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Issue 119 | February 2011 Publishing Director: Nigel Muntz / nigel.muntz@ outofhand.co.uk Editor: Rachael D’Cruze / rachael. dcruze@outofhand.co.uk Design: Lucy Reynolds, Ollie Hunt & Carl Forbes, Ashley Production: Nigel Muntz, Andy Nelson & Advertising: Nick Tuckfield sales@outofhand.co.uk Contributing Alan Butler, Ailsa Watson, Writers: John Barker, Aldo Vanucci, Arash Torabi, Backbone, Frances Allan, Nigel Muntz & Rob Sleigh. Contributing Front cover and fashion Photographers: shoot by Joseph O’Brien. Other photos by Rachael D’Cruze, Nigel Muntz, Angie Knight, Anna Jay, Dom Moore, Jacob Cockle & Jason Barres. Listings: Annie Scott Published monthly by:
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EDITORS LETTER:
Hello February! The January blues have faded away and love is in the air thanks to good ol’ Saint Valentine. If you’re looking for something slightly more thoughtful than a box of Black Magic for your squeeze this year, try our Retail Therapy section (page 14) for inspiration. Or, just take a peak at our fabulous fashion shoot (page 15) and develop a love of latex instead...This month, as well as providing you with the best what’s on guide in the region and reviewing a ton of new music as usual, we’ve also crammed this issue full of interviews, including YouTube Legend; Andy McKee (page 08), horror-punksters; Murderdolls (page 10) and Freerange; Cornwall’s DJ collective of the the year (page 13). Want to get involved? Email me at rachael@outofhand.co.uk. Rach x Rachael D’Cruze, Editor.
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FEATURES Andy McKee 08
We catch up the YouTube legend ahead of his South West gig
Murderdolls 10
The horror-punkers talk about their return, album and tour
The Go! Team 11
The super-six piece come to the South West this month
The Damerels 12
Introducing the kick-ass garage punksters from Plymouth
Freerange DJ’s 13
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06 News 14 Retail Therapy 15 Fashion 18 Style Hunter 19 Street Art 20 Music Reviews 30 Racket From The Pit!
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Contents Image by Jose Walker The work you see on here is the Illustration student Jose Walker, who is currently in her third year at Plymouth University. The skilled sketcher is inspired by: “the coastline, my dog, my cameras, the seasons, listening to my friends tell me their stories and my constant need of escaping”. “I think being in touch with sexuality is important as a girl and there’s something that clicks in my head when you see work that has focus on fine line and detail and people who work in a personal way to their environment that’s when all the good stuff happens,” adds Jose who looks up to the work of Maya Hayuk and Kelsey Brookes, as well as female graffiti artists such as Miss Van. Jose currently sells her work on canvases and takes commissions - she’s currently working with surf and skate brands. Get in touch at missjaw@hotmail.co.uk, search ‘vanilla stuff’ on Facebook and see vanillawolff.blogspot.com
Regulars
An upfront interview with Cornwall’s DJ of the Year
24 Culture 27 Film 29 Live 43 Clubs
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THE EDGE Email news to: 247@outofhand.co.uk 247 iPhone App! Exciting times for 247 this month – as our iPhone App is with Apple for approval, or not... Watch this space! Apples Cornish cider makers, Healeys have managed to get their leading brand – Cornish Rattler Cider into all JD Weatherspoon pubs across the UK - that’s 778 of them! This is along side the 200 or so St Austell Brewery pubs across Cornwall and Devon. Here at 247, we can always make time for a bottle of Rattler, although what happens afterwards is a bit hit and miss as it’s 6% per bottle. More info at www.healeyscyder.co.uk Pop the question Getting down on one knee this Valentines day? Then consider the beautiful Lost Gardens of Heligan as a venue for the big question.They are giving a celebratory glass of fizz will be served to all newly engaged couples who propose on Feb 14. See www.heligan.com and email Valentine@Heligan.com for info. Big idea? Cornwall’s biggest business plan competition has launched for 2011, with a prize value of more than £100k, which includes a £25k European grant from organiser Oxford Innovation for the winning business. Ignite, which first took place last year, is open to any Cornish business looking to grow and develop their business or business idea. Businesses interested in entering the competition can submit their business plans until March 31.See www.ignitecornwall.com Laugh out loud Exeter’s terrific Laugh Out Loud festival finishes on Feb 10 – so make the most of it an get yer comedy kicks while you can. Find out what’s on at www. lolfestival.co.uk Old Grammar The Old Grammar School is Redruth has two great gigs this month: Martin Harley on 20 Feb (tickets £8 from the Grammar School) and Stringer/Bessant (from REEF) on 25 Feb (tickets £8 from www.seetickets.com). Fresh Paella outside the Stringer/ Bessant gig too! Lonely Planet Lonely Planet’s Devon, Cornwall and Southwest England guidebook created controversy when it was first released in February 2008. Its insights into the uneasy relationship with tourists in the region, including second homes and summer traffic jams sparked lively debate across the region. We can’t wait to see what’s in the new edition, out now...
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Vestival - Good for your soul and CV
Vestival, Plymouth’s annual volunteering event will be held next month, on March 5. It’s all about inspiring 16-25 year olds to get involved with volunteering within their community. It’s free to attend and there’ll be an array of entertainment including local dance performances, cooking demonstrations and music. Interested? Join in, in the city centre, from 10am – 4pm. Email vinvolved-plymouth@btcv.org.uk
Calling all budding photographers
Cornish Traditional Cottages has launched a new national Photography contest aimed at finding its next holiday brochure front cover – great kudos and good for your portfolio! The company is looking for interesting and striking images that show Cornwall for the beautiful county that it is. To find out more about the competition go to www.corncott.com/photo
Become the next Mambo artist
Calling all arty types – bag yourself a brilliant commission in tradition of the ‘starving artist’, Mambo, known for producing vibrant and humorous graphics and also surf wear, is offering you the opportunity to win the meatiest (suitable for vegans) meal ticket you have ever digested…a chance to become the next Mambo artist. This fab competition, where the winner gets three paid commissions (including your winning entry), an artist portfolio page on the Mambo Surf De Luxe website and a bunch of Mambo goodies including your printed t-shirt design, has no rules. Just send your a piece of your best artwork, but make it Mamboesque! For dates and details on where to send see www.mambosurfseluxe.com
Plymouth Pavilions turns twenty
This September will mark twenty years since Plymouth Pavilions first opened its doors and to celebrate the venue have lined up a full 12 months of amazing live shows, competitions and special events – our kind of celebration! Upcoming gigs include include Mark Watson (comedy) on 8 Feb, The Saturdays on 24 Feb, Tinie Tempah on 28 Feb, James Blunt on 3rd March, Plan B on 8th March and The Script on 28 March. Get tickets to all these gigs (if not already sold out) and find out who else is playing at www.plymouthpavilions.com
We follow them, so you don’t have too. However you can follow us at www.twitter.com/247magazine GreenCornwall If you’re kicking tobacco this year, eat plenty of raw sunflower seeds to reduce craving & fresh Miso to remove nicotine from your body. Promoting healthy living and sustainable tourism.
eatoutsomerset1 arrived at mezzaluna Bristol for great food and belly dancing!!! www.eatoutbath-bristol.com Informal dining with a Turkish twist, why not give it a go?
exeter_phoenix We have lots coming up in 2011 - can’t wait! www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/ Have a good one, everybody! The Exeter Phoenix is a great venue for everything to do with the arts. Check out their website for upcoming events.
sophiehellyer I think I would pick on Glee kids in school. Me too Sophie. A woman of many talents, among them modelling and surfing but also a constant tweeter and Glee commentator.
Rick_Stein Join us in raising money for Save the Children with our charity lunches http://rickstein.com/The-SeafoodRestaurant-charity-lunches-News.htm The great chef doing his bit for Save the Children from The Seafood Restaurant in picturesque Padstow.
thermaebathspa Our new spa treatments for 2011 include a Serenity Candle massage and a Top-to-Toe massage and facial. Ah bliss, a pamper day in the tranquility of Bath Spa. Go on girls (and boys!) treat yourselves. ComedyCavern A female version of father jack just got on the bus. She shouted at the bus driver & is ranting at other passengers. Tempted to shout drink.
Mama_Stones Tuesdays @ Mama’s with Original Sin - Live acts, half price cocktails and Shisha! Live music bar run by none other than Joss Stones mum in the centre of Exeter.
FifteenCornwall Nothing better than tucking into a fry up in the warmth whilst watching it blow a hooley outside! Jamie Oliver’s Newquay restaurant cooking up a storm for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
beachcleannet ...and a little about who we are... www.beachclean.net/about-the-beach-clean-network/ Check out their website and all the fantastic work that their volunteers are doing to keep our beaches pristine.
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Web Watch - This Month We’re Loving
www.devonlink.co.uk A very comprehensive website with information on every town in Devon and what’s going on there, from accommodation to cyber cafes.
magicseaweed.com The only website you need to visit to find out what the surf is doing in the South West........ or Indo, or Hawaiiit’s all there.
mollyandtheprincess.wordpress.com
Molly and the Princess- A personal blog by Molly, lover of all things veggie, vintage, and Viennese. We love her blog on vintage finds.
www.seasparkle.co.uk handmade jewellery using recycled sea glass and silver which is moulded in sea shells. Feast your eyes....
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NEWS Get Animated
If you love animation get yourself over to Exeter’s Animated Exeter 2011 festival, which takes places between 14-16 of Feb. Watch over 140 animation films, and, if you’re serious about animation, attend industry master-classes and careerplanning days. The jam-packed programme sees the work of both global animation stars and hot emerging talent, which is nice. For this year’s festival, expect to see Exeter cathedral’s magnificent exterior lit up with spectacular animation from internationally acclaimed artists Tundra. It’ll be a cutting edge project, called Isca Obscuraand will be aided by pioneering effects designed by i-DAT, the Digital Research Group at the University of Plymouth. See it on the Cathedral’s iconic north-side from 18 - 20 Feb. The piece has been funded by Arts Council England, who have awarded Animated Exeter 2011 £38,500, which is a tremendous achievement and testament to the festival’s ongoing excellence as one of the south west’s leading animation events. Be there! See the full range of Animated Exeter events and activities at www.animatedexeter.co.uk.
Could you cut it as a Butler in the Buff? Need a new, exciting job?! Are you good looking, charming and sociable? Would you like to be paid £25 an hour to serve drinks and mingle? Butlers in the Buff, the original male order butler service are recruiting on the streets of Plymouth on Tues 22nd Feb where Scouts will be scouring the streets and bars looking for the best men. Butlers in the Buff offer gorgeous waiters with impeccable manners to service parties, events and hen nights. And what’s more, they do it wearing only a bow tie, collar, cuffs and a bottomrevealing apron! Hopefuls interested – or someone who thinks their friend or boyfriend would make a good butler – should contact the Butlers in the Buff recruitment department on 0117 377 5693 or fill in an application form on our website at www.butlersinthebuff.co.uk/becomeabutler
Cornwall’s DJ of the year named
Littlesouth.com’s annual search for a South West DJ of the Year 2010 has come to an end with more than 19,000 votes! Each year the competition looks back at individual artists and DJ groups who have consistently put Cornwall and the wider South West music scene first. Previous winners include DJ Kristoff, Charlie G, Ryan R and Morphosis. This year had a clear winner - the Freerange DJs: Olly G, AVE & Hi-Fly). Their unique musical style and legendary DJ sets have obviously impressed the masses that took time to vote this year. Read our interview with Olly on page 13. See www.littlesouth.com/ DJ_of_the_year_2010.html
Bloc Festival sold out
Indoor electronic music festival BLOC has sold out. Taking place at Butlins, Minehead, Aphex Twin, Magnetic Man and Laurient Garnier, headline the three day party. The festival sees more than 100 acts across five arenas. During the day there is access to the swimming pool, complete with slides, bowling alley and arcade games. Other acts include LFO, Moderat, Four Tet, Beardyman, and Gentleman’s Dub Club. Cancellation tickets May may become available, see www.BlocWeekend.com for more info.
SOUTHPORT WEEKENDER The Southport Weekender is moving to Butlins in Minehead this year and we’ve bagged a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky reader. Taking place at the infamous seaside resort in Somerset on May 6 -8, the festival will The festival had been held at Pontins in Southport for much of its 24 year history but the move down south allows the festival room to grow by an extra 1,500. Artists already confirmed include Derrick Carter, Joy Orbison and DJ Swerve. Prices are £175 pp For self Catering & £165 pp for room only. More info at www.southportweekender. co.uk To enter our comp see www.247magazine.co.uk WIN TICKETS TO AVENUE Q London’s notorious funny musical of bad behaviour and political incorrectness is on the road this month and visits Truro’s Hall for Cornwall from 22-26 Feb. With characters such as Lucy the Slut and Mrs Thistletwat, the stars of the show are a mix of puppets and people and takes things close to the bone, but is very funny in doing so. We have a pair of tickets to giveaway to see the show in Truro, just visit www.247magazine.co.uk to enter. Closing date Fri 18 Feb. Buy your tickets to Avenue Q at www.avenueqthemusical.co.uk EVENT PLANNING SERVICE LAUNCHED Organising an event and need a hand? A newly launched service from Plymouth based Fiftypointfour could help as they look to provide a range of services to take the stress out of the planning and implementation of events. Run by Sean Holland, an established DJ and promoter, he said “Having had over 18 years experience as a DJ and promoter of events worldwide, I’m passionate about quality of entertainment and will ensure any event is a total success”. With a wide range of industry partners from the world of entertainment, budget is the only limit to what this new service can organise for you. From a wedding reception or birthday parties through to product launches, fashion shows and corporate events, visit www. fiftypointfour.co.uk for more info Plymouth Volks Fest confirm acts Plymouth’s homegrown Volks festival, taking place from 27-30 May at Newnham Park, Plymouth have confirmed their first headline acts for this years festival. Acts playing over the three days include Ali Campbell - The Voice of UB40, The Beat, Zion Train, The Aftermath, Bible John and the Reptiles, The Outcast Band, Mad Dog Mcrea, Richard James and The Redoubt, Spree, Hogan, Infinite Collective, Josie and The Lovecats, Steve Strong, The Rooftop Gambler and What Jesus Drives with many more to be confirmed. Get your tickets and the latest info at www. plymouthvolksfest.co.uk magazine | 7
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Kansas-based solo artist and acoustic guitar maestro Andy McKee has been releasing instrumental folk music for the past ten years and his distinctive finger-tapping playing style has even made him into a recent YouTube sensation. In the run-up to Andy’s return to the South West with his latest album ‘Joyland’, we caught up with him for a chat… “I usually say modern, instrumental, acoustic guitar music. It’s a pretty accurate description, but it’s not the most concise phrase for a genre. It’s kind of a mouthful.” Andy McKee’s music may not be the easiest to describe, but judging by the response to his videos, a lot of people seem to be able to relate to the songs. A few years ago, Andy became somewhat of an internet phenomenon when the record label he was with, Candyrat Records, put a number of his songs up on video-sharing website YouTube. “It absolutely changed my life being so successful on YouTube. I don’t think there was any other way I could have reached so many people so quickly. It brought my music to people all over the world.” “That was about four years ago and YouTube was still quite new, really. We shot about eight or nine videos in one afternoon and, somehow, people found it and latched onto it. It suddenly got all these views.” One track in particular entitled ‘Drifting’ has since received over 35,000,000 views. “When the videos started to take off, I suddenly got a lot of opportunities to go and play. One of the first places that I went was England.” Andy started learning to play when he was given his first guitar at the age of thirteen. He had first taken an interest in the instrument after hearing the songs of guitarist Eric Johnson. “I’d never really listened to much instrumental music before, but I thought that his stuff was really cool. I had this connection with music without any lyrics.” After an early interest in hard rock bands such as Metallica and Iron Maiden, he soon became inspired to learn the acoustic guitar after hearing music by people like Michael Hedges 8|
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and Preston Reed. “Guys that were doing their own ideas and techniques on the guitar. I would listen to their CDs and try to learn their music. Eventually, I started to write some of my own stuff as well.”
