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ILLUSTRATION by Jono Lewarne Jono Lewarne is currently studying graphic design at UWE in Bristol, and he will graduate this summer. He lives in Bristol but is from Fowey in Cornwall. He is inspired by typography and lettering in all their guises. He also finds inspiration in subjects like news, current affairs, science and anything in a vintage book. Old fashioned ways of doing anything inspire him too, and he says that there’s something interesting and calming about analogue methods. Jono adores the work of highly skilled letterers like John Downer and in his spare time he loves to play with lettering, like he did for this illustration. He has his own small screen-printing studio in his flat and likes to do everything by hand, from the drawing through to the printing of a project. His main focus is towards a career in book design and typography. Fraser Muggeridge Studio and Studio8, both in London, are huge influences on his work. He aspires to create books and design like they do. Check out more of his work on his lovely website: www.jonolewarne.com or email him at hello@jonolewarne.com
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NEWS Pimp My Stand
A few months ago, we ran a competition for artists and illustrators in the South West to come up with designs to jazz up our magazine stands, which are dotted around the region at popular distribution points. We received a great response to the competition – big thanks to everyone who entered. We have now selected four winners. Congratulations to Ben Steers, Isaac Lenkiewicz, Pablo Jones Soler, and Tobey Mole, who will each see their design adorn one of our stands. Check out the winning entries here.
THIS MONTH WE ARE... Celebrating a DECADE of 247 Magazine. That’s right, we’ve been writing, reading, printing, raving, gigging, blogging, festivaling, fashioning, partying and many other “ings” for TEN, count them, TEN years. Big thanks to everyone who has supported, contributed, and read the magazine over the last ten years. We’ve loved every minute, and we especially love the fact that we are still going as strong as ever. Feel free to send us a birthday card, and we might just throw a birthday party so we can all celebrate together – keep your eyes peeled for party news on our Facebook pages (search for us under TwentyFour Seven as well as 247), Twitter page, and website: www.247magazine.co.uk. Incidentally, if you haven’t bookmarked our website yet, then do so RIGHT NOW, as it’s updated daily with news, reviews, exclusive interviews, and of course, all our excellent competitions go up on the site too... 6|
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Pop Clique
If bumping beats, phat bass and a sexy, body jacking crowd sound like your idea of a good party, then check out Pop Clique, a new clubnight, which takes place at Watermans in Falmouth. The night is run by Canadian Brad ‘212’ Finlay (who recently moved to Cornwall), who spent 10 years as a DJ in London, hosting nights at Ministry of Sound, as well as being on roster with Sedition DJs, with residencies at Turnmills, Egg and 54, as well as regular slots around the capital and in Europe. Brad and his co-promoter James Hatton have big plans for Pop Clique, with summer boat parties, South West festival gigs and their monthly night. Their next event is on 9 April (and the second Friday of every month thereafter) at Watermans in Falmouth, is free entry, and promises a taste of twisted disco, tech house and deep chugging riddims from James Hatton and Brad 212, as well as an appearance from J Haze (via LDN). www.popclique.co.uk
We Love Riot Almost certainly one of the South West’s most debauchery laden clubnights, Love Riot are renowned for their awesome parties, and with the summer season fast approaching, it’s safe to say that there’s no stopping for these party animals. There are two Love Riot parties coming up – first is on 4 April at The Sandbar in Praa Sands. Australia’s top house DJs, the hugely influential Stafford Brothers, will be on the decks. They’re joined by Cornwall’s very own superstar house DJ, Ry Spenceley, and Mexico’s ‘Dennis D’Angello’ will be making his debut at the night. As it’s Easter Sunday, make sure you’re wearing your Sunday best, and keep an eye out for very special hosts, Butlers In The Buff (they do exactly what it says on the tin…) Entry is £8adv/£10otd, 10pm – 3am. Coming up next, Love Riot celebrate their fourth birthday with a massive party, again at the Sandbar, on 30 May (tickets £10) with a super hot line up that includes four piece electro funk band Fenech-Soler (currently on tour with Groove Armada), DJ/producer Grum, and legendary locals Ry Spenceley, Luke Gledhill & Sir Vinyl on record spinning duty. If you’ve been to any Love Riot events over the past year you’ll be more than familiar with their unwavering ability to wreak total dance floor havoc – they know how to throw a party. More info at www.slut.co.uk
THE EDGE Email news to: The next POLDARK PARTY 247@outofhand.co.uk takes place on 22 May and will be a Mad Hatters Tea Party – electric dance supremos Lunasea will be headlining what looks set to be a memorable party at this historic tin mine – see http:// poldark-party.eventbrite.com for more info. If you think you’ve got skills on the decks, then listen up – there’s a DJ COMPETITION at Crash Manor in Plymouth on 28 April – the prize is a set at Summit Festival, which takes place at the end of May in Cornwall. The RIVERSIDE CRY Charity event, which will raise awareness for Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), is being undertaken by two young South West based fundraisers, Lee Waller and Harry Thompson. They are raising money in memory of their friend, Ollie Marsden, who collapsed and died after sudden heart failure in 2008. On 2 May, Lee and Harry will undertake a quadrathalon, starting with a six mile row from Teignmouth to Dawlish, then a five mile swim to Topsham, where they will have a seven mile uphill bike ride to the Exeter Half Marathon – a 13.1 mile run. The lads are currently in training for this epic event, so follow their progress at http://riversidecry. blogspot.com/ and sponsor them if you can! Voting for the SOUTH
WEST DRUM AND BASS, BREAKS AND DUBSTEP AWARDS closes on Monday
12 April, if you haven’t voted, do it now. Vote online at www. swdnbawards.com They’re experts in etiquette, but not in wearing pants.
BUTLERS IN THE BUFF
have over 180 butlers nationwide, and are available to service parties, events, hen nights, and even corporate functions, wearing a bow tie, collar and cuffs and an apron…and that’s it. They are currently searching for Butlers in Exeter, so if you’d like to join up, auditions will be taking place at Amber Rooms in Exeter from 7pm on 8 April. www.butlersinthebuff.co.uk
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Rumble In The Jungle Wins Smirnoff Grant
Promoters behind Rumble in the Jungle at the Eden Project have been awarded one of four grants in a national competition promoted by Smirnoff. The vodka brand invited promoters to think up unique events and experiences as part of the competition. The winners have been awarded £5000 as part of the brand’s ongoing commitment to celebrate unforgettable experiences – the type you look back on and say ‘I was there’. These cutting-edge ideas were picked from hundreds of applications via Smirnoff’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/smirnoffGB). Judges included Rob da Bank of Radio 1, DJ duo The Queens of Noize, and Clash Magazine’s Matthew Bennett make up the vodka brand’s panel of experts who selected winners. Rumble in the Jungle takes place at the Eden Project, nr St Austell in Cornwall on 7 May, in conjunction with Eden Art Café and will showcase the South West’s finest underground music and art, alongside some of the biggest names in the music scene, including Chase and Status LIVE, Subfocus, Benga, Friction, Krafty Kutz, Freestylers, A-Skillz, Daraeli and many more artists across three arenas. University College Falmouth will be hosting a student art showcase at the event, and the biomes will be open to explore, but expect a twist... This is the only opportunity to experience a party like this at Eden this year, make sure you’re there to be part of it. Tickets and more info at www.therumbleinthejungle.co.uk
Zapcat Power Boat Champs
The opening races of the Zapcat powerboat season will take place in Cornwall this year, when the Blue Chip Newquay Zapcat Grand Prix race weekend kicks off the season at Fistral Beach on the weekend of 24 and 25 April. Zapcats originated from surf rescue boats in South Africa during the 80s where lifeguards raced down treacherous rivers and along rugged coastlines. Zapcats are designed to cope with a huge variety of sea conditions from flat calm lakes to large breaking surf. Teams, including local Royal Marines from RAF St Mawgan, will cut through the surf, performing daring and spectacular aerial leaps as they propel themselves through the sea at speeds of up to 50 mph. Supported by Newquay based high-end property company, Blue Chip, the event will be free for spectators, and food and drink will be available. There will also be a grand Zapcats parade through the town on Friday 23 April, with races taking place on Saturday and Sunday. WIN!!! A Zapcat experience – go to www.247magazine.co.uk to find out how to enter.
Masked Ball
Undoubtedly one of the biggest party nights in the Cornish calendar, the Masked Ball returns this year with a huge event planned for 1 May. Taking place at Porthleven, the Ball will see sets from the brilliant Ou est Le Swimming Pool, along with Japayork, Kid Cola, Jac the Disco, Residential Dance Home, Sir Vinyl of The Fattest, Hong Kong Ping Pong, Robin Parris and more to be announced. Tickets are £27.50, and the party is from 6pm – 6am. Don’t miss out. Masks are, of course, compulsory. See their blog for more details: http://maskedball.wordpress.com
INDEPENDENT RECORD SHO PS HAVE BEEN THE HEARTB EAT BE IT DANCE MUSIC SPECIA LISTS OR RETAILERS THAT STO OF MUSIC SCENES FOR GENERATIONS: LABELS. YOU DON’T HAVE CK MUSIC BY BANDS ON IND TO BE BLEEDIN’ COLOMBO EPENDENT TO MAJOR CHANGES IN THE WA YS WE BUY MUSIC OVER THE HAVE NOTICED THAT THERE HAVE BEEN THOSE SHOPS HAVE GONE, LAS T DECADE, AND NOW WH FOR BEING ABLE TO BUY MU ILE OTHERS ARE STILL HOLDING ON. THERE ARE GO SOME OF OD REASONS SIC ONLINE, BUT IT’S IMPORT THE TRADITIONAL WAY… SHOPS ARE PERFECT FOR NET ANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE BENEFITS OF AND CREATING A COMMU WORKING WITH LIKE MIN NIT DED NEW MUSIC RECOMMENDED Y, FOR PROMOTING GIGS AND CLUBNIGHTS, AND FOR PEOPLE TO HAVING YOU THE HUM AN WAY: BY MAKING FRIE 247 MAGAZINE’S SAVE OUR NDS. AS PART OF ARASH TORABI TALKED WIT RECORD SHOPS FEATURE, PASSIONATE MUSIC LOVER H DENNIS SMITH, A KEY FIG AND WRITER URE IN THE MUSIC INDUST RY.
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ennis launched the career of Muse, and runs the famous Sawmills Studios in Cornwall, whose former clients include Oasis, The Stone Roses, XTC, Razorlight and Supergrass to name just a few (www.sawmills.co.uk). Dennis sees a future for record shops. “They’re still importa nt,” he told us. “We know that people discover music online, but the fact remains that there is always going to be a physical product. There is still a market for the vinyl album. If people are going to stay in the retail busines s, they’re going to have to reinvent themselves and diversify .” Dennis agrees that the local record shop is an integral part of the music community. “When you’re buying from someone who keeps their ear to the ground and knows a lot about new music, you’re going to learn from them,” he said. “Independent retailers are also better at coming up with interesting things, the same as independent labels always have. The majors are like dinosaurs: they can only move at a certain pace, but the indepen dents are quite nimble on their feet.” In a recent 247 Magazine interview with The Cribs, we learnt that their sales for hard copies are far greater than those for downloads. They have also helped out independent retailers by giving them exclusive editions, unavailable elsewhere. Dennis sees independent shops as “tastemakers”, and he recognises the vital role they played in rocketing Muse into superstardom, via his own Dangerous label. He said, “The first two Muse EPs were only available in independent shops. We made them limited editions (999 copies), and they sold very quickly because they got radio play. We credited A Different Class (former Plymouth record shop, now sadly gone) on the second Muse EP. This is a classic exampl e of how local tastemakers played an important part in launching a new band. And the rest, as they say, is history.” It’s UK Record Store Day on 17 April too – a day when independent stores across the UK come together to celebrate music www.recordstoreday.com/unitedkingdo m. So this month, support a local business and buy your next album from your nearest record shop – here are details of some of the region’s best…
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BIGGA RECORDS, 15 LOOE ST, BRETONSIDE, PLYMOUTH, PL4 0DY. 01752 268801 // BIGGARECORDS@BTCONNECT.COM Do you specialise in any particular kind of music? Drum and bass, dubstep, hardcore, trance, house, hip hop, techno, funk and reggae. What has been the most memorable thing that has happened in the shop over the years? There’s not one particular thing, just those good days when the customers are buzzin’, tunes are good and people are spending! How have the changes in the music industry (downloading etc) affected your shop? Downloads and CDJs have definitely had a detrimental effect on my business. I feel they are killing the record shop, and they probably explain the constant demise of shops like mine. DRIFT RECORDS, 91 HIGH STREET, TOTNES, DEVON, TQ9 5PB 01803 866828 // WWW.DRIFTRECORDS.CO.UK Hey Jenny, so how long has your shop been open? We have been in business for over ten years on this site. We took over what was the then World Video and Music seven years ago, and joined forces with the ‘Drift Records’ label (started by our son), renaming ourselves The Drift Record Shop around three years ago now. Do you specialise in any particular kind of music? We hold an eclectic mix, reflecting the tastes of our very varied clientele, but I suppose you could say we aim for the best of the new music around, and also the best of what is happening musically across the world. So that could be world, folk, americana, blues, dance, electronica, reggae, dub, whatever we are hearing and enjoying basically. But like all good record shops, we can get in anything that is available, and regularly do for our customers. JAM RECORDS, 32 HIGH STREET, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL, TR11 2AD, 01326 211722 // WWW.JAMRECORDS.CO.UK Hey Mandy, how long has your shop been open? Jam opened in June 2003 Do you specialise in any particular kind of music? We do lots of smaller label stuff which might loosely be called ‘indie’ - the sort of bands that play the Green Man and End of the Road festivals... (stuff like Midlake, Four Tet, Joanna Newsom, Bonnie Prince Billy) and a lot of things you don’t find in mainstream record shops on labels such as Drag City and Bella Union. We also have really good folk, world music and jazz sections. plus an increasing selection of vinyl, both new release titles and jazz and funk back catalogue. What has been the most memorable thing that has happened in the shop over the years? We’ve had a couple of gigs in the shop, one in particular featuring a local band called the Rosemarie Band in an early incarnation as a duo, which was spectacular, followed by American guitarist Jack Rose. LOST IN MUSIC, 83 TRELOWARREN STREET, CAMBORNE, TR14 8AL, 01209 710420
THE INTERNET IS A KILLER OF RECORD SHOPS!”
Lost in Music are the largest stockist of vinyl in Cornwall, and are the largest stockist of DVDs and merchandise in Camborne. Art from Lost in Music told us, “The internet is a killer of record shops!”
MARTIAN RECORDS, EXETER 01392 496531// TAUNTON 01823 330978 // EXMOUTH 01395 225981 // WESTON SUPER MARE 01934 645964 // MARTIAN.INFO@GMAIL.COM Hey Marcus, how long has your shop been open? We’ve been in the Exeter shop for 16 years, but as a company we’ve just had our 21st birthday! Do you specialise in any particular kind of music? A lot of people think of us as a rock shop but we sell all the new releases and lots of other specialist music like jazz, blues, reggae and folk. We also sell DVDs, posters and probably the largest selection of t-shirts in the South West.
