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YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE MONTH AHEAD IN THE SOUTH WEST
Matthew Perham
Cornish skate legend tells all
Gallows
Exeter welcomes critically acclaimed punk band
A Plastic Rose
Irish rockers head for the South West
Phat Chex
Listing Guide Over 5
00 g club nig igs & hts inside
Plymouth DJ & producer talks about his new release and label deal
Editors Letter Welcome the October/November issue of 247 magazine, we’ve got lots of goodies lined up for you this month. Our cover star, Cornish skateboarder, Matthew Perham talks to us about the South West scene, his trademark ticks and favorite skate spots and longevity within the sport. We’ve also got interviews with Irish rockers; A Plastic Rose, successful local DJ & producer; Phat Chex and punk rock giants; Gallows. This month’s icy fashion shoot is well worth a look too, if you’re after some hot threads to keep the cold weather out. Of course we’ve got all our usual sections for you too enjoy too – music reviews, food, culture, film, retail therapy and hundreds of club and gig listings for you too – who wants to stay in, especially on Halloween? Get out there…
Rachael
CONTENTS ILLUSTRATION Currently a Graphic Design degree student at Plymouth College of Art, Amy Eaton paints portraits and works at the cool and contemporary Relegacy Gallery on Plymouth Barbican. “I will use anything that is liquid, tea, coke and paint of course, but I like the unpredictability of liquid, how it can go so wrong and so right,” says Amy who painted the piece we see here, ‘Eric Liyah Kane’, after being inspired by a photograph by Jason Perkins. “I thought the image was beautiful so I wanted do it in my own way,” she explains. When we spoke to Amy she was on her way home to Plymouth, after a meeting in London, where she’s planning to exhibit. See more of her brilliant work and keep up-to-date at www. facebook.com/Amyeatonart.
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Gallows 10 // A Plastic Rose 12 // Phat Chex 14 // Matt Perham 16 // Jason Bryne 29
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Culture 30 // Film 31 // Live 33 // Clubs 37
Regulars
News 7 // Style Hunter 18 // Retail Therapy 19 // Fashion 21 // Food 25 Music Reviews 26 // Racket from the pit 35 // Snapped 41 // Competitions 42 4|
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Cornwall’s young person’s film festival event, makes its return to the Cornwall Film Festival on 8 November at the Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay. Held in partnership with University College Falmouth and the Cooperative Membership, young people in Cornwall from primary school age up to College students in higher education are invited to submit their short films of up to 15 minutes, by 15 October for the chance of having their film screened. A panel of industry professionals will be providing feedback on the selected films and running filmmaking workshops. Find out at www.cornwallfilmfestival. com/screenactions
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Bench Self made Described as ‘for people who go out there and do it themselves’, Bench. Self Made. is a celebration of talented and ambitious people who don’t take no for an answer. Bench are looking for hard working individuals to write to them and let them know what their journey has been, and what is driving them. Over the course of the next year, Bench will select a candidate to feature each month, five will win Bench’s talent package - £1000 to drive their talent, professional mentoring, exposure via Bench, and social media/web channels. The Bench. Self Made. entrants range from jewellery designers to music producers and if you’ve achieved something to be proud of, Bench wants to hear from you. To enter visit www.benchselfmade.com
Plan B tour next year The multi-talented Ben Drew from London has tried his hand at music, acting and directing and fresh from starring in The Sweeney, rejoins the music scene with an 11-date tour of the UK in February next year. His preview gig at the iTunes festival in September got music pulses racing, and Ben will be hitting Plymouth on the 12th February. Plan B is currently starring in The Sweeney with Ray Winstone - in cinemas nationwide.
Live at The Great Hall See twenty of the UK’s top breakthrough music acts at Dartington, in association with the Totnes FM Studio Lounge on the sand pop genres will be catered for, with acts including Paper Aeroplanes, The PJP Band, Magic Bus, Jack Martello, Ryan Keen, Karima Francis ‘Sound of The Sirens’, Liz Lawrence, Morning Rush and Dana Immanuel. Music will run from 3pm to 11.30pm each day, tickets cost £20 for weekend or £12 per day. To book call 01803 84707 or www.dartington.org for more info.
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Get your spooky kicks this year
The Halloween MASKED BALL 27th October The coolest bi-annual party of Cornwall’s social calendar, the theme this year is Dusk til’ Dawn – The Movie, and guests include Mylo, Herve, The Cuba Brothers, Brandon Block, The Other Tribe, Magical Bones and many more. With it’s theatrelike production including music, circus and visual performance, the aim to is to up the ante from last year’s success and takes place across seven themed venues at Rosuick Organic Farm in Helston. We’ll leave the final words to Brandon Block “Without a doubt the best small festival I’ve been to…and I’ve been to a lot.” Don’t forget your mask! Tickets from £35 www.maskedball.net THE MONSTERS BALL 27th October The mummy returns with some fiendishly freaky beats, delivered by seriously spine-tingling acts and DJs such as Nic Narley, fresh back from playing for Hed Kandi in Ibiza and Hedluv and Passman. Also excavating the pyramids will be Top Hat residents and DJs Indica, Miss-Tiq and RDT laying down a tougher beat. Shoring up the musical midnight feasts is Daytoner, showcasing tracks from his album Sunburst Radio, supported by the likes of Phi Steed, and the Easylife Sound Association. Tickets cost £15 from www.monsterball.co.uk HALLOWEEN SPECIAL AT CORNISH GOLDSMITHS TREASURE PARK 31st October See yourself as a classic Cornish pirate? Or just love dressing up? Halloween is the perfect day to get dressed up, get panning for gold and win prizes - the event at Cornish Goldsmiths Treasure Park, near Redruth, is open 10am-4.30pm and features fancy dress, ghoul-ish food and even rides! Call 01209 203280 for more information. HALLOWEEN AT THE EDEN PROJECT 27th October - 4th November With a Mexican Day of the Dead theme, pumpkins and ghouls abound, you can get involved in crafty exploits or try out their newly opened glacial ice rink, which will be open for visitors until February 2013. We can’t wait to get our skates on – guaranteed to send chills down your spine! Visit www.edenproject.com for more information.
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Zombie Walks The living dead walk the streets again
BURNING BARRELS
It’s that time of year again when it’s perfectly acceptable to set fire to a big wooden barrel outside your packed local pub, stick it on your back and run at everyone within a 100m of you. Crazy? Yes, but normal practice in Ottery St Mary, in East Devon on 5th November as the locals open up the village to tens of thousands of visitors to witness the madness of it all. Known internationally as the Flaming Tar Barrels, it’s a night out you must experience at least once to understand how great/insane is it! Each pub has a barrel running outside it at some point during the evening, with the biggest barrel of the night set alit at midnight in the main square. It’s all free, but donations are strongly encouraged to keep help cover costs. More info at www.otterytarbarrels.co.uk
Music Truro
This October sees the fifth annual Music Truro event from 15 - 20 Oct and promises to celebrate Truro’s community spirit and musical talent... Funded by Totally Truro, the festival aims to encourage people out into the streets to enjoy what the town has to offer. With confirmed venues such as bus stops, galleries, bandstands and the Post Office, it looks to be the showcase Truro needs and you can get involved! They are looking for musicians of all ages to take part in two events on the 20 October, so dust off that drum, grab the guitar or just bring yourself along, to find out more, see www.enjoytruro.co.uk/musictruro
Westfest ALLNIGHT PARTY
The biggest annual south west all night dance event of the year returns to the Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet on Sat 27 Oct. Attracting over 10,000 people, acts and DJ’s playing across six arenas of D’n’B, hardcore, techno and old skool include Andy C, Friction, Delta Heavy, Loadstar, Gammer, SY, Evil Activities and many more. A must for all dance fans! Tickets cost £37.50 from www.slamminvinyl.com
OXJAM PLYMOUTH TAKEOVER
This year the annual charity takeover takes place on 21 Oct. For one night only, Oxfam will be plugging into Plymouth as part of the national Oxjam Takeover happening that weekend throughout the UK. 40 bands are playing across six venues, headlined by The Scribes and Patrick James Pearson Band. All you have to do is buy an Oxjam wristband (£6), turn up, get on down and help raise vital money for charity. Check www. facebook.com/oxjam.plymouth for more info.
BRISTOL In:Motion
Set in an old converted skatepark with a network of warehouses, cobbled front courtyard and large outdoor riverside terrace, Motion provides a unique backdrop for an explosive autumn season of seminal events. Dubbed as Bristol’s Underground Music Season, In:Motion comes alive for three months of larger than life shows every Friday and Saturday night, the line-up’s are awesome and highlights include Pubic Enemy on 28 October, Run v’s Ram D’n’B showcase on 10 Nov, Grimes live on 13 Nov, Radio 1’s Pete Tong on 16 Nov, Annie Mac Presents on 24 Nov, and Fatboy Slim on 8 Dec.For more info and tickets head to www.bristolinmotion.com 8|
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MOVEMBER
During November each year, Movember is With November comes Movember - responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces… The aim of this month of facial fuzz is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Grow facial hair, raise money – simples. Keep an eye out for a Mo-Party taking place near you too. See www.uk.movember.com
Fancy yourself as a bit of a zombie hunter? Or perhaps you’re looking for something different to do this Halloween? Gaining in popularity, take your pick of these SW zombie gatherings. Exeter 27th October Now in it’s second year and listed in the top 100 Zombie walks in the world, meet at the Upper Bus Station car park (behind Co-op) at 3.45pm for a walk through the city centre ending at the Phoenix at 5pm for the annual Zombie Ball 2012. Double headliners Fearless Vampire Killers & The Dead Lay Waiting are supported on the main stage by Cambion, Flame Fracture and Your Mums Beard and second stage in the bar with Plymouth band Athura headlining alongside Lost In Conflict, Out Of Enemies, Leviathan & Purging The Venom. The walk is free, ball tickets £10. Bristol 27th October Easily the biggest annual SW Zombie gathering, thousands of them take over the centre of Bristol. Details are still TBC, but expect to start around 2pm in the centre city and the walk will work it’s way through Stokes Croft, keep an eye on www.bristolzombiewalk. com or www.facebook. com/groups/2736466328/ members/ for more info and there is a free after party at the Croft, as well as other venues. St Austell 31st October Meeting at Market Street, St Austell at 6pm, a team will be on hand to help you zombi-fy! And if you’ve already sorted your costume, aim to arrive at 7pm where you will be greeted by the Zombie Pirates of St Piran who will guide you through zombie walks, chants and howls! Once you’re fully trained, the walk begins, lead by ‘The Undertaker’ and forewarning locals with a steady beat from the ‘Drummer of the Dead’. If all this sounds a bit spooky to you, be sure to listen out for the drum and avert your eyes! Stewards will be on hand around the town as well, offering support and protecting from Zombie infection! The walk will culminate in a large-scale dance routine in Aylmer Square don’t worry about having twinkle toes, though, as the choreographers will be waiting to show you all the moves -- in true Undead style! The walk isn’t just for a bit of chilling fun, all money raised through the Walk will be donated to the St Austell Market House restoration. After hours, enjoy a showing of the 1968 classic horror Night of the Living Dead in the Market House, and vote on Zombie awards! Participating in the walk costs £2, and the film viewing an extra £2. www.247magazine.co.uk
Gallows Tightening the Noose
Since their inception in Watford in 2005, it’s been an eventful seven years for punk band Gallows – a critically lauded debut album, £1 million deal with Warner Music, gigs with Rage Against the Machine, and a critically acclaimed but still not commercially successful (enough for Warner at any rate) second album; they’ve achieved more than most punk bands do in their entire lives Founder member, and lead singer Frank Carter left amicably earlier this year (in what seems like the first genuine case of ‘musical differences’ ever) to start incongruously lightweight band Pure Love, paving the way for Alexisonfire guitarist Wade McNeill to enter the fray. Vitriolic third album Gallows is released this month on PIAS independent offshoot Venn, and we sat down with guitarist Lags Barnard to find out more:
It seemed to be quite a friendly split? Yeah, but if the split hadn’t happened, there would be no third Gallows record. Gallows is an aggressive band and we’re free to make whatever musical choices we want to make, but there’s no point in switching style just to get the interest of a few extra fans or mainstream it. I feel like Gallows have always been the underdogs and that’s our nature.
How’s the run up to the album release going? It feels like I’ve been waiting all my life to get this record out, and the reviews have been coming in and they’ve been like really fucking good, like really positive. And they should be, man. I’m really happy with the album.
Did you go into the studio armed with songs this time? We hit the studio with a lot of ideas - some from Grey Britain, a load from before Wade joined, then a bunch of fresh ideas once Wade was in. We gave ourselves a week when we went in to thrash these ideas out, and it basically meant if it didn’t work first time, it wasn’t making it on the album. We were making sure the songs flowed well, cutting all the fat and just leaving the lean meat. It’s the one record I’ve put out where there’s nothing on it I’d change.