“When it’s just you up there playing and you’re writing the music too, you can share some of yourself with the people that are listening.” During his teenage years, Andy began playing the guitar in local bands, but he soon discovered that his true calling was as a solo artist. “What drew me to the acoustic guitar was the idea of trying to cover all the aspects of music with just one instrument. There’s something kind of personal about it too. When it’s just you up there playing and you’re writing the music too, you can share some of yourself with the people that are listening in a different way to if you’re in a band.” Despite his huge accomplishments over the last ten years, Andy has learned not to forget how he started out. “I don’t ever feel like I want to give up anything musically or compromise to make a buck. I just want to try and be as honest as I can and play the music that comes from my heart and share that with people.” See Andy McKee at Exeter Phoenix on Fri 11 February. www.247magazine.co.uk
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After a six-year break, the Hollywood horror-punkers are back with brand new album ‘Women and Children Last’ and now they’re heading to the South West with their God Save the Scream Tour. Frontman Wednesday 13 recently told 247’s Rob Sleigh all about the new album and the return of Murderdolls. Last August, Hollywood metallers Murderdolls finally re-emerged from the shadows to make a big comeback with their long-awaited second album. Founding members Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison – better known as the drummer from Slipknot – decided that, despite the long break, it was time to team up with some new accomplices and make the album of their lives. “The first album was really tongue-in-cheek and camp with horror movie songs. Whereas this time, we still have some of the campiness, but it’s more of a serious and darker tone.” Their latest offering has already been described as a major improvement on their 2002 debut ‘Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls’ and now, the band are gearing up to bring the album over to the UK. Murderdolls first joined forces back in 2001, when Wednesday 13 was still with his previous band Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13. “I came home and checked my answering machine. Joey had left a message saying: ‘Hey, this is Joey Jordison from Slipknot. I’ve been trying to track you down. I’m a big fan of your band. I’m putting a project together and I was wondering if you would be interested.’ It looked like a great opportunity.” Once the duo had come up with some tracks, a collection of music that they had each written in the past, it didn’t take long for them to think of a band name. “Joey had a notebook of Slipknot logos that he had drawn. I was flipping through some pages and I saw the word ‘Murderdolls’. It sounded like a combination of the New York Dolls and GG Allin’s band the Murder Junkies. We were huge fans of both of those bands and our music was pretty much a really violent, glam sort of band at the beginning anyway, so it was the perfect name.” 10 |
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Unfortunately, after the release of their first album, it wasn’t long before the group were to go on hiatus. “We started working on other projects and we never had the time to make it work. The first incarnation of Murderdolls was a runaway train about to crash any minute… And it did.” After that, Joey returned to Slipknot and Wednesday 13 began work on his own solo band. However, after several years of writing all his own songs, he began to remember what it was that he enjoyed most about being part of Murderdolls. “That’s what I missed the most - having a songwriting partner to bounce ideas off. Usually it’s just me being my own critic and tearing myself apart, pretty much [Laughs].” In early 2010, Wednesday 13 and Joey finally decided to get back together with some new band members and start afresh with the album ‘Women and Children Last’. “We decided to put together a different line-up and get some new blood behind us. The whole idea of the band is a lot more focused. It’s still a runaway train, but a bit more controlled.”
Murderdolls are: Wednesday 13: Vocals Joey Jordison: Rhythm guitar Roman Surman: Lead guitar Jack Tankersley: Bass Racci Hart: Drums See Murderdolls at Exeter Lemon Grove on February 14.
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The Go! Team have been away for a while but are now back, and on top form too. Rolling Blackouts is the third album from the six-piece; here Ian Parton - the man and the mind behind the band – tells Frances Allan why their music is like a patchwork quilt. So how are you feeling about the release of the new album? It’s been a while coming but I dig it, I think it it’s an evolution, without it being too different. It’s still recognised as The Go! Team but it is quite different. You are about to go on tour too, are you excited about that? I always look forward to touring. I just love jumping around, we all do really - that’s kind of why we are in the band. We are not the slickest band in the world, we miss cues all over the place and mess things up occasionally, but we put energy above perfection. Do you think that is part of the charm for The Go! Team fans that come to see you live? I guess it has become that way, I think that kind of love of imperfection filters through everything we do, from the video productions to the stage show, and the artwork.
“We miss cues all over the place and mess things up occasionally, but we put energy above perfection.” Talking about the album now, when you listen to the songs, they evoke a lot of imagery and visuals in your mind’s eye. Is that something that you aimed for? I like the idea that music turns life into a film, you put your Walkman on and you’re walking down the street and things change somehow, things become more of whatever they are, things become more emotional, more exciting, more dynamic – I like the idea of music transforming everyday life into something else. Some of the tracks on the album, you can see them being used in films. Is that something that you would be interested in exploring? www.247magazine.co.uk
Yeah, I ain’t no genius though. I couldn’t just knock out a film score, I don’t think. I have always had this love of marching bands, everything from the sound, the marching drum sound, even the outfits; I think they are really cool. We actually did use a real massive community band for this record. People often think we just use samples for everything, but often it’s not, it’s real. What differentiates you from other bands - is it that you are willing to put the time in, experiment, and get something out of it that you are really proud of? The way we write the songs and the whole process, and the fact that we mix samples with real stuff - that you don’t know what’s what – it’s quite ‘patchworky’. It’s the patchwork quality of making music, I suppose. The artwork for the album ties in with the sound of the album, is that something that is important to you? It does look like a patchwork quilt doesn’t it? I like that there is something a bit cultish about it, there are a lot of things going on with the stone circles. It’s a very Go! Team album cover. Have you started thinking about your next album, do you let yourself think that far ahead yet? There is potential talk of this being the last album, but we will have to see. People have to kind of get normal jobs at some point or you find yourself middle-aged and in a band. The Go! Team will play at The Anson Rooms in Bristol on 11th Feb and at The Princess Pavillions in Falmouth on the 13th Feb. Get there album now.
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Garage punk is alive and well in Plymouth, thanks to kick-ass trio, The Damerels. The band are about to release their debut EP on glorious double vinyl, care of local label, Onec Records. After being blown away by seeing them live we caught up with singer Allister Gall… First things first: how the hell do you get along without a bass-guitarist? We like stripped-down rock & roll. When me & Tom started five or six years ago, we didn’t have anybody else in the band, so we wanted to make as big a noise as possible, with just vocals and guitar. When we found a drummer, we also tried out various bass-players, but we felt that it made us sound like quite a lot of other bands. Having just guitar & drums gives us more of a dynamic sound, and it also makes us think about how to make a song sound good, without a bass. Sometimes by limitation, you can find more interesting things, and that’s kind of the mentality of the band. Does your name come from the Plymouth school? Me and Tom are also ex-pupils of Stoke Damerel, but the name mainly comes from Lord Damerel, who was a bit of rake (someone who doesn’t abide by the rules and goes his own way). It’s an old wives tale: apparently he had everything and he pissed it all up the wall, so it fitted.
Long live the vinyl? Yes, it suits us. We’re kind of retro, and we like to think we’re quite contemporary as well: we like to straddle both of those ideas. The record will be packaged in a pizza box, and it’ll also come with a download code. Having it on vinyl makes it more idiosyncratic. Onec is a label of love, and they don’t seem too interested in making loads of money; just putting out music by bands that they love. We’re really excited about it. Any plans of branching out of the South West, when the record comes out? Definitely. We’ll do a short UK tour, and some of the places we’ll play will be Southampton, London and Brighton. We’ll work it all out at a later date- these are all venues that Ben knows. We’ll also do a European tour in the summer.
Your debut single is out next month. Have you had any demos out before this? We did a demo about three years ago, which was supposed to come out on a Worcester label called Fury 76. It was our first recording and things didn’t go quite as well as we’d hoped. A lot of that was down to us for being a bit naïve, so we sat on that for a bit and used it to get gigs. But we weren’t happy for it to be released. Tell us more about your forthcoming double vinyl EP We’ve recorded four songs for Onec Records, based in Plymouth. We were very lucky because Pete who runs the label with his wife, came to a few of our shows a couple of months ago. He loved it and got in touch. We also combined with PMC (Plymouth Music Collective studio), UPR Records and Doc, who engineered it, as well as Ben’s brother, Jim Turner. 12 |
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Littlesouth.com’s search for a South West DJ of the year was hotter than ever this year with a massive 19,000 unique votes. Rachael D’Cruze catches up with Olly G, from the winning DJ group: Freerange, who consistently put Cornwall and the wider South West music scene on the map. Littlesouth’s DJ of the year 2010 – quite a feat considering the epic size of the competition and high level of Dj’s in Cornwall. How are you feeling? We’re really happy to have won this award this year, like you say there are some really talented Dj’s in the area so to voted as the best of 2010 means a lot to us. We’re lucky to have such a great following in Cornwall. Tell us about Freerange – how did you guys meet and what are you all about? When it started four years ago the Freerange brand was started to promote a group of seven Dj’s covering Drum & Bass, Breakbeat, Techno, Electro, Hip Hop and Dubstep. Musically myself, Ave and Seb have always jelled together really well, so as the original concept of having seven people together filtered out, it was a natural for us to up our game as a trio. We focused solely on the Breakbeat scene for a few years and with a few of our own records released, we began getting a lot of national exposure and high profile bookings within the breaks scene. Now we are fairly well established on a worldwide scale, so we are beginning to introduce a lot of our original influences back into our music. The Techno records we have been making have been doing so well that we have started another alias called The Occult.
Who produces your stuff – do you keep it local? The Freerange package is about as South West as it gets! Ave is the real hero behind our sound and 90% of the music is made by him in his home studio. We also have another more basic studio where we broadcast our radio shows and make our podcasts. Our main label Ape Music is run out of Exeter by two Devonian fellows named Ben and Lex and all of our sounds are mastered at Stardelta Mastering in Exeter. We know you got ‘Tune of the month’ in MIXMAG last year – what other highlights lead to you winning the Littlesouth award? 2010 was a huge year for us. Our tunes received radio play on Radio 1 and Kiss FM, we won Best Dj’s and Best producers at the 24:7 SW D&B/Breakbeat awards at the Eden Project in May, we made our international debut, had a remix signed to one of the biggest record labels in the world, one of our records was short-listed for Best Single & Best Remix at the international Breakbeat awards, our biggest release to date ‘Back To The Old Jack’ held a top ten place in the Breakbeat charts for over three months and then went on to be awarded 4th place on the top 10 tunes of 2010 and we have also been signed to the prestigious Dj agency Rocstar.
“The Freerange package is about as South West as it gets!”
2010 saw you scale back your party throwing and invest your Phew! Flying the flag for the South West indeed. time in the studio instead, which clearly paid off? Is this something you’ll be carrying on in 2011 or is it back to cramming in Listen the clubs? Listen to the Freerange DJ’s and find out more about them Holding back on the amount of parties we were throwing was a at their website: www.freerangedjs.co.uk and find them on MySpace and Facebook too. Find out more about Littlesouth at great move for us. We were still Dj’ing most weekends but spendwww.littlesouth.com ing the extra time developing our own sounds which got us a lot more exposure. Now the ball is rolling well with music production See Get yourself to a “Freerange DJ’s Present” event at Falmouth we are starting the Freerange events again. RFC on Feb 12, March 12 or April 9.
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SPACEHOP You’re not originally from Exeter,how did you end up here? I was born and bred in the South Wales Valleys. I traveled about a bit and ended up in Exeter, doing a Degree in Photography.
How accepting do you feel Exeter is to street art? The council here don’t really have a problem with legal street art, we have quite a few spots where it’s okay to paint and on the whole the scene is pretty lively, I’ve recently been in touch with the council and have been given permission to paint some portraits on a bridge in Marsh Barton, which I’ll be starting very soon so watch this space… hop!
How did you first get into the whole street art scene? I’ve been into Hip Hop and Graffiti since the 1980’s so I followed the same path as loads of others…Breakdance, Beat Street, Subway Art etc. I’ve always drawn and started sketching pieces at school but didn’t pick up a can until about seven years ago when I met Gone Your producing portraits now, how did that come about? and Mesh from the El3 crew, they taught me everything I know!! Like I say I’ve always sketched and I’ve drawn loads of portraits in the past, I got a bit bored of painting just for the photograph and What is you style and whose it influenced by? wanted something I could keep or better still, sell, so I decided to With my “Graffiti” stuff…Ha ha! My style is Biological Flump…I don’t start doing canvases, after seeing the stuff Trans 1 was producing I know what it means but it’s what I think when I look at my work, I thought I’m gonna give that a go but I wanted to be a bit different so don’t really have any influences, the original idea for my letter forms instead of a wall I tried doing it on canvas. came from a character I drew a few years back. With my portraits, I’m heavily influenced by black and white photography but I’m also Where can people see more on your work and get in touch luvin’ the work of artists like The Mac, Belin and Trans 1. with you? I sell painted hats, skate-decks, clocks and spray-cans at a cool What have been your high points / claims to fame in the shop called No Guts No Glory www.ngngdesign.com and my Street Art world? portraits are on display and for sale at “Ink”, a Tattoo studio in Exeter Painting a portrait of Howard Marks at the Paighton Lighthouse jam and there’s loads more at www.flickr.com/spacehop was one, as the response it got was amazing. As a crew (EL3) we painted at Black Rock in Brighton last summer, which has always Contact Spacehop at spacehop2004@yahoo.co.uk been a bit of an ambition for me and I think we held it down, the wall lasted the whole summer so we were pretty chuffed! ATTENTION ARTISTS: If you would like to see your pieces here, please email images to 247@outofhand.co.uk and we’ll try and www.247magazine.co.uk Include them in a future issue. And no, we don’t want to know your real names or anything like that, please keep it strictly street only!