What has been the most memorable thing that has happened in the shop over the years? We’ve had all the top celebs in our shop over the years, Josie Lawrence, Cannon and Ball and the other bloke from the Style Council who’s not Paul Weller! ONIONHEART RECORDS, UNIT 2, STAPLES MEWS, EXETER ROAD, EXMOUTH, DEVON, EX8 1PL, 01395 223 435 // WWW.HOLDITDOWN.ORG Hey Michael, how long has your shop been open? The shop opened at the tail end of 1995 so we are into year fifteen. Do you specialise in any particular kind of music? Initially we featured a lot of jazz, funk and breaks but as other shops have pulled out of music we have had to generalise, to be all things to all men. What has been the most memorable thing that has happened in the shop over the years? I can’t remember!! I did chat to the comedian Sean Locke for over an hour about vinyl without realising who he was, until an hour after he had left. REFORM RECORDS, CITY ARCADE, FORE STREET, EXETER 01392 435577 // WWW.REFORM-RECORDS.CO.UK Hey Maxxi, so how long has your shop been open? Mr Nice took over in April 2003 from Jan, who had owned it since it started way back in the mid nineties. He ran the shop for seven years before taking the hard decision to sell. Do you specialise in any particular kind of music? Drum and bass, dubstep, hardcore, breaks and basslines. What has been the most memorable thing that has happened in the shop over the years? We have had quite a few special guests in. For me it was the Killa Kela instore just after the move. It was about 6pm in the evening, and I had about four different sets of neighbours moaning at me about the noise. Also the relocation party we had in Easton Buildings before we moved to Fore Street, that was pure crazy. ROOSTER RECORDS, 98 FORE STREET, EXETER, DEVON, EX4 3HY, 01392 272009 // WWW.VINYLERA.CO.UK Hey Jaimie, how long has your shop been open? We’ve been open for nearly 15 years. Our first shop was in Taunton, Somerset but we sold it on when we expanded into Exeter in 2006. Do you specialise in any particular kind of music? Not really. We do a bit of everything from jazz to reggae, metal to folk, country to blues and soul to hip hop although I guess there’s a slight bias towards the sixties and seventies psychedelic and progressive rock kinda thang. What has been the most memorable thing that has happened in the shop over the years? That’s a tough one. Lots of great memories. I remember the day I was playing a CD by the Byrds when by pure coincidence Gene Parsons from the group walked through the door! He couldn’t believe it and neither could I!
THE EMPORIUM, 33 FORE STREET, REDRUTH, CORNWALL, TR15 2AE, 01209 216494 // WWW.THEEMPORIUMREDRUTH.CO.UK Hey Lorna, how long has your shop been open? My father opened his shop over 45 years ago, it has been trading in its current location since 1974, closing as John Oliver in 2007. It has been trading as The Emporium since then, run by myself and my husband, also called John! Do you specialise in any particular kind of music? We specialise in all things Cornish, including a wide variety of CDs and DVDs of local interest, from choirs and bands to unsigned groups. What has been the most memorable thing that has happened in the shop over the years? It was wonderful to be able to hold a surprise celebration for my parents to commemorate 40 years trading. We invited many of the previous staff from over the years, hid them in the shop then called my parents in - it was really special as they had so many memories.
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A NEW CLUBNIGHT HAS BEEN CRACKING THE WHIP IN THE SOUTH WEST OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO, MIXING ON TREND GUEST DJS WITH TRADITIONAL CORNISH DEBAUCHERY AND THE OCCASIONAL BIT OF TAXIDERMY. THE NIGHT IS CALLED MY HEROES KILLED COWBOYS (MHKC), AND THEIR STRONG DESIGN ETHOS AND FINGER ON THE PULSE MEANS THAT THEY COULD GIVE ANY TRENDY LONDON PROMOTER A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY (AND PROBABLY TIE THEIR SHOELACES TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME…). AT MHKC NIGHTS YOU’LL HEAR “REALLY BLOODY GOOD MUSIC” ACROSS A RANGE OF GENRES FROM ELECTRO TO TECHNO TO DISCO. THEY’VE HAD THE LIKES OF FILTHY DUKES, SKULL JUICE AND THICK AS THIEVES GUESTING ON THE DECKS AND THINGS LOOK SET TO GET BIGGER FOR THEM AS TIME GOES ON. WE LASSOED THE COWBOYS FOR A CHAT… TELL US MORE ABOUT YOURSELVES… WHO IS BEHIND MHKC? Someone who changes their mind a lot, and someone who is alright at designing and likes being ironic. A shared passion for music, pretty things and a fascination for Forest Whitaker seems to work well for us. MHKC was born at the Sandsifter just at the end of the Holloway era in December 2008. The name of the night was inspired by a pair of mid thigh length shorts with cowboys on them. After Sandsifter, The Isobar in St Ives was our home (which is nice and dark with excellent laser beams). Our last event was at the ever-popular Sandbar in Praa Sands. Our aim is to push the envelope in the South West. Breaking into the poodle beauty pageant scene would be alright too.
WHAT KIND OF ATMOSPHERE DO YOU AIM TO CREATE AT YOUR NIGHTS? The musical style varies slightly depending on guests. They play music which makes people either want to dance until their eyes bleed or scream in each other’s faces and try and track down Mouser the dead cat. We enjoy electro, disco, Chicago house, techno, big basslines and a few curve balls. We’ve been lucky enough to draw a great and knowledgeable crowd and we’re not afraid of props and refreshments.
WHO ARE YOUR RESIDENT DJS? Plymouth to London transplants Jac The Disco, who are now making serious waves on the big smoke’s club scene having recently made their Fabric debut with Erol Alkan. We are lucky to have them as residents as well as St Ives’s lovely but slightly unhinged Timbo Symons.
TELL US A BIT MORE ABOUT YOUR GUEST DJS… We’ve had Jaymo & Andy George, Streetlife DJs, Stopmakingme (who has some of the best sleeveless heavy metal t shirts in the European club scene), and Urchins all
make their South West club debuts with us. All of our guests have loved it and want to return, commenting on the quality of the audiences down here. It speaks volumes that you can put on really different music and you’ll pack a venue and they’ll go nuts. Positive feedback from knowledgeable people who appreciate something different gives us a warm feeling in our tummies. We’re also happy to have worked with local friends Sir Vinyl, Hong Kong Ping Pong and Get Waxy.
WE LIKE YOUR BLOG. HAVE YOU TRIED EXPANDING THE MHKC BRAND FURTHER IN ANY OTHER WAYS? A blog should inform in all areas of creativity, not just music. Moving into clothing, jewellery and poodle beauty pageants is the natural progression, but we wouldn’t make t-shirts for the sake of it, we want to produce something which is an extension of the brand and not merely a bi-product. Would love to release a MHKC laser gun.
WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR MHKC? Definitely poodle beauty pageants. Have you seen Best in Show? You really should. Other than that, working with inspirational artists, photographers, designers, musicians and filmmakers to create something really unique. We’re not organised enough to have a five year plan but we want to shake things up. Developing the brand and continuing to host cutting edge music is important to us. Animals will always be really important, as will new cakes. An open air Caribbean club with Major Lazer and Toddla T and a Halloween party in an S&M dungeon in Vienna with Fake Blood warming up for Slayer would be alright. Watch out for news of possible collaborations with a couple of the country’s biggest club nights… The next party is Saturday 17 April, back in St Ives with special guest Foamo – hands down one of the biggest producers and remixers of recent times. His profile as a DJ is getting quite enormous, headlining around the globe. He’s going to smash it.
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If you were the sort of person who categorised your records by genre, you might place your Good Shoes albums next to the likes of The Maccabees, The Rumble Strips, The Futureheads, Young Knives and the Buzzcocks. Good Shoes (lead singer Rhys, drummer Tom, lead guitarist Steve and bassist Will) make catchy, guitar twangy indie pop punk and have that neat kind of well considered artwork that makes you want to unfold the sleeve notes from their albums and blu tack them to your bedroom wall. Since their first gig in 2005, the band’s line up has changed twice, they’ve released two studio albums, and the London based foursome have flirted with major success, touring with the likes of Lightspeed Champion, Maximo Park, Kaiser Chiefs, The Rakes and We Are Scientists. They’re touring the UK this month, playing Exeter’s Cavern on 26 April. We interviewed Rhys ahead of their gig… What are you up to today? Got up, ate left over lasagne, watched the Baader Meinhof Complex, and am now waiting for the guys to turn up to demo some songs for the third album. A lot of the indie artrocker scene is very concerned with the idea of credibility – where do you stand on this issue? Is getting on the front cover of NME “uncool”? Being on the front cover of NME is good for a band, although its seen as a pretty shit magazine in the UK, which is true. In other countries it is a great way for people to find out about indie music, as that kind of music is not as popular as it is in the UK. But when no one buys records, how are you supposed to survive? In certain ways, I think the idea of either selling out or remaining credible is redundant, it’s more about who you sell your songs to or who you play gigs for. But then also, hypothetically, how could you turn down £50,000 from a cigarette company if you were offered it to play a show or license your music to them? It’s too big a subject to debate here, but I think for a lot of bands, you can’t turn down anything. If people want bands to still make music, but think it’s ok to download albums for free, they have to accept bands playing corporate gigs. I don’t think any band I know can claim to be credible, even playing beer sponsored festivals is questionable if you think of the cost to the NHS for the treatment of alcohol related incidents. How have you been affected by changes in the music industry? We try to operate as far from those people as possible. Major labels haven’t made any changes and are still spunking money left right and centre. We work with a small label and own the rights to everything we do, everything breaks even and no party loses money. I don’t think any of our peers have made any money for their labels. This industry needs to change drastically, but at the moment nothing has changed. www.247magazine.co.uk
Your record label Brille lost its funding from EMI… then Brille set up as an independent…are things better this way round? A lot better. EMI is the worst record label around; although saying that, on our first album we could still do whatever we want, and we never had to deal with anyone from EMI. The only problem is that those labels have a lot more money so bands can do more… for instance, we can’t play in America as it costs too much, and being on a label like that can finance those things, but like I said, that set up is not great either. For creative freedom it’s a lot better being on a small community-like label. Ask Klaxons if you need that proved… Rhys, we heard you’re into pop music – doesn’t that go against the grain of the indie artrocker persona? No way, every song we have made is a pop song. Beyonce inspires me a lot more than the shit I see on MTV2. You have to be inspired by everything, and have broad references, good music is good music – for example, Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear is the biggest pop song of last year. What I consider pop is probably different to what many others might categorise as pop. Phoenix’s last album was fantastic, as is a cover of Lisztomania by the PS22 Chorus. I think Sweet Dreams by Beyonce is one of the best songs ever written. In terms of mainstream pop, I think Lady Gaga is good, Cheryl Cole has some good songs, I like Girls Aloud too. Everyone likes this music, it’s just people think it’s cool to say they dislike it which to me is very sad. Where do you think you’ll be in five years time? Underrated (still).
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RETAIL THERAPY I’m in a field with my best mates. Watching a band. Drinking some cider. Not A Lot Going On… Acid Drop Leather Bag
£75
www.frenchconnection.com French Connection’s one shoulder strap mini leather bag is perfect for styling it up when field-bound. Stubbi pouch
£1.20
www.stubbi.net Littering is bad, especially in the lush green fields of our countryside. Stick your butts in these handy reusable pouches and leave no trace!
Neon Face Paint
£2.50 each
www.kitsch-u-like.com UV light reactive non coloured body/face paint. A necessary accompaniment to your weekend in a field. It’s easy to apply, lasts for hours, and washes off with soap and water. Try to think of original ways to apply it…
Baja Black Umbrella
Podpad www.podpads.com If sleeping in a sweaty, cramped tent doesn’t float your festival boat, then hire a Podpad. These little wooden houses are weather proof, sleep two people, have a power socket, are lock-able, and will be set up for you so all you have to worry about when you arrive is enjoying yourself. Podpads will be at festivals all over the UK, see the website for full listings. Prices vary.
£25
www.ripcurl.com The ideal accessory for a rainy stroll from Main Stage to Other Stage. Or useful to keep the sun off your hungover head whilst you wait to see The Prodigy. Get yours from the Rip Curl Flagship store in Newquay (01637 850848).
Wiki Digital Video Camera
£59.99
www.iwantoneofthose.com Make sure you capture all those awesome festival moments with this handy pocket sized digital video camera. You can watch your videos on it’s screen, and it’s integrated USB connection means it’s easy to upload videos to your computer once you get home (no more searching for that pesky cable). 14 |
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Invisibility cloak
£50,000
www.c-thru-industries.co.uk Perfect for covertly sneaking to the front of the drinks/toilet queue. Made from woodpile photonic crystals with tailored reflective polymer filling. Available (theoretically) June 2020. www.247magazine.co.uk
Field Day Festival chic comes with layers this season… Waistcoat by Miss Selfridge £30 (just seen), Coral blouse by A-Wear £25, Cropped black tee with rose motif by A-Wear £16 (worn underneath blouse), Denim shorts by Miss Selfridge £25, coat stylists own.
Cream tuxedo shirt dress by A-Wear £25, black jumpsuit with detail models own, vintage camera stylists own
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Biker jacket by Miss Selfridge £58, Lace dress by Miss Selfridge £40, coat stylists own.
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Parka by Miss Selfridge £50, Navy hooded jersey coat by A-Wear £26, Lace top by Miss Selfridge £18, Cropped jumper by Miss Selfridge £28, Floral shorts by Miss Selfridge £30, baby pink Hunter wellies and vintage leather saddle bag stylists own.
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The 2010 Festival season is shaping up nicely. Here, 247 Magazine begins a summer of festival previews and competitions, giving you the lowdown on the pick of local festivals as well as the best large scale events out there.