It does seem a lot more aggressive this time round? I think with Gallows it is just naturally aggressive. Wade has got a pretty brutal and harsh voice, but at the same time, when he does sing, he doesn’t have to use that growl. We can still throw out a catchy chorus, but we’ll still sound heavier than most bands. We love a good gang vocal as well. How has it been putting out your own album compared to the second album launch on a massive label like Warner? It is a lot easier. Before, when you wanted something done, you had to send about fifty e-mails, but now there’s a lot less fucking bullshit. It’s brilliant as we’re doing our own label through PIAS and we’ve already been sorting out other bands releases and stuff. You do realise how easy it is for things to go wrong at every level. It has been really satisfying to set up our own label – something like Epitaph and Fat Wreck and you just want to get involved and do your own. It’s a really difficult time to be a record label, but we are not concentrating on big releases, just small runs of cool vinyl. That’s what we like and we want to play it safe for now. It’s like when we pick bands to go on tour – we like to make the package really strong. How has the songwriting changed since Frank’s departure? Frank was never that involved in the songwriting anyway. We’d write the music, and then he’d squeeze the vocals on top of it. Where Wade is a musician as well, we’d all sit in the studio with a guitar and an amp, and everyone was throwing their ideas in at the same time. With this album, the vocals and the music go so well together, and there are some really big vocal hooks on this record, which is something that Gallows have never really done before, and it just feels like a step in the right direction. It’s quite stripped back. 10 |
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“There are some really big vocal hooks on this record… it just feels like a step in the right direction.” The tail-end of 2009, you’d come off the back of the Grey Britain tour with some support slots with Rage Against the Machine. How did that come about? Our booking agent in the States is really good friends with the Rage guys, and he gave them the debut album and they were really into it and asked us to play a gig in Italy with them. It was fucking nuts playing with Rage stood at the side of the stage watching you. For anyone growing up in the 90’s they are the definitive band, and nobody can touch them today. Our parents came out to the Dublin show, when Tom Morello comes in – “right guys, there’s a ping-pong tournament after the gig tonight. Make sure you’ve got your teams ready”. That evening, they whip out their (seriously) Rage Against the Machine ping-pong table with the big red star on it. Everyone was stood around and teaming up, and you’ve got our f**king drummer versus Zack. Stu playing Tom Morello. Bearing in mind how big they are, it’s really endearing to see that bands that huge can still be human and not f**king pricks, you know? Interview by Matt Crane
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A PLASTIC ROSE 247’s Amy Berry chats with Ian McHugh from the Irish rock group ahead of their South West tour dates to talk emotion, river dance mosh pits and supporting Snow Patrol on their ‘Fallen Empires’ arena tour How did A Plastic Rose come together? Gerry and I met at an open mic night in a rural town in the west of Ireland, but we soon went different ways. I then went off to University while Gerry continued playing music. Two years later we met again and that’s when we decided we wanted to put a band together. We saw around 20 bass players and 10 drummers and finally had our full line-up come together five years ago! What is the meaning behind your name ‘A Plastic Rose’? It came from a lyric that we had written in one of our songs, it’s something we think that you can take many different meanings from.
“He then flew Snow Patrol over to Belfast to see us; we had no idea at this point that they had us in mind for their supporting act on their tour!” 12 |
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Who are your main influences? We like a lot of the old 90’s emo stuff like Sunny Day Real Estate, but we also love modern English bands like Biffy Clyro and Frank Turner, they’re great. How would you describe your sound? Probably post-hardcore alternative rock. Our songs are very emotionally direct, and we like to write songs where the lyrics fit with the music, it just works. Any highlights as a band since you’ve been together? One time which will always be a great memory of our career would have to be playing on the BBC Radio One introducing stage at Reading and Leeds Festival a couple of years ago. It seemed to come from nowhere as we were still only playing small local gigs in small venues, so this was a huge deal to us, and we loved it.
You’ve supported snow Patrol on their tour, and the band has actually been to watch you guys, is that true? Yeah Gary was out for drinks with his mates at a place where we were playing and at the end of our gig he introduced himself. He then flew Snow Patrol over to Belfast to see us; we had no idea at this point that they had us in mind for their supporting act on their tour! What do you think of the current rock scene in the UK? It’s brilliant, very vibrant, especially in Belfast and Glasgow, they are two very cooperative rock scenes and everyone seems to be collaborating. It’s incredible and we are very much enjoying being a part of it and meeting new people and making contacts. You’ve got a brand new album out in October ‘Camera. Shutter. Life.’ what we can expect from it? It’s a collection of our very best songs to date. We have released tonnes or EP’s so far and we had around fifty to sixty demos to choose from for our album! We spent ages choosing songs and making sure that most importantly, the album flowed. We hope that our fans can listen to it as a journey of an album and hopefully agree that it’s our best yet! Your heading to Truro as part of your tour in October, have you played many gigs in the south west before? We’ve played in Bristol a couple of times, but other than that, the South West is new to us. We are excited to play there though and hopefully use it as an opportunity to make some new fans. What can us South West-ies expect from your show? Our live shows are definitely our strongest point. I’d say we’re kind of unpredictable, but as a band, we are so tight which shines through. We hope to make it a memorable night, and if it goes really well we will get a river dance mosh pit going – which has been a hit at other gigs! What advice would you give to aspiring musicians and singers wanting to make it into the rock scene in the South West? Probably something which we didn’t do and should have done ourselves, and that is wait until your product is really ready, make sure all your songs are tight and your best, and then go for it. We didn’t do this ourselves so much, we dived on in there, but this is the best advice, looking back, that we could give. Catch ‘A Plastic Rose’ playing at Louisiana in Bristol on October 10 and B-Side at Bunters in Truro on October 12th. Their album ‘Camera.Shutter.Life’ is out on October 22nd, available from their website - www.aplasticrose.co.uk
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South West’s fast-rising DJ/producer, Phat Chex talks to 247’s Arash Torabi about his new vinyl release and hooking up with the ultra-respectable Apple Pips label Those who know what’s what with their bass music may have noticed that Phat Chex is reaching way beyond his hometown, on a national and international level. As well as a record out on Apple Pips, he’s had tunes on Pyramid Transmission and Darkfloor Sound. And he’s had a track of his played by techno legend, DJ Dave Clarke: the man John Peel tagged “The Baron of Techno”. He may look young, but Phat Chex has already paid his dues, with killer DJ sets back in the day at UFO (Plymouth’s former longstanding electro night) and Legends of the Dark Black. More recently, you may have caught him DJing at Subheavy, Sub Culture, Timbuk2 in Bristol or… wait… we could be here for a very long time! The tune-making came in 2008. “That’s when I decided to stop being a waster and to actually do something with my life,” says Mr Chex. “This decision saw me enrolling on a music technology course at dBs music in Plymouth (where I live), which has since helped me to sharpen my production tools, and enabled me to write my own music. I used to send a lot of my tracks to a very good friend of mine, Bobak aka DJ Necta Selecta, DJ & promoter at Plymouth’s original dubstep night, Subheavy. He would play the ones he liked at parties, and so a couple of them got noticed by Appleblim who then got in touch, and the rest is history.” And his motivation? “First and foremost, I do this shit because I love it and always will. I’m just going to carry on Scan for debut release ‘Can’t Stop’
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plugging away in my studio, regardless of whether or not people listen or like what I do.” That’s the spirit! “However, it’s a really nice and satisfying feeling when people do pick up and enjoy the thing that I am so passionate about.” By the time this goes to print, the latest release by Phat Chex will more than likely be out – that’s two tracks on 12” vinyl and download: Git Da Funk and Can‘t Stop, released on Apple Pips, the label by Bristol’s Appleblim (who used to run the dubstep label Skull Disco). Chex says: ”One side of the record is chunky dub house, and the other is a rolling dub techno number. Also, I recently had a track called Full Flight From Reality, featured on a vinyl-only compilation album for Electro label Pyramid Transmission’s anniversary release, Interstellar Communications Vol 1. There’s another track to follow soon, Skin Pop, on Vol 2 which, will be a digital-only release. And on the club front, Phat Chex has also been getting out and about: “‘I’ve recently been playing at Voodoo Lounge in Plymouth, which has been hosting some great events. It’s probably my favourite venue in Plymouth at the moment. And I played a set at the White Rabbit last night, which was really fun. I’m also playing down there again in a couple of weeks for a night called Sub Culture. I recently played in Exeter for Big Like House which is a great event. I also played at Timbuk2 in Bristol, with the rest of the NONOM crew (No Nonsense Music crew) a while back. I just had an email asking me to play in Berlin at the end of November, Scan for a free mix
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When Chex is blessing the decks, it’s definitely not music-by-numbers which has got me really excited: it’s my favourite place that I’ve visited so far.” OK, now let’s talk styles. It’s not always an easy topic to pin down, but one thing is for sure: when Chex is blessing the decks, it’s definitely not music-by-numbers: “The style of music that I’ll bust depends on where I happen to be playing. I like forward-thinking music with soul, whether it’s 140 BPM techno or 110BPM house. Slow dusty house through to techno, with influences from the likes of Fred P, Levon Vincent, DJ Qu, DJ Spider, Tevo Howard, Theo Parrish, Vakula, Tin Man, Lone, UR, Drexcya, Radioactive Man, The Exaltics, 214, ADJ, Surgeon, Blawan, Untold, Trevino, Pariah, Neil Landstrumm, Delta Funktionen, Aardvarck, Al Tourettes, Apple Pips label-owner Appleblim, October, Bambounou and so many more. I also play live manipulating analogue and digital control system, with a good friend of mine, Autogenesis, playing as An Earth Without People.”
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Keep Rollin’ Cornish skate legend, Matthew Perham talks to 247’s Rachael D’Cruze about longevity, the South West scene, trademark ticks and favorite skate spots
“As long as I can get on a board and get in the zone I’ll get a release from my riding and I’ll keep on.” 16 |
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Vital Stats Name: Matthew Perham Age: 37 Lives: Ponsanooth Occupation: Upholsterer Years skateboarding: 29 Sponsors: Plain Lazy, Faltown skateboards
How did you first get into skateboarding? There’s a little hill that trickles down the side of my parent’s house that had a steep section followed by a super sharp right and a sharp left; my brother and I conquered it on tricycles, go karts, bikes, roller skates and finally banana boards. There was a lot of antiseptic TCP involved. And incidentally no pads or helmets in those days, just a pair of football shorts and a polyester Incredible Hulk tee shirt maybe. The hardest was the plastic 70’s skateboards - the trucks were so loose you’d get speed wobble pretty much straight away, I guess it would have taken us many, many weeks and just as many failed attempts but when I finally got it, I had to do it again and again, every day. So much fun, every time. If you fall you get back on it, maybe even in a day or too, but you’re hooked. Thinking about it now, that’s what I’m still doing every time I go out. It’s such an incredible feeling. How has skateboarding shaped your life and do you think you’ll always do it? I’m not so sure it’s shaped my life. It’s given my life meaning, and purpose, I’m not so sure I’d be who I am without my riding. Skating has shaped my physical body that’s undeniable for sure. If you look below the surface of skating or any sport you find a huge element of perseverance through which progress is made at a slow, pretty much invisible, rate. You can quit any thing you take up but if the process clicks with you, you do it regardless, loads of skaters only ride with a crew and as they all slowly drop out over the years they quit too, I learnt to ride on my own and will go skating at a skate park and make friends there every day. Or maybe I’ll keep to myself and just do my thing. You drop in, drop out, it’s organic, you need skate buddies too, but to be able to just go out and ride gives you longevity. As long as I can get on a board and get in the zone I’ll get a release from my riding and I’ll keep on. There’s older skaters than me in the SW still riding doing their thing, so there’s no reason why I can’t keep rolling. You’ve been skating a long time – how has the scene changed in the South West during your time? We used to bomb hills and do a catamaran - two boards, two riders, both sat on their board facing each other with their legs on the others board and holding hands whilst caning it down hill - usually utter carnage… It was all about carving bowls and skating kerbs, street skating in its infancy. Trousers were skinny and we wore sailing gloves. I made extra pocket money selling chewing gum in school and Ollie
flaps in rad magazine (a patch of leather that hung from your laces to stop the side of your shoes getting trashed from Ollies – this was the late 80s. In the 90’s, wheels got smaller, boards developed a longer nose, trousers got ginormous, huge boards get thinner and tricks get super technical. I began skating street in Falmouth, riding hills with college friends, including my future wife, Vee. Mount Hawke opens as an outdoor skate park, and I get to meet other skaters from all over Cornwall. Jamie Turnbull films and releases Wide Eyed World at this point, an important British skate film of the era exposing Cornish skaters. I went to university in ’95 and got my first sponsorship by Subway Skate Shop in Tamworth. Begin entering comps in midlands, exposed to British skate industry. Skating gets gnarly big - more and more skaters become pro, skating attracts athletes rather than the geeks, doing a slappy grind down the local kerb no longer cuts it. Damn. It’s all pretty much downhill from here, hip hop has replaced punk in the skate vids and schools soon offer trips to Hawke in place of P.E. And where are we now? Jeans are skinny spray on tight and boards get wider, any minute now they’ll be a 360-spinning contest down the car park. What’s your biggest achievement in skateboarding? I won a Sony PlayStation SW comp and also a nestle lion bar sponsored UK comp from which I got given a hire car for months, which they must have forgotten about – it was really just to get us to Heathrow for the flight to the finals in Paris, that was back in 2000. What tricks are you know for best? My trademark trick is the backside early grab 360. Also love a monkey flip manual to fire cracker. Still working on the primo grind to nollie hard flip… If you could skate anywhere, where would you go? I want to ride the hills of San Francisco, Livingston skate park in Scotland, and a road trip round New Zealand’s concrete parks wouldn’t go a miss either. What are your top South West skate spots? Mount Hawke for all weathers - being indoors and lit is a winter favourite, like wise for Prime in Plymouth. Playing Place’s 70’s bowl is a historical gem and Truro’s Plaza as I got to help with the design in the initial stages, so I have a big love for that place. Keep an eye and ear out for Bus Side Skate Park which is a DIY spot currently being developed – I’m looking forward to helping out / filming there soon.