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Music Backbone
Arash Torabi
UK Rocka
“Je t’aime... moi non plus.”
“My love is a prick on a Tudor rose.” (Blackadder)
Love Changes Everything – Michael Ball
Gay For Johnny Depp
What Doesn’t Kill You Eventually Kills You (Shinebox) Convoluted song titles with naughty conceits, raging post-punk and notions of controversy can only mean one thing: a new Gay Johnny For Depp record. If you quietly ignore that the Brooklyn mob owe their whole shtick to trailblazers like Nomeansno and ‘80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, the likes of ‘Suckcess’ and ‘Nine Inch Males’ temper intelligence and belligerence to great effect. The thing is, one can’t help but feel this nagging suspicion that contrivance is part of the gameplan too. Not that it matters. These are ridiculously short songs designed to work on a visceral level that doesn’t care for the wherefores and whys. I suggest that you just go with the torrential flow.
Esben and the Witch Violet Cries (Matador)
Leading lights in the new wave of dark pop, Brighton trio, Esben & The Witch, do away with the necessity for locked drum patterns with guitars and replace them with ethereal, nocturnal emissions the likes of which Siouxsie Sioux and Swans would no doubt be proud. Whether vocalist, Rachel Davies, is brooding in the cellar (‘Argyria’) or walking on Cocteau-esque clouds (‘Marine Fields Close’) the haunting essence is enough to strip you of your cynicism and bathe you in balmy reverberated reflection. All the while, digital interference and distant synths do a fine job of condensing the last four decades of electronica into a decidedly modern whole. Refreshingly morose.
Mogwai
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Rock Action) It’s a wonderfully antagonistic album title for an album that revels in its thoroughly eardrum-friendly aura. Indeed, Mogwai have done it again: forged another record of virtually voiceless soundscapery that succeeds in transporting the listener to an altogether more idyllic if occasionally troublesome place. ‘White Noise’ is as euphoric as the Glaswegians get – all spacious keyboard hooks and pleasant drone, neatly complemented by the Stereolab-style motorik of ‘Mexican Grand Prix’ and ‘Rano Pano’’s exquisite guitar-led chimes. From thereon in it only gets better. They may have made a couple errors of judgement in the past but Mogwai don’t know how to make an uninteresting record. ‘Hardcore…’ rams that point home with bells on.
Frankie & the Heartstrings Hunger
(Polydor) Have you been missing all those white-socked indie fops and their jangly gentlemen’s rock’n’roll? Well, fret no more. Sunderland’s F&TH come with a suitcase of pop-savvy guitar ditties that will have you shaking your asymmetrical fringe with studied abandon (ie. not much abandon). On first listen, ‘Hunger’ appears little more than the modern musings of well-dressed men who happen to enjoy a bit of ‘60s soul pop in their non-ironic spare time. That is until ‘Fragile’ enters the fray – an emotional gem of a song that could have been a Motown hit if they were bouffanted divas and it was 1962. Ones for the promising pile.
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Gruff Rhys
Hotel Shampoo
(Turnstile/Ovni Records)
Super Furry Animals’ lead singer and guitarist on a solo tip, with an album that has more in common with SFA than his previous solo album, Candylion, or his Neon Neon project. This is a mainly organic sounding, melody-driven set which dips into psychedelic dreaminess, best displayed on Shark Hidden Waters (the single). Gruff’s trademarks are all here: harmony vocals, clever use of rhythm and melody and playful wordplay. The mood and feel constantly change, from the piano riff and horn blast of Sensations in the Dark, the strings-led Vitamin K, the melancholy of Take a Sentence and the quirky timing of Christopher Columbus. And as always, Gruff’s songwriting is first class. NO SFA fan will be disappointed.
Various Artists
3…2…1… A Rocket Girl Compilation (Rocket Girl) For over a decade, Rocket Girl has been gaining a solid reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-thinking independent labels, and this lavishly-packaged 2-disc set shows its eclectic roster. Previous input by cult bands such as Mogwai, Add N to X and the collaboration between the legendary Patti Smith & Kevin Shields, are sadly not included here. A Place to Bury Strangers’ I Know I’ll See You is a perfect mimic of early Jesus & Mary Chain, so the inclusion of the band’s identical cover version of JAMC’s Just Out Of Reach is pointless. But there are plenty of highlights, including Television Personalities’ She’s My Yoko (my favourite song from last year) and two instrumentals from the God of ambient psychedelia, Robin Gutherie. Plus further selections that include space-rock and electronica.
The Crave
Breaking The Silence (The Crave)
The Crave romanticise about a time when there was apparently “no indie… no post-this, post that”. They reckon music is “an escape from reality”, but instead they deliver brainless rock fodder with laughable lyrics, best used as soundtrack for spoof rock movies, or comedy sketches that take the piss out of rock bands. Or if you like, Busted (remember them?) without the songs. What this lot should be “craving” is access to decent music for inspiration, coupled with someone who knows how to write SONGS. Until then, they should keep the “silence” and not “break” it. Bloody awful.
Sparrow and the Workshop Black to Red (Distiller)
An EP of new material from the Glasgow-based, female-fronted trio Sparrow and the Workshop who released their brilliant debut album, Crystals Fall last year. After a year of gigs and festival appearances they are back with this offering. Their sound is raw, fusing elements of country, rock & roll and folk, but it’s definitely theirs. The waltz-time title track charges along, all chiming guitars and call-response/harmony vocals. The drummer is a one-man power-station, and the singer possesses the kind of beauty that needs no stylist, with a voice that will sooth one minute, and knock the bollocks off an elephant the next.
Jessie J
Who You Are (Island)
Jessie J is a groundbreaking artist about to create a massive impact this year. As a singer and songwriter she shows great versatility in this album sampler. The debut single ‘Do it like a Dude’ has already hit radio playlists as well as being remixed by the man in the spotlight right now, Labrinth. The second tune ‘Price Tag’ featuring B.o.B is a big singalong tune that will be stuck in your head and will have you humming along at the most awkward of times! ‘Nobody’s Perfect’ and ‘Who You Are’ delve a bit deeper showing a different, more serious side that impresses even further. ‘Mama Knows Best’ hits a side of Jessie exposing yet another level of energy and mood that she can put her hand to.
The Streets
Computers and the Blues (Atlantic)
The Streets return in their usual unique style for the last time apparently. The first track is hip-hop/rock cross and is actually pulled off quite well. ‘Roof of Your Car’ is a bit more happy go lucky with an infectious vocal hook whilst ‘Puzzled by People’ has more of a mood about, still keeping a nice bounce involved. ‘Without a Blink’ picks up the pace a bit, a more upbeat feel. ‘Blip on a Screen’ is a back to a suitably serious vibe. Other tunes on the album include ‘ABC’ which has a garage style to it, ‘Trying to Kill Me’, ‘Trust Me’ and ‘Lock the Locks’. A good album but for any Streets Fan, I think it will be hard to top some of their past work.
Various
Hospitality Drum & Bass 2011 (Hospital Records)
This fresh Drum and Bass mix CD starts with a collaboration between Danny Byrd and Netsky, jumping straight into the energy. Smooth mixes and a good variety of tunes taking you on a journey through D&B, Dubstep and touching on the Drumstep side as well with Original Sin and Taxman’s joint effort, ‘Penamana’. This will not fail to get you moving, whatever time of day, wherever you are, this is a collection of high energy mixed well with the variety to keep you interested to the end. Netsky’s remix of Swedish House Mafia’s -’One’ is a particular tune to look out for as well as Danny Byrds contributions which speak for themselves.
T.I
No Mercy
(Grand Hustle / Atlantic)
Considering this is his 7th album, quite suitably named ‘No Mercy’, you have to give him props for the achievements he has under his belt so far. The album has an impressive line up of collaborations to boast. With guest appearances from Kanye West, Eminem, Christina Aguilera, The-Dream, Kid Cudi, Chris Brown, Pharrell, Drake and more, it’s enough to gather interest from a wide audience without even knowing who he is. The collaboration with Chris Brown ‘Get Back Up’ has already been a smash hit gaining regular airplay on 1Xtra and Choice FM. As far as Hip Hop/R&B albums go, this has a gloss of quality over it and stands out amongst the rest. It came out on 24th January so if your a fan of T.I you should have been blasting this on repeat already. www.247magazine.co.uk
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Backbone
Laura Malarkey
“Tiny tears have gathered in the corner of your eyes, the smile upon your lips is just your heartache in disguise, lonely you need never be, if you’d only realise, you’ve got me for company.” (Billy Paul)
“Je t’aime... moi non plus.” (Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg)
“And we will know, won’t we? The stars will explode in the sky. But they don’t, do they? Stars have their moment and then they die.” (Nick Cave)
Foreign Exchange Authenticity
(+FE records) Producer Nicolay comes again with a new Foreign Exchange album but this time with a slight twist. For those that don’t know their story, years ago when online file sharing was still quite new Nicolay and Little Brother rapper Phonte did a whole album without ever meeting, nowadays pretty much everyone does it this way. Their last two albums have been wicked, very soulful beats and as you would expect from Phonte bang on flows, on this album though whilst the beats still have hip hop flavas to them, the samples have gone and the sound is very much like a new Jon Legend rather than a new Little Brother. A new direction and a move that has ever bit of quality their previous albums had.
Gangrene Gutter Water
(Decon records) Another album from a favourite hip hop producer of mine, the Alchemist. Alchemist has been on the rise for the longest time, progressively putting out soul jams with bigger and bigger artists but on this one he has gone grittier and darker and collaborated with Stones Throw artist Oh No. On this release they both share the mic and the man the boards and the output is amazing. The sound of this would usually be a little dark for me, but here while on a night time drive into Cornwall this felt perfect. If you are into Madlib or any other Stones Throw artists then this is for you, if you’re more into Nelly then maybe give this a steer.
Talib Kweli
Gutter Rainbows
(Duck Down Records) I’ve always loved Talib Kweli, since those first times of hearing him on the early rawkus releases, for me though the last few albums have suffered from not having the right producers. Talib’s flow is always on point and once again that’s the case, I don’t know who the producers on this one are as I just got sent a link to some mp3’s heavily idented which puts you off listening to the album all the way through properly. The tracks have a similar to flow and style to the beautiful struggle album, but nothing struck me like the next “get by” or “the blast”.
Rewd Adams Rewd Awakening
(Halal Beats Records) Here’s a uk rapper that seems to have all the boxes ticked, decent write ups in the press, decent beats in a variety of styles and covering radio friendly and more underground beats, radio support and decent collabo’s with other uk guests. The productions do shine brightly on this, so much so that every now and then I’m missing a decent line and having to rewind the track to check it. Overall a great album, if you are into the likes of Jehst, Skinnyman etc you should check this.
The Patrick James Pearson Band
www.myspace.com/ patrickjamespearson The name may be a bit of a mouthful but when it comes to music they’re grandmasters, pure and simple. The ‘Olé! We Ain’t Prey’ EP is a wonderful pick’n’mix of post-punk groove, Bowie-esque cadence, downbeat coo and fuzzy keyboard pop that does its level best not to repeat itself. The title track (and first single from imminent debut album) is a dazzlingly inventive song that evokes the melodic, lateral thinking of Les Savy Fav. With a complete gear shift, the minimalist ‘Recall Your Art’ is Marc Bolan re-imagined by The Evens; while a reworking of ‘Olé! …’ allows for more leftfield aspirations. Pure class.
Just Duggy and the Insurgents
www.myspace.com/justduggy Shufflesome Plymouth folksters, these guys don’t quite scale the heights of their blue-collar heroes but there’s enough Rumblestrips-esque charm on their album ‘There And Back Again’ to warrant your attention. Duggy’s voice is unsteady but inviting, brushed with a northeast inflection accrued from his hometown of Sunderland. ‘A Name On The Wall’ has worthy if well-trodden anti-war sentiments, ‘A Man Walked Into A Bar’ has a gently melancholic motif, while the R&B lilt of ‘Pacifish Blues’ proves that Duggy’s no sonic one-trick pony. In an ideal world, there would be a grittier attitude on display but, as demo albums go, it’s a praiseworthy artefact.
Cheating Jack Ketch
www.myspace.com/ cheatingjackketch Clearly in awe of the Gallows sneer, this fresh-offthe-blocks Plymouth trio keep things wretched and riff-centric on ‘The Bloodbeard’ EP. The title track ticks as many post-millennial punk boxes as possible with low-string chugging, relentless pacing and menacing growls; while elsewhere there are dissonant chords, heaving rock’n’roll breakdowns and more menacing growlage. At times, the band (unwittingly?) even stray into noisier Nirvana territory which is, of course, no bad thing. The playing is a little loose in places – tightness being one of the golden rules with this kind of sonic assault – but you suspect that CJK will iron out those creases in good time.
Bad Ideas
www.myspace.com/badideasuk Featuring ex-members of The Living Daylights, this Lincoln quartet inhabit that likeable middle ground between The Weakerthans and Jawbreaker, strumming reflective odes to love and life with scant regard for circle pits and male bonding sessions. Demo opener and standout song, ‘The Bitter End’, makes like a benign Alkaline Trio, while ‘Breathe In Breathe Out’ alludes to the singalong melancholy of The Lawrence Arms. Eschewing distortion for an acoustic guitar is an old trick but it means that the tunes have to stand up on their own without the bludgeoning physical clout. Bad Ideas needn’t worry. Their songwriting nous and ear for a familiar melody will stand them in good stead.
Lonely Tourist
www.myspace.com/lonelytourist Lonely Tourist is unmistakably Scottish but has been a regular on the South West gig circuit for the past year & enjoyed a couple of bigger gigs, Bristol Dot to Dot festival & Bristol Harbour Festival. His debut album ‘Sir I Am A Good Man’ grabs you from the start with a beautiful melancholy and endearing Scottish twang. His vocals have the right amount of angst to make it interesting (rather than simply twee) but are soft enough to remain tuneful, a la Frank Turner. You’ve got to love artists who can pretty much speak their lyrics to the backdrop of a simple guitar without sounding tedious like his former tourmate Malcolm Middleton (Arab Strap)
Zeropilot
www.myspace.com/zeropilot If you like your rock solid yet accessible then you’ll like Zeropilot. Hailing from Bristol, the 4 piece are all seasoned musicians. The tight drumming compliments Eddie Vedder-esque vocals perfectly – like a heavy Pearl Jam. With strong confident intros you’re left longing for the bulk of the song to kick in and when it does you’re not left disappointed. They have a remarkable knack for taking the good bits of metal, grunge and rock and leaving the shit to the other more pigeon-holed bands. Zeropilot that timeless appeal of bands like Deftones and Faith No More. America you can keep your pop punk shit like Good Charlotte and Fall Out Boy, we got the real thing here in Bris.