ATP FESTIVAL MATT GROENING WHERE: Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead WHEN: 7 – 9 May WHO: Iggy and the Stooges, The XX, Joanna Newsom,
Panda Bear, Deerhunter, The Residents, Hope Sandoval and Warm Inventions, Liars, She & Him, Coco Rosie, Built To Spill, and many more WONGA: 3 Berth Room Only £490 / 4 Berth Self Catering Chalet £695 / 6 Berth Self Catering Chalet £1042.50 WHY: All Tomorrow’s Parties has been promoting festivals and concerts throughout the world for the last ten years. As part of their celebrations for their 10th birthday, previous festival curator Matt Groening (the genius behind the Simpsons and Futurama curated the ATP’s 2003 festival in California) returns to choose a line up of awesome proportions. Add that to the fact that the festival is based at a fully functioning holiday park (accommodation is in chalets rather than muddy tents) with waterparks, shops, restaurants and more, and you have what should be a quality festival experience. A lot of chalets are already sold out, so get your mates and get in there quickly if you want to go along. WEB: www.atpfestival.com
SUMMIT FESTIVAL WHERE: Kit Hill, nr Callington, Cornwall WHEN: 22 May WHO: M-Zone, DJ Tye, Dan Kelly, Doomka, Dred Ned,
Maxxi P, Mr Nice, DJ Katalyst, Necta Selecta, Mystery, General Flava, Krafty Sounds, Ctrl B and more… WONGA: first 100 tickets £15, thereafter £17.50 WHY: Three stages of house, hardstyle, drum ‘n’ bass, dubstep, fidget house, electro, techno and trance. That’s why. Sponsored by Nomads, and with visual entertainment by Sika Studios, this one day festival will also feature a Rinseout drum ‘n’ bass showcase, a laser light show, free parking and camping, and a Void sound system. 26 DJs, one massive night – gates open at 5pm. Over 18s only. Get your tickets from Bigga Records, Plymouth and Reform Records, Exeter. Coaches and tickets also available from Jon at Eventz Travel (07779 232854). WEB: www.summitfestival.co.uk We have a pair of tickets to give away to Summit 2010. To enter, go to www.247magazine.co.uk
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RUN TO THE SUN WHERE: Trevelgue Holiday Park, Newquay WHEN: 28 – 31 May WHO: Sub Focus, Hype, Freestylers,
Eddy Temple Morris, Lisa Lashes, Darren Styles, Anne Savage, Kutski, BK, Scott Atrill, Micky Slim, Fran Cosgrave, Rob Tissera and many more. Live acts to be announced WONGA: Adults £75, children £37.50 WHY: RTTS 2010 is a proper festival, an anything goes festival, a festival that combines the unique beach life of Newquay with V-dubs, custom cars and dance music – you can have it full-on, hardcore, chilled, messy or civilised. It’s your choice and don’t let anyone tell you differently. Run To The Sun is the ultimate mix of motors and big name DJs and live music – VW lovers have been making a pilgrimage down to Cornwall for this festival since 1987. This year, the Silent Disco returns for the third time, and will be held on each of the three nights. New for 2010, the Morph Tent will play techno and minimal, a 12 hour dubstep marathon, and turntablism and heavy drum ‘n’ bass, with awesome visual effects and a top DJ lineup (TBA). And don’t miss the Show and Shine on Sunday 30 May at Tregunnel Car Park, where you can lust over all the shiny VWs that enthusiasts have brought along. Camper vans are available to hire, as well as there being plenty of camping space. WEB: www.runtothesun.co.uk We have a pair of tickets to give away to RTTS 2010. To enter, go to www.247magazine.co.uk
PLYMOUTH VOLKSFEST WHERE: Newnham Park, Plymouth WHEN: 28 – 31 May WHO: Goldie Lookin Chain, Neville Staple, Zion Train,
and many more, including lots of popular local acts. WONGA: Adult £45, 14 – 16 yrs £12, 10 – 13 yrs £5, 5 – 9 yrs £3. WHY: Comedy, camping, cabaret, live music, DJs, and the ever popular VW Show ‘n’ Shine are all part of Plymouth Volksfest. This year cars will be shown on Saturday, and vans will be shown on Sunday. Go to the website to download an entry form so you can show off your vee-dub! WEB: www.plymouthvolksfest.co.uk
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SUNRISE CELEBRATION WHERE: South Somerset WHEN: 3 – 6 June WHO: Zion Train, Bellaruche, The Egg, Sheelanagig,
Eat Static, James Monro, Allaby, Tim Healy, Banco De Gaia, Nucleus Roots, The Correspondents, Gentlemans Dub Club, and many more WONGA: Adult £105, Teen (16-17yrs) £65, Child (515yrs) £25, Family £235 WHY: This 100% sustainably powered festival features eight arenas, firewalking, cabaret, organic food and drink (Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall’s River Cottage Canteen will be stirring up a tasty menu at the event), enchanted garden, standard and luxury camping, saunas, hot showers, a Solar Dance arena, GAMA Disabled Camping and LOADS more. The music is a unique blend of dub, world, ska, electronica, dub-step, psy trance, breaks, reggae, folk and Balkan beats. The dressing up theme for Saturday is Circus Freaks! WEB: www.sunrisecelebration.com
CULTURAL VIBES 18TH BIRTHDAY WEEKENDER WHERE: South West Cornwall (nr Helston) WHEN: 11 – 13 June WHO: Greg Wilson, Prins Thomas, The Revenge, Paul
Murphy, Balearic Mike, Si Spex, Jon Dasilva, DJ Digit, Adrian Luv-Dup, Mike Shawe, DiY DJs Jack & Simon DK, Mitch, Phil Banks, Dave Green, Duncan Parks, MC Rayan, Phil Jubb, WONGA: £60 WHY: The Cultural Vibes crew are back with a very special weekender in June. From Friday afternoon until Sunday night they aim to turn a farm dating back centuries into a venue for a wonderful birthday celebration as they are officially 18 years old this year. With a happy, fun and peaceful party vibe, this event will showcase top DJs from around the world. Friday night has a disco feel, Saturday will be dedicated to the late 80s and early 90s, with most of the DJs who played at Cultural Vibes back at Plymouth’s Warehouse returning 22 |
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for a set, including the legends Shades of Rhythm. Sunday is Big Hog Roast day, with some of the best Balearic spinners around. The festival aims to provide organic/local food, eco friendly and off grid power, and a screen for the World Cup games so the footy mad need not miss out… Limited tickets are available for this event. See website for more details. WEB: www.culturalvibes.co.uk
GOLDCOAST OCEANFEST WHERE: Croyde, North Devon WHEN: 18 – 20 June WHO: Magic Numbers, and more TBA WONGA: Adults £35, Under 18s £25, Family ticket £95 WHY: Now in it’s twelfth year, GoldCoast takes place
over the summer solstice weekend in June. With sports, music and surf events all part of the festival, there’s really something for everyone at Goldcoast. Freesports play a big part in this event, with athletes competing in a range of sports, from beach volleyball to surf lifesaving. There is no onsite camping for this festival, but there are plenty of brilliant campsites and B&Bs nearby so accommodation shouldn’t be a problem. One for the family! WEB: www.goldcoastoceanfest.co.uk
EDEN SESSIONS WHERE: The Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall WHEN: 26 June – 13 July WHO: 26 June, Jack Johnson, 27 June, Mika, 2 July,
Doves (with Mumford and Sons), 3 July, Calvin Harris (with Audio Bullys), 13 July, Paolo Nutini (with Martha Wainwright). WONGA: £35 per session WHY: Five Eden Sessions events will take place between 26 June and 13 July. These one day music festivals are becoming renowned for bringing huge artists down to Cornwall for spectacular gigs in the dramatic setting of the Eden Project. This year, acts including Jack Johnson and Paolo Nutini will take to the stage, nestled amongst the infamous biomes. Tickets for Eden Sessions always sell out very quickly – in fact the Jack Johnson, Doves and Paolo Nutini gigs were all sold out at the time of going to press. WEB: www.edenproject.com/sessions www.247magazine.co.uk
RAME DANCE WHERE: Rame Head, Cornwall WHEN: 2 – 4 July WHO: To be announced WONGA: Tickets to be released mid April WHY: The organisers of Maker Festival are back with an exciting new event, on a much smaller scale for 2010 – small is beautiful! There will only be 1000 tickets on sale, so this will be a much more intimate event than previous Maker Festivals. The main marquee will host live bands, there will be real ale bars, a cabaret stage, a DJ/dance tent, and food and stalls. WEB: www.makerfestival.co.uk
RELENTLESS NASS WHERE: Bath and West Showground, nr Shepton Mallet
WHEN: 9 – 11 July WHO: Bowling For Soup, Hadouken, Plan B, Tinie
Tempah, Quemists, Gallows, Wiley, Ghost of a Thousand, Chase and Status (Live), Andy C, Caspa, Nero, Krafty Kuts, Friction, Klimax and BennyMC, Kidda, Jaguar Skills, Charlie G and many more WONGA: Adult weekend £70, Child weekend £40, Family weekend £170, Adult day from £20 WHY: If high octane sports and rocking music are your thing, then NASS is the place for you. NASS festival features the best in action sports in both displays and competitions, from the World Skateboard Comp to the new Euro BMX Series, and new to NASS for 2010, the Inline 4* World Rolling Series, Parkour, and a new FMX setup. Add to that a stellar line up and you’ve got yourself a cocktail of headrushing delights for a relentlessly good festival. WEB: www.relentlessnass.com
GLADE WHERE: Matterley Bowl, Winchester, Hampshire WHEN: 15 – 18 July WHO: Orbital, Simian Mobile Disco, Tricky, Jeff Mills,
Magnetic Man, Green Velvet, Autechre, Krafty Kuts vs. A Skillz, Holy Ghost!, Boy Better Know, Skream b2b Benga, DJ Zinc, Seth Troxler, Craig Richards, Clark, Plastician, www.247magazine.co.uk
Fuck Buttons, The Field, Wolf + Lamb, X-Press 2, Avalon, DJ Friction, London Elektricity, 65daysofstatic WONGA: £110 limited student ticket offer / £135 normal price WHY: 15,000 revellers will make the pilgrimage to Matterley Bowl in Hampshire for the seventh Glade festival. Described as “Glastonbury for electronic music lovers”, camper vans, boutique camping and Lazy Camping are all available. Student artists take note – there is a competition for you to see your work exhibited at Glade, see the website for details. Glade Festival have also confirmed that they will be allowing festival goers in for free to this year’s event if they parachute in, provided they are dressed as Elvis, wearing a sound system strapped to their back and hit the ground dancing. All early bird tickets have already sold out, so get your ticket now. WEB: www.gladefestival.com We have a pair of tickets to give away to Glade Festival 2010. To enter, go to www.247magazine.co.uk
RELENTLESS BOARDMASTERS WHERE: Watergate Bay and Fistral Beach, Newquay WHEN: 4 – 8 August WHO: Newton Faulkner, Seasick Steve, Leftfield,
Chase and Status (Live), Example, French Horn Rebellion, Tinie Tempah, Plan B, Xavier Rudd, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Fenech Solar, Alan Pownall, Matthew P and many more TBA. WONGA: Charger ticket (access to main festival and Beach Sessions) £95, Weekend camping ticket £80, Weekend only £60, day ticket £35 WHY: Taking place over two sites in Newquay – the famous Fistral Beach, and the glorious Watergate Bay site – Boardmasters is arguably the biggest music and surf event in the South West each year. continued on page 29 magazine | 23
continued from page 27 The festival takes place around the 5 Star ASP World Qualifying Series surf event, which sees world class surfers descend on Fistral Beach to take part in this important competition. As the surfers tackle the waves, the Vans Summer Sessions see the skaters take over the beach with Europe’s highest profile vert skate event. Fistral Beach also hosts the Beach Sessions at the Relentless Beach Bar on 4, 5 and 8 August (acts TBA – previous acts include Seasick Steve – now headlining at the Watergate Bay site, and Enter Shikari). The festival site up at Watergate Bay is where most of the music happens, as well as fairground rides, food stalls, bars, and lots more. New for 2010 is an onsite camping area, so you can stay next to the Watergate site. Boardmasters is a totally awesome festival and well worth a go if you’ve never been before. WEB: www.relentlessboardmasters.com
BEAUTIFUL DAYS WHERE: Escot Park, Ottery St Mary, Devon WHEN: 20 – 22 August WHO: James, The Wailers, Newton Faulkner, Levellers,
Billy Bragg, Fairport Acoustic Convention, Bellowhead, New Model Army, Easy Star All-Stars, Show of Hands, African Head Charge, The Slackers, The Alarm, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, The Aggrolites, Krafty Kuts, Citizen Fish and more WONGA: Adult weekend £100, 10 – 16 yrs weekend £60, 5 to 10 yrs weekend £30, under 5s weekend £5 WHY: A festival organised by The Levellers in the gorgeous setting of Escot Park, Beautiful Days is now eight years old. It’s a family music festival with five stages, spectacular site art, a huge children’s area, comedy, theatre, family camping, licensed real ale bars from Otter Brewery, carefully selected food and craft stalls and a village shop. Beautiful Days is strictly non corporate with no sponsorship or branding. WEB: www.beautifuldays.org
AEON FESTIVAL WHERE: Shobrooke Park Estate, Crediton, Devon WHEN: 27 – 29 August WHO: MJ Cole, Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear, Dizraeli, 24 |
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6 Day Riot, Doll And The Kicks, Kate Tempest, 2562, Spiro, Kat Marsh, Elvis Mcgonagall, Rosie Vanier, Matt Harvey, Julia Biel, Backbeat Soundsystem, Vid Warren and loads more. Jam The Channel host the Temple of Dance, WONGA: Adult weekend £60, Youth (1316yrs) £45, under 13s £free, day tickets £22 WHY: This is one of the South West’s best boutique style festivals with some top local talent joining recognised names on the line up. The theme this year is global safari! Aeon boasts a gorgeous location, with their Prophecy Stage set in a natural amphitheatre, with a huge lake as a backdrop. Cabaret Voltaire will present an eclectic mix of spoken word, dance and global jazzy music, swing, folk, and more. The Jazz Potato stage will feature performances from Sika Studios, Magic Hatstand, Benji’s Reggae Bus and much more. WEB: www.aeonfestival.com
WAVEFORM FESTIVAL WHERE: TBA (90 mins outside London) WHEN: 10 – 12 Sept WHO: Line up to be announced WONGA: £95 WHY: The UK’s leading sustainable dance music
festival, Waveform’s ethos is that “partying doesn’t have to cost the earth.” Music includes live bands as well as psy trance, progressive, breaks, minimal techno, drum ‘n’ bass, chill out and more. WEB: www.waveformfestival.com
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Music Breaks & Beats
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Sabre
Thing’ is an atmospheric album with depth, centring on warm and dreamy vocals, picked guitar and strings. Rhodes has a calm and gentle voice that washes over you, and her abilities as both songwriter Sabre is no new comer to the scene & with and producer make this a stunning album. releases on some of the most respected She has mastered the craft of using record labels in Drum & Bass such as instruments in a subtle to create a large Metalheadz, Shogun Audio & Renegade soundscape- and she does this without Hardware, it’s now time for his debut album having to pile on too much into each song. to drop. Spread over two discs & featuring Arash Torabi a number of collaborations & remixes from the likes of Noisia, Alix Perez & Icicle to name a few, Sabre shows us that it’s not Sound Iration just Drum & Bass that he does best. From In Dub’ the experimental down tempo sounds (Year Zero) to the D&B dance floor grooves, this album couldn’t be more diverse if it tried! Debut album by the pioneers of UK Available on a double CD & triple vinyl. steppers, including a bonus disc with rarities Go & check it out! and tracks intended for a second album. IN:SIGHT/OLLIE EVANS Sound Iration’s Nick Manasseh has since earned respect as DJ and producer, and this album was originally released on WAU! Mr Various Artists Modo, set up by Youth (Killing Joke) and Dr Shank Soundtrack Alex Paterson (The Orb). ‘In Dub’ is ablaze (GGI Records) with strong bass and steady drum machine rhythms, but much of this falls flat compared Pretty much an A list compilation of UK to its Jamaican counterparts. You’ve got to grime stars and a few dubstep tracks for admire their influence on UK dub, but 20 good measure. New tracks from the likes years on, and with the boundary-pushing of Bashy, Boy Better Know and Giggs. developments of dubstep, this is best filed Most soundtracks live or die based on as background music. whether the film is a hit, this is a great Arash Torabi album regardless of what the film is like. If you’ve not tried UK rap or grime before this would be a good starting point for where Dreadzone the scene is now. Highlight for me is the Eye on the Horizon Breakage track with Newham Generals (still (Dubwiser Records) the best name ever). Pure fire. Aldo Vanucci Festival-rockers, Dreadzone are at it again: blending reggae bass, breakbeat, skanking Mowgli guitars, MC vocals and electronics to create 93 a danceable result. Earl 16’s soulful vocals (Dodeca Records) hit the spot, with conscious lyrics aplenty. This album works best when all those After a few years in the making, UK rapper, ingredients are present: check Tomorrow Mowgli drops his debut, packed with rapid- Never Comes, For A Reason and American fire lyrics over dark instrumentals. You can’t Dread. On the downside, the rock guitar/ Addicted to Love mockery of Beyond A doubt his skills as a lyricist or his razorsharp flow, but Mowgli is on a race to cram Rock spoils it. But occasional cheesy lyrics and deviations from the recipe are forgiven, as many words into a track as possible, because the overall result is a band that most of which don’t make much sense. sounds fresh and ready to rock. Call it abstract or poetry, but his relentless Arash Torabi ranting and unsettling imagery just wear you out. Intense lyrics and out-of-time beats may arouse intellectuals or hip-hop Peggy Sue anoraks, but they sure as hell ain’t gonna Fossils And Other Phantoms make you nod your head. (Wichita) Arash Torabi
A Wandering Journal (Critical)
Lou Rhodes
One Good Thing (Motion Audio)
Third album from Manchester folk girl, on Cinematic Orchestra’s new label, through the ever-innovative Ninja Tune. ‘One Good
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Swedish siblings, First Aid Kit, released one of the year’s first truly great albums last month. A few weeks later and Peggy Sue’s debut drops with eerily similar duelling female vocal sensibilities, courtesy of songwriters, Rosa and Katy. But Peggy Sue are no forest cabin folkies; they underpin the rich vocal textures with a surging, at
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times, sinister rhythm section that calls to mind Regina Spektor at her toughest. And when they do reveal their vulnerable side, it comes as a pleasant surprise. A refreshing addition to the neo-folk menu. Backbone
Chumbawamba ABCDEFG (No Masters)
Leeds anarcho-folk stalwarts, Chumbawamba, have been pariahs ever since they sold their souls to the corporate devil with ‘Tubthumping’. Once the toast of the DIY veganarcho community, now their old fans don’t give a shit that they still release mellifluous albums with romantic and libertarian undertones like ‘ABCDEFG’: a concept piece that addresses music itself, with revealing anecdotes and historical touchstones. Thankfully a whole new fanbase has picked up on the band’s understated sincerity, which is a relief when you consider how smelly the old ones were. Backbone
North Atlantic Oscillation Grappling Hooks (Snapper)