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STYLE On Thin Ice
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Retail Therapy New tech we’re lusting after this month…
Fujifilm XF1 Meet the XF1, the newest addition to Fujifilm’s premium X-Series range. We love the iconic retro design! With its good looks, superior image quality, abundance of features, wide-angle lens and ease of use, we think Fujifilm are onto a winner with this one! Price yet to be announced. See www.fujifilm.eu/uk
Nikon D600 With an RRP of £1955 it’s certainly not cheap, but Nikon’s new D600 is set to change the game for enthusiast photographers. The 24.3-megapixel FX-format D-SLR, is the smallest and lightest full-frame D-SLR Nikon has ever crafted, despite being equipped with an FX-format image sensor as used in Nikon’s professional cameras. Shoot big, travel light! See www.nikon.co.uk
Ministry of Sound MOS006 These new headphones from Ministry of Sound bring you spectacular audio quality and they are comfortable to wear too. £39.99. See www.ministryofsound.com
iPhone 5 Apple madness continues to sweep the world with the introduction of the mighty iPhone 5. The new model is just 7.6 millimeters thin – it’s 20 percent lighter and 18 percent thinner than iPhone 4S. Other improvements include a new 8MP iSight camera with new features including panorama and dynamic low-light mode. See www.apple.com
New iPad Things just get better. The new third generation iPad gives an unrivaled user experience. Apple has made pretty much everything better - the display, the camera, the wireless connection…From £399, see www.apple.com
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Kongo, 18 Trousers: Beyond Retro, Top: Urban Outfitters, Hat: Bol$hie
Avneet Padda. 24. Top: B-side. Shirt: Vintage Store
Gregorgy Joseph, 28. Hat: Old Treasure: Coat & Top: Bside
Carrera Yung, 16. Jewellery: Newlook and Topshop, Top: London
Jay Joseph, 23 Shoes: Nike, Top: Wale Adeyemi, Trousers: Unknown
Picture perfect in Plymouth this month
Wesley Sparks, 20 Jumper: Primark, Shoes & Trousers: Topman, Tie: Burtons
Kerenza Leighton, 21 Dress; Topshop, Shoes: Converse, Bag: Market, Jewelry: St Ives Silver
Joshua Richards, 25 Top: B-side by Wale, Trousers: Topman, Shoes: Nike
Rebecca Hall, 23 Top; Forever 21, Leather Jacket: Topshop, Trousers: River Island, Shoes: Adidas
Sam Harvey, 21 Top: Quicksilver, Shoes: Nike, Shirt: Topman
Brooke Dalby, 26 Leggings: Topshop, Shoes: Newlook, Varsity Jacket: B-side
Naomi Denton, 21 Dress: River Island, Shoes: Dr Martens, Bag: Primark, Jewellery: Calvin Klein
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We’ve come over all carnivorous this month – steak is on the menu
Food
A generous T-bone steak from Plymouth’s JD Grill Photo: Angie Knight
Plymouth
Exeter
Taunton
JD Grill
Harry’s Grill Bar
Pitcher & Piano
What you get at JD Grill is a vast choice of high quality American-influenced food and friendly service, in a contemporary and spacious environment. There’s plenty of room between tables, so you don’t feel boxed in and, more importantly, if you like steak, you’ve definitely come to the right place.
The lower floor of Harry’s Grill Bar takes the form of a cow-themed cocktail bar, complete with bovine bar stools and an assortment of livestock related artwork. The first floor dining room boasts high ceilings supported by a number of wooden beams, dark wooden tables and chairs, wooden flooring – you’re getting the picture!
Taunton isn’t blessed with a dedicated steak house, but you should be able to find a good slab of rump at any decent eatery, right? Lets see. I headed in the grand Pitcher & Piano building with high hopes and on the menu was a 10oz 21 day matured rump steak, priced at a reasonable £12.95 - perfect.
There are three types of steak to choose from: T-bone, New York Strip and Rib-eye, cooked to your preference, and you can have it either with a sauce (choice of four) or rub (herbs and spices rubbed into the steak, six types to choose from).
From where I was sat I found myself starred down by the portrait of a large black bull; his eyes filled with malevolence. This sort of carnival of the carnivore is fairly commonplace for steak houses, but personally I’ve always found it a bit poor taste. Harry’s has an unquestionably wide range of steaks available. All the usual candidates are there plus some more unusual cuts such as Porterhouse, Onglet, Prime Rib and Chateaubriand.
It took about 20 minutes for the food to arrive and staff were both courteous and friendly – so far, so good. I have my steak well done – cooked through with no blood, but I still like it be succulent and definitely not burned and/or dry. The Pitcher & Piano did well – cooked to perfection, juicy and tasty. I ordered my steak with garlic butter (included in the price) and again that was done well – indulgent but not too much of it or to overpowering.
We opted for the Bone in Prime Rib, which at £45 for two was certainly not cheap. It arrived quickly; a little too quickly as it turned out. Unfortunately the meat hadn’t been rested properly which resulted in the forming of a lake of jus on our table. The beef itself was fairly tasty, but lacked the delicate flaky texture I was hoping for.
Accompanying the meat was grilled tomato, fresh onion rings and chips – a large, filling meal. Unfortunately though the chips were saturated with fat – I presume they’d been fried twice and as a result weren’t half as nice and they could have been. Some were just plain inedible. This was a real shame, as the service, steak and other elements of the meal had been excellent. I can only assume someone in the kitchen was a bit lazy that day…
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I’m a well-done man all the way, and I went for the sauce option rather than the rub. The T-bone steak with peppercorn sauce was just incredible: it was cooked to perfection, with a crispy and tender feel, and the portions are extremely generous. The same goes for the jug of sauce that comes with the steak: there’s plenty there if you want to use it as a dip or if you prefer to pour it over the steak. The price (£19.95) includes the steak plus a sauce/rub and one side-order, and you can increase on the latter, with plenty more options (corn on the cob, skinny fries, potato salad and more). As well as steaks, there are burgers galore (including vegetarian), with a massive range of toppings or fillings, including caviar. The dessert looked tempting, but I was quite full after the steak and skinny fries. Maybe next time… Arash Torabi
Perhaps they were in a rush to get us our meal, but in a restaurant specialising in steaks this lack of care was unforgivable. I’m afraid to say that the combination of overbearing staff, dodgy décor and questionable cooking left a poor impression on me. Some may love it, but this one’s definitely not my cup of Bovril. Nick Emerson
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The Pitcher & Piano has a lovely menu, through from breakfasts to lunches, dinner and cocktails and the imposing historic building is a lovely place to be with its spacious, classic look and feel – I’ll give it another go, but will probably order something chip-less next time. Rachael D’Cruze
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Music Arash Torabi
Phoenix City All-Stars Two Tone Gone Ska (Phoenix City/Cherry Red)
The title may sound like it’s stating the obvious, but despite popular belief, the British Two Tone bands such as The Specials and Madness were only influenced by ska: what they created was their own take on it. And this album proves this point, by presenting reinterpreted versions of those bands’ songs (and their peers, The Beat and The Selecter) in the style of the ‘60s Jamaican ska artists that influenced them. So it’s 2012 doing 1979 in a ‘60s style. Post-modern or what? But the important thing is that it works. Most of the songs, like the iconic Ghost Town, are played instrumentally. They capture the sound of ‘60s Jamaica ska effectively.
GRICE
Propeller (Hungersleep Records) The Exeter artist’s debut album is also first release on Exeter’s brand new Hungersleep Records. The title track’s dreamlike qualities make it one of the album’s many highlights. The opening track, Patiently is similar to say, the mellower side of Super Furry Animals, with strings, gentle guitar picking, and a lazy trumpet, sprinkled with some soothing pedal steel. The pedal steel player is BJ Cole, who has played with a diverse range of artists, including Felt, Luke Vibert, T Rex, the list goes on! Slowdive (no relation to the song by Siouxsie and the Banshees) is reminiscent of a post-Beatles George Harrison. What GRICE shows is intensity and depth, with emphasis on songwriting and production.
Various Artists
Late Night Tales: Metronomy (LateNightTales) Enter experimentalist Joseph Mount, aka Metronomy, who selects the tunes for another edition of LNT. After a dodgy start with Outkast’s vomit-inducing falsetto crooning, he gets down to business properly on track 5, with Dr Octagon’s Blue Flowers, the brilliant psychedelic hip-hop track from the ’90s on Mo Wax. Metronomy’s own contribution is a classy cover of Jean Michel Jarre’s Hypnose, and another highlight is Seabird by Alessi Brothers. This set does justice to the eclectic spirit of LNT, and due to its varied nature, not every single track will appeal to everybody. Personally, Cat Power’s Werewolf is the one that really steals the show, and a great way to end (just before Paul Morley’s exclusive spoken-word piece).
Caned & Able Cosmosis (PSB Music)
For album number three, the London-based Caned & Able are joined by multi-instrumentalist, Mel Draisey from The Clientele. Although hanging tags on bands is rarely a good thing, the general description of partly electronic/partly guitar-based band with an MC may well fit the bill for this lot. An interesting version of The Cure’s Lullaby sees the MC doing his bit, bringing a different atmosphere to the song. They rock it up with Confusion, and drop it down again with No More Rollercoasters. The standout song has to be the opener, It Keeps Me Young, with its pulsating bass, repetitive structure and layers of melodic vocals. The songs that don’t feature the MC tend to work better.
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Rozi Plain
Joined sometimes unjoined (Fence Records/Need No Water) Sadly, Bristol lost Rozi Plain to London. And while she might be gone, she’s certainly not forgotton and this album reminds us. ‘Humans’, with its wonderful array of instruments, has a subtle folkadelica vibe, held together by impeccable vocals – a la an older/wiser First Aid Kit. ‘Slices’, a dreamy, ethereal number, centred around some excellent finger-picking guitar, with definite hints of Jason Molina. ‘See My Boat’ would not be out of place in a Francois & The Atlas Mountains set. Final track ‘Days Minutes’ is a stark and pure sounding tear-jerker, up there with the likes of King Creosote & Jon Hopkins’ ‘Diamond Mine’. If End of the Road Festival was an album, this would be it.
DJ Yoda
Chop Suey (Get Involved) If you thought you were getting some sort of System of a Down remix here, you’d be grossly mistaken. No, what we have with title-track from one of the best mix CDs in town is an Avalanches sounding number – a perfect, heart-warming mix of spoken word and catchy beats. With collaborations with Boy George, Roots Manuva, Scroobius Pip and more – this harnesses the raw and refined talent of other musicians to push DJ Yoda’s technical skills further. ‘Charlie Sheen’ sounds like what might happen if Run DMC formed a supergroup with Babyhead. ‘Happy’, while featuring A Boy Called George, sounds more like the latest offering from George Michael, than Boy George. Stylish yet forgettable. Highlights are ‘Pizza’, ft Sway and ‘Rudies’.
John Cale
Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (Domino) He may have just turned 70, but John Cale has still got it. With a dark Nick cave/Gary Numan vibe, this record is a force to be reckoned with. While it has elements from bygone eras, it also has a modern appeal. ‘December Rains has a definite 80s vibe to it, but in a real credible New Order/Pet Shop Boys kind of way. ‘Mary’ is a tender ballad with a nod towards Roy Orbison, but punctuated with Cale’s warm and wavering voice. ‘Living With You’ is not dissimilar to The June Brides’ latest offering while ‘Midnight Feast’ opens with a Chris Isaak breathiness – a sexy, slow burning song building layer on layer to create an epic track.
The Unthanks - Diversions
Vol.3 – Songs from The Shipyayds (Rabble Rouser Music) Here we have a selection of beautiful songs from the film ‘Songs From The Shipyards’, which could well be the best offering from The Unthanks to-date. Their voices are pure and clear and appear much more contemporary than a lot of their traditional folk material. The northern twang shines through in an endearing way. ‘Black Trade’ is a slow and impassioned number which builds layer on layer, with some perfectly placed strings, to create a blinder of a track. ‘The Romantic Tees’, which is split into three parts is an inspired piece with a mix of spoken word and Yann Tiersen-esque sounds. The piece de resistance comes in the unlikely form of a cover of Elvis Costello’s ‘Shipbuilding’. Faultless.
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Ti2bs
Super Ti2bs (Reform Entertainment) I remember Ti2bs from back in the day; he liked his flow and had some real nice productions. His flow is still on point, as ever, and his productions are very much the kind of thing 1xtra is full of, with the likes of Chipmunk and Tinie Tempah etc. Where I think this really shines though is in the underground cuts. It’s a very understandable approach - most artists want to be able to reach the masses on radio but still keep their original fan base and this album is a very good example of just that. Tracks such as ‘Wobble’ and ‘Go Forth’ would easily blow up in clubs but still get radio shine. This feels like an album of two halves and while both are very competent, I’d like to hear more of the deeper tracks.
Luv NY
Luv NY (Modular Records) For a long, long time, New York was the centre of the hip hop universe and I for one long for it to return to that. Every now and then an album comes along and people start to think ‘this might be the one’, sadly this isn’t that album. It’s a super-group of people like Kool Keith, and members of the DITC crew. While this does retain some of that old New York flavour, it feels like the A-team is out of town touring and someone called up all these guys to play for the crown. Don’t get me wrong, it bangs and the flows are tight, it’s just that times change and it would take a bigger and better album that this to return hip hop to its birth place. If you like your hip hop and need something new and with a lil twist, I recommend this.
The Coup
Sorry to Bother you Anti Records A lot of the best times, creatively, for music have been times of depression, recession and oppression, so maybe a whole new genre of music or youth movement is just around the corner. Groups like The Coup have been stirring up feelings and sentiment for a long time now, this is in the same vein but feels like a real mixed bag of influences, genres and ideas and sometimes it feels like less would have been more. If Andre 3000 slept with Mark Ronson, with Tina Weymouth adding some suggestions, they might make a lovechild, the child would listen to Phenomenal Hand Clap Band then want to make an album like this, strange as that might sound it’s as close as I can get to this.
