancing until late.

GLITTERATI. The Vauxhall Quay, Little Vauxhall St. 10pm-4am. £5 B4 11pm. Fine tunes for fine people, locaiton overlooking the marina.

PARTY NIGHT. Walkabout. Derrys Cross.

10pm-2am, £free. Latest chart & dance hits with DJ Darren Watts.

SATURDAYS. Revolution. Derrys Cross.

8pm-2am, £free B4 11pm. A collection of party grooves, funky tunes, soul & old skool beats, RnB, Funky house, house & classics.

SATURDAYS. Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque. 8pm-3am. £tbc. 2 floors of entertainment with live cabaret and discotheque.

SHAKE Thirst. Vauxhall St. 9pm-2.30am. £3/£2 B4 11pm. Resident Djs Aldo Vanucci and Kenny Hectyc.

WILDLIFE Varsity. Derrys Cross. 9pm2.30am. £2 B4 12am. Party night, drinks deals galour!

MIXED UP PRESENTS THE BASSFUNK EXTRAVAGANZA! The White Rabbit, 11pm-4am, £6. Bassfunk returns for another slice of party fuelled

25th May

basslines with The Dancefloor Outlaws, It Takes Two to Tango and Sammy Senior, supported by Bossa, Tuskan & Pinz. With a COWBOY/INDIAN/WESTERN theme to get involved in this is not to be missed as the last three have been packed!

HTID SOUTH WEST SHOWDOWN WITH PREMONITION C103, Union St 9pm-6am, £tbc. HTID go head tohead with Premonition for their first ever event in Plymouth. Three rooms of UK Hardcore, hard style, trance and old skool with Gammer, Darren Styles, Hixxy, Dougal, Klubfiller, Joey Riot, Uberdrunk, Mark EG, Cally & Juice, Vinylgroover and many more.

Tickets from www.theticketsuperstore.com JELLY JAZZ H2O, The Barbican, 9.30pm-late, £tbc. Celebrating 20yrs of parties with special guests.

Supported by residents Pete Isaac & Griff.

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THE GREEN GINGER. The Green Ginger, Winter Garden, Fleet Walk. 9pm3am. £1. DJ playing chart, dance and funky tunes across the bay.

KINDA FUNKY. Bohemia. 41 Torwood St. 10.30pm-4am, £free. Room 1 plays R&B, Hip Hop and smooth Grooves. Room 2 for uplifting House, Trance and Dance anthems.

SATURDAYS. The Venue. 13 Torwood St. 10pm-3am. £free B4 12am for members/£2 B4 12am/£3.

SOULOUD The Attic, 9pm-3am, £tbc.

House night with special guests THE MONASTERY, Bohemia, 11pm-5am, £tbc. The Monastery was an all night dance club in a church in Torquay which sadly closed in 2001. The team behind it are back doing some special one off parties, the first of which has Fierce DJ's Andy Whitby & Cally Gage supported by original residents Ben McGowan & Kev Smoothound Walters.

Expect hard house/ & hard trance and a unique atmosphere that their nights used to be famous for.

TWISTED DESTINY, Bohemia, 11pm-5am, £10/£8 B4 12am.

Hardcore night with Dougal, Gammer (Essential platinum live ) with MC storm

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JELLY JAZZ, The Barrel House, High St, 8pm-late, £9/£8 in adv. Celebrating 20 years of parties, this is part two on thier celebrations, with guest DJ Moneyshot, supported by residents Pete Isaac and Griff.

SUNDAYS

Exeter

WORLD BEATS. Timepiece. Little Castle St, 8pm-1.30am, £free. Latin, Salsa, Afro Beat, Reggae, Arabic & Spanish.

RINSEOUT WAREHOUSE EXPERIENCE The Matford Centre 7pm2am, £20. Hheadliners include Roni Size, DJ Hype, Congo Natty, Calyz & Teebee, Shadow Deomn Showcase, Ratpack and many more.

RAMBUNCTIOUS SOCIAL CLUB The Cellar Door 9pm-3am £3. Swing open the Cellar door for a night of creatively curious antics and a spring swaying dancefloor, with DJ Hod'guez and added interactive invention.

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Plymouth

LEGENDAIRY. The Dairy. 25 Bretonside.

6pm-late. 80’s & 90’s music.

SUNDAY SESSIONS. Revolution, Derrys Cross. 10pm-2am. £free. In the Club, DJ Jonezy (a premier south west Urban and RnB DJ) brings you his legendary ‘Sunday Session.’

LIQUID PULSE Voodoo Lpunge, Money Centre. 9.30pm-6am. £12.50 Trance and house night, holding the first event in their new home, guests include the mighty Jordan Suckley from BBC Radio 1, supported by Signum, Louk, Dan Kelly, Dantes, Paul Webber, Matt Edwards, Kev Hoskins, Drift and Raze.