With a name like that it’s hard to predict anything other than psychedelic beatitude; which is pretty much what you get. Floating in the ether somewhere between the Pink Floyd columnimbus and the Elbow fog, ‘Grappling Hooks’ gets to work with cosmic keys, wistful harmonies and neatly layered beats that result in moments of panoramic clarity like ‘Hollywood Has Ended’ and the ELO-meets-Air shimmer of ‘Cell Count’. If they ever make another ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ flick, NAO should be first in line for soundtrack duties. Backbone
Laura Marling
I Speak Because I Can (Virgin)
This second album from the British folk songstress, produced by Ethan Jones (Kings of Leon) is a rich and complex record with a widescreen approach to sound. The opening song, Devil’s Spoke gallops along with banjos leading the charge, and the singer suggesting you “hold your devil by his throat and spin him to the ground.” The Gaelic-feel Alpha Shallows will lift your spirits with its stirring and majestic strings-led hook. There are no obvious choices for singles here: this needs to be heard as an album. I Speak Because I Can is a masterpiece by anybody’s standards, let alone a musician as young as Laura Marling. Arash Torabi
DEMOS DEMO OF THE MONTH ELLIOT WHALE BOY are not the same band who were once the toast of the Plymouth alt-pop community. Gone are the quirky, clever-clever, post-punk angles, electronica squelches and clattering drums, to be replaced with a lovely sense of melodic resignation that flows through the veins like a valerian rush. On their new album (up on Myspace in its entirety) the band have clearly widened their horizons and grown into a cohesive ensemble that has an all-encompassing grasp on indie insightfulness and post-rock latitude. Better still, Tom Thrasher’s voice has settled into a gentle purr that works perfectly on epic songs like ‘Kingdom’ and the punishing ‘Derelict Houses’; trapped in the embrace of a Grandaddy/ Foals love-in. Quite magnificent. www.myspace.com/elliotwhaleboy
ROCK SHOW DEMO OF THE MONTH Having just come back from gigs in Europe, Devon based CAMBION are really one to watch out for this year. Their live shows are a full on energy romp and are as tight as any acts who are twice the age of these young defenders of the faith. Stand out tracks on the album (titled End of This Nightmare) like Fall From Grace and End Of This Nightmare show the true force of this band that have caught the attention of the likes of Blaze Bailey (former Iron Maiden) who asked them to support him last year for live dates. www.myspace.com/cambionuk. The Rock Show have now done a year’s worth of 247 Demo of the Month, and will be doing a special show on 9 April to celebrate, and will be playing all the demo of the month records from the past year. Also, Cambion will be in the Phonic FM studio for a live performance as part of that show. Hear these demos on the Rock Show on Phonic FM 106.8FM in Exeter or online at phonic.fm, every Friday from 10pm – 12am with Mike James and crew. You can also email your own tracks to rockshow@phonic.fm Email your tracks to rockshow@phonic.fm or post them to Rock Show on Phonic106.8FM, 6 Belvedere Court, St Davids, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4DA You may remember JOHNNY POWELL from his time fronting neo-folkies, The Dharma Bums. His new solo project picks up where that band left off and runs headlong into a netherworld of found sounds and harrowing melodies. With a much more developed and settled voice, ‘The Broken Leg Sessions’ is a beautiful testament to the power of melancholy and madness, where songs like ‘The Contributor’ are so poignant it hurts. And scattered amongst the soulful emissions are strange and wonderful sounds – including pillow kicks, curtains being drawn, wallets flicking and, best of all, Sylvia Plath’s graveyard (!) – all of which evoke an atmosphere that is, at once, organic and eerie. www.johnnypowell.com
If Suzanne Vega had grown up on the mean streets of the south coast and had stumbled into the local squat cafe-cum-anarchist centre on the way to Tom’s Diner, she might have sounded something like politico-crooner, OLIVE ANNE. Her five song demo ‘Close Your Eyes, You Won’t Feel A Thing’ manages to shoe-horn in more rhyming words of angry wisdom than the most verbose punk rock band, with a righteous acoustic guitar strum pinning the words down for a moment before they run away in a torrent of passion and positive attitude. Recorded in one take, this is what music sounds like when you strip away the bullshit and sing from the heart. Pretty fucking neat. www.myspace.com/oliveanne From the ashes of Capdown, THIS CONTRAST KILLS turn back the clock to the mid-‘90s, when indie-punk bands ruled the roost, and when Therapy? still wrote good songs. ‘The Corrupted Luxury’ EP isn’t bad but it does seem to lack any real bite or lasting value especially in the throat department. And when the band drop in the digital loops and synth hooks on the likes of ‘Fables’ the anachronisms begin to come thick and fast. The Milton Keynes trio are clearly driven to keep making solid, politicised music but the Capdown legacy needs to be surpassed, or at least lived up to, for anyone to take notice. It’s a tall order but the potential is certainly there. www.myspace.com/thiscontrastkills Oh, JOHN FRANCIS, what would we do without you? It’s been a while since we received any of the Exeter fella’s aural nuggets but he’s back with ‘The Tramp’, an album of incredulously loose, lo-fi dronerock that may leave you yearning for the Sugababes or a nice noose to hang from after a while. Indeed, it takes a strong stomach to endure the woeful tunelessness of ‘Dream On’ – which sounds like four people playing four different songs, all very badly – but I still have a fondness for ol’ John because he just sings his songs and writes his poems and sticks them out there in his own bubble of creative freedom as if nothing else mattered. That’s gotta count for something, hasn’t it? (No website. Contact us and we’ll track him down) So we were on tour with the mighty Chuck Ragan when his hirsute fiddle player, JON GAUNT, handed me this little gem of an EP. Entitled ‘5 Songs’, the bearded wonder keeps things sweet’n’simple, faintly country and endearingly cheesy, especially on the gooey ‘Every Drink Every Song’: a love song that humbly confesses “my swollen eyes close only for you”. Meanwhile, ‘Jerusalem Ridge’ sees JG’s competent fiddle fingers dominate on a traditional-style reel designed, it seems, for toes rather than romantic hearts. As a footnote, the man’s done time with Whisky & Co, so that should get your ears a-prickin’ if nothing else. www.myspace.com/jongauntmusic Meanwhile, over on Murdoch-Space…
Bristol indie-rockers WILDER clearly want to be part of the neo-pop coterie along with the likes of Friendly Fires and The Maccabees but they sound a little to derivative to make any headway just yet. Then again, the sexed-up, Simian Mobile Disco-esque synth-rock of ‘TBT’ shows promise, so watch this space. www.myspace.com/wearewilder
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2 Apr St Austell
ARTS CAFÉ, Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall, 01726 811911, www.edenproject.com 7pm – 12.30am, £10 The Zen Hussies will be kicking off the first Arts Cafe of 2010 in spectacular style, along with sets from resident DJs Jelly Jazz. Find out about the Youth Food Movement, join the Cornwall Growing Collaboration and get involved! Plus, the Biomes will be open ‘til 9.30pm!
7 Apr Plymouth
COMEDY NIGHT, The B Bar, Castle Street, Plymouth, 01752 267131, www.barbicantheatre.co.uk, 8.30pm, £See Venue The B Bar’s monthly session of stand-up continues with Patrick Monahan, Simon Feilder, Chris Battle and MC is Jared Hardy. Doors 7.30pm, show at 8.30pm.
8 Apr Truro
BJORN AGAIN – HERE WE GO AGAIN, Hall for Cornwall, Black Quay, TR1 2LL, 01872 262466, www.hallforcornwall.co.uk, 7.30pm, £17.50 - £15.50 Created and founded in 1988 in Melbourne, Australia by director and musician Rod Stephen, Bjorn Again is not labelled a copy or tribute band, but seen as a satirical parody of ABBA and a brand in it’s own right, rapidly achieved worldwide cult status. One Aussie bloke presents four pretendy Swedes and a trip to the theatre you’ll never forget!! Join in all the fun with Bjorn AGAIN - 2010 Here we go Again, featuring ABBA’s hits and songs from MAMMA MIA together with the legendary voice of host Tony Blackburn playing all the UK hits of 1988. This is the greatest party night out for everyone of all ages.
Until 9 Apr Plymouth
BIOTROPICA, Cube3 Gallery, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, 01752 585050, www.peninsula-arts.co.uk, 10am to 5pm, £Free Scientists are great observers of the world around them and so accumulate thousands of photographs that document their encounters with the natural world. Biotropica delves into the vast archive of photographic material that exists within the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Plymouth and provides a glimpse of the many encounters that Plymouth scientists have experienced in the tropics. Biotropica offers an insight into the wonder and beauty of this fragile and rapidly vanishing part of the biosphere.
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13 – 17 Apr Plymouth
ADULT CHILD/DEAD CHILD, Drum Theatre, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, www.theatreroyal.com, 7.45pm, £7 An unloved child, twisted by the world and unable to make herself understood, meets Benji, a lifetime friend who is all the things she wasn’t allowed to be. Claire Dowie’s award winning monologue, adapted here for a cast of 16, charts a young woman’s downward spiral into mental illness. Her story is told with humour and humanity.
17 Apr Torquay
TAP DANCE FEVER, Princess Theatre, Torbay Rd, TQ2 5EZ, www.princesstheatre.org.uk, 7.30pm, £see venue Tap Dance Fever takes the audience on a whistle stop tour of the greatest tap dance moments in show business history. Starting in the era when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were the stars of the day, the show tap dances its way through history, thrilling and exciting audiences with the vibrant tap dance styles that have entertained generations.
19 Apr Exeter
ENDLESS DANCE COMPANY: AUFGANG UNTER, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, 01392 667080, www. exeterphoenix.org.uk 8pm, £9.50 Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy’s ‘LandArt’, Endlesspace Dance Company explore how the stage becomes a space of experience, how it develops, only to expand towards the audience; how eyes, ears and skin begin to sense the space differently; how silence can arise through movement and sound?
21 Apr - 1 May Exeter
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RANDOM ACTS OF ART, Spacex Gallery, 45 Preston Street, 01392 431786, www.spacex.org.uk Artists are increasingly seeking to involve audiences in the process of artistic production as well as its reception. In line with this shift, Spacex has commissioned three UK artists to create new work responding to the independent spirit of Exeter’s West Quarter: Amy Feneck has interviewed people about the notion of ‘independent spirit’, in order to develop a script for her new work. Lady Lucy has operated from her mobile portrait studio, documenting encounters with local residents, and her painted portraits have been viewable from the street as they accumulate in the front gallery space.
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Volkhardt Müller has worked with people in the West Quarter to create a series of performed actions recorded on video and, from 21 April, the gallery spaces are open to the public for an exhibition of all the work produced and a series of events lead by the artists-in-residence and local artist collectives. The week will end with a celebratory May Day tea party.
21 Apr Exeter
WONDERMENTALIST: TAKING THE MIC, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, 01392 667080, www.exeterphoenix. org.uk 8pm, £Free The-have-a-go-in-the-bar-show for performing poets, stand-ups, variety acts, singer songwriters and those audiences looking for free entertainment with bar snacks. Hosted by Liv Torc (The Bard of Exeter and winner of the South West Heat of the National Radio 4 Poetry Slam 2009). Five minute slots available – please book a slot in advance by emailing livtorc@yahoo.com
23 Apr Penzance
THE FAMILY, Acorn Arts Centre, Parade St, 01736 365520, www. acornartscentre.co.uk, 8pm, £8 Rogue Theatre presents an evening of stories, dark secrets, music and intrigue. An eccentric family live in an isolated mansion deep in the forest. Their evening erupts into a revelation of astonishing stories and secrets. With tales of piracy, voodoo and lost fame woven together with gothic poetry, The Family promises a world of escape, spectacle, fantasy & horror.
23 – 24 Apr Plymouth
MADAM GALINA & ANYTHING FOR A TENOR: IRAQ AND I, The Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, Plymouth, 01752 267131, www. barbicantheatre.co.uk, 8pm, £8 A double bill including a dramatic monolgue and performance piece about Lestyn Edwards’s experiences performing to Her Majesty’s Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in support of Help for Heroes. Described as genius, hilariously funny, but touching, with a fascinating and unique slant on the war zones. And as for those pirouettes!
26 Apr – 1 May Plymouth
ROCKY HORROR SHOW, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, www.theatreroyal.com, 7.30pm, £30- £14 Follow squeaky-clean sweethearts Brad and
Events Janet on an adventure they’ll never forget, with the scandalous Frank ‘n Furter, rippling Rocky and vivacious Magenta. Get ready for a night of fun, frolics and frivolity in this thrilling production of Richard O’Brien’s classic original script! Bursting at the seams with timeless classics, including Sweet Transvestite, Damn it Janet, and of course, the pelvic-thrusting Time Warp, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show is a non-stop party! Ready to thrill you with its frothy fun and naughty moments, this is the boldest bash of them all, so sharpen those stilettos for the rockiest ride of your life! Don’t dream it – be it.
27 Apr – 1 May Plymouth
PUB ROCK, Drum Theatre, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, www. theatreroyal.com, 7.45pm, £12 Following their successful run with Hard Hearted Hannah and Other Stories in the Drum Theatre last year, Cartoon de Salvo return yet again reinventing the way we experience theatre. Their cocktail of script-defying improvisation, live music and exceptional storytelling has won critical acclaim and a devoted following. The show will take place in a room above a local pub, very close to the Theatre. Please meet at the Theatre Royal Box Office at 7.45pm where you will be escorted to the performance.
28 Apr – 23 May Exeter
I DON’T KNOW WHEN I’LL BE HOME, Café Bar Gallery, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy St, EX4 3LS, 01392 667080, www. exeterphoenix.org.uk Tom Butler uses second-hand postcards as miniature environments in which to create sinister and fantastical scenarios. Inspired by the relationship between the card’s image and the text on its reverse from which the titles are derived, Butler appropriates the postcard to create a collaboration of sorts between himself and the original sender. www. tombutlerstudios.com
29 Apr Plymouth
FUNKY LlAMA CABARET NIGHT, Drum Theatre, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, www.theatreroyal. com, 7pm, £4 Music, performances, singing, dancing… this night has got it all. The Funky Llama crew would like to invite you to the only night of its kind in the South West, a cabaret club run by people with learning disabilities and open to all. Singing, comedy and drama performances followed by music and dancing for everyone.
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Exit Through The Gift Shop (15) 1 Apr: Exeter Picturehouse, 0871 704 2057, www.picturehouses.co.uk. Dir: Banksy, starring Bansky and Rhys Ifans. 2010/USA/ UK/87 mins Well, whether you like his work or hate him for selling out the street art scene (ouch), Banksy has made a documentary film about himself and by himself. It premiered at Sundance this year getting the industry seal of confused approval. A couple of fans set out to find out the identity of the famously invisible Banksy and he essentially turns the camera on them instead. There are some great insights into his ingenuity and how street artists stay under the radar...and of course he is a Bristol boy. South West!!!! The Lovely Bones (12A)
1 Apr: Plymouth Arts
Centre 01752 206114 www. plymouthartscentre.org Director: Peter Jackson, starring Stanley Tucci, Mark Walhberg and Rachel Weisz 2009/US/139 mins Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbour. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body. This is the latest film from Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong) and it marks a departure from his previous films to something more life affirming and spiritual. All in all, a lovely experience. Mugabe and The White African (12A) 21 Apr: , Exeter Phoenix, 01392 667080 www.exeterphoenix.org.uk Dirs. Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey, starring Michael Campbell. 2009/UK/88 mins This heart-wrenching, engaging documentary is about the last stand of Michael Campbell, a 75-year-old white Zimbabwean farmer who dared to stand up to the racist bullying of President Robert Mugabe. The film’s strength lies in its fearless reportage, the filmmakers are present at some extraordinary events in this very local, and often suffocating, picture of a disappearing way of life in Zimbabwe. The film was nominated at this years Oscars and is certainly worth a watch is you fancy something a bit more challenging than your average popcorn fest. Ponyo (U)
13 – 16 Apr: Plymouth Arts
Centre, 01752 206 114
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www.plymouthartscentre.org Dir: Hayao Miyazaki, starring Frankie Jonas, Cate Blanchett, and Matt Damon. 2008/ Japan/103 min This is the story of Ponyo, a little goldfish-turned human girl from the sea who struggles to realise her dream of living with a boy named Sosuke. This is being called the must-see family film of the year. Every handdrawn frame of this gorgeous animated masterwork from Japan’s greatest living director, Hayou Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle) offers a blissful look at childhood. Shutter Island (15)
23 – 29 Apr: Plymouth Arts
Centre, 01752 206 114 www.plymouthartscentre.org Dir: Martin Scorsese, starring: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley. 2010/US/138 mins It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Teddy’s shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals escape in
films the confusion and Teddy doesn’t know which way to turn to solve the case. This marks the fourth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio and going by past results this should be nothing short of stunning. Sunshine Cleaning (15)
26 Apr: The Church Rooms,
James Belushi. 2008/US/82 mins A bomb-sniffing dog is fired from the mayor’s office for a explosive mistake. That night, a mad scientist dognaps him and injects him with an elixir. The dog escapes, but now has superpowers. He’s adopted by a security guard - an ex-cop, who’s a widower with a moody teen son, Jack. The boy discovers that the dog, named Shoeshine, has super powers, but it’s their little secret. While Underdog saves people in distress, the mad scientist and his underling continue their plot to catch him and take over the city. Kiddy friendly fun that will entertain all the family.