Murs x Fashawn This Generation (Duck Down Music)
Completing my all-hip hop album reviews this month and the best has been saved til last. There are none more essential in the rap game than Murs, joined on this album by Fashawn, but to be honest, you know Murs will steal this. I never understood why he hasn’t blown yet - clever rhymes, witty and always choosing nice collaborators and producers, for me the 9th wonder! And Murs is pretty much the killer one but, K salaam and Beatnick keep it nice and bumping, plenty of soul samples. Only thing is, I got sent an annoying promo copy with drops all over it so I shall be buying this as soon as it drops. You should too.
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Lupen Crook
British Folk Tales (Preservation Society) Matthew Pritchard hasn’t made muso life easy for himself. Often found thriving on the edge of the anti-folk community, his work under the guise of Lupen Crook has split the camp; some falling for his self-absorbed artsiness and others loathing him for it. With album number five, the aloofness is still there but a warmth has found its way into ‘Treasons To Be Beautiful’ and ‘Crumbs Trails’. And Crook has made a fine fist of producing and performing pretty much everything, with a nod to old- and new-fashioned modes of creativity. And if ‘Note To Self’ sails too close to troubadour territory, the jaunty cabaret-folk of ‘The Wider World’ and the loungecore slouch of ‘Herding Cats’ bring redemption.
The Cut Ups
Building Bridges, Starting Here (Household Name) Pianos! Organs! Female vocals! Fiddles! Crikey. The Cut Ups are branching out into fresh, uncharted territories. Elsewhere, however, it’s business as usual. Which is, classic emotive punk rock with a smouldering conscience. ‘The Gold War’ and ‘The Pacifist’s Hymn’ are towering slabs of heartfelt noise with Jon Curtis’ thick Bragg-esque voice sounding rounded and roaring. In fact, after the charming guest vocals of guitarist, Dan (‘Teenage Danclub’), and Pippa Wragg (‘Another Bad Mood’), and after all the embellishments, one thing remains very clear: Jon’s voice is the golden fleece. It’s what makes The Cut Ups so endearing, so unique, so believable and so fucking brilliant. Tether that voice to these heart-swelling songs and it’s a no-brainer.
The Peacocks Don’t Ask (People Like You)
Slick of jet-black quiff and all dials set to punkabilly, you know where you are with Switzerland’s Peacocks. True to form, album number seven finds them ploughing the same old field but the song-craft here is head and shoulders above earlier offerings. Taking their foot off the throttle seems to be key to this newly-found melodic charm: ‘Up And Down’ and ‘With You’ sounding like the bastard off-spring of Rocket From The Crypt and Dion & The Belmontes. Of course, they keep the faithful happy with hi-octane bass-popping speedballs like ‘What I Want’ and ‘Re-Hash Boogie’ (hello Matchbox B-Line Disaster). Their dalliance with an older rock’n’roll and a smarter new wave makes ‘Don’t Ask’ a very worthy affair. Maturity suits you, sirs.
Converge
All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph) Let’s face it, Converge were in danger of getting predictable. So here they take a wilful leap into the darkest of the dark arts, with Jacob Bannon channelling some intensely troubled musings as the band plummets balls-first into neo-hardcore’s sewage system to emerge covered in layers of crust, powerviolence and lots of crystalline Bad Brains hooks. It’s pretty spectacular. ‘Trespasses’, ‘Sadness Comes Home’ and ‘Glacial Pace’ sound like the work of band who really don’t want to tread water for the rest of their lives; taking time to unearth new rhythmic patterns and hopefully leave their less discerning fanbase by the roadside. You can keep your spurious Refused and ATDi reunions. Here’s where things are getting truly revolutionary. www.247magazine.co.uk
Louk
Demos
Jack Cookson www.facebook.com/jackcooksonmusic On his self-produced ‘Five Times’ EP, Plymouth teenager, Jack Cookson, is clearly in thrall to the check-shirt postpunk troubadour brigade, namechecking Chuck Ragan, Gaslight et al as key influences. Thankfully, unlike many, he doesn’t feel the need to imitate his gruffly-intoned heroes, opting for a more reflective, soft-focus strum with lyrical reflections that point to a precociously rounded talent. His fondness for the fancy fingers of Andy McKee certainly lends itself throughout the five songs on offer. There are a few shaky-breaky moments but the warmth and vision are impressive, whether on stripped back songs like ‘The Table’ and ‘Sonnenblume’ or the country drum’n’twang of ‘The Head, The Heart & The Flesh’. The outlook is bright.
Aaron Douglas
www.aarondouglasmusic.co.uk After paying his dues in Albenaza and Cosmo Jarvis’ band, Aaron Douglas has stepped out with a solo excursion and a debut EP, ‘Weapons Free’, that sets its sights on the national acoustic-pop radar. All six songs are crafted to such a professional level you find yourself pining for a bit of grit’n’guts but that’s not to take away from the gentle emotional pull of ‘Shipwrecks’ and ‘Run On Your Own’. The title track packs a heftier punch, while ‘Time For You To Go’ is a sentimental farewell to Plymouth. This EP is clearly a statement of intent: an honest declaration of Year Zero as far as Aaron’s musical calling goes. Good luck on the high seas, mister.
Anger The Bees www.angerthebees.co.uk
The DIY ethos is fine and dandy but if the end result is the lo-fi sonics of one man’s acoustic noodlings and a bunch of unsubtle percussion then count me out. The man in question is Falmouth’s Sam Bradbury, and his chosen forte is a homespun, psyche-folk whimsy that at least denotes an active mind. The technique improves for the Velvet Underground lilt of ‘Cheek Bones’ but things soon return to form with the aimless Cobainesque strum of ‘Something Special’ and, after 19 songs, those incongruous click-tracks really begin to grate. I advise more quality control. And more quality. And get some fresh ears in to bounce ideas off. Or at least to tell you to lay off the goddamn triangle.
Mark McCabe
www.markmccabe.co.uk And yet another soloist to round up this review section. Aberdeen’s Mark Maccabe is a bit of misery-guts but he just about gets away with it due to that Caledonian dialect and some decent enough strumming. ‘My Disguise Is Better Than Yours’ is a better title than a song, but ‘Trains’ offers more than the maudlin croon that envelopes this album by dint of its gentle jazzy picking and King Creosote-esque frown. More of this please. ‘Join The Crowd’ and ‘Independent Thought?’ are a welcome gear shift although the stark similarity to Frank Turner’s self-referential gait tends to grate throughout. More variety, less Frank and more of the picking and I’m on board with my bucket and spade.
Nicole Moudaber + Victor Calderone The Journey Begins (Drumcode)
Nicole Moudaber has been a name to watch for the past few years, hailing from Lebanon and moving to the UK, where she was at the helm of the legendary Southeast Recordings (a huge label in the musical upbringing of this reviewer!). Progressing to hold residencies in Ibiza and touring the globe extensively with her unique brand of techno, she teams up with Victor Calderone. ‘The Journey Begins’ was first heard at Adam Beyer’s set at Nature One and thankfully a release date was very soon after. This is a pulsating hypnotic groove which builds to a massive break thanks to some massive synth sweeps and enticing vocals and there is not a dull moment in the 12 minute opus.
Dean Zone + Sixth Sense Gaia (Jim Justice Mix) (Gearbox)
A few years back I tipped Jim Justice as producer of the year in the Hard Dance Awards, and he has certainly come on leaps and bounds since then with a string of very successful releases and appearances at Qlimax, Defqon 1 plus many other European raves. Fair play to him as he knows how to make a killer remix, which is evident on ‘Gaia’. With kick drums sounding like they are from the Underworld school of percussion, a rip roaring bassline and one hell of a dark melody, I gave this a play on Friday at Liquid Pulse and it was one of the high points of the set. Forthcoming on Scotland’s Gearbox imprint, the original is also worth a spin.
Nomad + Wragg Roar (Atmosphere)
You are all probably sick of reading of both of these names on this page but yet again they manage to come up with something that blows a lot of the tracks that have come out this year, out of the water, in the hard trance world anyway! Driving enigmatic hard trance is the order of the day on ‘Roar’ and like the name suggests, the metallic tube sounding lead riff literally does roar at you before introducing one mother of a melody in true Atmosphere style. This had its debut airing in Germany in August when the duo flew out and passed me the first copy and ever since then it has been the mainstay of my record box.
Distant
(Darkfloor Sound) It’s always good to hear new exciting music from your home town and although slightly different to the norm from what is usually reviewed on these pages, Phat Chex (Ben) has been beavering away to a high standard and delivered an experimental five track EP that really works effectively. Dark vibes are of the order of the day, as you would expect to find from his Phat Chex DJ sets, and we are treated to broken Electronica with ‘Uncertain Future’ and ‘Puxton Bridge’ really taking on a darker undertone. I expect fans of Surgeon, Cari Lekebusch, Warp Records and abstract/IDM lovers to really dig this EP, especially the ‘Kitchen Sync’ track.
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JASON BYRNE Jason Byrne’s new show, “People’s Puppeteer” visits Plymouth Pavilions on 7th November, James Rampton catch’s up with him before he heads west
Last year, the magnetic Irish comedian Jason Byrne won the Sony Radio Gold award for “the best use of an audience”. In their citation for Radio 2’s The Jason Byrne Show, the judges declared that it was, “Organic comedy with great timing, huge warmth and its consistent laugh-out-loud moments.” Looking back now, Jason says, “That connection with the audience was what clinched the award, the judges couldn’t believe that I was doing it off the cuff. But I was just thinking on my feet. That’s basically what I do.” A comic who by his own admission is easily bored, he is constantly pulling new humorous rabbits out of his entertainer’s hat. When we chat in the run-up to the tour, Jason proves just as funny in an interview as he is on stage. “The audience is vital to me. I want them to feel that night is the only night that will happen. It’s their night. I’m giving it to them. “The more I involve them, the more unique it feels for them. I go on stage saying, ‘Everybody get on this train. I don’t know where it’s going, but let’s all jump on it anyway.” He gets the biggest buzz out of conjuring up routines out of thin air. “The past three months I have been working on the new show in Australia and New Zealand. But when I get to the point where everything is polished and lovely and shiny and tried and tested, my brain goes, ‘Why don’t you make something up?’ “So I start making stuff up to entertain myself. I recently just did the Kilkenny Comedy Festival. I was doing six sets of 20 minutes each and I gave myself the challenge of doing six completely different sets. You will be very pleased to hear, I managed it!”
“Everybody get on this train. I don’t know where it’s going, but let’s all jump on it anyway.”
The comedian makes outrageous demands on his audience. In the past he has, for instance, got four men up on stage and played the song “Popcorn” on their groins! For all that, Jason never takes the mickey out of his audience - the comic is always the butt of his own gags. He also stresses that he only ever chooses volunteers who are clearly up for it. “I’m very good at reading body language. I’d never get someone up who was clearly too shy. I can gauge audience members by looking at them. I can tell if they’re up for fun.” When asked about the strangest fan present he’s received, he laughs about a recent one at a live show. “A guy brought up the boxer shorts that he had been wearing that day. I put them on the end of my foot, so that they looked like a face. And then I did the whole show with the shorts talking to the audience!” It was pretty funny. Jason Byrne’s new show, “People’s Puppeteer” visits Plymouth Pavilions on 7th November and his DVD Cirque du Byrne will be available from 19th November. For further details go to www.jasonbyrne.ie
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Culture
IN PURSUIT OF ART
Compiled by our very own culture vulture, Alan Butler
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus, 01752 304774, Plymouth.gov.uk/museumpcmag, Admission Free Until 15 December
In conjunction with the National Gallery, this exhibition explores the links between Devon and the National Gallery’s first Director, Sir Charles Eastlake. Plymouth was a hotbed of talent at the turn of the 19th century with Sir Charles Eastlake and painters Sir Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Prout and Benjamin Haydon all born or raised there. While Eastlake’s national legacy is well documented, his early beginnings in Plymouth are not so well known, until curators have pieced together this story.
BEST OF THE REST DANCE 5 - 10 November Plymouth
MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.30pm, £10 - £32 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.
THEATRE 6 - 17 November Plymouth
ALL THAT IS WRONG, The Drum, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.45pm, £13 It’s wrong. Everything is wrong. The big stuff, the little stuff and everything in between. The world is messed up and there is nothing anyone can do about it. How must all of this look through the eyes of a teenager? Especially when the adults seem to have no idea how to fix things. Well, come and find out. Maybe teenagers can do better.
THEATRE 20 - 24 November Plymouth
HUGH HUGHES: STORIES FROM AN INVISIBLE TOWN 2012, The Drum, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.45pm, £13 Now audiences have the chance to join Hugh, his brother and his sister, as family skeletons leave their closets in this unpredictable and hilarious evening of family stories. His memories have grown and grown - bursting from Hugh’s head and into a website for us to explore and enjoy - www.invisibletownstories. co.uk
THEATRE 26 November – 1 December Plymouth
CHICAGO 2012, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.30pm, £12 - £35 “Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery… all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts” …so begins the international award winning musical Chicago, which comes to Plymouth for one week only starring Ali Bastian as Roxie Hart, Stefan Booth as Billy Flynn and Bernie Nolan as Matron ‘Mama’ Morton.
EVENT 15 November Exeter
TIM MCNIVEN: EMASCULATED, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Exeter, 01392 667080, exeterphoenix.org.uk 8.30pm, £5 Tim McNiven, stand up, has long suspected that he is not very good at being a man. Covering; Essex alpha-male gym-culture, fear of confrontation and sex: Emasculated is an honest introspection into how Tim fails at most criteria for a human being.