My Deprivation
www.myspace.com/mydeprivation At first listen, it’s hard to believe that My Deprivation come from sleepy Somerset. They are loud and angry and one wonders where and to whom they would play their hardcore metal In Yeovil. But they’ve been going for more than three years now and recently made it through to the regional finals of the Surface Unsigned comp. The vocals are strong and sincere, the drumming rhythmic and hypnotizing and the guitar riffs melodic and well-placed. Sometimes the roaring vocals can be a bit overbearing but then I’m an indie kid at heart so am probably being a bit mumsy about it. Check out their new EP Hard Times, Cold Lives, We’re Tied for a snapshot of what these boys are all about.
Astroid Boys
www.myspace.com/traxxcardiff These guys have some energy to them. They compliment a Dubstep beat just as much as they compliment a Hip Hop or Eski beat. Their album, Space Jam, starts with an intro that drops into a nasty Dubstep beat but it moves into a Bassline sound with smooth flowing lyrics and hyper hooks that will get the crowd singing along nicely. The beats have straight up nasty basslines whilst the Astroid Boys spit effortless smooth lyrics over them. ‘What We’re Talking About’ is a reply to Redlight and Ms Dynamite’s ‘What You Talkin About’ and it will have you in stitches if you listen to the lyrics closely. ‘Jungle Booku’ is showcasing their Hip Hop talents in a very tongue and cheek way. They work together neatly and have a catchy way about them. (UK Rocka)
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Words by Alan Butler Alan studied Modern Drama at Exeter University and is currently responsible for front of house at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth, which suits him as he’s a real culture vulture. an essence pressing through the rock and water, or are we projecting ourselves onto them?
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CHESS, Hall for Cornwall, Black Quay, TR1 2LL, 01872 262466, hallforcornwall.co.uk 7.30pm, £7 - £33 Two of the world’s greatest chess masters battle it out at the world chess championships but their greatest contest is for the love of one woman. Amidst political intrigue and international conspiracies, the American and the Russian fight to win the heart of Florence Vassy in a romantic triangle that mirrors the heightened passions of the Cold War. Chess is a story of passion, secrets, betrayal and revenge with one of the greatest musical theatre scores of all time. Including I Know Him so Well made famous by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson and other hits such as One Night in Bangkok, Pity the Child, Anthem and You and I.
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SPAMALOT, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.30pm, £10 £34.50 The musical, lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls, (witch burnings cancelled due to Health and Safety) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people. Comedian Phill Jupitus, the Nation’s favourite Nancy Jodi Prenger and expert ice-skater and EastEnders stalwart Todd Carty star in this hilarious production.
1 - 25 February Plymouth
STONE HOLE, Cube3 Gallery, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, 01752 585050, peninsulaarts.co.uk 10am to 5pm, Free Admission Inside tidal sea-caves of North Cornwall, Susi Arnott and Crispin Hughes stitched stills to re-make and distort space and time. Large digital photographs and a DSLR time-lapse film evoke human and geological flux and dissolution. Is there
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BEACHY HEAD, Drum Theatre, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.45pm, £8 - £12 It’s been a month since Stephen stepped over the edge. There was no sign – no warning. Amy collects her husband’s effects, the things he had with him gathered in a single box. As memories of their last night together rewind, replay and unravel, she is desperate to find out why. Beachy Head is a powerful look at the ripple effects of one man’s decision. Mixing text, 3D animation and a dynamic physicality, Beachy Head is the follow up to the award-winning Mile End from “visionary young company” Analogue
3 February Exeter
DAN ANTOPOLSKI & ANDY ZALTZMAN: BEST OF THE EDINBURGH FRINGE, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Exeter, 01392 667080, exeterphoenix.org. uk 8pm, £10 Two Edinburgh Fringe shows for the price of one! Since winning the ‘BBC New Comedy Award’ in 1998, Dan Antopolski has quickly built himself a reputation for being one of the most inventive, intelligent, edgy and unusual comics to emerge in years. Dan’s quick witted mind and surreal flights of fancy have delighted both critics and comedy audiences alike.
6 February Great Torrington
CIRCLE DANCE WITH BALAMOUK, The Plough Arts Centre, 9 – 11 Fore Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8HQ 01805 624624, theploughartscentre.org. uk 3pm, £5 Back by popular demand: Circle Dancing to traditional Eastern European music from local band Balamouk. Balamouk play dance music from The Balkans and beyond on a huge array of instruments with stunning vocals. All dances are taught so no experience is necessary and you don’t need a partner. Come and join the dancing or sit back and enjoy the music.
8 February Exeter
ELYSSA LIVERGANT: A KISS
Dance
FROM THE LAST RED SQUIRREL, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Exeter, 01392 667080, exeterphoenix.org.uk 7pm & 9pm, £10 How many of you have ever seen a Red Squirrel? ‘A Kiss From the Last Red Squirrel’ is a solo performance about attempts to hold on to what you love. Inspired by Elyssa’s experience of securing ‘indefinite leave’ to remain in the UK, this performance shifts from hand me down memories and Yiddish texts to facts from the European Squirrel Initiative on grey squirrel reform.
9 - 10 February Exeter
MARK THOMAS: EXTREME RAMBLING (WALKING THE WALL), Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Exeter, 01392 667080, exeterphoenix.org.uk 8pm, £15 Following his sell-out nationwide show ‘The Manifesto’, award-winning comedian and activist Mark Thomas returns with his brand new show ‘The Wall’. Never one to take the easy option, Mark decided to go rambling in the Middle East and walked the entire length of the Israeli Separation Barrier crossing between the Israeli and the Palestinian side. This is the story of 300,000 settlers; a 750km wall; six arrests, one stoning; too much hummus and a simple question... “Can you ever get away from it all with a good walk?”
Events name, made famous by the 1990 Hollywood film. With 22 of the world’s finest dancers and incredible live music from the Rambert Orchestra, the Company continues to thrill and inspire audiences all over the country.
22 -26 February Plymouth
GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7pm, £12 - £19 One of the most uplifting stories ever written, Michelle Magorian’s stunning Goodnight Mister Tom is brought gloriously to life with this brand new stage adaptation by David Wood, directed by Angus Jackson. Set during the dark and dangerous build up to the Second World War, Goodnight Mister Tom follows sad William Beech, who is evacuated to the idyllic English countryside and builds a remarkable and moving friendship with the elderly recluse Tom Oakley (played by the Olivier Award winning Oliver Ford Davies from Star Wars and Kavanagh QC).
9 – 12 February Plymouth
GANDHI AND COCONUTS, Drum Theatre, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.45pm, £8 - £12 Why stay in reality when your imagination is so much more fun? Fed up with a lifeless marriage, Asha escapes to the India of her imagination. Suddenly Mahatma Gandhi and the Hindu gods Shiva and Kali arrive for tea and cakes. But when she wants them to leave, they refuse to go. This witty, playful and poignant play blurs reality and myth to ask, is it better to be sane or happy? Award winning theatre company Kali continues their run of thought-provoking theatre that reflects on our lives today.
10 - 11 February Truro
RAMBERT, Hall for Cornwall, Black Quay, TR1 2LL, 01872 262466, hallforcornwall.co.uk 7.30pm, £10 - £22 Rambert is at the heart of British dance and returns to Truro with its award-winning formula of imaginative, ambitious and high-quality performances. Britain’s national contemporary dance company presents its ravishing new work, Awakenings, a theatrical rollercoaster of emotions based on true life stories and inspired by Dr Oliver Sacks’ book of the same
28 Feb – 5 Mar Plymouth
FOOTLOOSE, Theatre Royal, Royal Parade, 01752 267222, theatreroyal.com, 7.30pm, £10 - £29.50 Why stay in reality when your imagination is so much more fun? Fed up with a lifeless marriage, Asha escapes to the India of her imagination. Suddenly Mahatma Gandhi and the Hindu gods Shiva and Kali arrive for tea and cakes. But when she wants them to leave, they refuse to go. This witty, playful and poignant play blurs reality and myth to ask, is it better to be sane or happy? Award winning theatre company Kali continues their run of thought-provoking theatre that reflects on our lives today.
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HOT NEW RELEASES John Barker gets his head around this months cinema listings 127 Hours (15)
4 - 10 Feb: The Barn – Dartington, 01803 847000, dartington.org/barn-cinema Dir: Danny Boyle Starring: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara USA/ 2010 94 min 127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and he has to chop it off to escape. A visceral thrilling story that will take an audience on a never before experienced journey, but pack your sick bag for that amputation. Black Swan (15)
13 - 14 Feb: , Savoy Cinema
– Penzance, 01736 363330, www.merlincinema.co.uk 15 - 16 Feb: Royal - St Ives, 01736 796843, www. merlincinema.co.uk 17 Feb: Falmouth Phoenix, 01326 313072 www. merlincinemas.co.uk Dir: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel 2010/US/ 108 min A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis). This newest film from Darren Aronofsky is apparently a bit like Marmite, you either love it or you hate, but it should be visually stunning given the director’s previous films - Requiem for the Dream and The Wrestler.
Sanctum (TBC)
Released: 4 February Dir: Alister Grierson Starring: Rhys Wakefield, Allison Cratchley and Christopher Baker 2010/US/TBC An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world. This could be the cinematic sleeper of the new year. Produced by the uber-talented James Cameron in glorious 3D, which should make the cave diving extra claustrophobic, this should be a thrill rocket.
The Rebound (15)
Dir: Bart Freundlich Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones and Justin Bartha 2010/US/95 min Zeta-Jones plays Sandy, a happily married woman who seems to have the perfect life. But when she discovers her husband’s infidelity while watching her son’s birthday video, she flees from her comfortable suburban haven to New York City. She befriends Aram, who works at the local coffee-house. Floating through life without direction, Aram (Bartha) accepts Sandy’s offer of a job as her nanny whilst Sandy takes on work for the first time since her children were born. Their relationship blossoms into an unlikely romance, but the question is: is their relationship real or is it just a rebound for both of them?
The King’s Speech (12A)
1 – 3 Feb: , Plymouth Arts
Centre, 01752 206 114, www. plymouthartscentre.org
25 - 28 Feb: Tavistock
Wharf, 01822 611 166, www. tavistockwharf.com Dir: Tom Hooper Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter 2010/ UK/ 110 min Widely hailed as a major contender in this year’s film awards, The King’s Speech is based on the true story of Queen Elizabeth II’s father and his friendship with maverick speech therapist, Lionel Logue. The Prince suffered with a stammer from an early age and he turns to Logue in the hope of finding a voice with which to lead the nation.
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Titanic II (15)
Dir: Shane Van Dyke Starring: Bruce Davison, Brooke Burns, Marie Westbrook 2010/ US/90mins If you were asked to name a film which didn’t warrant a sequal, Titanic would be up there at the top of the list. However, this action packed simply named Titanic II film defies that assumption. It’s based around an identical voyage carried out 100 years after the doomed original journey and guess what? This one sinks too. Sorry if we’ve ruined it for you. We’re watching this one out of morbid curiosity more than anything else. Enter at www.247magazine.co.uk
Never Let Me Go (12A)
6 Feb:, Exeter Picture
House, 0871 704 2057, picturehouses.co.uk Dir: Mark Romanek Starring: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield 2010/UK/103 min The film’s narrator Kathy H. (Mulligan) transports us to her childhood boarding school. Here the young Kathy forms a close bond with classmates Tommy and Ruth. As the three friends approach adulthood the relationships between them grow more complicated .The film focuses on their love triangle in an intelligent and realistic fashion. The screening is followed with a Q&A with, the author of the book of the same name, Kazuo Ishiguro. Solomon Kane (15)
10 Feb: The Flavel Arts Centre
–Dartmouth, Devon, 01803 839530, www.flavel.org.uk Dir: Michael J. Bassett Starring: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow and Rachel Hurd-Wood 2009/France/104 min Once a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I, while fighting Spaniards in Africa Solomon met the Devil’s Reaper and discovered he was bound for hell! Barely escaping he soon renounced violence to atone for his past sins, seeking out redemption in a life of peace. A fanciful plot disguises some decent special effects and a decent leading man performance from the relatively unknown James Purefoy. The Way Back (12A)
1 Feb: The Plough Arts Centre,
Great Torrington, 01805 624624, www.plough-arts.org Dir: Peter Weir Starring: Colin Farrell, Mark Strong, Saoirse Ronan and Ed Harris. UK/2010/123 min Chronicling an epic journey of 8,000 miles across five hostile countries. It follows a group of prisoner’s treacherous journey as they battle the elements through Siberia, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas, in search of safety, refuge and ultimately freedom. The Wildest Dream (PG)
17 Feb: 17 February, Exeter
Phoenix, 01392 667080, www. exeterphoenix.org.uk Dir: Anthony Geffen Starring: Starring Hugh Dancy, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson. 2010/US/ 93 min In 1924, English climbers Mallory and Irving set out with minimal gear – but good supplies of champagne and foiegras – to conquer Mt. Everest. They were last spotted a mere 800ft from the summit but never returned. 75 years later, Conrad Anker found Mallory’s frozen body and possessions close to the summit, and in this stunningly visual documentary, he returns to Everest.
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Tue. 01 Bideford
PL4 0EY. Reggae Reggae baby with burlesque bombshell ‘Lily Belle’!
TWIN ATLANTIC, White Rabbit, JAM NIGHT, Palladium Club, Lower Bretonside Bus Station, Breton Gunstone, EX39 2DE. Side, PL4 0BG, 8pm, £8/£7adv.
Wed. 02 Exeter
RODDY WOOMBLE, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 8pm, £12 (£10).
Singer &main man for Scottish Indie rock band Idlewild has a parallel career as a contemporary folk musician.
Plymouth
CAFÉ ACOUSTICA, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 8.30pm, £free. Our fortnightly showcase of
unplugged talent, hosted by singersongwriter Jessie Mullen.
Thu. 03 Exeter
Their debut mini-album, Vivarium, is packed with enormous sweeping riffs, moods that flit from light to shade, & impassioned vocals. Support from Straight Lines & Familiar Smile.
Redruth
RUDI’S MESSAGE, Trickies, 9pm11pm, free.
Tavistock
THE WIRELESS, The Tavistock Inn, 9pm – 11.30pm, £free. More info at
thewirelessradio.co.uk
Sat. 05 Bideford
WENDY MAY’S BOOM BOOM ROOM, Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, EX39 2DE. DJs playing
Soul, Ska & Funk.