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Lostwithiel, 01208 873242 www.lostinfilm.org Dir: Christine Jeffs, starring Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin and Amy Adams. 2008/US/91 mins Single-mum Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) is a plucky ex-cheerleader now cleaning houses and having an affair with her high-school sweetheart, Mac (Steve Zahn). When Mac, a police detective, suggests the lucrative job opportunities in crime-scene cleanup, Rose enlists her sister, Norah (Emily Blunt), to join her in the gory but ultimately fulfilling business enterprise. This little indie-gem is comes from the same producers as Little Miss Sunshine, and was a huge success at the Sundance Film Festival.
White Ribbon (15)
14 Apr: Exeter Phoenix,
01392 667080 www.exeterphoenix.org.uk Dir. Michael Haneke, starring Christian Friedel and Ulrich Tukur. 2009/Aus/144 mins After the gloriously successful No Country for Old Men the Coen Brothers enter the late 60s and the resoagainst him. Larry’s attempts to find a balance and be a righteous man in the face of his vexations is as brilliant a character study as the Coens have ever done. The droll humour of his attempts to seek guidance from a succession of uninspiring or unavailable rabbis is wonderful. The Coens at their absolute best.
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Underdog (U)
3 Apr: Exeter Picturehouse, 0871 704 2057. www.picturehouses.co.uk Dir: Frederik Du Chau, starring Jason Lee, Peter Dinklage and
Hot New Releases:
Kick Ass (15)
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (PG)
Dir: Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois, starring Gerrard Butler, America Ferrera and Jonah Hill. 2010/US/TBC Feckless teenager Hiccup (Baruchel) is an accident-prone misfit living in an island village of Vikings under regular attack from apparently vicious firebreathing dragons. But when Hiccup shoots one down and then tracks it, and befriends it, he comes to question his view of the dragons. This is another CGI animation which will capitalise on the latest trend of 3D cinema. But don’t expect the adult thrills of Avatar, or the darkness of Alice in Wonderland. This one is firmly aimed at the kids and is all the better for it.
Dir: Matthew Vaughn, starring Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Aaron Johnson, and Chloe Moretz. 2010/UK/97 mins Based on the comic book by Mark Millar (also writer of Wanted), Kick Ass follows the exploits of Dave Lizewski, an everyday high school geek, as he sets out to become the worlds first real-life superhero. Possessing no real powers as such and an e-bay bought wetsuit, our hero’s career gets off to a bit of a rough start, but he soon finds fame after being filmed and posted on Youtube. Cue copycats and the attention of father/daughter vigilante team Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, things start to get dangerous and massively out of control. Throw in some violent mobsters, guns, samurai swords and plenty of swearing, and the result is truly what the title suggests.
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Released: 23 April CENTURION (15)
Dir: Neil Marshall, starring Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko, and Dominic West. 2010/UK/97 mins AD 117. The Roman Empire is in its prime. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying Picts. Quintus Dias (Michael Fassbender) marches north with General Virilus’ (Dominic West) legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the earth and destroy their leader Gorlacon. But when the legion is ambushed on unfamiliar ground, and Virilus taken captive, Quintus faces a desperate struggle to keep his small platoon alive behind enemy lines. Cue loads of bloody battles and severed limbs. Should be great fun.
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Plymouth
VIATROPHY, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, Exeter 8pm. With Osmium and Violent THE MELODY OF DISTASTE, Virtues. www.whiterabbituk.com, Exeter Picturehouse, 51 BarthoCHIGWAH, The Junction, Mutley lomew Street West, EX4 3AJ, Plain, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free. Plus 8pm. Live music from Jackie Oates, support Jim Causley and Matt Norman (TBC) THE MIGHTY ATOMS, Annabel’s www.picturehouses.co.uk Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall HOOKS, Cavern Club, 83-84 Street, PL4 0EY, Rock & Roll/ Queen St, Exeter, EX4 3RP, , 8pm, Rockabilly/50s. annabelscabaret. £4. www.cavernclub.co.uk co.uk With support from Finding Faith, FRANCIS & THE DRAKES CD Departures and These Ruins LAUNCH, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Falmouth RASH DECISION, Nancy’s Pub, 4 Barbican. 9pm, £5. Folk-pop, www. theb-bar.blogspot.com Killigrew Street, Falmouth, TR11 3PN, 8-12pm, £free. Rash DeciTruro sion’s inimitable style has the atWILLE AND THE BANDITS, Blue titude and delivery of ferocious punk Bar, Eastcliff, Porthtowan, Truro rock, played at phenomenal speed. TR4 8AW, £free. willeandthebanThe longest of their songs just tips dits@hotmail.co.uk three minutes and their shortest clocks in at 20 seconds. Supported by Mouth - an altogether different affair, with Natalie Guest providing guitar and vocals, with a grungier Exeter taste to their brand of punk rock, THE VEGGIE BOX, The Bike Shed providing a stark contrast against Theatre, Mary Archers Street, EX4 Rash Decision’s speed punk. 3AT, 7.30pm-2am, £5 The organisers of Watts Fest offer a Plymouth HIPPO UNSIGNED! The Hippo, 9 night of fine music from across the South West Bath Street, PL1 3LT, £3 Presenting the South West’s finest Penryn talent every Thursday night! Tickets PEAPOD SESSIONS, Miss Peainclude a free burger from our tasty pod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, www. BBQ! This week presenting The misspeapod.co.uk. Continuing our Teleheads- www.myspace.com/ monthly showcase of musicians, theteleheads and The Rising- www. acts TBC myspace.com/therisingofficial and Penzance Amplified Nights THOMAS FORD AND THE DIRTY BRIDGET ST JOHN AND MICHAEL CHAPMAN, Arts Centre, HARMONIES, Ride Café, TavisParade Street, TR18 4BU, 8.30pm, tock Place. Grinding Gritsy Blues rock, from some of the South Wests £12. In the sixties Bridget and Michael were amongst many singer/ most talented musicians. www. myspace.com/thomasfordblues. With songwriters honing their skills on support from Patrick James Pearson. the acoustic folk circuit. Bridget was taken up by John Peel, whilst Truro Michael was signed to EMI’s new WILLE AND THE BANDITS, Harvest label. This tour will see Bunters, 58 Little Castle Street, them collaborating as a duo as well TR1 3DL, £free willeandthebanas performing their own individual dits@hotmail.co.uk sets.
Sat.03
Fri.02 Exmouth
BOBKATZ, Famous Old Barrel, Princess Street, EX8 1JA, 9pm. Kids with parent/guardian welcome
Penzance
SOUL GOOD FRIDAY, Acorn Arts Centre, Parade Street, TR18 4BU, £7adv/ £8otd. 8.30pm. Out of the ashes of the phenomenal Bashment Boogie nights at the Acorn, comes Soul Good - a night of unhinged, unclassified music from the soul. www.acornartscentre.co.uk THE VINYL STITCHES, Studio Bar, Bread Street, £free. Scuzzy Lo-fi London garage punks. Plus The Black Tambourines
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FINLEY QUAYE, The Hippo, 9 Bath Street, PL1 3LT, £8adv / £10otd.Quaye is one of the most successful English reggae musicians around at the moment, having won both a MOBO for best reggae artist as well as the 1998 BRIT Award for Best Male Solo Artist. His debut album Maverick A Strike is a masterpiece capturing the sunshine vibe of primetime Marley but placing it firmly in the concrete of mid nineties bohemian Britain and making it pure pop. With two equally popular albums released since as well as a couple of EPs, he’s now readying three releases for this year, with a country album, an RnB album and a Roots album which may all be given sneak previews in his amazing live
shows. www.hippolive.co.uk FREE CUBA PARTY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, , 9pm, £free Latin tunes and cocktails, comrades with our resident DJ playing the best in salsa, merengue, bachata, son and more. www.theb-bar.blogspot. com SICK OF IT ALL, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, www.whiterabbituk.com, 8pm With 8 Control, Hang and The Bastard CASPA, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, 11pm With Rod Aslan. www.whiterabbituk. com ROCKFEST ’10, The Junction, Mutley Plain, PL4 6LA, noon, £4otd. 8th annual all day charity event in aid of St Lukes Hospice TOP SHELF JAZZ, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY, A heady mix of crooning melodies, filthy swing and rakish banter served up with an exhilharating cocktail of kazoo solos, anarchist misconduct and safari suits. With support act Michael Campari, plus Burlesque Beauty Miss Kitty Kane. annabelscabaret.co.uk
Falmouth
THE VINYL STICHES, Finn McCoul’s, Killigrew Street, £free Scuzzy Lo-fi London garage rockers and Penzance punks. Plus The Venton Gimps
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WILLE AND THE BANDITS, Driftwood Spars, Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes TR5 0RT, £free. willeandthebandits@hotmail.co.uk
St Austell
TERRA NOVA EASTER SPECIAL, The Stag Inn, St Austell, 5 Victoria Place, St Austell. PL25 5PE, 8pm-2am, £free. Live bands every Saturday. Party till’ 2am. Terra Nova impress with their jump up party tunes till’ Late. alex@fazes.co.uk.
Truro
THE VINYL STITCHES, Wig and Pen, Frances Street, £free. Scuzzy Lo-fi London garage punks and more blistering garage from Truro. Plus Mr Postman
Sun.04 Exeter
SUNDAY SOCIAL, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 12-4pm, £free Join us on the first three Sundays of the month, from 12-4pm in the Exeter Phoenix cafe-bar (or on the terrace in good weather) for live sets from singer-songwriters, bands and DJs. Come and have coffee, do breakfast or Sunday lunch, and chill to some great music. If you are interested in playing, contact us through MySpace or email us: sam@sound-gallery.net. www. exeterphoenix.org.uk.
Exmouth
BOBKATZ, First and Last, 10 Church St, EX8 1PE, 6pm, 18+
Plymouth
FRESHLY SQUEEZED, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY, annabelscabaret. co.uk. 8 Piece Funk/ Soul/ Disco Band with Horns ACOUSTIC WINE DOWN, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX, £free. Mark Greensit (10pm), 2Tonic (11pm), Matt Brenton (12am), Mark Palmer & George Comer Jam Band (1am) OK BRANDY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, 4pm, £free. Beautiful folk music. www.theb-bar.blogspot.com.
St Ives
WILLE AND THE BANDITS, Queens Hotel, High Street, TR26 1RR, £free. willeandthebandits@ hotmail.co.uk
Mon.05 Plymouth
DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, www.whiterabbituk.com, 8pm Support TBC
Thu.08 Exeter
THE LEVI MORETONS, Exeter Picturehouse, 51 Bartholomew Street West, EX4 3AJ, 8pm + Mani, All Living Fear, Peter. www. picturehouses.co.uk, NICK HARPER, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 8pm, £10. This acoustic singer-songwriter and guitarist’s guitarist has a distinctive, soulful voice and passionate songs. His material ranges from personal introspection to biting political satire, with musical influences from folk to rock, classical to flamenco. www. exeterphoenix.org.uk.
Plymouth
HIPPO UNSIGNED, The Hippo, 9 Bath Street, PL1 3LT, £3. Presenting the South West’s finest talent every Thursday night! Ticket includes a free burger from our tasty BBQ! This week: Drinking Peanuts- www. myspace.com/drinkingpeanuts, Port Bandanas- www.myspace. com/portbandanas, Johnson & The Believers- www.myspace.com/ justjohnsonofficial, The Georgia Crawl www.myspace.com/thegeorgiacrawl www.hippolive.co.uk. CONVOY (MR PROTECTOR), White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, 8pm magazine | 31
LIVE So off we trotted on tour again, this time to mainland Europe for a minijaunt with BANGERS, taking in France and Belgium. Glorious times. First stop, Le Havre, France, was a baptism of fire, as drunken boys dropped their trousers and drunken girls hollered like drunken boys (McDaids, 17 Feb). Local support, DRUNK SINCERITY, were a UK-indebted punk band with suitably grubby overtones although they didn’t quite have a grasp of the Britpunk swagger. All told, it was a joyous introduction to virgin territory for us and Bangers. Merci. The next night, in Paris, we played a cellar-stroke-dungeon bar called Le Pixi, which would have been shut down in two hours by Health & Safety if it had been located in any English town (18 Feb). Cool enough though. First up were IDS – young Parisian punkers who clearly needed more practise room liaisons, but were amiable enough hommes. Over in Belgium, D’Hivers Rock festival hosted an amusing cross-section of Euro bands of all persuasions, some that needed to be seen to be believed (Tournai, 19 Feb). Post-rock, triple-guitar sludgemeisters, GENERAL LEE, were quite impressive but over on the main stage, Gypsy-punk biblebashers, MALA VITA, were making, somewhat ironically, a godforsaken racket while expounding the dubious virtues of following the Lord. May He smite such raggle-taggle barmy bollocks with his omnipotent hand. Breton Celt-punk freakozoids, LES RAMONEURS DE MENHIRS, were a more palatable affair, although their seldom-heard traditional instruments didn’t sound too pretty when rubbed up against a clonking drum machine and over-distorted guitar. Meanwhile, MORNING RED seemed to think it was still 1995 as they happily paraded their Limp Bizkit-esque nu-metal nonsense. It snowed on the last day, in La Louviere, for about five hours. Heavily. It was pretty amazing and made for a rather romantic grand finale (La Taverne Du Theatre, Belgium, 20 Feb). Homeboys, BLACK SHEEP were a decent enough skanky punk rock band (with Rancid cover to boot), but it was across the square in another bar that things were really getting hot and heavy, in the shape of southern French trio, EDISON CLAN. We’d met them when we first arrived and had a little chat with them, so decided to pop over before we were due on to watch them play. They were fucking awesome. A grizzly blend of 16 Horsepower-esque drama, goth-americana and twisted blues will win me over every time and these guys were spewing it out by the bucketload. The fact that we found them by accident, playing 100 yards away from us in a small Belgian town, proves that there is, in fact, a God, after all. Really? No, don’t be bloody daft. Corporate launch show for Sailor Jerry rum in a plush West London bar? Oh, go on then (City Arts & Music Project, 23 Feb). Didn’t turn out too badly actually, although openers, THE PARIS RIOTS, couldn’t have been further removed from their moniker if they ‘d been lying in a Parisian morgue in 1968. Painfully shmindie strumalongs and self-indulgent crooning won’t win a revolution chums. And where’s my fucking guitar stand Off to Brixton next for my first ever out-of-town solo show (Windmill, London, 6 March). Suitably shitting myself, my nerves were calmed by a glut of great performances from individuals of all acoustic persuasions. ED ACHE ukele’d his way through a bunch of snotty punk rock songs; Wonk Unit’s ALEX JOHNSON was hilarious, dishing out filthy sex-poetry and chirpy pop-punk ditties while flashing his gold front teeth; and the astonishing JD SMITH took steel slide to battered acoustic guitar, howled like Jack White and stomped his way into our blues-embracing hearts. After I’d sweated enough fluids to keep Eritrea alive for three weeks, the duel talents of KELLY KEMP (lovely, honest country) and SAM RUSSO (Frank Turner-esque story-telling folk) rounded off an evening of acoustics that exceeded my expectations by a country mile. Good work. Over in Hardcore World, WISDOM IN CHAINS were battling on with a bass player down, despite the fact that they have two guitarists (White Rabbit, Plymouth, 12 March). Why didn’t one of them play bass? Baffling. Maybe they thought we wouldn’t notice. We did. Local newbies, CITADEL, made their debut appearance and were relishing the moment. Rough around the edges and clearly running on adrenalin, they managed to hold their own, despite playing it safe with mid-paced tempos and formulaic structures. Another six months and they should be a far more persuasive proposition. Aah, THE SKINTS. What can I say that I haven’t said a couple times before? The greatest reggae-punk band since The Clash? Pretty much. Three utterly competent singers, all of whom have mastered their unique style? Mos def. And that drummer. And that bassist. It really doesn’t get any better than this (White Rabbit, Plymouth, 13 March). Milton Keynes skametallers, ANTI-VIGILANTE, may aspire to be Random Hand’s little brother but they’re gonna need a lot more spunk and splendour to rise above the hordes of other skmetal upstarts out there. See-ya bye.