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Film
SKYFALL
Compiled by our resident film buff, John Barker
Dir: Sam Mendes Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, and Ralph Fiennes October 26th The Blonde Bond is back. But this time the film is directed by the Oscar-bothering Sam Mendes (American Beauty and Road to Perdition). The plot surrounds M’s shadowy past, as it comes back to haunt her and leads to a series of vicious attacks on MI6 headquarters. This time round the chief bad-ass is Javier Bardem, who you may have seen playing a stealthy assassin in No Country for Old Men. Another new face is Ben Whishaw who plays gadget-master Q, whose return signals a step towards the series on-screen heritage. In terms of the girl-candy, Bérénice Marlohe and Naomie Harris will keep pulses racing when the action dies down. Should be OO-heaven!
BEST OF THE REST FRANKENWEENIE 3D (PG)
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (U)
Dir: Genndy Tartakovsky Starring: Adam Sandler, Selina Gomez, and Steve Buscemi, 2012/US/91 min This animated haunt-em-up is set in Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. But his world could come crashing down when a human stumbles on the hotel for the first time and takes a shine to Drac’s wife.
Director: Tim Burton Starring: Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan 2012/US/ 87 min In this animated tale, Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences. Hot on the heels of last month’s Paranorman this dark tale of childish fun should leave Tim Burton fans MADAGASCAR 3: weeping for more. EUROPE’S MOST WANTED
3D (PG)
Dir: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon Starring: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris Rock 2012/US/ 93 min Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a travelling circus, which they reinvent - Madagascar style.
SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D (TBC)
Dir: Michael J. Bassett Starring: Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell and Carrie-Anne Moss 2012/US/TBC This video game based sequel sees Helen (Radha Mitchell) drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood. This will have to go some way to beat the original film for unsettling imagery, but the extra viewing dimension and a hammy Sean Bean performance should ensure an enjoyable evening at the local cinema.
TAKEN 2 (12A)
Dir: Olivier Megaton Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace 2012/France/91 min Bryan Mills (Neeson), the retired CIA agent, stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) from Albanian kidnappers. The father of one of the kidnappers has sworn revenge and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul. Bryan enlists his daughter to help them escape. The first film was a terrific guilty-pleasure and I hope this sequel is just as much fun.
SINISTER (15)
Director: Scott Derrickson Starring: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, and James Ransome 2012/US/110 min Spooky discover film footage helps a truecrime novelist Ellison (Ethan Hawke) realise how and why a family was murdered in his new home. His discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity. Weird Blair Witch meets CSI combo, which should provide a few Halloween scares.
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Live Gig Listings Our selection of noteworthy gigs taking place in October & November. Wed 03 Oct Plymouth CAFE ACOUSTICA B-Bar, The Barbican, 8.30pm, £free. Our fortnightly showcase of unplugged talent, hosted by singer-songwriter Jessie Mullen.
in salsa, merengue, bachata, son and more. Vauxhall Quay, 8pm, £free Torquay ROYALS One World Cafe, Abbey Park, £free, 7pm onwards.
Sun 07 Oct
Sat 13 Oct
St Austell AFRIQUOI Eden Café, Whiteriver Shopping Centre, 4pm onwards £10 inc food
Bideford THE DARKSIDE OF PINK FLOYD Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £tbc Tribute act Torquay MATTHEW & ME Abbey Rd, 7pm, £free. Plus DJ’s from 7pm.
Wed 10 Oct
Plymouth CAFE ACOUSTICA B-Bar, Castle St, Barbican, 8.30pm, £free. Fortnightly showcase of unplugged talent, Thurs 04 Oct hosted by singer-songwriter Jessie Mullen. Exeter Truro LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE B-SIDE PRESENT THE HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, COMPUTERS Bunters, Little Castle 8.30pm, £free. Guests Sidewalk Anthem, St, 7pm, £tbc. The Computers consist Daniel Adam, Zoe Lennard & Ollie Bowern. of Alex, Sonny, Nic and Aiden. They all live in Truro Exeter and fuse garage rock’n’roll with 80’s LIVE BANDS Bunters Bar, Little hardcore. Think Black Flag playing Chuck Castle St, 9pm, £free. Showcasing Berry or The Nerve Agents covering Elvis some of the best local musicians. Costello and you’re getting the picture. The Computers currently have a new record Fri 05 Oct out on One Little Indian that’s gaining them Bideford acclaim internationally for their full on rock-nGANG OF THIEVES Palladium Club, roll (and very radio friendly) vibes that’s seen Lower Gunstone, £tbc. Rock covers them play listed on XFM and Radio One plus Liskeard earning main support slots to the likes of Bad FUGE & POOK Barley Sheaf, Religion, Good Charlotte, The Bronx, Death Church St, 1pm, £free. Beer festival, From Above 1979 and The Subways, among from noon, BBQ in the garden. many more. Support comes from the Patrick Plymouth James Pearson band. Annabels, Vauxhall St. Doors Thurs 11 Oct 8.30pm, show 11pm, £5 Band THIRST 4 LIVE Thirst, Vauxhall St, Exeter 9pm, £2 from 11pm. LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE St Austell HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, Eden Café, Whiteriver Shopping 8.30pm, £free. Guests The Akibas & Centre, £6/£5 in adv. Matt North THE BIG AUTUMN BASH The Liskeard Core, Eden Project, 7pm-12.30am, COLD FEET Barley Sheaf, Church £15 inc seasonal supper of homeSt 9pm, £free Great selection of covers grown goodies! After the success of from these guys. last years event where Sheelanagig raised Truro the roof for a night of world music mayhem LIVE BANDS Bunters Bar, Little , gypsy jazz and Balkan bangers – this years Castle St, 9pm, £free. Showcasing Hoedown promises to take it up another some of the best local musicians. notch with 15 piece outfit The Destroyers- An anarchic Orchestra of blazing passion and Fri 12 Oct breathtaking originality- Turbo-folk-megaBideford balkan-punk-polka-poetry. Support comes THE FLAMIN RATRODS Palladium from local folk band Blue Horyzon and an Club, Lower Gunstone, £tbc. up coming duo Ukeladies. This shindig is to Rockabiliy celebrate, promote and raise funds for the work of People and Gardens, a project based Exeter at Eden’s Watering Lane nursery that supports SOUTH WEST LIVE, Angel Bar, 32 disadvantaged people in taking control of their Queen Street, 9pm, £free. Boasting some of the best up-&-coming & already well lives. www.peopleandgardens.co.uk established bands in the South West. Expect a Truro lively atmosphere Funk/Ska/Blues/Acoustic in B-SIDE Bunters Bar, Little Castle fact anything goes. St, 8pm, £free. Weekly indie night with Gwithian bands and DJ’s. RUDI’S MESSAGE Sandsifter, Gwithian £3/free if you eat at the Sat 06 Oct venue, 8pm. Bideford The stomping sound from the nuttiest boys BOOM BOOM ROOM Palladium around as Rudi’s Message lace up their boots Club, Lower Gunstone, £tbc. DJ night for some ska and two tone. The band formed of soul, funk & reggae in 2000, and have played at many festivals Exmouth and supported Bad Manners and The Selector BOBKATZ Famous Old Barrel, 1 on numerous occasions. Princess st, 9.15pm, £free. Plymouth Liskeard SAM MUMFORD & ANDREW HIGH VOLTAGE Barley Sheaf, MITCHELL, The Vauxhall Quay, The Church St, 9pm, £free. Beer Festival Barbican, 8pm, £free. Acoustic Duo from noon. BBQ in the garden. THIRST 4 LIVE Thirst, Vauxhall St, Plymouth 9pm, £2 from 11pm. FREE CUBA PARTY B-Bar, The St Austell Barbican, 10pm, £free. Latin tunes and HYMN FOR HER Eden Café, cocktails with our resident DJ playing the best Whiteriver Shopping Centre, £6/5
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in adv.. Truro B-SIDE Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 7pm, £2 inc free EP. Weekly indie night with bands and DJ’s.
Wed 17 Oct Plymouth CAFE ACOUSTICA B-Bar, The Barbican, 8.30pm, £free. Our fortnightly showcase of unplugged talent, hosted by singer-songwriter Jessie Mullen.
Thu 18 Oct Exeter LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, 8.30pm, £free. Guests Kelsey Jade Conroy, Matt Calder & Falling Trees RODDY WOOMBLE Exeter Pheonix, 8pm, £15.50 in adv. Familiar to thousands of music fans as the front man in the Scottish rock band Idlewild, Roddy Woomble is also a celebrated solo songwriter & performer. He follows up the release of his acclaimed 2006 solo debut ‘My Secret is My Silence’ with a brand new album of new songs. Liskeard FULL METTLE RACKETT Barley Sheaf, Church St 9pm, £free. Stonkin heavy rock covers band Truro LIVE BANDS Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 9pm, £free. Showcasing some of the best local musicians.
Fri 19 Oct Bideford MAYBE NAKED Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £tbc. Rock covers Helston EVEN NINE Seven Stars, 9pm, £free. Plymouth CY & CHRIS Vauxhall Quay, 8pm, £free Saltash THE WIRELESS The Union, 9pm, £free. St Austell THE BEUTONS Eden Café, Whiteriver Shopping Centre, £5/£4 Tavistock THE SELECTOR The Wharf, Canal Rd 7pm, £15. March 2012 saw The Selecter embark on a 20 date tour of the UK, with many venues selling out in advance. October 2012 will see them to play in towns not on the March tour in support of their live album ‘Live in Britain’. The Selecter pioneered the ska revival movement alongside labelmates, The Specials & Madness, and were responsible for some of the scene’s classic hits, including On My Radio, Three Minute Hero, Missing Words & Too Much Pressure. Truro B-SIDE Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 8pm, £free. Weekly indie night with bands and DJ’s.
Sat 20 Oct Bideford FOS BROTHERS & CHLOE BIX
Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £tbc. Folk, celtic & psychedelia. Exeter NEWTON FAULKER Great Hall, Exeter University. Doors 8pm, £tbc On the road promoting his latest album, he’s very popluar in the SW! Plymouth KEVIN BLOODY WILSON Plymouth Pavilions, 8pm, £19.50. Hailed by Billy Connelly as the world’s funniest Australian, with humour as tough and dry as his outback heritage, his songs shoot down society’s sacred cows with pin point accuracy, while successfully leapfrogging political correctness. THE WIRELESS The Thistle Park Brewhouse, 9.30pm, £free.
Sun 21 Oct Plymouth HADOUKEN! White Rabbit, 8pm, £12. OXJAM Various venues on the Barbican, 2pm-12am, £6.Oxfam plug into Plymouth as part of the national Oxjam Takeover - 40 bands, 6 venues, one night …. all for one wristband. All you have to do is buy an Oxjam wristband, turn up, get on down and help raise vital money for charity. Check www.facebook.com/oxjam.plymouth for more info. SAM MUMFORD & ANDREW MITCHELL, The Vauxhall Quay, The Barbican, 8pm, £free. Acoustic Duo
Mon 22 Oct Plymouth ED SHEERAN Plymouth Pavilions SOLD OUT. Support from Foy Vance and Passenger.
Tues 23 Oct Exeter RECKLESS LOVE Cavern, Queen St, £11, 8pm A four-piece group from Finland that plays exceptionally good rock n’ roll. There formula is simple; big hard rock just for the fun of it!
Wed 24 Oct Plymouth CAFE ACOUSTICA B-Bar, The Barbican, 8.30pm, £free. Our fortnightly showcase of unplugged talent, hosted by singer-songwriter Jessie Mullen. HILDAMAY & LANDSCAPE White Rabbit, 8pm, £7. Five piece rock band from Kent.
Thurs 25 Oct Exeter LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, 8.30pm, £free. Guests Lazy Mouse, Our Wife Now, Devonbird & Duncan Alex. PURE LOVE Cavern Queen St, 8pm-1am, £10. Pure Love show no sign of slowing down with a new set of headline dates confirmed, a support tour with Pulled Apart By Horses, new single Riot Song out 22nd October and their highly anticipated debut album Anthems coming February 4th. Liskeard JAM NIGHT Barley Sheaf, Church St 9pm, £free. P.A. drums & backline supplied. Truro LIVE BANDS Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 9pm, £free. Showcasing some of the best local musicians, tonight with Even Nine among others,
Fri 26 Oct Bideford
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Live SPACED INVADERS Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £tbc. 80’s covers Plymouth Annabels, Vauxhall St. Doors 8.30pm, show 11pm, £5 EVERYTIME I DIE White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, 8pm, £14. Support from Stray from the Path and Last Witness. THE WIRELESS Kitty O’Hanlons, 9pm, £free. St Austell OCTOBER Eden Café, Whiteriver Shopping Centre, £5 October Rocks (the girl and the month!) With Support from super talented Australian singer songwriter Sam Willoughby. Halloween Party. Dress up, bar prizes for coolest costume Truro B-SIDE Bunters Bar, Little Castle St, 8pm, £free. Weekly indie night with bands and DJ’s.
Sat 27 Oct Bideford BLACK HOLE PROMOTIONS Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £tbc. Showcase of three up and coming young bands. Exeter HALLOWEEN ZOMBIE WALK Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch St, 5pm – late, £10 in adv. Double headliners Fearless Vampire Killers & The Dead Lay Waiting being supported on the main stage by Cambion, Flame Fracture and Your Mums Beard.The second stage hosts Plymouth band Athura headlining with support from Lost In Conflict, Out Of Enemies, Leviathan & Purging The Venom. All ages show. HALLOWEEN PARTY Cavern, Queen St, 8pm-1am, £5. A one-off, one time only set from Exeter punk-n-rollers The Computers as American horror punk band The Misfits - playing a set of Misfits covers in their own inimitable style! Support comes from Crushing Blows. Liskeard BANANA THIEVES Barley Sheaf, Church St 9pm, £free. Halloween night, awesome covers band, fancy dress £50 first prize. Plymouth Annabels, Vauxhall St. Doors 8.30pm, show 11pm, £5
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8pm, £5. Rising like a behemoth from the sludge of the Stour Estuary, Dingus Khan are exactly what you’d imagine a band with a name like Dingus Khan to be, debut single ‘Knifey Spooney’ c/w ‘The Deathmarch of Dingus Khan’ released March 5th 2012 on Label Fandango. KATHRYN ROBERTS AND SEAN LAKEMAN LIVE Exeter Phoenix, 7.30pm, £12. Two of the British folk scenes most accomplished performers, Kathryn and Sean will be taking to the stage. having performed the world over in a number of guises, the intimacy and strength of passion shown as a duo, combined with an eclectic repertoire ensures a rare treat for any listener.