WE THE MACHINES, Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen Street, EX4 3RP, 8pm, £4. Plus Chick Rides Artist & special
Liskeard
Plymouth
Fri. 04
ACOUSTIC SESSIONS, The Watering Hole, 6 The Quay, PL1 2JZ, 8pm-10.30pm. FRAGILE SANITY, Walkabout, 5 Union St. Bands on stage at 10pm – 2am, £2. MARCUS BONFANTI, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £5.
Songwriter and self-taught guitarist Bonfanti is at the centre of the British Blues revival.
TRU STEPPAZ, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street,
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Keeping the spirit of Celtic rock icon Philip Lynott and his band Thin Lizzy alive.
UNSTRUNG HEROES, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £3. A
Dartmoor-based folk band.
JAM NIGHT, The Palladium, Lower Gunstone, EX39 2DE.
Sennen
LITTLE COMETS, Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen St, EX4 3RP, 8pm, £5.
Torquay
Exeter
Feel good, jarring beat pop-rock fourpiece with kitchen sink indie songs.
Wed. 09 Plymouth
MAD DOG MCREA, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX, from 9pm.
Rock covers band.
Plymouth
Bideford
LIMEHOUSE LIZZY, Matchroom Suite, 12 Newnham Road, Colebrook, PL7 4AW, 8pm, £12.
RUDI’S MESSAGE, First & Last Pub, 9.30pm, free. THE WATERBOARDERS, Ryans Bar, 9pm-late, £free. Expect hard
twang, reverb drenched surf, punk ‘n’ roll and other bands TBC
Sat.12 Bideford
LUNACRY/ASSASSINS OF SOUND, The Palladium, Lower Gunstone, EX39 2DE. Original Rock.
Bude
DAVE STONE, Bar 35, 9pm – 1am, £free. Soul & Reggae.
Guitarist McNichol combines acoustic tapping & slapping techniques with the more conventional classical approach.
MAYBE NAKED, Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, EX39 2DE.
Haven’. Any 2 courses from our menu - £15.
Tue. 08
favourites, from the Post Punk era to the Brit pop explosion! Later DJ Jefferson Vandike.
WILL MCNICOL, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £free.
Bideford
TONY HAVEN, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG, £free. Lap-tapping guitarist ‘Tony
RUDI’S MESSAGE, Railway Inn, 9.30pm, free.
Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY. Performing lifetime
Plymouth
GECKO, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX, from 9pm.
Penryn
St Agnes
Thu. 10
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Arts Collective Fundraiser for The British Red Cross with The Suitcase Singers, Seamus Carey + Underdog, Hedluv + Passman, The Uplifter & more special guests!
blend of raw energy & kaleidoscopic orchestration, their numerous musical influences include Irish Folk, Punk, Rock, & Scottish traditional.
unplugged talent, hosted by singersongwriter Jessie Mullen.
THE WIRELESS, The Barley Sheaf, 9pm – 12am, £free. More info at
THE NIGHT IS RED, The Poly, 24 Church Street, TR11 3EG, 7:30pm, £5 available from www.thepoly.org.
MAD DOG MCREA, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY. Combining a unique
CAFÉ ACOUSTICA, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 8.30pm, £free. Fortnightly showcase of
guests.
Falmouth
son & more.
KENT DUCHAINE Bar 35, Bude, 9pm – 1am, £free. UK Tour all the
way from America with his Delta Blues sound.
Exeter
JOSIE GHOST, Timepiece, 9pm – 1am, £free. Solo set from Josie and
the Lovecats/King Blues lead singer
Exmouth
BOBKATZ, Exmouth Arms, 21 Exeter Road, EX8 1PN, 8.30pm 10.30pm, £free. The KatZ excel at
playing exciting high energy Pop/Punk with style.
Penryn
PEAPOD SESSIONS, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG, 8pm, £free. This month’s
Session features Mehal, Amiee Wright & Kimberley Salt.
Plymouth
FREE CUBA PARTY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £free.
Latin tunes with our resident DJ playing the best in salsa, merengue, bachata,
Fri. 11 Bideford
MISS QUINCY, Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, EX39 2DE.
Canadian queen of Roots/Blues.
Exeter
ANDY MCKEE, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 8pm, £15 (£12). One of the
world’s finest acoustic soloists creating some of the finest crafted music for the steel string acoustic guitar.
FREAKSCENE SPECIAL Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS, 2.30pm-9.30pm, £5.50. A big bill of punk bands - including Japanese Voyeurs, The Arteries, Bangers, OK Pilot, The Cut Ups, Sunshine Getaway, Theory & Special Guests!
Kingsbridge
Penryn
BLUE ORCHID, Creeks End, 9pm, £tbc. Six piece funk & dance band.
Plymouth
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG, 8pm, £7. Recording name
LGBT NIGHT KINKY RHINO, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG, 9pm-2am, £3. ACOUSTIC SESSIONS, The Watering Hole, 6 The Quay, PL1 2JZ, 8pm-10.30pm. BLUE ORCHID, Barbican Live Lounge, The Quay, Barbican, 9.30pm, £tbc. Six piece funk & dance
band.
BLUE ON BLACK, The Junction, 6 Mutley Plain, PL4 6LA, 9pm, £free.
Delivering their signature brand of ‘Class A’ Rock & Blues. DIAMOND GEEZERS, Annabel’s
Penryn
of songwriter M.C. Taylor whose work is spun from the very brightest threads of the Cosmic American Song Book.
Plymouth
FREE CUBA PARTY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £free.
Latin tunes with our resident DJ playing the best in salsa, merengue, bachata, son & more. BOOGIE KNIGHTS, Annabel’s
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“I was enveloped in my duvet for the whole duration, dreaming of hot tea and Gilmore Girls re-runs.”
LIvE Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY. Five-piece Disco
Funk, Soul, big wigs & high boots band!
Sun.13 Who the hell would tour the UK during the coldest December since records began? Crazy Arm, that’s who. So off we shivered along the highways and byways with our soon-to-be close friends, APOLOGIES I HAVE NONE in tow. Let it be said that they are one of the greatest feel-good punk rock bands in the country. They’re also among the greatest feel-good people I have met. Needless to say, these two qualities are mutually inclusive. First stop, Exeter (Cavern, 9 Dec) – a powerful sound, a decent crowd and an auspicious start. Openers, FALSE ARRESTS, were a wobbly yet endearing punk prospect. The Southampton show was rewarding for both bands, especially as we enjoyed our first bonding session by drunkenly frugging to Dizzy Rascal and The Descendents at the post-gig silent disco (Unit, 10 Dec). However, Bristol was our first true highlight of the tour (Croft, 11 Dec). A whole host of great bands played – quaint folk manoeuvres from JIM LOCKEY, hyperreal rapcore from STEVE FRENCH & THE BIG CATS, an astonishingly reinvigorated CAVES – but we never expected the place to stay so packed or animated for us. Thanks. A soul-destroying night in Bridgend proved how horribly inconsistent this touring lark can be. The town was deserted, the venue joyless and the sound swampy (Hobos,12 Dec). We all consoled ourselves afterwards by shamelessly canoodling with the promoter’s pet dog and cats. A decent Cheltenham show put much-needed smiles on our phizogs (Frog & Fiddle, 13 Dec), while Birmingham’s hearty shindig was in contrast to the gloomy artifice of the city itself (Scruffy Murphys, 14 Dec). We’d all been greatly looking forward to Norwich and, true to form, it was monumental (Wildman, 15 Dec). Apologies I Have None were phenomenal, garnering the kind of heart-swelling response that their beautifully anthemic music demands; CYNICS, aka acoustic troubadour Giles Bidder, was on passionate red-faced form; and THIS BUSINESS IS CLOSED supplied the Fugaziite charm. This was also the night that the four usually benign members of Apologies came apart at the seams, much to our delight, due to a startlingly small amount of alcohol. And lo, the big freeze started to kick in on our way to Leeds (Santiagos, 16 Dec). Our good friend, Luke Yates, joined us on fiddle for a couple of songs, but the night belonged to Apologies who were still beaming if slightly dog-eared from the night before. SOUNDS OF SWAMI and CHIEF both put in solid sets. Driving to London overnight proved wise as we all awoke to a snow-covered, thus romantically imbued, Hackney. One jump-start later and we’re on our way to the penultimate show (Café El Paso, 17 Dec). We were looking forward to the last two gigs because our good friends, THE DISSOCIATES, were joining the travelling circus. They were typically wired and focussed but, unfortunately, Apologies suffered their worst night of the tour (despite playing brilliantly). Worse was yet to come, as the band were left stranded in London the next day, thus missing out on the Plymouth finale. We’d decided – wisely, once again – to drive through the night, although trundling along the M4 at 30mph through relentless snow was no picnic. Of course, I was enveloped in my duvet for the whole duration, dreaming of hot tea and Gilmore Girls re-runs. Bizarrely, The Dissociates managed to get to Plymouth by leaving mid-afternoon and seemingly not giving a shit. Despite missing Apologies like crazy, we partied hard (White Rabbit, 18 Dec): HEAD OF PROGRAMMES were their typically effective black-country selves, The Dissociates won many new converts, while THE BEDROOM PROJECT heroically stood in at short notice with an arch display of skewered new wave. Two New Year resolutions: 1. We will tour with Apologies I Have None again, 2. But not in December. See-ya bye. Backbone (johnsycash@yahoo.co.uk)
Plymouth
BLACK FRIDAY DUO, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 4pm-6pm, £free. Punk-Folk band, performing
GRAHAM THOMPSON, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £2.
Blues singer/guitarist with a nice line in John Martyn covers.
FRESHLY SQUEEZED, Ride Cafe, Tavistock Place, PL4 8AX, from 9pm.
Fri.18
traditional celtic music, original songs & covers.
Mon.14 Exeter
MURDERDOLLS, The Lemon Grove, Cornwall House, St Germans Road, EX4 6TG, £15. God
Save The Scream Tour. Plus special guests Black Veil Brides & The Defiled. ED TRESLOGGETT, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, £25.
Contemporary jazz singer Ed, performing a varied set of jazz standards to modern classics.
Penryn
EWAN MCLENNAN, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG, 7pm, £25. Including a 3
course meal & a glass of bubbly. A night of beautiful music & wonderful food.
Tue.15
3 DAFT MONKEYS Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, Bideford EX39 2DE.
Folky Rock from festival favourites, with support from The Chloe Bix Band.
Camborne
RUDI’S MESSAGE, Tyacks, 9.30pm, free.
Exeter
METAL HAMMER RAZOR TOUR, Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen St, EX4 3RP, 8pm, £9. With Sylosis, Bleed
From Within & While She Sleeps.
Falmouth
LETZ ZEP, Princess Pavilion, 41 Melvill Road, TR11 4AR, 8:30pm, £14. The leading tribute to the music of
Led Zeppelin.
NEW IDEA SOCIETY Cavern Club, Exeter 83-84 Queen Street, EX4 3RP, 8pm-1am, £4. Similar to the likes of Fugazi with a touch of Brian Eno & Talking Heads.
Penryn
THEE HORSE, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG.
Downbeat blues & desperado Ballads.
Plymouth
ACOUSTIC SESSIONS, The Watering Hole, 6 The Quay, PL1 2JZ, 8pm-10.30pm. BENNY ‘GUITAR’ CARR AND Bideford THE HOT RATS, The B-bar, JAM NIGHT, Palladium Club, Lower Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, Gunstone, EX39 2DE. The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £3.
Wed.16
Plymouth
CAFÉ ACOUSTICA, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 8.30pm, £free. Our fortnightly showcase of
unplugged talent, hosted by singersongwriter Jessie Mullen.
Thu.17 Falmouth
THREE TRAPPED TIGERS, Mango Tango, 5-7 Church Street , TR11 3DP, 8pm, £4.
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The Rats started out as a Blues band but outside influences have distorted their style to include everything from Vaudeville to Punk.
KATY PRADO & THE MAMBOLEROS, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY. Superb roots music
band, expect a sublime mix of Blues/ Rockabilly/mambo tunes.
QUAD CORE, Walkabout, 5 Union St. Bands on stage at 10pm – 2am, £2. SIX SHOOTER, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, Breton Side, PL4 0BG, 8pm. Huge riffs,
roomy drum grooves, pulsing bass
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LIvE CULTURE with old school showmanship. Support from The Adventures Of..., The Fallen, Counterpoint & The Corsairs.
English electric folk band, melding Rock music with traditional English tune.
Penryn
Sat.19
JOHN GREENE, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG.
Plymouth
THE DEAD BEATS, Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, EX39 2DE.
Exeter
RYAN FRANCESCONI, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 8pm, £10 (£8).
An incredible composer for acoustic guitar, creating a rich sound that hints at his extensive musical interests – American Bluegrass, Baroque lute music, traditional Bulgarian folk & Jazz improvisation.
SENSES FAIL, Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen St, EX4 3RP, 7.30pm, £8.
MARTIN ARLEY The Old Grammar School, 19 St. Marys Street, Truro TR1 2AF, 7.30pm, £8. Internation-
ally acclaimed slide guitar player & songwriter.
Tue. 22 Bideford
ACOUSTIC SESSIONS, The Watering Hole, 6 The Quay, PL1 2JZ, 8pm-10.30pm. JOKER, Walkabout, 5 Union St. Bands on stage at 10pm – 2am, £2. MAMA TOKUS, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £3. Mama Tokus hosts a night of
Rhythm’n’Blues, Soul, Gospel & Funk, with special guests.
THE RED HOT TRIO, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY. Top Rockabilly/Rock
‘n’ Roll band.
Truro The youthful five-piece make heartfelt emo with occasional bouts of thrash-out JAM NIGHT, Palladium Club, Lower STRINGER/BESSANT (from Reef), Gunstone, EX39 2DE. The Old Grammar School, 19 St. hardcore & punk-pop melodies. Penryn
YELLOW WIRE, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG, 8pm, £4/3NUS. Unique style of
melodic rock.
Plymouth
FLOOD OF RED, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, Breton Side, PL4 0BG, 8pm, £6adv. FREE CUBA PARTY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £free.
Exeter
Marys Street, TR1 2AF, 7.30pm, £8.
Australian Rock act. Support from JettBlack & Idiom.
Bideford
GRINSPOON, Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen St, EX4 3RP, 8pm, £10.
Wed. 23 Exeter
SKISM, The Lemon Grove, Cornwall House, St Germans Road, EX4 6TG, 7pm-12am, £6/£8otd. Support from Biometrix,
Plymouth
band, expect a sublime mix of Blues/ Rockabilly/mambo tunes.
unplugged talent, hosted by singersongwriter Jessie Mullen.
Sun. 20 Plymouth
VIKING SKULL, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, Breton Side, PL4 0BG, 8pm, £6adv. With
strong lyrical influences from Women, Drinking & Rock ‘n’ Roll. Support from Argent Dawn, Vidina & Violent Virtues.