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Torquay

26th May

SOULOUD. The Attic Torwood St. 9.30pm-5am. £15/£12 early bird tickets. Exclusive night with Timo Maas (Circoloco/DC10 resdient) playing a 3hr set - big night!

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Snapped Masked Ball Now in it’s sixth year, this homegrown party just gets better and better each year, over 3,000 people donned masks and partied on the clifftop overlooking Porthleven, Cornwall on the bank holiday weekend and is firmly established as one of the best parties of the year. If you missed this, make sure you get tickets to the Halloween Ball at www.maskedball.net Photos: Matt Smith

Arc Festival This new one day AV meets DJ based festival in the heart of Bristol was a great success, showcasing cutting edge artists such as Clark, Skudge and The Black Dog putting on specially commissioned shows to combine Av with this music, mixing it all together live.

We captured some of the action and the festival is set to return next year too.

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BEACHBREAK LIVE NEWQUAY TAKEOVER Relocating from South Wales to Newquay for 2013, this festival has transformed itself into a complete town takeover - taking over 30 venues in Newquay from 20-24 June with 300 acts providing 100hrs of music and non-stop party action over the four days. Expect beach parties, secret gigs in greasy spoons, big club events, harbourside cinema, hidden rooftop raves, pool and beach parties, circus acts and the main stage on Fistral Beach – the UK’s most famous surfing location! With a range of accommodation options including camping, surf lodges, tipi’s, caravan’s glamping and boutique hotels – there is no excuse for missing out. Acts playing amongst the mayhem include Jake Bugg, Lucy Rose, Devlin, Foreign Beggars, Skream, Shy FX, Eats Everything, The Cuban Brothers, Jackmaster and many more.

More info at tickets from www.beachbreaklive.com WIN We have five pairs of tickets to give away, enter online at www.247magazine.co.uk

DEAD MAN DOWN When the body of a gang member is discovered in the freezer of crime boss Alphonse’s (Terrence Howard) mansion – a clear message has been sent… or has it? As the gang reacts, members Darcy (Dominic Cooper) and Victor (Colin Farrell) take it upon themselves to dig further into who is after Alphonse. As a further complication to the gang, neighbour Beatrice (Noomi Rapace) discovers Victor has a dark secret and contracts him into a scheme to seek out her own vengeance. With the violence escalating Alphonse begins to suspect that revenge is closer than he thought. The film marks the American theatrical debut of director Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and is in cinemas May 3.

WIN We have three special competition packs which include a T-Shirt and travel speakers, just go to www.247magazine.co.uk to enter.

Rock Oyster Festival A mid summer celebration of food, music and art in North Cornwall mixes great food with eclectic music and a host of children’s entertainment over the solstice weekend. Held on the banks of the Camel Estuary in Rock, North Cornwall, the festival takes place from Friday 21 - Sunday 23 June, music comes from gypsy pirate punk band Seas of Mirth, Smerins Anti-Social Club and 14 piece Slamboree, whose music is described as a mixture of pyro circus cabaret. Sunday has more of a folky sound with acts such as Half Sisters and Martha Tilston. For foodie fans, food writer and The Times columnist Joanna Weinberg will join chef Paul Ainsworth from Michelin-starred Number 6 in Padstow, Tom Hunter from The Scarlet Hotel and Rick Stein’s son Jack, in the Flying Fish Demonstration Theatre. Other local chefs on stage are The Seafood Restaurant’s David Sharland and Stephane Delourme; James Nathan (Masterchef 2008 winner) from The Green Room at Retallack; Ian Percival from the St Moritz Hotel and Jamie Porter from Rafferty’s in St Merryn.

One of the few summer festivals that mixes genuinely good food and music together, for more info and tickets from www. rockoysterfestival.co.uk WIN We have a pair of weekend tickets to giveaway, to enter, just go to www.247magazine.co.uk

VEGFEST Celebrating its tenth year, this is the biggest vegan and vegetarian event anywhere in the world this year (as far as we know) and takes over Bristol harbourside from 24-26 May. Expect over 125 stalls during the daytime on Saturday and Sunday including food, bodycare, accessories, fashion, merchandise and information. There are also cookery demonstrations, workshops and kids activities too. The daytime show is supported by two massive gigs each evening which sees Caravan Palace headline on Friday night and Manchester’s Happy Mondays headline the Saturday night. Support comes from Kitten & The Hip, The Boxette, The Farm, 808 State and Peter Hook (DJ Set). More info and tickets from www.bristol.vegfest.co.uk WIN We have three pairs of weekend tickets to see both shows to giveaway, just go to www.247magazine.co.uk and enter.

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