Barnstaple DUB PISTOLS The Factory, PETROC 8pm-11.30pm, £14 in adv. Live on stage as part of the their Rock Steady Tour. Falmouth CITIZEN FISH Falmouth Rugby Club 8pm-2am, £10 in adv. Presented by Punkadelic promotions, headliners are the legendary ska punk band Citizen Fish supported by Bus Station Loonies, ACC plus Skank n Stomp. Plymouth KNOTSLIP White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 8pm, £5. Tribute night, with support from Envy The Fallen (Newquay) and Kernuyck.
Penryn JO HAMILITION The Performance Centre, University College Tremough Campus, 7pm, £tbc Part of her European tour, she is the first artist in the world to work with an airpiano (A new musical interface which allows playing and controlling software instruments simply by moving hands in the air) and her debut release “Gown“ has received huge acclaim in the UK. She will also be recording a new album and is currently travelling through Canada, Hawai, French Polynesia, Thailand and New Zealand collecting images an inspiration for the new album.
Falmouth JULIA STONE Princess Pavilions, Melvill Rd, 8pm, £tbc.
Thurs 01 Nov Exeter LIVE MUSIC AT THE PICTURE HOUSE Exeter Picturehouse, 8.30pm, £free. Guests Rosie Eade, A Cat Called Elvis, Tim Bland & Nick Hampton. Falmouth EVEN NINE The Watermans, 9.30pm, £free
Sat 03 Nov
Falmouth CROWNS Princess Pavilion, Melvill Rd, 8pm, £tbc. Finding their raucous sound in a combo of traditional folk music and their own pop-punk youth, Crowns stand apart from the pack. Rolling out their incendiary live show over the festival season, with appearances at Reading and Leeds, Bestival and a support slot with Blink 182, the band have emerged triumphant, leaving beersoaked tents and arenas in their wake, Hailing from Launceston, Cornwall the band relocated to London and entered the legendary RAK Studios for the second time following a UK tour in April. The band release their debut album ‘Stitches In The Flag’ on Monday November 5th, through their own Ship Wreckords label. Plymouth BEN HOWARD Plymouth Pavilions SOLD OUT. This is Ben’s biggest SW show to date with main support from American Sun 28 Oct Folk troubadour Willy Mason who releass his Exeter much anticipated third studio album ‘Carry JETT BLACK Cavern, Queen St, On’ on December 3rd. This will be Willy’s first 8pm, £8. They’ve got a new album Raining release on Fiction Records, home to Elbow, Rock, out now. ‘80s tinged Metal. Big riffs The Maccabees and White Lies amongst flying in from all angles many others. Support are The Howling - the brainchild of Newton Abbot Blacky, (ex- Red Star Rebels) and Rev (ex- The RAMBUNCTIOUS SOCIAL Prodigy and Towers of London), these guys CLUB’S MEXICAN NIGHT OF THE drag punk into the next generation. DEAD BALL The Yellow Rooms, Plymouth Hannah’s, Seale Hayne. 8.30pm TERROR White Rabbit, Bretonside 1am The Rambunctious social club brings Bus Station 8pm, £10. US hardcore you an exuberant celebration of ‘Dias de los band Muertos’ - The day of the dead celebration. Building on the huge success of last years Mon 29 Oct Mexican night of the ball, thrown out your Exeter greys, dress up and celebrate with the THE WEDDING PRESENT Cavern, dead! Guests include Alejandro & The Magic Queen St, 8pm, £15. As part of a world Tombolinos, playing middle eastern latin and tour, audiences have been left stunned by gypsy reminiscent of Romanian whirlwinds, the energetic shows, consisting of new mixed with jazz, a pinch of punk, a taste of songs from their critically acclaimed new Tango, all played with fire! Support comes album ‘Valentina’, beloved favourites and, of from DJ’s Hod’Guez & DJ Griff. course… the long awaited live performance Mon 5 Nov of their intense ‘Seamonsters’ album, see them in this intimate venue, live! Exeter DINGUS KHAN Cavern, Queen St,
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Thurs 08 Nov Plymouth YASHIN White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 8pm, £5. Tribute night, with support from Envy The Fallen (Newquay) and Kernuyck
Fri 09 Nov Exeter UGLY DUCKLING Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £6. Classic live hip hop, supported by Carpetface & Audible Falmouth EASYSTAR ALL-STARS Princess Pavilions, 8pm, £tbc. The band present Thrillah - the reggae adapatation Michael Jackson’s of the greatest selling record of all time. Plymouth BLUE ORCHID Blackjacks, The Barbican 9pm, £free Saltash THE WIRELESS The Millbridge, 9pm, £free.
Sat 10 Nov Exeter EASYSTAR ALL-STARS Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £tbc. The band present Thrillah - the reggae adapatation Michael Jackson’s of the greatest selling record of all time. Saltash THE WIRELESS The Millbridge, 9pm, £free.
Sun 11 Nov Exeter MIKE PETERS (THE ALARM) Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £10. Mike Peters formed The Alarm in 1981, achieving over 15 Top 40 UK singles and over 5 million album sales worldwide along the way, this is a special acoustic session with him.
Tues 13 Nov Exeter SONIC BOOM SIX Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £8 By taking ska, pop, grime, dubstep,
punk and metal apart, then rebuilding them as a hyperactive hybrid, Manchester based Sonic Boom Six demand your attention.
Weds 14 Nov Plymouth GARY BARLOW Plymouth Pavilions, 7.30pm, £35 Singer, songwriter, producer, all round TV personality... man of the moment Gary Barlow brings his brand new solo tour to Plymouth.
Thurs 15 Nov Plymouth THE VACCINES Plymouth Pavilions, 7pm, £18.50. Ever since their debut album What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? hit the UK charts in March, spawning smash hit singles “Post Break Up Sex”, “If You Wanna” and “Norgaard”, The Vaccines have been the new face of British indie rock, with new album Come Of Age set to cement their status as one of the most exciting acts around!
Fri 16 Nov Exeter GONG Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £18 The band have been at the forefront of progessive psychedelic rock for decades, experience their sapce rock for one night only here! Plymouth Peter Andre Plymouth Pavilions, 7.30pm, £28.50-£75 Peter Andre returns to Plymouth for an “Up Close and Personal” tour. Over the past few years Peter has released two studio albums including the platinum selling ‘Revelation’, headlined two sold out tours and starred in a hit television series which was recently nominated for a National Television Award. PRS also awarded him the ‘Hardest Working Man in Pop’. Tavistock THE WURZELS The Wharf, Canal Rd, 8pm, £16 in adv. Legendary group who have been around since 1966, their first single, Drink up Thy Zider sold over 100,000 copies, then in 1976, Combine Harvester ( a parody of Melanies Brand New Key) went to number 1, selling 400,000 copies in the UK alone and that cemented them in the music industry. Support comes from The Skimmity Hitchers - a band of brothers, blaggers and badgers who now roam the B-roads and back alleys of the West Country, playing old-fashioned Scrumpy & Western live music with a modern edge.
Sat 17 Nov Exeter MANSONS GUITAR SHOP 20th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £tbc Celebrating 20yrs of the world reknown Exeter-based guitar sho, with various artists performing a wide range of music - guests tbc. vSennen EVEN NINE First and Last, 9pm, £free Torrington IFUNK The Globe, 9pm, £free Wembury HAMER & ISAACS GYPSY SWING BAND The Odd Wheel Inn, 9.30pm, £free
Tues 20 Nov Exeter PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT Exeter Phoenix, 8pm, £20 The Light play their acclaimed album alongside other classic material from Warsaw and Joy Division’s repertoires.
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Live Plymouth SQUEEZE Plymouth Pavilions, 7pm, £32.50. It’s been over 35 years since Squeeze burst onto the music scene and are still as vital as they’ve ever been.
Of Punk’ have done more shows in the last 5 years than since its conception in 1976.
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Exeter PROFESSOR GREEN The Great Hall, Exeter University 8pm, £tbc. Chart bad boy Pro Green is in Exeter. Exmouth MELOSA The Grapevine, 10pm, £free Plymouth STEPS Plymouth Pavilions, 8pm, £35. Steps, who sung their way to success in the 90s along with their dance routines and catchy lyrics, are reuniting for a six date mini UK tour. Truro FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS Hall for Cornwall, 8pm, £tbc. Support from Tim Barry and Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun.
Camborne EVEN NINE Tyacks, 9pm, £free Plymouth HAMER & ISAACS GYPSY SWING BAND The B-Bar, 9pm, £3 Torquay MELOSA The Attic, 9pm, £free
Barnstaple DREADZONE The Factory, PETROC, 9pm, £15 Currently on their new album tour and make a much awaited return to North Devon.
Weds 21 Nov Exeter HUNDRED REASON Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £10. Good to see them back in the Cavern - they have played here loads of times since their first show here 1999, tonight they’re playing their seminal album Ideas Above Our Station, an LP that ushered in the era of Brit rock.
Thurs 22 Nov Plymouth RIZZLE KICKS Plymouth Pavilions SOLD OUT.
Sat 24 Nov Exeter PHONIC FM FUND RAISER Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, 8pm-12am, £5. Guests The Azimuth Coordinator live plus FSOE cosmic deejays - a benefit for Phonic FM, combining live prog and psychedelic rock with the spinning of rare discs by Future Sound of Exeter space technicians also operating projections and lasers - a real happening maaaan.
Sun 25 Nov Exeter GIANTS Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £5. Hardcore with support from Palm Reader. Truro KATHRYN ROBERTS AND SEAN LAKEMAN LIVE The Old Grammar Scool Truro 7pm - 11pm, Tickets available from seetickets.com or The Old Grammar School, Truro 01872 278559 Live at one of Truro’s best loved and most intimate venues - two of the British folk scenes most accomplished performers, Kathryn and Sean will be taking to the stage. having performed the world over in a number of guises, the intimacy and strength of passion shown as a duo, combined with an eclectic repertoire ensures a rare treat for any listener.
Tues 27 Nov Exeter HOMETOWN ATTRACTION Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £4. Winter tour with All About Flux! They are doing a show in our Hometo.wn of Exeter, the money made from this show will be used to fuel the rest of our tour
Wed 28 Nov Exeter TORCH THE HOUSE PRESENTS DR.ACULA (USA/Victory Records) Cavern, Queen St, 8pm, £6.50/£6 in adv. Support from Here Comes the Kraken, Condemned and Bound by Exile.
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Open Mic Nights MONDAYS Exeter OPEN MIC NIGHT The Oddfellows, 7pm-12am, £free OPEN MIC NIGHT The Sorry Head, 9pm-11.30pm, £free Plymouth OPEN MIC NIGHT The Junction, Mutley Plain, 9pm
TUESDAYS
Liskeard ACOUSTIC JAM Barley Sheaf, Church St 8pm, £free All players welcome, no need to book Bideford JAM NIGHT, Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, £free. Totnes BUSK FOR BOOZE Castle Inn, 9pm, £free. Open mic night, musicians wanted, turn up and play.
WEDNESDAYS Redruth OPEN MIC / JAM NIGHT Gaslights Bar, £free, 9pm Open to all performers, turn up and play!
There was a time when emo meant something more than milky skin and a lachrymose disposition. But then bands like squeaky pop-punk crooners, SAVES THE DAY, got their mitts on it and paved the way for a mass of asexual dweebs to step into the light and declare “I’m here and I’m bittersweet!” (Rhythm Factory, London, 23rd Aug). To their credit, STD wrote some pretty decent tunes so we weren’t short on effeminate singalongs. TELLISON complemented the bill with their carefully crafted odes to love and wine, while BRITISH TEETH’s old punk swagger was artless but amiable enough. You know you’re in trouble when a festival’s unique selling point is Mushroom Paul’s techno truck and the band playing when you arrive, LOS BAMBIDOS DEL TIEMPO, are in their sixties yet still feel the urge to trash (read: ‘nudge’) their drumkit. Hullabaloo Festival near Cheltenham, you spoil us (26th Aug). But worry ye not, as the amazing THE JIM JONES REVUE are at hand to channel the grit of Little Richard and the spit of the Sex Pistols into an hour of ear-shatteringly fulsome punk’n’roll. Sounds even better with whisky. Elsewhere, JIM LOCKEY & THE SOLEMN SUN were kicking up a folk-rock dust-storm, and THE BOOBY TRAPS gave fuzzy ‘60s beatpop a fresh lick of paint. As for CHARLIE BAXTER, well, it beggars belief what some people will do to get noticed; in this instance playing guitar/synth over electro-pop hits with goofball rapping and glow-stick mentality. The middle classes never had it so good. The Dead Punk all-dayer boasted a mighty, pan-continental lineup (Exhange, Bristol, 27th Aug). Plymouth’s WOAH NOWS were a powerpop delight; HOOKLINE RIOT made a no-frills noise with little in the way of warmth; A WILHELM SCREAM were impossibly technical and pretty spiffing; POLAR BEAR CLUB seemed to be creeping back to the hardcore; THE COMPUTERS played to their crowd-mingling strengths; THE ARTERIES shook their shock of blond locks and rocked the hot block; THE SOCIAL CLUB gurned and grimaced through organ-punk brilliance; while THE CUT UPS were funny, heartfelt, anthemic and the best thing all day, as far as these wax-compacted ears were concerned. In Southampton, WTFest 4 was attempting to break the gig heat record (Joiners, 30th Aug). Indeed, it was so crazy hot that I could only listen to the beautifully rendered reggae charms of THE SKINTS from a safe distance. APOLOGIES I HAVE NONE were tangfastic, basking in the glow of their well-received debut album and bearing their souls without restraint. ANTI-VIGILANTE and THE JUNK laid down brassy skacore like there was no Capdown, and punk trio, 8 BIT BEAR, were nothing if not grateful.