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Sun. 27 Exeter
STEVE KNIGHTLEY, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS, 8pm, £15. One
half of Show of Hands, Steve Knightley is touring solo – special guest is Jim Causley.
Mon. 28 Plymouth
Meal & Music Night, 2 course meal £15.
Sat. 26 AHAB, Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, EX39 2DE. 4 part
harmony country Rock.
TINIE TEMPAH Plymouth Pavilions, Millbay Road, PL1 3LF, 7pm, from £TBC
Thu. 24 Exeter
GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP, Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen St, EX4 3RP, 8pm, £25. & The Computers.
Plymouth
CHARITY GHANA NIGHT WITH WILL MCNICOL & MAMA TOKUS, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £free. THE SATURDAYS, Plymouth Pavilions, Millbay Road, PL1 3LF, 7:30pm, from £32. 5-piece girl pop
Fri. 25
singer turned folk troubador.
THE HOT HOUSE PLAYBOYS, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY. Original
CAFÉ ACOUSTICA, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 8.30pm, £free. Our fortnightly showcase of
group!
FRANK TURNER The Lemon Grove, Cornwall House, St Germans Road, Exeter EX4 6TG, 7.30pm, £14. Million Dead
FREE CUBA PARTY, The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £free.
SubIndex, Dubl K, Houlden, Hypeflex, Amber Captain, Nath West & Dodger.
Latin tunes with our resident DJ playing the best in salsa, merengue, bachata, son & more. KATY PRADO & THE MAMBOLEROS, Annabel’s Cabaret & Discotheque, Vauxhall Street, PL4 0EY. Superb roots music
sing along, punch your mate in the face.
Latin tunes with our resident DJ playing Meal & Music Night, 2 course meal £15. the best in salsa, merengue, bachata, son & more.
Bideford
Punky original Rock with support from Letch.
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NIL BY MOUTH, Palladium Club, Lower Gunstone, EX39 2DE.
Alternative Blues Rock.
Exeter
FAIRPORT CONVENTION, Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, EX1 1BW. Often credited with being the first
JOSIE AND THE LOVE CATS, The Poly, Falmouth 8pm – 1am, £3.
Topped the UK charts in 2010 with ‘Pass Out’, a song ‘about getting so out of it that you pass out’. In less than six months Tinie Tempah has gone from underground buzz artist
Live set with support from Underdog.
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LORI CAMPBELL & COLOUR SUN, Miss Peapod’s Cafe, Jubilee Wharf, TR10 8FG. Songwriter Lori
Campbell joins local acoustic folkers Colour Sun (Jonny & Fi) for an evening of enchanting melodies.
Plymouth
YOU’RE DEMISE VIDEO SHOOT, White Rabbit, Bretonside Bus Station, Breton Side, PL4 0BG, 7pm, £10/£9adv. Learn the words,
20th WILL MCNICOL The B-bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, The Barbican, PL1 2NJ, 9pm, £free.. Guitarist
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C103 is by far Plymouth’s most cutting edge & versatile nightclub! No matter what you’re looking for, C103 has it all, from the biggest names in the hard dance world, to the southwest’s biggest & longest running rock night, alongside the city’s most popular student night seven years running! Three rooms under one roof with a large outside smoking area! If you’re looking for a night out to remember, this is the place to be!
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FEBRUARY listings Mondays GET FUNKED
10pm-3am / £3 / £2.50 in advance Plymouth’s BIG new student night bringing you the biggest RnB, Chart & Electro in room one with DJ XL + Guests, and the phattest D&B & Dubstep in room 2 with the Deckheads + Guests! Tons of quid drinks! www.funkedevents.co.uk
Wednesdays BOOGIE NIGHTS
10pm-3am / £3 Plymouth’s No.1 Student Night – UPSU’s official Clubs & Society’s Night Out! Plymouth’s number one student night, seven years running as voted for by the students of Plymouth. Great drinks deals all night. (3 week break over Christmas, closed Dec 22, 29 & Jan 5)
Fridays THE ROCK SHOW
10pm-4am / £3 b4 11pm / £4 b4 12am / £5 after, members save £1 Established in 1996! The Biggest & Longest running rock night in the southwest! 2 rooms of rock, metal, punk, ska & alternative from DJ’s Konrad, Aides, Synn, & Guests.
Saturdays SOUTHWEST’S LEADING DANCE BRANDS
The world’s biggest dance acts at Plymouth’s number one dance club. 5th SLINKY FOREVER WORLD TOUR PRESENTS 10.30pm-6am / £8/£10 Sean Tyas, Lee Haslam, Tom Costelloe & more 12th HARDCORE REBORN FREE PARTY 10.30pm-5am £5/£4/Free before 12am Hardcore party with Fracus & Darwin 19th NU MOTION LAUNCH PARTY 10.30pm-5am £6/£8 with Anne Savage, Rob Tissera, Tom Costelloe, Naz & more 26th BADGERS BALL WOODOG RECORDINGS SPECIAL 10.30pm-7am / £7 Psytrance UV Paradise, festival vibes inside a club!
SPECIAL EVENTS IN MARCH
12th HARDCORE RESURRECTION EVENT 3 9pm-7am / £13/£14.95 on the door Visit www.HardcoreResurrection.co.uk for more info 19th GOODGREEF PRESENTS EDDIE HALLIWELL + SUPPORT 9pm-6am / £14/£12 in adv Photos: Dom Moore
Calenick St, Truro, TR1 2SL
L2 is Truro’s largest Nightclub. With state of the art lighting, amazing sound system and some of the best DJ’s around, L2 is the place to be. Spread over 4 Rooms with music ranging from House to Drum and Bass, Chart to Dubstep and anything in between, there is something for anyone. With an extensive drinks selection at great price’s and a great atmosphere, you wont find a better night out!
www.l2nightclub.co.uk / 01872 222023 Search: Loft Truro
FEBRUARY listings Mondays STUDENT NIGHT 9:30pm till 1:30am / Free entry before 10pm / £5 after The biggest student night around, Matt Wing plays all the big tunes, Drinks from £1. Get your advance tickets at www.l2nightclub.co.uk
Fridays FRESH FRIDAYS - Something different every week 4th VITALITY 9.30pm – 2.30am / £10 Drum and bass night with Hazard, Eksman, Crystal Clear, supported by residents Devinyl, Chazza, Leroy, Corp, Palm, Re-Defeat & MC Express and Rootsie
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10pm-2.30am / £7 New club night with Kidd Kaos, DJ Argy, Del Boi, Thorpy Vs Badman
Saturdays SOCIAL - Truro’s Weekly big party night
9:30pm till 2:30pm / Free entry before 10pm / £3 before 11pm / £5 after Matt Wing plays all the best chart, hip hop and R’n’B, Jason M with all the upfront house, electro and trance.
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Sound Nightclub in Penzance has plenty to tell you about over the next couple of months. Starting with Krafty Kuts on 5th of February, there are lots of other big acts heading down to the far South West. The club opens Tuesday, Friday and Saturdays playing Commercial chart, Dance and R&B to a packed main. Friday night Room 2 holds regular events from promoters such as Dynamite Hip Hop, Restless D&B and Xtreme Sound Hard Dance. Entrance is just £5, whoever is performing on the night. If you are celebrating a special occasion then why not do it in style and book the Sound Limo for you and seven friends on a Tuesday, included in this package is free entry for you and your friends and a bottle of bubbly on arrival. And the best bit about this VIP package is it doesn’t cost you a penny, it is completely FREE! The Sound team is specialist in event planning and can provide the perfect corporate or private event for you. Any of our rooms are available for private hire so we can cater for all events, small or large. Get in touch! soundpenzance@hotmail.com
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FEBRUARY listings Tuesdays CORNWALL’S HOTTEST MIDWEEK NIGHT!
11pm – 3am / £4 / Free before 12am
All drinks are £2, Yes, that does include beer, sprits, cans, shots... do we need to continue? The night of hard partying does not end there, with the Cornwall’s freshest DJs Boris & DS playing chart and commercial bangers! Do you have a reason to celebrate? Then why not book the Sound limo to pick you and 7 of your friends up and take you to the club for FREE. Oh and entrance and bubbly is also thrown in for FREE as well (just call the club to book).
Fridays
11pm – 4am / £5 all night
Sound have transformed Friday nights with alternative Hip hop, Drum & Bass, Dance events back in Room 2 where they belong! Room 1 crowd pleaser are resident DJs Boris & CQ will smash out their usual party bangers and dance anthems throughout the night
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RESTLESS
11pm - 4am / £5 all night
Presents Critical music - Spetrasoul, Kasra & Pressimist supported by Restless residents Skint & Hertz, J West and hosted by MC’s Mo & Desolate. After a quiet few months Restless are back with with a serious dose of Drum & Bass madness! Over the past year, Critical Records has really come into its own as one of the scene’s most established label and this nights to promises to be a night of pure vibes!
Fridays (March) 4th
XS - XTREME SOUND PRESENTS TIDY DJS
11pm - 4am / £5 all night
CORNWALL’S NEWEST HARD DANCE BRAND Launch night with Sam and Deano AKA The Tidy DJs, dance music newest super stars. This pair have quickly established themselves as one of the hottest new acts on the circuit - with regular appearances in Norway to Ibiza, Ireland, Scotland and Wales for events such as Creamfields, Tidy, Colours Fest, Magna, Good Greef, Hard House Academy, Frantic, Polysexual and Riot! to name a few. Supported by Greg Zizique, Ashley Thomas and more. Main Room Boris & CQ.
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DIRTY SANCHEZ LIVE STAGE SHOW
£5 in adv from www.sanchez.eventbrite.com OR £5 b4 midnight
Sound are pleased to present the real trouble makers from Team Sanchez, Pancho & Joycey. They will be on the Main Stage at Sound with their support team and DJ SoSo, alongside residents Boris & CQ. Expect it to be a messy night!
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DYNAMITE HIP-HOP
11pm - 4am / £5 all night
Present Dr Syntax with support from DJ Pete Cannon, MC Derogatory, Tommy Gramma, Dead Giveaway and DJ Louis J Hailing from the world-renowned hip-hop hotbed of rural Oxfordshire, Dr Syntax is one of the most renowned rappers in the United Kingdom. His knack for witty social commentary, self-deprecating humour and intelligent wordplay, all delivered with his trademark charismatic style that belies his nerdy appearance, have earned him a legion of die-hard fans throughout the UK and beyond.
Sound Saturdays 11pm – 4am / £4/free before midnight DJ’s Boris, Diesto playing chart and commerical bangers in main room Room 2 Retro throw back classics and party anthems with Jurassic
5th
KRAFTY KUTS
11pm - 4am / £6/£7 Advanced tickets £6 from www.krafty.eventbrite.com
Krafty Kuts with support from Snatch the Wax DJs Kristoff and Max Honeyman and Sound residents DJ Boris and DS Photos: Jacob Cockle, Jason Barres
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MONDAYS Exeter
MONDAY MADNESS. Arena. Summerland St. 10pm-2.30am. £2adv available from reps and the student guild. Exeter’s biggest ‘No Cheese’ student night with weekly themes. MONDAYS. Timepiece. Little Castle St. £3adv. Student night. Selected drinks £1.50. METAL MONDAYS! Cavern Club. 83-84 Queen St. 8pm-late, £3otd. Vanadium/ Cambion/ These Ruins/ Caesura. Metal.
Falmouth
STUDENT NIGHT. Toast. 18 Church St. until 1am. £free. Monday night is student night at toast with lots of £1.50 drink deals! STUDENT NIGHT. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-late. £free. Monkey T of Simian Sound playing guilty pleasures on the decks.
Newquay
SUPER CHY MONDAYS. The Chy & Koola. 12 Beach Road. 10pm-3.30am, £4/£2. DJ’s Robin Parris & Proof playing everything from Hip Hop, Funk, & Breaks to Indie, Rock & Dance. JAGER MONDAYS. Belushi’s. Fore St. 9pm-1am. £free. Playing all things funky & soulful Hip-Hop, Funk, DnB, Breaks, House & exclusive mash-ups with EatBeatz + Adski.
Plymouth
DROP THE BOMB. Ride Cafe. 45 Tavistock Place. 9pm-2am. £free all night. Featuring DJ Wonkey Ben bringing a totally new night of House and Electro. Bombs from £2! GET FUNKED. C103. 103 Union St. 10pm-3am. £3otd/£2.50 for a wristband upfront. Student night. Electro, Dubstep, DnB, Chart, RnB &Dance anthems. FUZZY LOGIC. Oceana. Barbican Leisure Park. 7pm-2am. £5otd. Plymouth’s biggest student night over 6 rooms. Ultimate mash up of all your favourite with new resident DJ’s Rob Freejak & Jack Cantwell. WONKEYLEGS. Firefly. 2 Sherwell Arcade. 10pm– 4am. £2/£free with flyer. Drum n Bass, Hip Hop, Breakbeat & now Dubstep and House, all in a party style.
St Austell
BIG STUDENT NIGHT. The Club. 14 High Cross St. 10pm-2am. £4/£2 NUS. DJ Dean playing the party classics. All drinks £1.50.
Truro
L2 STUDENT NIGHT. L2 Nightclub. Calenick St. 9.30pm-1.30am. £free B4 10pm/£5 after. DJ Matt Wing playing Chart, RnB, Hip Hop and Party Classics.
TUESDAYS Exeter
CAFE SABROSO. Timepiece, Little Castle St. 7.30pm-1.30am, £free. Salsa, Samba and Merengue with DJ Ricardo. CHEESEY TUESDAYS. Arena. Summerland St. 10pm-2.30am. £4.50otd. A huge slice of cheese from the 80’s, 90’s & 00’s sandwiched in between all the biggest student anthems.
Exmouth
OFFICE PARTY. Fahrenheit, The Parade. 10pm-2.30am, £2/free B4 11pm. Commercial night.
Falmouth
TUESDAYS. Remedies. The Moor. 10pm-2am, £free. Indie music with
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STUDENT NIGHT. Sound Nightclub. Branwell Mill, entrance is on Market Jew Street (Opposite Kasbar). 10.30pm-3am. £2 B4 midnight/£4 after. DJs Boris & Diesto playing chart and commercial bangers! All drinks £2.
Plymouth
TWISTED TUESDAYS. Wow. 11 The Parade, Barbican. 10.30pm. £free. DJ Simon Pitt playing the best in Chart, RnB & 90’s classics. SCANDALOUS. Firefly. 2 Sherwell Arcade. 10pm – 4am. £free. Your weekly dose of everything RnB supplied by Plymouths 14th best Aldo Vanucci.
WEDNESDAY Bude
RENAISSANCE. Rogue Nightclub. 38 The Strand. 10pm-2.30am, £3. Chart hits & club classics.