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+Kid Pang, Great Ancesters, Machete. www.whiterabbituk.com, CARPET FACE AND AUDIBLE, Ride Café, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX. Transatlantic despite its UK roots, their sound contains a healthy dose of surreal humour combined with the kind of oldschool, funk-based, positive blockparty vibes perfect for hiphop enthusiasts of all age-groups. www.myspace.com/carpetfaceandaudible PETER BRUNTNELL, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, 9pm, £tbc. Devon-based singer-songwriter in country-folk rock zone. www. theb-bar.blogspot.com,
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CRUSH UK, Famous Old Barrel, Princess Street, EX8 1JA, 9pm. Power pop rock. Kids with parent/ guardian welcome
Plymouth
LAID BLAK, The Hippo, 9 Bath Street, PL1 3LT, £5 adv/£8 otd. Their music is a blend of reggae soul and pop that is guaranteed to get you dancing all night long! Created through the partnership of Bristol producer DJ Bunjy and MC Joe Peng, these two veterans of the jungle scene earned their stripes rocking the biggest sessions through the 90’s rave scene. As they’ve grown, their musical direction took a course that led them to seek out some of Bristol’s finest musicians. What started as a studio project became the acclaimed live act. www.hippolive.co.uk. LOWER THAN ATLANTIS, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, 8pm + Depths, Honour is Dead. www.whiterabbituk.com THE CROSSING, The Junction, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free THE WIRELESS, Thistle Park Tavern, Sutton Road, Coxside, 9.30pm, £free. Rockin’ acoustic trio performing classic tunes from the last 50 years plus original material info@thewirelessradio.co.uk JEFF ‘THE HORSE’ HORSEY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, 9pm, £3. Jeff ‘The Horse’ Horsey is known as a bluesman, but in this solo show he’ll be playing ‘downbeat blues and desperado ballads’. Listen out for the odd Gram Parsons number and stuff just outside of the usual blues “box”, as well as tunes from his recently released solo CD.www. theb-bar.blogspot.com
St Austell
AUCTION FOR THE PROMISE CLUB, The Stag Inn, 5 Victoria Place, PL25 5PE, 8pm, £free http://www.myspace.com/ auctionforthepromiseclub. Plus
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REFORM RECORDS RE LOCATION PARTY, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 9pm, £6.50 18+. Guest and resident drum & bass DJ’s and MC’s mark the re-location of Reform’s record shop
Kingsteignton
CRUSH UK, Bell Inn, 29 Fore Street, TQ12 3AX, 9pm, 18+
Plymouth
RUSTY ANGELS, The Junction, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free ‘MOLLY BROWN’ Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY, Molly Brown generate a warm mixture of ‘Blazz and Bling’ (that’s blues, jazz and swing to you and I), and their love and passion for music, combined with a desire to entertain,annabelscabaret.co.uk
Penzance
RING OF FIRE, Acorn Arts Centre, Parade Street, TR18 4BU 8.30pm, £9. After a sell out gig in 2008 Ring of Fire return with their authentic 1950’s sound and an extended song list to include June Carter classics. Using a slap double bass, replica value amps and retro guitars they bring the most authentic Johnny Cash experience imaginable. www.theringoffire. co.uk, www.acornartscentre.co.uk
St Agnes
AUCTION FOR THE PROMISE CLUB, The Peterville, Peterville Square, 8pm, £free www.myspace.com/Auctionforthepromiseclub. Plus support
St Austell
DEATH METAL NIGHT, The Stag Inn, 5 Victoria Place, PL25 5PE, alex@fazes.co.uk, 8pm-2am, £free. Decimation plus guests Rip U. The Stag Inn for a night of pure death metal till’ 2am.
Sun.11 Exeter
SUNDAY SOCIAL, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 12-4pm, £free. Join us on the first three Sundays of the month, from 12-4pm in the Exeter Phoenix cafe-bar (or on the terrace in good weather) for live sets from singer-songwriters, bands and DJs. Come and have coffee, do breakfast or Sunday lunch, and chill to some great music. If you are interested in playing, contact us through MySpace or email us: sam@sound-gallery.net. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk, SET THE SCENE RADIO SHOW, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch
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Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 4-6pm, £n/a. “Set The Scene” is a radio show presented by a group of young volunteers at Sound Gallery Studios and is on PhonicFM the second Sunday of every month. The show features local bands playing live acoustic sessions, topics of discussion such as stereotypes, sub-cultures, politics, food waste, poetry and lots of local music!www. exeterphoenix.org.uk
Plymouth
ACOUSTIC WINE DOWN, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX, £free. Land of Giants (10pm), Vince Lee & Becca Langsford (11pm), Patrick James Pearson (12am), Liz Corish feat MC L.S (1am) BELPHEGOR, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, www.whiterabbituk.com, 8pm. With For Ruin, Eastern Front and Athura
Mon.12 Paignton
DON BROCO / PROCEED, Lighthouse, 26 Esplanade Road, TQ4 6BG, torch_the_house@hotmail. com, 8pm, £5.00. With Proceed / Scholars
Wed.14 Plymouth
SONIC BOOM SIX, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG,8pm www.whiterabbituk.com + Knockout, The Dead Formats N-DUBZ, Plymouth Pavilions, Millbay Road, PL1 3LF, 7pm, £20.43 Over the last three years, N-Dubz have had unprecedented impact on the modern British youth culture; they are, in fact, nothing short of a phenomenon: selling over 500,000 albums, completing a critically acclaimed sell out debut UK tour, picking up three MOBO awards and scoring a No. 1 single along the way. Now Dappy, Tulisa and Fazer truly ascend from the underground to claim a mainstream domination with their latest album ‘Against All Odds’. www.plymouthpavilions.com CAFÉ ACOUSTICA, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, 9pm, £free. www. theb-bar.blogspot.com, Our fortnightly showcase of unplugged talent, hosted by singersongwriter Jessie Mullen, with Glen, Becks and Rob Swann.
Thu.15 Exeter
NICKY SWANN, Exeter Picturehouse, 51 Bartholomew Street West, EX4 3AJ,8pm .Plus Fodo and The Morrisons. www.picturehouses.
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co.uk, Plymouth MAYBE MURTLE TURTLE, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX The Newcastle-based sextet shift effortlessly between sublime folk riffing, rockabilly and, on occasions, blues-rock, www.myspace.com/ maybemyrtletyrtle. Plus support
Fri.16 Exeter
DJ SHADOW’S ENTRODUCING (LIVE), Exeter Phoenix Auditorium, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS. 8.30pm, £15 Already attracting the attentions of Rob Da Bank, this 8 piece band, Introducing, take the first album to be composed entirely of samples – DJ Shadow’s seminal ‘Endtroducing’ – and play it completely live, note for note, drum loop for drum loop, on real instruments with no backing track or sequencing in sight, a seemingly impossible task they make look easy. www. exeterphoenix.org.uk, REDTRACK, Timepiece, Little Castle Street, EX4 3PX, Southend trio Redtrack recently won the Hollyoaks Music Show competition and appeared on the Channel 4 soap on 16 February. Voted Band of the week on Steve Lamacqs Radio 1 show In New Music We Trust.
Falmouth
DJ DANTE GABRIEL, Toast, 18 Church Street, TR11 3DR, 8pm-2am, £free. Groove Juice, Eden sessions, Planet Patrol, 93 Feet East
Plymouth
SEX PISTOLS EXPERIENCE & PUBLIC IMITATION LTD, The Hippo, 9 Bath Street, PL1 3LT, £5 adv/£8otd. Calling all punk lovers! We’ve invited the world’s top Sex Pistols tribute band to The Hippo for a night of all your favorite songs! Plus, this talented band are stretching their musical wings to present, for a limited time only, the Worlds 1st & only Public Image Limited (P.i.L) tribute show in the same night! 2 shows for the price of 1 from the Sex Pistols Experience! www.hippolive.co.uk MIKE ISAAC SOLO ELECTRIC BASS, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, £7/£5. Mike Isaac’s solo electric bass concerts range from the subtle nuances of the 6 string bass, the funky tones of his Fender Jazz and some fretless lyricism. www.theb-bar.blogspot.com, LIONHEART, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG,com, 8pm + Impact, Throne of Athena. www. whiterabbituk. UNUSUAL STARS, The Junction, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free Plus Insidejob
Penzance
BAKA BEYOND QUINTET, Acorn Arts CentreParade Street, TR18 4BU, 8.30pm, £15. Baka Beyond was founded in 1992 after Martin Cradick and Su Hart visited the Baka Pygmies of the Cameroon rainforests. Here they come as a quintet – as vibrant and danceable as ever. Ghanaian percussionist, Nii Tagoe, Congolese bassist Kibisingo, Martin on guitar and Su joined on vocals by Molara, Fela Kuti’s niece (original voice of Zion Train). www. acornartscentre.co.uk
classic tunes from the last 50 years plus original material info@ thewirelessradio.co.uk,
St Austell
THE LOCARNO, The Stag Inn, St Austell, 5 Victoria Place, PL25 5PE, 8pm-2am, £free Visit The Stag Inn St Austell for a late night of quality music from The Locarnos. Not to be missed! . alex@fazes.co.uk
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Tavistock
THE ADVENTURES OF...Tavistock Wharf, Canal Road, PL19 8AT, 8pm, £10adv/£12otd. Eccentric Indie Rock band. Plus The Great Voltini & Nurse Electra, Beatrix Von Bourbon, Dan The Hat, Elfic
Teignmouth
MARTIN WELLER, Jolly Sailor, 46 Northumberland Place, TQ14 8DE, 9pm, 18+ Acoustic pop
Sat.17 Exmouth
BOBKATZ, Exmouth Arms, 21 Exeter Road, EX8 1PN, 8.30pm, 18+
Penryn
FUND RAISER FOR SHELTERBOX, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, www.misspeapod. co.uk Live music, TBC
Penzance
BLUE ON BLACK, Acorn Arts Centre, Parade Street, TR18 4BU, www.acornartscentre.co.uk, 8.30pm, £6 Cornwall based Blue on Black, have played alongside Deep Purple, Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout and many more.
Plymouth
MOTION PRESENTS UTAH SAINTS, The Hippo, 9 Bath Street, PL1 3LT, www.hippolive. co.uk, £8adv/ £10otd. Plymouths biggest dance/trance/electro/funky house night presents big-time DJs the Utah Saints! ANCESTORS, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, Breton Side, PL4 0BG, www.whiterabbituk. com, 7pm. With Night Horse SETH LAKEMAN, Plymouth University Main Hall, Drakes Circus, 7:30pm, £16. Plus support FREE CUBA PARTY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, www.theb-bar. blogspot.com, 9pm, £free. Latin tunes and cocktails, comrades with our resident DJ playing the best in salsa, merengue, bachata, son and more. THE WIRELESS, Kitty O’Hanlons, St Andrews St, 9pm, £free. Rockin’ acoustic trio performing
Taunton
WILLE AND THE BANDITS plus Alex Roberts, The Perfect 5th, 61 High Street, Somerset TA1 3PT, £5. willeandthebandits@hotmail. co.uk
Sun.18 Exeter
SUNDAY SOCIAL, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, www. exeterphoenix.org.uk, 12-4pm, £free. Join us on the first three Sundays of the month, from 12-4pm in the Exeter Phoenix cafe-bar (or on the terrace in good weather) for live sets from singer-songwriters, bands and DJs. Come and have coffee, do breakfast or Sunday lunch, and chill to some great music. If you are interested in playing, contact us through MySpace or email us: sam@sound-gallery.net
Plymouth
ACOUSTIC WINE DOWN, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX, £free. Dan Cottle (10pm), Si Holmes (11pm), Mark Palmer Band (12am), Oli Andrews (1am)
Wed.21 Falmouth
WILLE AND THE BANDITS, Finn McCouls, 1 Killigrew Street, TR11 3PG, £free. willeandthebandits@ hotmail.co.uk
Thu.22 Exeter
ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS, The Exeter Pheonix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 £15.50adv, £17otd 3LS, www.exeterphoenix.org.uk, 8pm, Plus Ella Edmondson THE SIDEWALK ANTHEM, Exeter Picturehouse, 51 Bartholomew Street West, EX4 3AJ, www. picturehouses.co.uk, 8.30pm With Paul Barker and The Boys From Melbourne Street
Liskeard
THE WIRELESS, The Barley Sheaf, Church Rd, 9pm, £free Rockin’ acoustic trio performing classic tunes from the last 50 years plus original material info@ thewirelessradio.co.uk.
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THE RED CHORD, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, www.whiterabbituk.com, 8pm + Aborted, Rotten Sound, Those Who Lie Beneath FREE PEACE, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX. A sweet blend of acoustic and hip hop, with high energy horns and MCing. Part of their festival U.K tour www.myspace.com/fre3peace. Plus support
Sat.24 Penzance
WILD WILLY BARRETT’S SLEEPING DOGZ, Acorn Arts Centre, Parade Street, TR18 4BU, 8.30pm, £10 adv/£12 door www. acornartscentre.co.uk, One of the most entertaining and strangest folk bands around. Led by the charismatic and darkly witty Wild Willy Barrett, this idiosyncratic trio Penzance are highly talented multi-instrumenJULIAN GASKELL AND HIS talists with a diverse and original RAGGED TROUSERED PHIrepertoire. Expect an edgy, hilarious LANTHROPISTS, Acorn Arts and musically very rich evening – Centre, Parade Street, TR18 4BU, and watch out for the egg! 8pm, £6 Plymouth Julian Gaskell and his Ragged FUCK EXAMS, LETS DANCE!! Trousered Philanthropists’ music White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus has been labeled ‘Rabble rousing gypsy skiffle’ and ‘Bourbon-soaked Station, PL4 0BG, www.whiterabbituk.com, 8pm vaudeville gypsy hoedown punk!’ HOUSE OF KANE, The Junction, and is at the front of an exciting new scene that blends the growing Mutley Plain, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free interest in Eastern European and THE WIRELESS, Thistle Park Balkans music with other western Tavern, Sutton Road, Coxside, influences. www.acornartscentre. 9.30pm, £free. Rockin’ acoustic co.uk trio performing classic tunes from the last 50 years plus original material info@thewirelessradio.co.uk FREE CUBA PARTY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, Bideford The Barbican, 9pm, £free LIMEHOUSE LIZZY, The PalLatin tunes and cocktails, comladium, Lower Gunstone, EX39 rades with our resident DJ playing 2DE, 8pm, £12 the best in salsa, merengue, Exeter bachata, son and more. www.thebWISHBONE ASH, Exeter Phoebar.blogspot.com nix, Bradninch Place, Gandy DYNAMO’S RHYTHM ACES Street, EX4 3LS. 8pm,£16.50adv, Annabel’s Cabaret & Disco£17.50otd. www.exeterphoenix. theque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 org.uk, Originally formed in Devon, 0EY, Dynamo’s Rhythm Aces are Wishbone Ash are the leading a sharp suited super slick trio that innovators of the harmony twin take modern and contemporary lead guitar format and are now led Hits, from Frankie goes to Holby original member and guitarist lywood’s ‘Relax’ to Motorhead Andy Powell. ‘Ace of spades’ The Smiths and Ian Dury and serve them up skillet Plymouth hot, in 40s/50s western swing FAT LIP The Junction, Mutley and boogie-woogie style. ‘Visually Plain, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free entertaining, musically stunning’. BOOGIE KNIGHTS, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall www.annabelscabaret.co.uk
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Street, PL4 0EY, annabelscabaret. co.uk. Boogie Knights are a five piece band playing all your favourite disco, soul and funk classics. A cheesy disco band with high boots and big wigs! CARRIVICK SISTERS, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, 9pm, £7/£5, www. theb-bar.blogspot.com. Still in their teens, twin sisters Charlotte and Laura Carrivick have grown up playing and writing music together. Their unique style shows their strong bluegrass influences without obscuring their English roots. With tight harmonies that only siblings can achieve, they perform their original songs on guitar, fiddle, mandolin, dobro and clawhammer banjo. They have performed both in the UK and internationally.