THURSDAYS Besuited renaissance folky, FRANZ NICOLAY, was in town Exeter OPEN MIC NIGHT, Angel Bar, 32 Queen Street, £free. Hosted by local heroes Roger styles & Richard James. THE REVELRY JAM NIGHT The Reverly, The Quayside, 9pm, £free. Hosted by the amazing Sam Green ACOUSTIC CAFÉ The Cellar Bar, The Fortesque, Mutley Plain 8.30pm-12am, £1. Four live acts each week. OPEN MIC NIGHT Vauxhall Quay, 8pm, £free
SUNDAYS Exeter OPEN MIC NIGHT Walkabout, Fore St, 8.30pm-11.30pm
to deliver another inspiring blast of idiosyncratic gypsy-punk, gilded with gentle badinage and fluffy arrogance (Jack Chams, Plymouth, 1st Sept). SOME SORT OF THREAT brought up the rear with a clutch of blink-and-you’ll-miss’em ditties that treat the personal as the political, and the political as unavoidable. Neato. The great thing about Plymouth Punx Picnic is the feelgood factor (Nowhere, 9th Sept). It doesn’t matter that some of the bands sound dated and dusty - this is about punk community and punk unity. Amen. On the Sunday, a refreshingly varied line-up got down to business: THE WATERBOARDERS plied their twangtastic surf ditties with joyful abandon; MONITOR reached into Joy Division’s pocket and came out with a delightfully monotonic dirge; THE ERIKSONS’s proffered a punky skankalong; HATERS UK screeched like a tortured banshee; THE BLOWOUTS’ fizzing pop-punk evoked a merry gaggle of fruggers; and, cream of the crop, Falmouth’s punkabilly quartet, THE EYELIDS, endeared themselves to literally everyone with their unfashionably cool, stray cat strut. Result. See-ya bye. Backbone (johnsycash@yahoo.co.uk)
Clubs MONDAYS Exeter
MONDAY NIGHT MADNESS. Arena. Summerland St. 10pm2.30am. £4.50/£2adv available from reps and the student guild. Exeters biggest and best student night, every week is themed, check out the weekly themes on our facebook group - Monday Madness at Arena MONDAYS. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 7.30pm-1am. £free. Cheesy pop mash up!
5th Nov RAINBOW MONDAYS. Mama Stones, 9pm1am. £3. Pop, dance and disco with Ollie B & Iain McKenzie. LGBT friendly night too. 19th Nov DJ FRESH LIVE Lemon Grove, Exeter University, 7.30pm-late £15 in adv. The only SW date of his Autumn tour, Fresh is on top of his game right now, with numerous No.1’s, he has elevated D’n’B and dubstep into the charts and made it accessible to the mainstream, defo worth seeing live! 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. 9.30pm-late. £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!
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.
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. Special silent disco on 6th August.
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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 and the balcony bar is hosted by Take Over Timepiece Tuesdays with chart, R’n’B and cheesey anthems. 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.
30th Oct HOLD IT DOWN
PRESENT THE BOOTYBASS COLLECTIVE Cavern Club, 8pm-1am £tbc A night tocelebrate the skills of the home grown crew of Hold It Down residents.... as well as some of their friends, inc Barelylegit, Marvin Vital, Phrixus, Mr Onions, Glot, Crypticz and more.
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!
Plymouth
MASH HITS Voodoo Lounge 8pm-2am. £free Night of mashed up musical mayhem.
WEDNESDAYS Bude
RENAISSANCE. Rogue Nightclub. 38 The Strand. 10pm-2.30am, £3. Chart hits & club classics.
Exeter
STUDENT NIGHT. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 7.30pm-1.30am. £free. In the main room they go bananas to all the student disco classics and current cheesey faves. In the Balcony Bar they get down to the very latest urban sounds with JSR. This is a night run by students for students and proceed go to support student societies. EXETER MIDWEEK MINCE. Club Roccoco. 8pm-late, £free. New weekly LGBT night starting on 8th June. LIVE MUSIC - OPEN MIC NIGHT. Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 8pm-late, £free. Hosted by Billy Bottle.
10th Oct BEATS AND BASS
Cavern Club, 8pm-1am £tbc A night of the best in drum and bass and dubstep from Beats and Bass residents with special guest Mademe X.
17th Oct ERA PRESENTS RAVE CLUB Cavern Club, 8pm1am £free via guestlist at www. era-events.co.uk/guestlist Midweek rave brimming with the freshest house, drum&bass and dub step the southwest has to offer!
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!
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. Founded by the legendery Kenny St James (RIP), expect theme nights, party games, and full on, no holds barred entertainment! Theme nights coming up include Barmy Army (10th Oct), Anything but clothes party (17th Oct), 999/911 Party (24th Oct), Halloween Ball (31st Oct), Cocktail Party (7th Nov), Superhero’s Night of Mayhem (14th Nov), Stock Exchange Drinks deals night (21st Nov) and UPSU/C103 Club/Society of the month comp (28th Nov). COWPOW. The Dairy, 25 Bretonside. 6pm-late. Student night, chart popping classics, great student deals, all are welcome to join in the fun. DESIRE Thirst. Vauxhall St. 9pm2.30am. £2 from 11pm. DJ Jonezy and guests. JELLY JAZZ H2O, The Barbican, 9pm-4am £tbc The legendary funky jazz night returns to it’s spiritural home (for the second time around!) to give you a proper funky mid week party with the infamous Jelly resident DJ Griff, supported by guests Bonebookbang on the 17th, Ollie Stratton on the 24th and Dropsteady Freddy on the 31st October. NON-STOP MUSIC. Zero’s. 24 Lockyer St. 10.30pm-1am. £free. 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, courtesy of your resident, DJ Jonezy Disco - Cheese and Party tunes all night long with John C With £1.60 drinks all night.
Torquay
MOST WANTED. The Green Ginger, Winter Garden, Fleet Walk. 9pm-2am. £free. DJ Max every Wednesday night. £1.50 drinks deals from 6pm.
THURSDAYS Bodmin
BASSOLOGY. Shiners, 19 Honey St. 8.30pm - 12am. £5. DJs Conscious D, Scruloose, Vincent Vega, J-Damm and Guests. MCs Demonic D and Stranger, bringing you some of the freshest sounds in DnB, Liquid, DubStep, Neuro Funk, Jungle and Urban Mash up.
Bude
10th Oct DJ YODA Lemon
REVERT. Rogue Nightclub. 38 The Strand. 10pm - 2am. £5. Student/local night with all drinks £1.50 all night!
Falmouth
HELLZAPOPPIN! Cellar Door, 4 The Quay. 9pm-2am, £2/free B4 11pm. Funk, jazz and electro swing with DJ Dodgy Style. HOLD IT DOWN. Angel Bar. 32
Grove, Exeter University, 9pm-3am £tbc Cut up, mash up DJ, out promoting his new ablum, ‘Chop Suey’ which is out at the beginning of November.
Exeter
Queen St. 9pm-1am. £free. Funk, Soul, Jazz, Latin, Rare Groove and bits inbetween with Mr Onion Matt Anderson. FUZZY LOGIC. Arena Nightclub, Summerland St. 9.30pm-2.30am. £5.Without doubt the busiest student night in Exeter. Playing the biggest and best tunes, with some great drink deals!! SCANDALOUS. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 10pm-2am, £2 B4 11pm with flyer/£3. DJ JSR provides the upfront freshness and youthful vigour while Aldo Vanucci brings you the biggest and best joints around.
Falmouth
THURSDAYS. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-late. £free. The best local D.J’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.
Plymouth
COCKTAIL PERVERTS Thirst. Vauxhall St. 7pm-late. £free. ROCK SHOW. H20, The Barbican. 10pm-late. £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, 100% of the door goes back to the UPSU to support the ongoing owrk for students. Special guests each week, supported by resdients from the Upbeat DJ Soc and Urban Knights.
11th Oct OMFG H2O, The
Barbican, 9pm-4am £6/£4 NUS Urban music night with guests Sigma & Jenna G (40min live PA).
25th Oct OMFG H2O, The
Barbican, 9pm-4am £6/£4 NUS Urban music night with guests Target from Radio 1.
Taunton
BLISS THURSDAYS. 43/45 East St. 10pm-3am. £5. DJs will be playing all the floor-filling tunes!
Truro
PUB STAR. Zafiro’s. River St. 7.30pm-late. £2 donation. Sing your heart out with some classic karaoke. WEEKEND WARM-UP. L2 Nightclub, Calenick St. 10pm2.30am. £free. Start the weekend early, special drink deals and resident DJ.
FRIDAYS Barnstaple
VENUE. The Venue. The Strand. 10pm-3am. £tbc. Party the weekend away with this commercial night of dance and chart tunes.
Bideford
FUNKY FRIDAYS. Caesar’s Palace. King St. 11pm. £4. All the classics, a DJ and no rules whatsoever.
Bodmin
BACK TO THE CLASSICS Eclipse Nightclub. Victoria Square 10pm3am. £5/£3 B4 11pm. 80’s & 90’s night, over 25’s but mature over 18’s
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amazing show, support from Carpetface and Audible1.
Bude
Rogue Nightclub. 38 The Strand. 10.30-3.30am. £5. North Cornwall’s leading night spot with a capacity of 350 people and resident DJs Steve O...Smiffy and Wayne playing wide range of music from chart to dubstep and hip hop to house.
9th Nov MR SCRUFF Lemon Grove, Exeter University, 9pm2am £12 in adv. This man needs no introduction, jazzy beats for the dancefloor, expect a mammoth 5hr DJ set, and look out for his new single, ‘Be the music’ out now.
Exeter
23rd Nov JACK BEATS Exeter
COLLISION. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 7.30pm-2am. £3. Expect everything from Indie anthems, alt Rock, Punk to Electro.... BUNGALOWED. Timepiece Balcony Bar. Little Castle St. 10.30pm-2am. £3 B4 12pm. Student night. Hip Hop, House, Electro, Dub Step. FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER. Arena. Summerland St. 10pm-3am. £free entry with sticker/wristband. Feel good party atmosphere, get down and party on the dancefloor with all your favourite music - the very best dance, chart, party and RnB - and all your shouts, birthdays and requests! ANGEL PRESENTS... Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 10pm-2am. £free. Different guests playing each week, check with bar for details.
5th Oct MAGIC HAT STAND
Cavern Club, 9pm-3am £5 in adv. The Magic Hatstand is a unique night full of fun and mischief with a fabulous Psychedelic Hatstand at its heart.
12th Oct APHRODITE Cavern
Club, 8pm-3am £5 The Final of the 3rd Annual FBUK VIP DJ competition Aphrodite is a UK jungle and drum and bass DJ/ producer who works along with Micky Finn on their joint Urban Takeover label. One of the oldest drum and bass producers, he largely contributed to and influenced the genre’s current styles and techniques and is, both judging the DJ Comp finsal too.
19th Oct BEATZ AND BOBZ
15th BIRHDAY WITH KRAFTY KUTS Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy St, 9pm-2am £13 in adv. 15yrs of beats from Exeter’s premier underground promoters. Party monster, Krsfty Kutz headlines this party, supported by the Freestylers, Ben & Lex and Lewah, as wellas a whole host of locals such as Mr Nice, King Farmer, Re-Defeat, Grudge and Iain Taylor.
19th Oct THE DEEP END
Cellar Door, The Quayside, 9pm3am £5/£3 in adv. Dubstep and dark bass from guests Beezy (Hench) and Fused Forces, supported by Mystery, Lodge, Dutty Switch and hosted by J-Man.
2nd Nov MAGIC HAT STAND Cavern Club, 9pm-3am £5 in adv. The Magic Hatstand is a unique night full of fun and mischief with a fabulous Psychedelic Hatstand at its heart.
9th Nov UGLY DUCKLING
Cavern Club, 8pm-2am £6 Formed in Long Beach, California around 1993, Andy Cooper, Dizzy Dustin and Young Einstein have been putting out classic hip-hop records and touring the world for the last 11 years. They always put on an
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Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy St, 9pm-2am £12.50 in adv. Special DJ set, supported by Matt Anderson, Crypticz, Friskynippa, Lakeway, Marvin Vital, Phrixtus, Simon Says and Glot.
30th Nov FBUK VIP PRESENT MULTI FUNCTION Cavern Club, 9pm-3am £7 D’n’B night with artists including DJ Guv, Levela, Jayline, DJ Alpha, Macky Gee, MC Impact and more. 30th Nov PROFESSOR
GREEN LIVE The Great Hall, Exeter University, 7.30pm-late £17.50 in adv. Say no more, pro green’s in the house.
Falmouth
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.
5th Oct & 2nd Nov
SIMIAN SOUNDS The Watermans, 10pm-2am £free. Expect beats, breaks, dub, tech, glitch and bass. DJ’s playing include Morphosis, Monkey, Digityl & Treazon.
