Tickets still available for Exeter’s Lost Weekend Festival of Music, Art, Tech and Ideas

Thousands of people are expected to attend Exeter’s newest festival this weekend with the launch of Lost Weekend in the city.

And there’s still time to buy last minute tickets for the event.

The three day festival from Friday, October 6 until Sunday, October 9, will take place at venues right across the city and will serve as a showcase for music, tech, art and ideas
Headliners for the Lost In Music part of the festival will be Public Service Broadcasting.

Other artists performing include Dutch Uncles, Zion Train, Denzel Himself, Eliza & The Bear, Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles, and many more.

A host of local bands, including Exeter’s finest, Muncie Girls, will also perform at venues across the city.

Lost In Music is a multi-venue event on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, October 7.

One wristband gets you in to see 40-plus bands, and exclusively into six venues including Exeter Cathedral, Exeter Phoenix and the Cavern Club. There are also three free stages for everyone to enjoy.

Bands are scheduled to start at different times, if one venue is full just move onto the next venue – culminating in Exeter Cathedral and Exeter Phoenix.

Public Service Broadcasting will bring their spellbinding show to Exeter’s amazing gothic Cathedral.

Their mesmerising live AV transmissions see them weave samples from old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material around live drums, guitar, banjo and electronics.

The band – who are about to go on a sell-out UK tour – are on a quest to inform, educate and entertain audiences around the globe.

They aim to teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future – beaming our past back at us through vintage TV sets and state of the art modern video projection devices.

Tickets are being sold at the Exeter Phoenix box office and are available to buy here: https://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/lost-in-music

The music programme throughout the weekend also includes separately ticketed events.

Highlights include Exeter’s very own Wildwood Kin at Exeter Cathedral on Friday, October 6.

The all-female, indie folk trio’s debut album ‘Turning Tides’ was released to critical acclaim in August and this will be their first Exeter show since its release.

Wildwood Kin’s acclaimed Anglo/Americana live show combines their own beautiful and thought provoking original songs with a few stunning arrangements of better-known covers. Their voices meld perfectly in effortlessly sublime harmonies over a range of instruments.

Tickets for Wilwood Kin are being sold at the Exeter Phoenix box office and are available to buy here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/wildwood-kin/

A launch party featuring legendary BBC Radio 6 Music DJs Craig Charles and Don Letts takes place at the Phoenix on Friday night. Tickets for this show have sold out.

There’s plenty more than just music to enjoy at the festival.

ART

Kaleider’s playable art programme will develop a series of indoor and outdoor digital art installations/events, supporting high quality work from both local, national and international artists.

Highlights include:

Listening Trees by Kaleider & Mercurial Wrestler, Cathedral Green, October 6 - October 8, 10am-6pm.
Listening Trees is the possibility of a connection with a stranger. When you sit at a Listening Tree it connects you to another seat somewhere else and, if there is someone there, you can talk and listen through the horns for as long or as briefly as you wish.

Forever Me by Becca Gill of Mercurial Wrestler, Eastgate, Princesshay, October 6 - October 8, 10am-4pm.   
Forever Me is a cube, made up of 220 individual shadow boxes, exploring the collective digital immortality of a community.

Bellhouse by Roop Johnstone, Exeter Library, October 6 – October 8, 10am-4pm.
BellHouse is a playful, interactive sound sculpture that translates data into the chimes of thirty-five bells in an open-sided house.

Cardboard Arcade by Unstable King , The Quay, October 7-October 8, 11am-4pm.
Join forces and explore the creative world of gaming as you enjoy multi-player arcade games made by small developers from around the world.

Buoyed, Rougemont Gardens, October 6 – October 8 (Fri 4pm-7pm, Sat 12pm-6pm, Sun 12pm-4pm).
Buoyed is an interactive, playful cluster of magical glass buoys that hang above head height, suspended by slender wooden stems.

TECH

Technology will be celebrated and explored at a host of events right across the city.

Throughout Lost Weekend artists will perform, play and create work in interesting and little-known city locations.

Showcasing what is new, innovative and challenging, they will seek to expand boundaries of practice and share ideas with new audiences.

Highlights include:

Young Person’s Hackathon, Exeter Phoenix, October 8, 11am - 5pm.
Showcasing what is new, innovative and challenging, they will seek to expand boundaries of practice and share ideas with new audiences.

Radio Production Workshops October 6 and October 7, 11am - 5pm, Exeter Phoenix.        
Radio production workshop for college-aged radio and sound arts enthusiasts. Working to a brief set by Phonic FM, the students will be encouraged to attend the festival throughout Exeter with the purpose of gathering content.

Massively Local Multiplayer Gaming by Kris Sum, Cathedral Green, October 7, 5pm - 7pm.
Play your favourite retro games with not just a couple of your friends, but up to 200 other people on a massive screen at Cathedral Green. The audience is in control – use your mobile phone to play Mario & Pacman on the big screen – but there’s a catch - you’ll need to work together to beat the games.

Museum Machina Showcase, Courtyard at RAMM, October 7 / 11am – 1.30pm   
See digital art work created by local young people as part of Museum Machina project, using museum objects as a source of inspiration for digital art, with arts-inspired learning organisation Daisi.

Lost Weekend is a collaboration between Exeter City Council, Met Office Informatics Lab, Kaleider, Exeter Phoenix and Exeter Cavern, and aims to celebrate Exeter as a home to world-leading technologists and scientists.

And it will promote and celebrate the city’s thriving cultural scene and its importance in supporting the economy. Many of the city’s most creative young people will be encouraged to pursue their future careers at a series of seminars and workshops with leading industry experts.

Val Wilson, City Arts and Events Manager at Exeter City Council, who is part of the team organising the festival, said: “Lost Weekend will showcase creative talent and will highlight the city’s growing reputation as a city of excellence for the arts, tech, ideas and music.

“It will promote and support people seeking a career in the creative and tech industries. We know how important these sectors will be in shaping Exeter’s economy and growing jobs in the future.

“We are very proud of the line-up and the range of talent that is taking part – it is going to be an amazing weekend of creativity highlighting the very best in music, tech, art, film and talks.”

Tickets for Lost In Music are available from: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/lost-in-music or in person from Exeter Phoenix box office – 01392 667080.

The standard ticket price is £25.

For more information visit www.lostweekend.co.uk and search Lost Weekend Exeter on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.