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APE, The Stag Inn, St Austell, 5 Victoria Place, PL25 5PE, alex@ fazes.co.uk, £free. The mighty APE return. The peoples favourite APE grace us with a night of top notch live music till’ 2am. Be there!
Truro
LIMEHOUSE LIZZY, Hall for Cornwall, Back Quay, TR1 2LL, 8pm, £15.00. With Queen Tribute ‘The Bohemians’
Sun.25 Plymouth
HALF CUT, The Junction, Mutley Plain, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free Acoustic session. ACOUSTIC WINE DOWN, Ride
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Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX, £free. Rik Weightman (10pm), Kat Marsh (11pm), Mark Greensit (12am), Francis and the Drakes (1am)
Mon.26 Exeter
THE KING BLUES, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, , 7.30pm, £10. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk Punk/reggae band The King Blues. Unafraid to mix up dub bass lines, ska rhythms, Lonnie Doneganstyled skiffle, British folk and gritty poetry they dance across musical styles with influences including King Prawn and The Clash. Plus support THE UNDERGROUND RADIO SHOW, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, uk, 10pm-12am, £n/a .www. exeterphoenix.org. The Underground radio show features live sessions and interviews from Sound Gallery Studios, plus the best independent artists in the South West. Listen 106.8 or online: www.phonic.fm
Exmouth
MARTIN WELLER, Famous Old Barrel, Princess Street, EX8 1JA , 8.30pm Hosting open mic night,
Paignton
HOLDING ONTO HOPE, Lighthouse, 26 Esplanade Road, TQ4 6BG, 8pm, £4
Tue.27 Plymouth
STICK TO YOUR GUNS, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, 8pm + Osmium, Brace For a Fall. www. whiterabbituk.com
Wed.28 Plymouth
CAFÉ ACOUSTICA, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, 9pm, £free www. theb-bar.blogspot.com, Fortnightly showcase of unplugged talent, hosted by singer-songwriter Jessie Mullen, with Jess Lambert, Tom Nicholas and Doc Wallace.
Thu.29 Exeter
THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA, Exeter Phoenix Auditorium, Bradninch Place, Gandy St, EX4 3LS,k, 8pm, www.exeterphoenix. org.u Since their creation in 2002, Canadian six-piece The Souljazz Orchestra have become one of the most potent bands in their field. Drawing on the rough, raw grooves www.247magazine.co.uk
of the ‘60s and ‘70s they have effortlessly fused soul, jazz, Afro and latin rhythms into their music. As a live unit, the Orchestra have become an in-demand fixture at venues and festivals worldwide.
Plymouth
THE BREAKS COLLECTIVE, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX. 7-piece hip hop fusion band. Having recently headlined at Europe’s premier extreme sports festival ‘Gold Coast Ocean Fest’ this band is heading sky high www.myspace. com/breakscollective. Plus support MC VAPOUR (GRAVITATION) White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, www.whiterabbituk.com, 10pm. Garage, Bassline, Dubstep, Grime
Fri.30 Exeter
STANDOUT, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 8.30pm, 18+. A mix of live and DJ-based dubstep and bassline music. Guests include Elmakay, Parker and Warrior One. exeterphoenix.org.uk,
Penzance
ALBERT LEE & HOGAN’S HEROES, Acorn Arts Centre, Parade Street, TR18 4BU, 8.30pm, £15 standing/ £20 balcony (limited) Albert Lee is one of the world’s finest guitar players & needs no introduction to country music and rock fans. He has worked with some of the world’s top artists from Emmylou Harris to the Everly Brothers, Dolly Parton and Eric Clapton. He is also a member of Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings. www. albertleeandhogansheroes.com
Plymouth
OUTSIDE GROOVE, The Junction, Mutley Plain, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free VOODOOGLOWSKULLS, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, PL4 0BG, www.whiterabbituk.com, 8pm + Mouthwash, Anti Vigilante LIMEHOUSE LIZZY, Matchroom Suite, Newnham Road, PL7 4AW, 8pm, £12
Tavistock
STACKRIDGE, The Tavistock Wharf, Canal Road, PL19 8AT, 8pm, £14.50adv. As contemporary and fresh as bands half their age with a collection of songs that emphasise their talent for writing memorable melodies and playful, poignant lyrics.. Plus support from Indigo Nights
Teignmouth
CRUSH UK, New Quay Inn, Newquay Street, TQ14 8DA, 9.15pm, 18+
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Mondays Exeter
MONDAY MADNESS. Arena Summerland St. 10pm2.30am, Advance tickets £3 available from reps and the student guild. Exeter’s biggest
student, with weekly themes.
THE MONDAY MIXER. Timepiece. Little Castle Street. DJ Spin Doctor
Falmouth
BAR 150 Remedies. The Moor. 10pm-2am, £free. D’n’B, reggae, indie etc.
Newquay
SUPER CHY MONDAYS. The Chy & Koola, 12 Beach Rd. 10pm-3.30am, £4/£2. DJ’s
Robin Parris & Proof playing hip hop, funk, party, breaks, indie, rock, dance, grime, R’n’B, reggae, D’n’B, gypsy swing kinda thing & cheap booze for locals!
Plymouth
BIG NIGHT OUT. Varsity, Derrys Cross. 9pm-2am. More party, dance tunes whilst the drink flows.
Tuesdays Exmouth
OFFICE PARTY Fahrenheit, The Parade. 10pm-2.30am, £2/free B4 11pm. Commercial
night.
WONKEYLEGS. Firefly. 10pm– 4am. £2. Hip-hop, D&B
BABES & BOOTNECKS. Fahrenheit, 7 The Parade. 10pm-2.30am, £3. Classic tunes,
& I.D.M.
decks hosted by Aiden Howard
FAT HARRYS DISCO MACHINE GUN. Shades, 4 Quay Hill. 11pm-2am, £2.
SCANDALOUS. Firefly. 10pm – 4am. £free all night.
– 4am. free all night. Electro and breaks with a healthy dose of dirty club classics.
Plymouth
Hot R’n’B, hip hop and classic old skool joints.
LOVE TUESDAYS. Ride Cafe. 10pm-4am, £free. Wonkey Ben & Matt Burley spinning funk, breaks, hip hop whilst the drinks are all £1.50.
TWO’S DAY. Revolution. 8pm-late. Funky house and dance classics.
Wednesdays Bude
ROCKABLE. Rouge Nightclub. 38 The Strand. EX23. £3. 9pm-2.30am. All the
HOUSE PARTY. Firefly. 10pm
HUSH. Oceana. Barbican Leisure Park, 9pm-3am, £tbc.
The best in funk, hip-hop and R&B with resident DJ Benny Blanco.
Exeter
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Soul, funk & Motown.
LEGENDS. The Student Night SOUL NATION. View 2, . Timepiece. Little Castle Street Vauxhall St. 9pm-2am, £tbc. FLAVA!. Angel Bar. Exeter Queen St. EX4 3SR. Nu Funk/
Broken Beats/Jazz Breaks/Skanky Reggae/Hiphop/Cut+Paste. With Dj Freddy Pimms+Guests. Free Entry!. 9pm-1am. 01392432611.
An eclectic mix of electro, minimal, techno, breaks and D’n’B with Da Pulse.
Q.COLLECTIVE Q. Bar, 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-late, £free. A
Free shot for the ladies. Chart and cheese music.
classics.
mix n blend of all things funky.
STUDENT NIGHT. L2 Nightclub, Calenick Street 9.30pm - 1.30am.
BEATAMIX. Revolution, Derrys Cross. 9pm-2am, £2/ free B4 10pm. All the best funky
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house, classic disco, rare beats & R’n’B.
MONDAY’S FUN HOUSE. The BIG WEDNESDAY. Ride Valbonne. 9.30pm-late, £5. Cafe,Tavistock Place. 9pm-
Falmouth
Disco classics and tunes
TINY MUSIC. Remedies, The Moor. 10pm-2am, £free. Rock,
indie and alternative music.
Newquay
SINSATION. Sailors, 11-17 Fore St. 9pm-2am, £tbc. Commercial dance & party with
JUZZY’S HARD ONES. Zero’s, Pete Jordan. 24 Lockyer St, 10.30pm-2am, Plymouth £free. Bouncy house, trance & EASY LISTENING. View 2, hard Trance with DJ Juzzy B. Vauxhall St. 9pm-2am, £free. PARTY NIGHT . Walkabout, Blues & jazz. Derrys Cross. 10pm-2am, ESSENTIAL. Oceana, £free. DJ Marcus Clarke with Barbican Leisure Park. 7pmcommercial tunes. 2am, £3/ free before 10pm. RADAR. The Quay Club. 11 70’s, 80’s, 90’s party in the New The Parade, The Barbican. York Disco, House/R’n’B in the Ice 9pm-late, £tbc. Fortnightly gay
night with performers and free buffet! Oh, and some dance tunes too. Food and clubbing, what more could you want?
best in Live Bands and Unsigned. Acts from across the country.
BIG STUDENT NIGHT. Party Puls-8. 10pm-2am, £4/£2 NUS. DJ Dean playing the party
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Exmouth get dirty!
MIDWEEK BREAKDOWN. GLITCH! Shades. £2/£1 NUS, Crash Manor. 35 Union 10pm - late. Indie-electro, nu-rave Street. PL1 3LU. 9pm. Open Chilled sounds.
and Dubstep.
Commercial night.
BOOGIE NIGHTS in assoc. with Uni Plymouth, C103.103 Union St. 10pm-2am, £3.
WEEKEND WARM-UP. Arena, Summerland St. 9pm - 2am, £2/free for ladies & NUS B4 11.30pm. Cheese, R’n’B & chart,
CHILL OUT SOUNDS. Remedies. £free, 10pm-2am.
LADIES NIGHT. Remedies, The Moor. 10pm-2am, £free.
St Austell
up, kick back, rock out. £1 drinks deals; this night is rammed every week!
Student only night. Commercial tunes, giveaways, games and drinks deals.
Falmouth
Exmouth FUNKOLOGY. Revolution. Derrys Cross, 8pm-2am, £tbc. QUIDS IN. Fahrenheit. The Parade. 10pm-2.30am, £2/£1 Fusing funk, hip hop & breaks. NUS. Student night that does what STUDENT NIGHT. Oceana, it says on the tin! Barbican Leisure Park. 7pmFalmouth 2am, £5/£4 NUS. Plymouth’s DA PULSE. Shades, 4 Quay biggest student night with 70’s, Hill.11pm-2am, £2/£1 NUS. 80’s, 90’s party in the New York Disco, Commercial classics in the Ice House.
2am, £2. Wonky Ben - Hook
St Austell
House.
GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER. Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque. 9pm-2am, £tbc.
A unique night for talented artists to impress a live audience.
HONKYTONK. Firefly. 10 – 4. free all night. DJ Griff play a whole world of amazing music .
BOOGIE NIGHT. Puls-8, 14-16 ROCK NIGHT. WoW. 11 The High Cross St. 8:30pm-1am, Parade, Barbican. 10pm – £3. Ultimate over 25s Party Night. 3am, £2 b4 11pm, £3 after. Torquay From 10pm. Rock night with FLAVA. Park Lane, 1 Torwood Mark Williams & DJ Spyke. St. 8pm-1am, £tbc. Urban THURSDAY HOE DOWN. selector night with Face playing Zero’s. 24 Lockyer St. hip hop, R’n’B, dancehall, garage, 10.30pm-2am, £free. Gay night funk & soul.
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latest tunes and drinks deals.
STUDENT PARTY NIGHT. Twilight Zone, Little Vauxhall. 9pm-1am, £1. Expect chart
THE BIG MIX WITH DJ PAUL BLEE L2, Calenick St. 9.30pm-1am, £3. Featuring the
Thursdays Camborne
CLUB £1.50. The Corn Exchange, 19 Commercial St. 9pm-1am, £5/£1 B4 10.30pm. Cheap drinks with commercial tunes.
Exeter
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& commercial tunes across the board.
St Austell
BEATS AND PIECES. Puls-8, 14-16 High Cross St. 9pm1am, £4/£2 NUS. DJ Stan Collins and BK One.
Torquay
WEEKEND WARM-UP. The INVASION OF THE RECORD Valbonne. 9.30pm-3am, £3/ SNATCHERS. Amber Rooms, txt ‘mini’ to 82085 for free 161 Sidwell St. Random admission B4 12am. Freshest
selection of tunes, 9pm-2am.
SCANDALOUS. Timepiece, Little Castle St. 9pm-1.30am, £2 B4 11pm. Fresh mix of R’n’B with Aldo Vanucci & JSR.
mix of RnB and Commercial Dance
Truro
MID WEEK MADNESS The Office, 1 River Walk. 9pm-
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Fridays Bideford
Falmouth
Motown & funk classics with DJ Apache.
special with free entry, early start to The Parade. 10pm-3.30am, £5/£3 B4 11pm. Requests and the weekend. chart toons all night!
FUNKY FRIDAYS. Caesar’s Palace, King St. 11pm, £4.
FRIDAY NIGHTS. Toast. 8pm-2am. £free. Something
different every week! 2nd Friday of the month with DJ Dante Gabriel (Groove Juice), 3rd Friday of the month with Plymouth’s DJ Skank Marvin and Hong Kong Ping Pong’s Spinforth rounds things off on the last Friday of the month.
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PARTY NIGHT. Rogue Nightclub, 38 The Strand. 10pm- late, £3/free B4 11pm. Commercial dance.
Exeter
WEEKEND WARM-UP. Remedies. 10pm-2am, £free.
COLLISION HOLD IT DOWN. Chart n cheese with Matt Shepherd. 9th POP CLIQUE The Timepiece, Little Castle St, 11pm-2am, £tbc. Indie night with Watermans 7.30pm-2am, £free. Another bumping night DJ Tezza. Upstairs with residents Mr Onions, Heavy Stylus and guests spin hip-hop, breaks, soul, jazz, broken beat and more.
FRIDAYS ARENA. Summerland St. 9pm3am, £5/£4/Free B4 11pm. Commercial tunes, no trainers.
SOUNDS OF THE UNEXPECTED. Amber Rooms, 161 Sidwell St. 10pm-3am, £2/free B4 11pm.
of twisted disco, tech house and deep chugging riddims from James Hatton and Brad 212. Keeping up with our promise to provide a slice of the cutting edge, guest J Haze comes via London town.
30th DnB AT SEA BOAT PARTY, leaving opp The Prince of Wales. Bass on the
nigh sea, get tickets and more info, search DnB @ Sea on Facebook.
60’s, 70’s global funk, beats.
Newquay
Music / Grime / Hip Hop / Bassline / Garage. Residents Killa B & DJ Ugly with Killa B & DJ Ugly & special guests.
Chart/dance & retro tunes to shake your booty with John London.
Coolings Bar, 11 Gandy St. 8pm-12am, £free. Another dose
plays his chart mash-up mix. RnB/ Indie/Party
XCLUSIVE. NV Nightclub. FLIRT. Sailors, Fore St. 9.30pm-2am, £3/£2. Sexy Urban 9.30pm-2am, £ladies free.
2nd FUNKY SCRATCH
of funky cuts from your humble knights of the round tables! Kick start your Friday night with a cocktail in a cool joint and tunes to make you bounce.