Newquay
FRESH FRIDAYS. Berties 9.30pmlate, £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. 10.30pm-4am, £free entry with a handbag! Newquays busiest Friday night with the best in Chart, RnB, Dance and Party. ITS A FRIDAY THING. Belushi’s 9.30pm-late, £free. For up front House music and things connected with DJ Justin Harris. KOOLA ROCKS. The Koola. 9pm-3am, £free with VIP cards. All 3 rooms open / live music & DJ’s / Indie Electro mash-ups / Latin spirit / live dancers / cocktail lounge / happy hour 6pm - 11pm / special guests.
Penzance
SOUND FRIDAYS. Sound Nightclub. Branwell Mill. 11pm4am. £5. DJ Boris & CQ take over the main room, special guests in room 2.
Plymouth
CRISIS. White Rabbit. Bretonside Bus Station. £2. 11pm-5am. An eclectic hot mix of Indie/Punk/Rock/HipHop/Funk/80’s. Served to you by JC & OZ. DOLLY MIXTURES. Zero’s, 24 Lockyer St. 10.30pm-4am, £free B4 11pm/£4 after. Gay night with resident DJs Stev-E & Juzzy B play Cheese, Chart,
R’n’B, Dance and Hard House. FRISKY. H20, The Barbican, 8pm3am, £free R&B anthems and chart music with James Jordan. FUNKY FRIDAYS. The Treasury. Royal Parade. 9pm-3am, £tbc. Funky grooves. FUNKY FRIDAYS. Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque, Vauxhall St. 8.30pm-3pm. £tbc. Funky grooves all night. FUNKY FRESIAN FRIDAYS. The Dairy. 25 Bretonside. PUNK ROCK DISCO. Jack Chams. 50 Ebrington St. £1.50 vodka and mixer all night. . BORDERLINE. C103. 103 Union St. 10pm-3.30am. £2/members £1. Cutting edge 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.
5th Oct QUENCHED Thirst.
Vauxhall St. 9pm-2.30am. £2 from 11pm. DJ Aaron Cook, Oli Power, Sean Moyles with guests for this deep house and techy night.
12th Oct GLITTERATI
Revolution, Derrys Cross. 9pm3am. £3 B4 12am/£free B4 10pm. Defected DJ, Sam Divine brings some glamour and house style as one of the hottest female DJ’s on the club circuit right now, make the effort for this glittery night!
19th Oct LIQUID PULSE
HOUSE PARTY OPENING PARTY Crash Manor. Union St. 10pm5am. £6/£4 in adv Residents party with new resident ‘Chris da Funk’ from eatMusic alongside the usual crew of Digit-L, Chris da Funk, Golding & Kev Thomas. More info at www.liquid-pulse.com
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
Torquay
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. OPEN DECKS NIGHT. Blue Cargo / Club 7 Braddons Hill. 8.30pm1am. £free. All styles welcome. With resident DJs DJ R and Corzeneffect. Call Dave on 07990 790 888 for a set.
26th Oct FULL TILT PRESENT BLAST FROM THE PAST Bohemia, Torwood St, 9pm-3am £5 Vibes and Livelee show - hardcore special. 30th Nov FULL TILT PRESENT TWISTED DESTINY
Bohemia, Torwood St, 9pm-3am £5 DJ Gsmmer and Joey Riot - hardcore special and MC’s Whizzkid and Mayhem.
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. 10pm-late. £3. Start the weekend as you mean to go on with DJ Simon James.
SATURDAYS Bodmin
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.
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. 7.30pm2am, £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.
6th Oct BLOW YOUR WIG
The Bikeshed Theatre, Fore St, 9pm-2am £1 With DJ Louie Louie. A fixture at many South West festivals inc, Glastonbury, Port Elliot, Beautiful Days and Farmfest. Playing 50’s 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. Always packed so get there early.
3rd Nov RINSEOUT 9th
BIRTHDAY Exeter Phoenix, 9pm-4am £15.50 in adv. Throwing the biggest Drum & Bass music event Devon has seen for many years, the promoters have handpicked a dream line up of acts that more than covers the full spectrum of Drum & Bass, with Dubstep, Hip Hop, Old Skool, reggae and a whole lot more across the five rooms of sounds, complete with an extra outdoor arena in the car park allowing a bigger capacity therefore a bigger line up. Over 40 acts playing, headline guests include Danny Byrd, Dillinja, S.P.Y, Mampi Swift, Sub Zero, Hazard, Serial Killaz, Ruffstuff and many more - see www. rinseout.co.uk for more info and tickets.
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Clubs Falmouth
SATURDAY. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-2am. Always a massive night@ Q with the DJs spinning the best music for you to dance and drink to. See weekly invites for line-ups!
13th Oct LOVE RIOT The
Stannary, Tremough Campus, 9pm-2am £10 TheLove Riot discobus heads back to Falmouth town for a massive house night of premium Cornish debauchery, featuring Alex Metric, Bondax, Ry Spenceley, The Barons of funk and Avier. Tickets and info at www.loveriot.co.uk
Gwithian 6th Oct DECADANCE The
Sandsifter 9pm - 3am, £7.50. Decadance pledge to keep the summer breaks and beats rolling with an Indian Summer Party with Freerange DJ’s headlining, supported by Cakeboy, Kristoff (Snatch the Wax) & Ben Trezon.
27th Oct MONSTER BALL
The Sandsifter 9pm - 5am, £15 from www.monsterball.co.uk. The mummy returns withthe Top Hat soundsystem, Nic Harley and Hedluv and Passman over two rooms by the beach.
Newquay
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. 11pm-4am, £6/£4. Cornwall’s largest nightclub is back for the 2012 season with a brand new Saturday night. Fresh from residencies in some of the biggest clubs across the UK our main room Saturday night resident Video DJ Will.B is back for another season at Berties! Witness the future of DJing as DJ Will B mixes visuals, videos and your favourite music up together from a wide variety of genres including dance , R’n’B ♫, chart, party & floorfillers. PASSION. Sailors. Fore St. 10.30pm-4am. £tbc. Chart, dance & retro tunes to shake your booty with John London PARTY NIGHT. Koola, 12 Beach Rd10.30pm-4am. £tbc. Party night, with selected guests, see Chy Koola Facebook page for more details. SESSIONS The Beach, 10pm-late, from £4. Party tunes on a Saturday night.
Newton Abbot 3rd Nov MEXICAN DAY OF
THE DEAD BALL The Yellow Room, Hannahs and Seale Hayne, 8.30pm - 1am, £12.50 Mexican mayhem ensues in the now legendary Rambunctious Mexican ball! The Rambunctious social club bring their unique blend of Magic into an exhuberent night of Mariachi mash-up, live music, dancefloor dizzyness, live art and interactive play..Bands playing include Alejandro & The Magic Tombolinos, supported by DJ Hod’guez, DJ Griff and clowns Le Navet Bete.
Penzance
SOUND SATURDAY. Sound Nightclub. Branwell Mill, Market
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Jew Street. 11pm-4am. £5 (non special guest nights only). DJs Boris & DS playing chart and commercial bangers!
27th Oct GET FUNKED. C103.
24th Nov FAITH SFX Sound Nightclub, 11pm - 4am, £5 The UK’s original Beatbox champion shows West Cornwall whats he’s all about.
27th Oct WESTWARD
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. EB’S LOUNGE Ebrington St, 8pm1am, £free. Plymouth’s Mashup king, DJ Contort blending together 80’s / 90’s / R&B / Hip Hop / Electro / Dubstep FREE CUBA PARTY. The B-bar. Barbican Theatre, Castle St. 8pm. £free. Cocktails, Latin music, a steamy atmosphere and dancing until late. 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 & classic anthems over two floors. SATURDAYS. Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque. 8pm-3am. £tbc. 2 floors of entertainment with live cabaret and discotheque. SHAKE Thirst. Vauxhall St. 9pm2.30am. £3/£2 B4 11pm. Resident Djs Aldo Vanucci and Kenny Hectyc.
Union St. 10pm– late. £3.50 B4 12am/£4 after. Special student night, tunes, cheap drinks.
BOUND HALLOWEEN PARTY The Treasury Bar, Catherine St, 9.30pm - 2am, £20 from Westward Bound Their first event in over two years, these are parties for the open minded, dress code of latex or burlesque corsetry, no street clothing or lack of effort! Special guest DJ’s include Superstar Rubber Ron, Jay Storngman, DJ Mac and Louie Louie. Info and tickets from www.westwardbound. com
27th Oct THE BADGERS
BALL HALLOWEEN PSYTRANCE PARTY C103, Union St, 10pm 7am, £6 before midnight, £8 after Massive two room event with a special halloween edition of the Plymouth’s best Psytrance party! with special guests ECT (Parvati Records) and Full Lotus. Expect full UV decor throughout, facepainting, stalls, crazy lazers and the best atmosphere in the city!
27th Oct UNLEASHED
7th BIRTHDAY The Main Hall, Plymouth University, North Hill, 10pm - 4am, £15/£10 in adv. Underground bass heavy night with Hospital Records latest signing, Fred V & Grafix, Roska, Spectrasoul, J:Kenzo, Darko and more tbc. Hosted by MC’s J-Man, Gravity and Odot.
27th Oct WONDERLUST
Union St 10.30pm-5am, £10£8 iB4 11pm. Hardstyle and reverse bass night with Swanki, Kashi, Onex, Trax, N Pulse, DJ Lawro, Rompa Stompa and DJ Swift. Rm 2 hosts happy hardcore with Big Worm, Mellon, Danny Rouge and N Pulse.
HALLOWEEN SAINTS AND SINNERS PARTY H2O, The Barbican, 8pm - 4am, £3/£free B4 10pm Ibiza house legend, Alex P will be playing a special house and classics set, supported by Tom Costelloe, Aaron Cook, Kelly Jay, Ryan Platts and many more. Don;t forget your fancy dress!
13th Oct COVERT &
3rd Nov JELLY JAZZ H2O,
6th Oct CONTORTED C103,
UNLEASHED White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station 10pm-4am, £tbc. D’n’B showdown with Friction and Rockwell, supoorted by the usual residents.
13th Oct PREMONITION
C103, Union St 10.30pm-5am, £10£8 in adv. Another hard dance special night with Tidy Boys supported by the faithful Premonition residents. of Pete Kingwell, Tommie Quick, Dan Kelly & Nokturnal.
20th Oct CONTORTED C103,
Union St 10.30pm-5am, £10£8 iB4 11pm. Big Drum and Bass night bass night with Mickey Finn, Vinylgroover, Darko, Dan G & Amen Brother. Rm 2 hosts house. tect house with Lee Saxton, Tim Nice, Tom Costelloe, Nathan Rogers & Liam Smith.
27th Oct CLUB LIBERTINE
PRESENT EAT ME White Rabbit. Bretonside Bus Station. 10pm– late. £20 on the door. New fetish and alternative club night with pole dancing, Lady Alluras Latex catwalk, magic from SYN, raunchy burlesque from Miss Sam Buca and tunes from Matt Evans and DJ Phantom. Added extra playroom in the Boudoir with interactive furniture.
The Barbican, 9pm-2am £4 Another weekend Jelly session, with special guest Dom Servini and resident Pete Isaac, both droppin the heaviest funk, soul, jazz, latin, breaks and beats throughout the night.
10th Nov RINSE IT & COVERT
PRESENT DJ HYPE H2O, The Barbican, 9pm-4am £12/£10 in adv The new home of Rinse-it in Plymouth, H20 is a perfect environment to rave. Add to that the pokey Funktion 1 sound from ProPa plus all the extra production we bring with us you know now to expect pure party vibes.Guests tonight include DJ Hype & MC IC3, supported by Mr Nice, Re-Defeat, Ollie Freshold, Dom Jay, Zabba & Raggadee.
17th Nov DISCO BIZ KIDS The Voodoo Lounge, 9pm-4am, £5 all night. Since way back, thus crew have been throwing hit n run parties across Plymouth wherever they could get away with it, through to the BizFest moorland madness and beach party bliss this year, it’s now time to Ccelebrate their 2nd birthdy, expect a proper mad one to say thanks for your support and to all the artists that have made BizKids one of the top underground night’s in the South
West - line up TBA - check the event page on Facebook for more info - search Disco Biz Kids
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.
Taunton
SATURDAYS. Bliss. 43/45 East St. 9pm-3am. £free B4 10.30pm with guestlist/£5 after 10pm. It’s the original big night out, with the biggest mix of Party, Dance and R & B.
Torquay
THE GREEN GINGER. The Green ginger, Winter Garden, Fleet Walk. 9pm-3am. £1. DJ playing chart, dance and funky tunes across the bay. KINDA FUNKY. Bohemia. 41 Torwood St. 10.30pm-4am, £4 B4 11pm/£6 after. 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.
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. Special guests on the 3rd with Fenton Gee, Dane Bowers and friends. CORNWALLS BEST SATURDAY. The Office. 1 River Walk. 10pm2.30am. £5. Weekend party for over 21’s.
13th Oct PSY BREAKS
SPECIAL L2 Nightclub, Calenick St 9.30pm - 3am, £5.With guests Neurodriver and Mary Miss Fairy, alongside residents Freerange DJ’s and Cortech DJ’s.
SUNDAYS
Exeter
WORLD BEATS. Timepiece. Little Castle St, 8pm-1.30am, £free. Latin, Salsa, Afro Beat, Reggae, Arabic & Spanish.
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.
Newquay
NEWQUAYS BIGGEST FOAM PARTY The Beach, 10pm-late, from £4. As it says on the tin, with party tunes.
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.’
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Snapped The Chevalier Inn, Exeter, has something for everyone – every day of the week! By day this bar offers two floors of food and drinks, before being transformed into a city hotspot at night. With resident DJs and their famous Wetherspoon drinks deals, this is a destination for all the Freshers!
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