Exeter
LEGENDS. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 9pm-1.30am. Student Disco classics & latest urban sounds with JSR. THE GUM CLUB. Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 9pm-1am, £free. With DJ Dropsteady. You can expect to hear Funk, Reggae, Hip Hop, Breaks, Old School, Latin & more. LOFI HIFI. Cavern Club. 83-84 Queen St. 8pm-2am. £free B4 9pm. Electro, New Wave, D.I.S.C.O., Post Punk, Rock n Roll, Soul, Funk, Motown, Hip Hop, Indie & Bassline.
Falmouth
OPEN DECKS. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 9pm-late. £free. Hosted by Selecta Demo. All aspiring DJs welcome. KNIT CLUB. Toast. 18 Church St. until 1am. £free. As it says on the tin, knitting in a club!
Newquay
LADIES NIGHT. The Beach Club. 1 Beach Road. 10.30pm-3am. £free for ladies/£1 off for gents. DJ Dave mixes all the essential tunes.
Plymouth
BIG WEDNESDAY. Ride Cafe. 45 Tavistock Place. 9pm-2am. £2. Wonky Ben - Hook up, kick back, rock out. £1 drinks deals; this night is rammed every week! The ultimate antidote to mid week blues! CHEDDERS. C103. 103 Union St. 9pmlate. £3. No.1 student night with 3 rooms playing Cheese, Chart, commercial Dance, Dub Step, RnB, festival tunes & more. COWPOW. The Dairy, 25 Bretonside. 6pm-late. Student night, chart popping classics, great student deals. HOUSE PARTY. Firefly. 2 Sherwell Arcade. 10pm-4am. £free. One of Firefly’s weekend resident DJs, DJ I.D.E.A.L introduces a night of electro, all mixed in with some Breakbeat, House and timeless dancefloor classics to get everyone going! PUT ON YOUR PARTY PANTS. Flares. 18 Union St. 10pm-2am. £free students only. Massive drinks deals all night! NON-STOP MUSIC. Zero’s. 24 Lockyer St. 10.30pm-1am. £free. VIBE. Oceana. Barbican Leisure Park, 9pm-3am, £4. All your urban favourites in RnB, Hip-Hop, DnB, Dubstep & UK Funky courtesy of your resident, DJ Jonezy. VODKA WEDNESDAY’S. Revolution. Derrys Cross. 9pm-2am. £2/free B4 10pm. Every Wednesday Revs card holders can
take advantage of 2-4-1 on all our Revolution Cocktails, Pitchers & six shot sticks! WIRED WEDNESDAYS. Crash Manor. 35 Union St. 10pm-3am. £free. Electro, Dubstep, Drum & Bass and Indie being provided alongside the best drinks deals.
Exeter
CHART TOPPERS Hole in the Wall. 8pm-2am. £free. Chart tunes and drinks deals, good start to the night… COLLISION. Timepiece. Little Castle St. 7.30pm-2am. £3. Expect everything from Indie anthems, alt Rock, Punk to Electro.... THURSDAY BUNGALOWED. Timepiece Balcony Bar. Little Castle St. 10.30pm-2am. £3 Bude REVERT. Rogue Nightclub. 38 The Strand. B4 12pm. Student night. Hip Hop, House, Electro, Dub Step. 10pm - 2am. £5. Student/local night with all FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER. Arena. drinks £1.50 all night! Summerland St. 10pm-2.30am. £4otd. Best Exeter in Dance, Chart, Party & RnB. FLAVA. Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 9pmGOLD BLENDZ. The Amber Rooms. 1am. £free. Funk, Soul, Reggae, Hip Hop, 161 Sidwell St. 8pm-3am. £free. 100% Real House, Beta, Breaks and Bass. Hosted by Hip Hop guaranteed. DJs include: Loctite, DJ Freddy Pimms (Solid Steel/ SWU/ Full Ron Willis, Mix Masta Mullet & Mad Beats. Melt) plus special guests. STRICTLY VINYL. Angel Bar. 32 Queen WAX THE VAN PRESENT SHAKE. St. 10pm-2am. £free. Funk/Hip-Hop/ The Amber Rooms. 161 Sidwell St. Main Old School/Reggae/Ska/Party/Cheese/ Bar. 9pm - 2am. £free. DJs playing the finest Selected Boom Funk / Disco / Acid Jazz. 4th. BOB MARLEY’S BIRTHDAY FUZZY LOGIC. Arena. Summerland St. NIGHT. Exeter Phoenix. Gandy St. 9.30pm-2.30am. £5otd. Student night 8.30pm. £15. Live reggae featuring duo playing the biggest & best tunes. SCANDALOUS. Timepiece. Little Castle Clint Eastwood & General Saint plus the legendary DJ Derek &Highest Grade Sound St. 10pm-2am, £2 B4 11pm with flyer/£3. System spinning the best of contemporary JSR the Crunk King brings the upfront Reggae & Dancehall. freshness while Aldo Vanucci blends the 4th. EVOLUTION. Groundbreakerz classics. Nightclub Club. Hole In The Wall. Little Falmouth Castle St. 9pm-2am. £4. Big Bassline DJ DENO. Remedies. The Moor. 10pmBeats bring you the hardest euphoric 2am, £free. Chart music R&B Hip-Hop. STUDENT NIGHT. Toast. 18 Church St. Until DnB/Jungle/Hardcore/Old Skool/Gabber/ Breakcore around with Noisemonkey, Count 1am. Thursday night is student night with Vanderhoff, DJ Schizm, DJ LSI & Critter. lots of £1.50 drink deals! 4th. NONOM. Klass A. Fore St. THURSDAYS. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 9.30pm-2.30am. £4. NONOM kick off 2011 8pm-late. £free. The best local D.J’s & in style with their first event in some time, as Live Bands. the usual suspects Nanobot, Markutz, Signal Plymouth Jammer and The Presence will be joined by ROUND 4 A POUND. Revolution. special guest Jesse Hall a.k.a. JE:5 Derrys Cross. 9pm. £3. Buy a round of 11th. DUB PISTOLS drinks at the bar & pay an extra £1 to get the SOUNDSYSTEM. Cavern Club. 83-84 same drinks again! With DJ Freejak playing Queen St. 9pm-2am. £5. crazy club beats & party cuts. Chewing up Hip-Hop, Dub, Techno, Ska HONKYTONK. Firefly. 2 Sherwell & Punk & spitting them out in a renegade Arcade. 10pm–4am. £free. DJ Griff playing futuristic skank. the best in Soul, Funk, World & Jazz. STUDENT NIGHT. Zero’s. 24 Lockyer St. 10.30pm-2am. £free. Chart, Cheese & RnB. BATTLE STATIONS. Voodoo Lounge. 1 The Money Centre. 9pm-2am. £2. 2nd Thursday of Every Month. Plymouth’s only night of TRUE hip-hop battles, representing all the elements in one massive session. Bboying, Graffiti, Turntablism, Beatboxing, MC-ing all under one roof, with bragging rights on the line.
Taunton
BLISS THURSDAYS. 43/45 East St. 10pm-3am. £5. DJs will be playing all the floor-filling tunes!
Truro
PUB STAR. Zafiro’s. River St. 7.30pmlate. £2 donation. Sing your heart out with some classic karaoke. Bideford FUNKY FRIDAYS. Caesar’s Palace. King St. 11pm. £4. All the classics, a DJ and no rules whatsoever.
FRIDAY Bude
RETOX. Rogue Nightclub. 38 The Strand. 10pm-3am. £5. Alternative night featuring Funky/ Electro, House, live acts plus more!
25th CABARET VOLTAIRE
The Cavern, Queen St, 9pm2am, £tbc.
Roll up, Roll up…Cabaret Voltaire brings you another Exeter first with a special night focusing on Electro Swing – house and hip-hop beats inspired by jazz swing. Special guests The Correspondents headline, supported by Swing n Soul, The Patchwork Spinning Collective, DonJohnston, Mr Puckey &
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Hole In The Wall. Little Castle St. 9pm-2am. £5. Big Bassline Beats bring you the hardest euphoric DnB/Jungle/Hardcore/Old Skool/ Gabber/Breakcore around with DZ Badman Press 18th. ONE LION SOUND. Groundbreakerz Nightclub Club. Hole In The Wall. Little Castle St. 9pm-2am. £4. Reggae night 25th. GOLD BLENDZ PREZENTS KYZA. Klass A , Fore Street. 9pm-2am.£ 6/£35 B4 10pm. By far one of the greatest in UK hip hop, KYZA SMIRNOFF, is coming to Exeter.With support from, The Bastard Sunz, and Jackie Chat. DJs, Madbeats, Mix Masta Mullet, Ron Willis, and Shire Roots. 25th. HEADRUSH. Groundbreakerz Nightclub Club. Hole In The Wall. Little Castle St. 9pm-2am. £4. 25th. CABARET VOLTAIRE The Cavern, Queen St, 9pm-2am, £tbc. Roll up, Roll up…Cabaret Voltaire brings you another Exeter first with a special night focusing on Electro Swing – house and hip-hop beats inspired by jazz swing. Special guests The Correspondents headline, supported by Swing n Soul, The Patchwork Spinning Collective, DonJohnston, Mr Puckey & BigBird.
Falmouth
FRIDAYS. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm-2am. Only the best DJs from the area playing for your aural pleasure. FRIDAYS. Remedies. The Moor. 10pm2am, £free. Chart music R&B Hip-Hop. 4th. THROWIN’ SHAPES The Underground 29 High St. 10pm-2am .£ free. Blacc Jazz DJ Chewy and Miles Davis bring Funk Breaks Reggae and DnB see www. throwinshapes.co.uk for more details. 4th. GET UP TO GET DOWN Toast 18 Church St. 8pm-2am .£ free. The Solo Collective FUNK FUNK FUNK FUNK! 11th. ECLECTICALLY ECLECTIC Toast 18 Church St. 8pm2am , £tbc. Jenifer O’Jeni playing the latest and greatest in disco, house and party favourites well into the small hours. 18th. DANTE GABRIEL Toast 18 Church St. 8pm-2am, £tbc. Local legend, known for his Planet Patrol & Groove Juice nights. 18th. THROWIN’ SHAPES The Underground 29 High St. 10pm-2am, £free. Blacc Jazz DJ Chewy and Miles Davis bring Funk Breaks Reggae and DnB see www. throwinshapes.co.uk for more details.
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£ladies free/£2 B4 12.30am. Chart, RnB, Dance & Party. KOOLA ROCKS. The Koola. 9pm-3am, £free with VIP cards. All 3 rooms open / live music & DJ’s / Indie Electro mash-ups / Latin spirit / live dancers / cocktail lounge / happy hour 6pm - 11pm / special guests. OMG! Berties Nightclub. East St. 10.30pm-4am. £2/£3otd/£free with loyalty card. In the main room our resident DJ Will.B mashes up the best Chart, Dance, RnB, Indie & Party.
Penzance
10pm-4am. £3. Giving House music a home 26TH TRISTAN B, Bar 35, 9pm – in Plymouth, Tom Costelloe (House set), late, £free. A night of club classics and disco residents Cactus Jack, ATL & Pete Tomes.
St Austell
Camborne
KRIS NEBROSO, The Clipper, 9pm – FRIDAYS. Puls-8. 14 High Cross St. 1am, £free. A night of Cheese + Chart 10pm-2am. New resident DJ Stevie G Party, Dance, R’n’B, Oldies and Motown throwing RnB, Chart and Dance into the mix. tunes. DUB SUB & PUB. The Stag Inn. Victoria Barnstaple Place. 8pm-2am. £free. Dubstep Cornwall presents its weekly night of underground electronica and the latest in Dubstep. 18+ Tiverton THE FUSION PROJECT. The White Horse. Gold St. 9pm-1am. £3otd. Fortnightly. A night of Breaks, Dirty House & Trance with a hint of Old Skool. An alternative evening which you won’t find anywhere else.
Torquay
LADIES NIGHT. The Venue. 13 Torwood St. 9pm-1am. £3/ladies £free all night. The biggest night in the bay. FRIDAYS. Bohemia Nightclub. 41 Torwood St. 11pm-3pm. £4 B4 12pm/£5 after. DJs on rotation including DJ Hype, Coalition, MC Daddy Earl, Jordan Suckle, Lee Haslam, DJ Gammer, DJ Supreme, Ben RESTLESS. Sound Mcgowan and Jimmy P. Nightclub. Branwell Mill. 11pm- FRIDAYS. Studio 22. 22 Victoria Parade. 4am. £5. D’n’B returns to Penzance The club on rotation is pumping the best of with the Critical Label tour with grimey, dirty heavy Dance, DnB, Dubstep Spectrasoul, Kasra, Pessimist and and Hip Hop. residents Skint, Hertz and J-West. I LOVE INDIE. Rude Bar. 3 Victoria Parade. 9pm-2.30am. £2. With Electric MC’s Mr Mo & Desolate. Kills Children. 4th. SOUTH WEST CLASSICS SOUND FRIDAYS. Sound Nightclub. Bohemia Nightclub. 41 Torwood NIGHT. Branwell Mill. 11pm-4am. £5. DJ Boris & CQ St. £5 B4 Midnight/£7after. DJs: Iain Cross, take over the main room, guests in room 2. Tom Costelloe, Rachel Shock & Graham Plymouth Eden, Nick The Kid & Louk & more. THE ROCK SHOW. C103. 103 Union Truro St. 10pm-3.30am. £2/members £1. Metal, 150 FRIDAYS. L2 Nightclub. Calenick Indie & Rock over three rooms. St. 9.30pm-2.30am. £free. DJ Tom Wills THE BIG CHEESE. University of playing all the best party tunes. Lots of drink Plymouth Students Union. Drakes Circus. promotions inc. all Draught £2.50, Selected 8pm. £1 B4 12/ £3after (NUS)/£2 B4 Spirits £1.50. 12/£4after. All the cheesiest tunes to get HEDOFFICE APPRENTICE your weekend off to a flying start. FRIDAYS. The Office. 1 River Walk. SUPER DUPER SOUND CLASH. 10pm-late. £free. Start the weekend party Ride Cafe. 45 Tavistock Place. 9pm-2am. for over 18’s. Featuring: Super Duper Dan’s block quaking 4th. VITALITY. L2 Nightclub. Calenick five hour soundclash of dance floor St. 9.30pm-2.30am. DnB with Hazard, mashups, megamixes & twisted basement Eksman, Crystal Clear, Devinyl & more. noise. FUNKY FRESIAN FRIDAYS. The 11th & 18th THE Dairy. 25 Bretonside. OFFICE NIGHT CLUB UNDER DJ SIMON PITT. Wow. 11 The Parade, EIGHTEENS. The Office. 1 River Walk. Barbican. 10pm–3am, £2 B4 11pm/£3 after. 7pm-10pm-late. £tbc. Underage clubbing! Great Chart Party Tunes! 18th. ACTIVATE. L2 Nightclub. CRISIS. White Rabbit. Bretonside Bus Calenick St. 10.30pm-2.30am. £7otd. Kidd Station. 11pm. £2. Rock, Punk, Pop/Funk, Kaos, DJ Argy, Del Boi, Thorpy Vs Badman. Electro & Hip-Hop. Barnstaple DJ APACHE. View 2. Vauxhall St. £5/£4/£3/free B4 10.30pm, 9pm-late. SATURDAYS Playing RnB, Funk, House and Club classics. 12th. RICO TUBBS. Inn On The Downstairs DJ Ryan Platts. DOLLY MIXTURES. Zero’s, 24 Lockyer Square. The Square. 8pm. £5adv/motd. Rico Tubbs Aka DJ Infekto is well known for St. 10.30pm-4am, £free B4 11pm/£4 after. tearing up venue’s and festivals around the Gay night with resident DJs Stev-E & Juzzy world with his Eye Wobbling, Leg Shaking B play Cheese, Chart, R’n’B, Dance and Phatty Tunes! Rico Tubbs is one of the best Hard House. in the game! Support from Connerz , Gremz, SUPERFLY. Firefly. 2 Sherwell Arcade. Ryan Savage & Towse. 9pm–5am. £free. Resident DJs on rotation. Just J from Jac the Disco playing a disco set Bude downstairs and a banging club set upstairs. RENAISSANCE. Rogue Nightclub. 38 FUNKY FRIDAYS. The Treasury. Royal The Strand. 10pm-3.30am. £5. All the best Parade. 9pm-3am, £tbc. Funky grooves. Commercial Club Classics from the past FUNKY FRIDAYS. Annabel’s Cabaret and two decades. Discotheque, Vauxhall St. 8.30pm-3pm. 19TH BOOGALU, Bar 35, 9pm – £tbc. Funky grooves all night. 1am, £free. The return of this much loved 11th. RE:SET. Wow Club. Barbican. night, expect hip hop & funk all evening.