9th BEATZ AND BOBZ
9pm-2am £tbc. Breaks night
THANK FUNK IT’S FRIDAYS. Berties Nightclub. East St, 10.30pm-4am, £free. DJ Will B FRIDAYS The Koola. 9pm3am, £tbc. House night with special guests.
Newton Abbot 30th PINKPENNY
RECORDS PRESENT 9pm – late, £3. Three rooms of big
DJ APACHE. View 2, Vauxhall St. £5/£4/£3/free B4 10.30pm, 9pm-late. Soul, swing, R’n’B,
Phoenix, Gandy St, 9pm-3am, £10 in adv. Bringing the freshest
dance cuts to Exeter with Adma F, Elmakay, Parker and Warrior One, supported by Mr Nice, Ben & Lex, Maxxi P & Lewah.
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CRISIS. White Rabbit. Bretonside Bus Station. £1. 12am - 5am. An eclectic
hot mix of Indie/Punk/Rock/ Hip-Hop/Funk/80’s. Served to you by JC & OZ. 07886821408.
part 2, with Cybin, Locks-En, Resonate, MC Sweet Pea, Splintar, No Return and many more.
DJ PARKER. Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place. 10pm-2am.
Torquay
rotation. Last Friday of every month Just J from Jac the Disco playing a disco set downstairs and a banging club set upstairs.
music with residents and guest djs playing it all from hard house to hardstyle.
FRIDAYS. The Valbonne. 10pm-2.30am, £2/free B4 12am.Commercial tunes. DOLLY MIXTURES. Zero’s, 24 LADIES NIGHT. The Venue. Lockyer St. 10.30pm-4am, £4. 9pm-1am, £3/ladies free all Gay night with resident DJs Stev-E night. The biggest night in the bay. & Juzzy B play cheese, chart R’n’B, 9th DARK MATTER Studio dance and hard house. 22 9.30pm-2am £free. Brings FIREFLY. £free. Resident djs on to the bay the best in hard dance Playing quality hip hop, funk and breaks.
FUNKY FRIDAYS. The Treasury, Royal Parade. 9pm3am, £tbc. Funky grooves. FUNKY FRIDAYS. Annabel’s Cabaret and Discotheque, Vauxhall St. 8pm-late, £tbc. Funky grooves all night.
REDEEMER Crash Manor, Union St. 10pm-3am, £4/£3 B4 11pm (NUS/ROC SOC/ JSA discounts). The latest
alternative metal night to hit Plymouth, part of a national run of nights. DJ’s holding things down in the SW are Mark Williams (legendary Plymouth DJ since 1984!), Jason B, DJ Mullet and DJ Spyke.
9th HARDCORE TIL I DIE
Bohemia, 41 Torwood St. 10pm-4am, £10. Hardcore with
Hixxy, Dougal, Scorpio, Storm & Nick the Kid and guests.
Saturdays Bideford
CLUB CHEESE SANDWICH. Ceasar’s Palace. 10.30pm – 3am, £5. Two rooms, one for
Dance and R ‘n’B and one for pure filthy cheese.
Bude
RENAISSANCE. ROCKABLE. Rouge Nightclub. 38 The Strand. EX23. £5. 9pm 3.30am. All the best Commercial
ROCK SHOW C103. 103 Union St. 10pm-3.30am. £2/ members £1. Rock, indie and
Club Classics from the past two decades.
St Austell
Commercial dance night.
punk with DJ K-Rad, Dy Synn, DJ JJ and Aides over three rooms.
FRIDAY NIGHT. Puls-8. St Austell, 10pm - 2am. Ladies free B4 11pm.The Puls8 Allstar
dj’s on rotation playing chart, R’n’B & dance.
dance tunes with Matt Vinyl, Ben HOUSE RULES. Queens McGowan, Iain McKenzie & Dom G. Head, North St. £free. 8pm Penzance -12am. Groovy house music laid CLUB 2K FRIDAYS. Club 2k, down by Dj’s Si and Mat. Expect 16th HOLD IT DOWN PRESENT INTRODUCING playing Branwell Mills, 10.30pm-4am, friendly atmosphere and to hear DJ Shadow’s ENDTRODUCING £tbc. Chart cheese dance and some house music classics. 8.30pm-12am, £10. Playing DJ reggae. First 50 get free entry wrist Occasional guest Dj’s.Info Shadow’s sample based album, bands for following week, drinks 07868143721. note for note with a full band. This from £1.50, DJ’s CQ, Boris and 2nd EDEN ARTS CAFÉ really is something quite special! Max Honeyman Eden Project 7pm-12.30am 30th ORGANIC PROMOTIONS DIRTY DISCO Bar 2k, £10 / £15 inc supper. Eden’s Bramwells Mill. 10pm-3.30am, monthly arts and music night for PRESENT BREAK The Cavern £free. Chunky, funky house and 9pm-2am £6 in adv. D’n’B action their Mad Hatters Tea Party with with Break, Linue, Monie and Jabba electro with Charlie G, Tommie Underbelly playing Live, supported on the mic. Quick, Greg Zizique, Mark B & by residents Jelly Jazz DJ’s Pete Ashley Thomas. 30th STANDOUT Exeter and Griff. with DJ and producer A1 Bassline, supported by Ben & Lex and Lewah.
30th THE UNDERGROUND COLLECTIVE. The Perfect 5th. 9pm - 5am. Dnb vs dubstep
Taunton 16th SMITTEN The Perfect
Camborne
PARTY, The Corn Exchange 9pm-3am, £7/£6 B4 11pm.
Exeter
METAL NIGHT, Artful Dodger, St Davids, 10pm-3am, £tbc.
Metal night with guest bands.
POSITIVE PARTY NIGHT. Arena, Summerland St. 9pm-3am, £6. The latest chart
and party hits, smart dress only, no trainers or scuffy clothes, make an effort please!
WORLD BEAT. Timepiece. 8pm-1.30am, £4/£2 B4 11pm. DJ A mixed bag of hip hop, disco, funk, techno classics, ‘60s, indie & deep house. Basically anything goes!
STRICTLY VINYL. The Angel. Queen St. 9pm - 2am. £free.
Proper job old skool, funk, reggae, breaks and hip hop. Bump and grind with the Angel residents! Info: 01392 432611.
Exmouth
HEATWAVE. Fahrenheit. 5th 9pm onwards, £5/£2.50 B4 10pm Bootybass, dubstep and 10pm-3.30am, £5. Chart &
bassline with Dom Unique, Poptart, dance to celebrate the weekend. DJ Gurnit, Markutz, Rare Vortex and Falmouth The Bidots. SHUFFLE. Toast. 8pm - 2am,
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CLUB £free Music Selector Mark Bishop (Cafe Mambo Ibiza) & Special Guests. It’s all about a fine mixture of quality upfront new & classic music genres where you’ll hear Balearic anthems, nu-jazz / broken beats, Latin & Brazilia and even some liquid drum & bass thrown in for good measure.
Cuban-inspired tunes. From Son to Salsa, from New York Soul to latino hip hop. 8pm. Free. Info: 01752 242021
FRESH CITY Candy Store.
10pm-5am, £5/£3. Main room: R&B, hip hop and bashment from DJ Jonezy, DJ Snake and Danny Fresh. Room 2: Garage Love with Mr Flexx and residents spinning garage.
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17th ZETAN SPORE LIVE 8.30pm-12am, Prince of Wales £free. Zetan Spore Live
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summer season. Wonder boy of the Arabic & R’n’B flavas. Well worth checking out. moment, Subfocus highlines this event, supported by DJ Hype, Nero, 4th HARDCORE Bar 9 & MC Fearless. REBORN Arena Nightclub,
24th F*CK WORK, LETS DANCE White Rabbit 10pm4am, £free. Take a break for the
old routine, and head down the rabbit for some funk, swing, jazz, disco, fridget, electro and dubstep..
24th BLACK CATZ Images, 89A Cornwall St 10pm-late,
plus support DJ. Euphoric, driving, TONY Warehouse, Union St, £3 otd. Fetish goth, industrial, 10pm-2.30am, £3. DJ Tony plays darkwave, 80’s punk & BBQ on tribal psytrance featuring live indie, alternative rock and requests sequencing, guitars and didgeridoo. the roof –party on. Newquay St Austell
C.O.D.E. RED. Red Square (upstairs). 10pm-4am, £free. Bringing you D’n’B with residents on a weekly basis with special guests.
EYE CANDY. Berties Nightclub. East St, 10.30-4. am, Eye Candy Ladies Free b4
PARTY NIGHT. Walkabout, Derrys Cross. 10pm-2am, £free. Latest chart & dance hits with DJ Darren Watts.
PROVOKE. Revolution, Derrys Cross. 8pm-2am, £3/ free B4 10pm. A collection of
R’n’B, chart, funky house & disco over two floors.
BIG WEEKEND. Puls-8. 10pm-2am, £6 B4 11pm. Dj
Stevie G, Massive party night with the best chart/dance and party classics slammed in the mix.
St Ives 17th MY HEROS KILLED
COWBOYS Isobar is Dead RENEGADE. Voodoo Lounge. 10pm- late, £tbc. Get in the groove with Foamo, Jac the Disco, PARTY. Chy. 10.30pm-3.30am, £2. 9 Till Late. Rock, Metal, Timbo Symons, & Get Waxy Djs Hardcore, Indie. 3 Live bands £5. Cool party all the way! Torquay followed by DJ’s. PASSION. Sailors. 9.30pmKINDA FUNKY. Bohemia. 41 RIDE DJ’S. Ride Cafe, 2am, £tbc. Chart, dance & retro Torwood St. 10pm-4am, £tbc. Tavistock Place. 10pm-2am.
11pm. Will.B mashes up the best Chart/Dance/RnB/Indie/Party
tunes to shake your booty with DJs John London & Pete Jordan.
Penzance
LUVD-UP Barn Club.
DJ’s on a weekly rotation- Aldo Vanucci, Matt Taylor and Bad Adams.
Funk, R’n’B & soul with resident DJs Paul Bowden, Ben McGowan, Iain McKenzie and guests.
SATURDAY NIGHT MASH-UP THE BIGGEST PARTY IN TOWN. The Valbonne. 10pmBac Bar, North Hill 10pm3am, £free .DJ Skank Marvin and 3am, £5/£4 B4 11.30pm/£2.50 B4 10.30pm. Commercial & guests spinning the party tunes. SEXY SOULFUL FUNKY AND uplifting house, anything goes. HOUSE. Annabel’s Cabaret 3rd BLAZED Presents Porthlevan and Discotheque. 8pm-late, MACCAFEST Studio 22 9pm1st MAY THE MASKED £tbc. 2am, £free. Hosted by resident BALL 6pm-6am, £25 in adv. ULTIMATE SATURDAY DJ’s and MC Emacey. The annual ball which is fast NIGHT EXPERIENCE Wow & 17th BLAZED Presents DJ becoming the hottest ticket of Barbican Live Lounge. 11 The SY Studio 22 9pm-2am, £free. the year in the Cornwall social Parade, The Barbican, PL1 Hardcore all the way, supported scene. Guests include Ou Est Le, 2JL. £2/£4 for both venues. by DJ Delay, MC Jay and Blazed Swimming Poll, Japayork, Kid Cola, 8pm 4am. Two venues, playing residents.
10.30pm-4am, £8/£7/£6. Party night, drinks deals, commercial tunes, with resident Djs Tony Douglas and DJ Max Honeyman. More info at barnclub.com
Jac the Disco, Hong Kong Ping Pong, Residential Dance Home and Sir Vinyl of the Fattest. Make the effort, dress up ad get you mask on, defo worth the effort.
Plymouth
DISTORTION / OBLIVION C103, Union St, 10pm-5am, £various. Weekly hard dance
night, see flyers for more details. Guests include the biggest names in the scene.
DJ APACHE. View 2. Vauxhall St. 9pm-late, £5/£4/£3/free B4 10pm. Soul, swing, R’n’B,
Motown & funk classics with DJ Apache in the main room & Ryan Platts downstairs playing funky house, classic soul & Motown.
FIREFLY. North Hill, £free. Resident djs on rotation.
FREE CUBA PARTY. The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street. DJ Power Lisboa
plays the best in Cuban and
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Fortesque Cellar Bar, Mutley Plain. 8pm-12am, £free. DJ
Crusty plays reggae and roots.
17th DISTORTION C103, 103 Union St 10.30pm – 5am, £10/£8 in adv. Celebrating their
1st birthday with the queen of hardness, Lisa Pin-Up and the godfather of hard dance, M-Zone. Support from Loki, Mike Steventon, Simon Pitt, Arron Jones & Evanz. Rm 2 hosts hardcore with Kane, Dan Berry and loads more.
17th MOTION The Hippo 10pm, £10/£8 in adv. Exclusive
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EVIL GENIUS, THE ONE EYED CAT. One Eyed Cat. 116 Kenwyn St, £free, 9pm1am The latest funky, sexy, dirty
Summerland St 10pm-3am, £10/£8 in adv. Celebrating their
4th birthday with this hardcore special featuring DJ SY, Mark EG and Dougal. Supported by Leda, Elzy, DJ Tiny & Evanz amongst others.
Newquay
BELUSHI’S LAZY SUNDAY. Belushi’s, Fore St. 9pm onwards, £free. Enjoy
uninterrupted ocean views on the sun terrace with a sizzling bbq and chilled live acoustic music.
MOVIE NIGHT Walkabout 8pm onwards Free. Films
on the big screen, finish off the weekend chiiled out. Onfront of a very big box.
RELOADED. Sailors, Fore St. £tbc, 9pm-late. Round the weekend off with commercial tunes.
Penzance
SUNDAYS WITH BORIS. Club 2k. Branwell Lane, 7pm - 3am. Live entertainment with DJ Boris.
Praa Sands 4th LOVE RIOT The Sandbar,
Praa Sands 10pm-3am £10/£8. Stafford Brothers, Ry
Spencely, Dennis D’Angello & Butlers in the Buff to satisfy your needs! More info and tickets at www.slut.co.uk
Plymouth
CHURCH OF ZERO’S SUNDAY SESSIONS. Zero’s , 24 Lockyer St, 10pm-2am, £free. Regular gay night with resident DJ Stev-E playing chart, R&B, bouncey house & trance.
LOVE R’N’B. Revolution, Derrys Cross. 10pm-2am. £free. R’n’B all night. STRAIGHT UP. Firefly. 9 till late. £free. Hosted by Thom Ford: blues, soul and other Americana.
house music brought to you by Dr Evil Genius.
SUNDAY LOVE VIEW 2. Vauxhall St. £tbc, 9pm-late.
cheese with DJ Paul Blee, house and trance.
THE SUNDAY CLUB. Ride Club. 9pm-4am. DJ Super Duper
SATURDAYS L2. Calenick St. 9pm-2am, £5. Chart and
THE BIG NIGHT OUT The Office, 1 River Walk. 9pm2am, £tbc. Weekend party for
Music for lovers, whatever they may be!
Dan serves up party mashups as you recover from your come down!
over 21’s.
Sundays Exeter
appearance from Utah Saints, WORLDBEAT. Timepiece. supported by Chunk, Krafty Sounds Little Castle St, 8pm-12.30am, & Fynndalux. £2/free B4 9pm. The wind24th COVERT 10.30pmdown session with some serious 5.30am £12 in adv. D’n’B night grinding! Expect the best in Afro, with a phat line-up to kick start the reggae, ragga, Spanish, salsa,
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The last dreary days of winter were sent packing as BLOC Festival blessed us with a weekend of supertastic festival fun back in March. For a second year, BLOC blew the roof off Butlins Holiday Park in Minehead. A rave up of epic proportions saw the likes of Roots Manuva, Miss Dynamite, Grandmaster Flash, Salt an Pepa and Detroit techno legend Derrick May take to the stage. The “Set of the Weekend� award had to go to the amazing lazer lit ragga jungle of Congo Natty, who wowed the crowd in his usual irie style, backed by mega MCs Tenor Fly and the Rebel MC - so much for Redcoats, we think this is the future for the residents of the Hi-De-Hi world! Bring on BLOC 2011! Photos: Matthew Smith
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