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12th RICO TUBBS. Inn On The Square. The Square. 8pm. £5adv/motd.
Rico Tubbs Aka DJ Infekto is well known for tearing up venue’s and festivals around the world with his Eye Wobbling, Leg Shaking Phatty Tunes! Rico Tubbs is one of the best in the game! Support from Connerz, Gremz, Ryan Savage & Towse.
Exeter
BENJIS REGGAE BUS. Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 9pm-2am. £free. All of Devon’s best raggamuffin DJs and bongo drummers crammed in a VW Splitscreen, hosted by DJ Ben Adams every month @ The Angel Bar! ESSENTIAL SATURDAY. Arena. Summerland St. 10pm-3.30am. £6.50otd. Best in Dance, Chart, Party and RnB. INDIE CLUB. Cavern Club, 83-84 Queen St. 8pm-2.30am. £free B4 9pm. The best in Indie/Alternative & Electro Sounds from DJS Jake and Paddy. With live guests.
5th. RINSEOUT.
Exeter Phoenix. Gandy St. 10pm-4am. £14.50.
A big night of Drum & Bass featuring guest and resident DJ’s including DJ Andy C, Dillinja & Loadstar. JELLY JAZZ! Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 10pm-2am. £free. Once a month. Musically joining the dots between Soul/Jazz/Funk/ Latin/Boogaloo/Breaks/D&B +more! PLAYGROUND HQ. Angel Bar. 32 Queen St. 9pm-2am. £free. A fusion of local and beyond DJs offering what we consider to be the biggest and baddest party tunes. SATURDAYS. The Amber Rooms. 161 Sidwell St. 9pm-3am. £free. Guest DJs dropping all things funky.
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TOTAL REQUEST LIVE Hole in the Wall. 8pm-2am. £free. Chart tunes, you request it, they play it and drinks deals, good start to the night… WOBBLE. Timepiece. 7.30pm-2am, £3 B4 11pm with flyer. Mr. Onions lets rip, dropping everything anything from R’n’B to Indie, Jazz to Pop, Funk to Rock, Drum & Bass to House. 12th. DEEP END. Exeter Phoenix. Gandy St. 10pm-4am. Returning after Coki killed the 4th Birthday bash in January. This time with the one and only Distance from Rinse FM playing Dubstep & Drum and Bass. Support from Pulsar, Dutty Dan, Illogik, Salt Uh & If/Then 12th. HOUSE TRAP. Klass A. Fore St. 9pm-2.30am, £5. Night features Aaron Cook and Aiden Howard - two Plymouth Dj’s that have been ripping it up in London with regular slots at The Ministry of Sound and The Brixton Academy. Support comes from Minehead local, Che, and two Dj’s Batch & Leo S who shone at the Klass A’s weekly Open Deck event. 19th. BEATZ & BOBZ. Exeter Phoenix. Gandy St. 9pm. A special VJ/DJ promotion for Animated Exeter. 19th. KITCHEN DISKO. Klass A. Fore St. 9pm-2.30am, £5. House, Breaks, Electro, Techno, Classics, Disko .. Anything goes, with Ben McGowan, Kitchen Disko, Techno Rob, Hashimi, Carleto, Andi Shane, Ashley, Josh Abernethie & Leekers.
Falmouth
SATURDAY. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 8pm2am. See weekly invites for line-ups! WEEKEND WARM-UP. Remedies. The Moor. 10pm-2am. £3. 3 Bars, 2 Floors, 3 different DJs playing all sorts of different music from R&B to Cheese and Chart. SHUFFLE. Toast. 8pm - 2am. £free. DJ’s on rotation with DJ ‘Busyhands’ Will Darwin on 5 and 19 Feb and Sir Vinly of the Fattest resident, Dave Spenceley on 26th Feb. Newquay PASSION. Sailors. Fore St. 10.30pm4am. £tbc. Chart, Dance & retro tunes to shake your booty with DJs John London & Pete Jordan. GIRLS NIGHT OUT. Berties. East St. Ladies £free B4 1am with flyer/£2. DJ Will.B mixing the best chart/RnB/Dance/Party/Indie & Old Skool. (Saturdays). Red Square. Gover Lane. 10pm-4am. £free. An upfront mix of everything from Chart to Club, R&B to Dub. DJ EDGE. Belushi’s. Fore St. Till late. £free. A live DJ night with a selection of Hip Hop (mainly old school) , Funk, Electro, Soul, 80’s/90’s Pop. THE ULTIMATE DANCE PARTY. Tall Trees. 52 Tolcarne Rd 9pm-3am, £5. Weekly party night with Steve Lid, Alpha Beatz, Ben Jammin, Diino, Chris Cornish, Olly D, Moggsta, Joe Mills and Max Honeyman. 12th BIONIC TOUR. Tall Trees. Tolcarne Rd 8pm-3am, £5. Hardstyle night with Cally & Juice, Brian M vs McBunn, Swankie DJ, Kashi, Frisky and more TBC. If you like it hard, this is the night for you!
Penzance
SOUND SATURDAYS. Sound Nightclub. Branwell Mill, entrance is on Market Jew Street (Opposite Kasbar). 10.30pm-4am. £6 B4 midnight. DJ’s Boris, Diesto, JP playing chart and commercial bangers in main room.
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12th. KINKY & QUIRKY’S
“LOVEBIRDS BURLESQUE AND BOOGIE. Club Rainbow 8pm-1am, £7/£6 in adv. Devon’s burlesque funsters’ Valentine’s lovey dovey do! More info at www.kinkyandquirky.com The Voodoo Lounge. Mayflower St. 9pm4am. Best Old Skool flavours with
Truro
5th KRAFTY KUTZ.
Sound Nightclub. Branwell Mill. Penzance 10.30pm-5am. £6 B4 1am/£7.
Rounding off a busy year and some roadblock nights, the team behind Standout invite everyone to come and join them for a drink with residents, Ben & Lex, Niceness, Maxxi P & Lewah taking the front of stage and rock it, peak time styleee!!
5th SLINKY WORLD TOUR.
C103. 103 Union St. 10.30pm-
6am. £10. With Trance act Sean Tyas, Lee Haslam, Tom Costellow & more. Filthy Animal & Upbeat in Room 2.
5th. ROOTS ST WITH DJ DEREK. White Rabbit. Bretonside Bus Station. 11pm. £5adv. He’s 67, bespectacled, & has a penchant for woolly tank tops. He is also one of the UK’s most respected Reggae DJ’s. 12th. ROOTS ST. Fortesque Cellar Plymouth Bar. Mutley Plain. 8pm-12am. £free. Roots DJ SIMON PITT. Wow. 11 The Parade, night with DJ Spirit & DJ Crusty Barbican. 10pm. £2. Great Chart Party 26th. BADGERS BALL. C103. Tunes. Mayflower St. 9.30pm-7am, £7 all night. DJ APACHE. View 2. Vauxhall St. The Badgers return after winter hibernation £5/£4/£3/free B4 10.30pm, 9pm-late. Playing RnB, Funk, House and Club classics. for a special event featuring live acts and djs from WooDog recordings as they launch Downstairs DJ Ryan Platts. their new Artist compilation CD - “A pocket FREE CUBA PARTY. The B-bar. full of research” Also very special guest Barbican Theatre, Castle St. 8pm. £free. Katty Grooves! Support from Sprocket – Cocktails, Latin music, a steamy atmosphere Live, Psycode, Analogical & Tom Ellis and dancing until late. 26th. DISCO-BIZ-KIDZ. The FRESH CITY. Crash Manor. Union St. Voodoo Lounge. Mayflower St. 9pm-4am. 10pm-4am. £4 B4 midnight with flyer. Best Old Skool flavours with Tall Paul, R&B, Hip Hop, Bashment and UK Funky Pathogen, Loopkidd, DJ C.I.D & more. with residents DJ Jonezy, DJ Snake and DJ Badness. St Austell POWERHOUSE & CHEESE THE BIG ONE. The Club. 14 High Cross St. 10pm-2am. £6. Massive party night FACTORY. Zero’s. 24 Lockyer St. 10.30pm- 5am. £5. DJ DARON main room: with DJ Stevie G playing RnB, Dance, Hip Hop and DnB. Chart remixes, Commercial Dance & RnB. SATURDAYS. Revolution. Derrys Cross. Taunton 8pm-2am, £free B4 11pm. A collection of THE BIG NIGHT OUT. Shout. 43/45 party grooves, funky tunes, soul & old skool East St. 9pm-3am. £free B4 10.30pm with beats, RnB, Funky house, House & classic guestlist/£5 after 10pm. The biggest mix of anthems over two floors. Party, Dance and R & B. SATURDAYS. Annabel’s Cabaret and Torquay Discotheque. 8pm-3am. £tbc. 2 floors of entertainment with live cabaret & discotheque. SENSATION. C103. Union St. 10pm5am, £3 B4 12/£4after. The very best hard Dance from residents Aaron Jones, Audio Mayhem, Dan Kelly, Evanz Jamie Allen, Mr E, Patho & host Jay-P. SUBHEAVY. Maggies. Bretonside Bus Station. 10pm-4am. £free. Dubstep night playing UK Funky, Grime and Garage on a 10K subheavy sound. KINDA FUNKY. SUPERFLY. Firefly. 2 Sherwell Arcade. Bohemia. 41 Torwood St. 9pm–5am. £free. Resident DJs on rotation. 10.30pm-4am, £4 B4 11pm/£6 Just J from Jac the Disco playing a disco set after. downstairs and a banging club set upstairs. Room1 plays R&B, Hip Hop & SUPER DUPER SOUND CLASH. smooth Grooves. Room 2 for upliftRide Cafe. 45 Tavistock Place. 9pm-2am. ing House, Trance & Dance anthems. Featuring: Super Duper Dan’s block quaking 5 hour soundclash of Dance floor mashups, megamixes & twisted basement noise. REWIND. Rude Bar. 3 Victoria Parade. ULTIMATE SATURDAYS. University 9pm-2.30am. £free. Playing the best mix of of Plymouth Students Union. Drakes Circus. classic Rock, Indie, 90’s anthems and chart. 8pm. We have great music, great value for SATURDAYS. The Venue. 13 Torwood money and a great venue to ensure that St. 10pm-3am. £free B4 12am for everyone has a brilliant night. members/£2 B4 12am/£3.
5th
SATURDAY SOCIAL. L2 Nightclub. Calenick St. 9.30pm-2.30am. £free B4 10pm/£3 B4 11pm/£5 after. DJ Matt Wing in Room 1 playing Chart, RnB, Hip Hop & Party Tunes. DJ Jason M in Room 2 playing House, Electro & Trance. Room 3 - Chillout Room. Room 4 - Lounge Bar. THE BIG NIGHT OUT. The Office. 1 River Walk. 10pm-3am. £5. Weekend party for over 21’s.
SUNDAYS Exeter
WORLD BEATS. Time-
piece. Little Castle St, 8pm1.30am, £free. Latin, Salsa, Afro
Beat, Reggae, Arabic & Spanish.
Falmouth
OPEN JAM. Q Bar. 15a Killigrew St. 6pm-late. £free. Hosted by Perry followed at 10pm with Titan Sound finishing off your weekend with PRESSURE DROP RootsRockReggae/Digital Dancehall.
Plymouth
CHURCH OF ZERO’S SUNDAY SESSIONS. Zero’s. 24 Lockyer St. 10.30pm-1am. £free. Chart & RnB, and Dance. REQUEST. Firefly. 2 Sherwell Arcade. From 9pm. Everything from Dubstep to chill out, the music is yours to control all night, the perfect way to carry on with the weekend or chill out and wind down. LEGENDAIRY. The Dairy. 25 Bretonside. 6pm-late. 80’s & 90’s music. SUNDAY SESSIONS. Revolution, Derrys Cross. 10pm-2am. £free. In the Club, DJ Jonezy (a premier south west Urban and RnB DJ) brings you his legendary ‘Sunday Session.’ DESTINATION. Oceana. Barbican Leisure Park. £free for 1st 100 ladies/£1. With 2 fantastic rooms of music to chill out, relax & enjoy the best Sunday night in town. In First Port it’s DJ Snake & Mr Flexxx as the host for all the classic urban tunes. In Disco it’s DJ Mark Allan for a night of full on Mixmash of every genre you can think of so like join us & everyone else because We Love Sundays
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Bus Station Loonies
Plymouth based punk rockers, Bus Station Loonies played Plymouth’s Voodoo Lounge in aid of three band members birthdays ( Wheelie, Machine and Popkids – in case you want to send a card). The Loonies headlined, Dick Lucas, See Yellow, and The Filth also played. The lounge was packed and buzzing with party hats galore... Photos: Angie Knight
SWAT
South West Audio Tech (SWAT) pulled off a good NYE party on the Lizard, Cornwall. This was their first official NYE party for a long time and they smashed it – roll on the rest of 2011 if this is the way it starts off… Images: Anna Jay
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