Scots songwriter Karine Polwart combines the economy and universality of the folk storytelling tradition with a probing intellect and compassionate lyricism. Twice winner of Best Original Song at the UK-wide BBC Folk Awards, she’s collaborated with alt folk balladeer King Creosote, the intellectual maverick of English folk song Chris Wood, Idlewild front man Roddy Woomble, bluegrass ace Tim O’Brien, not to mention unexpected guest appearances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and dub-reggae legends Sly and Robbie. None of which you’d expect from a lass who grew up in the...
Mention Glenn Tilbrook and most people may immediately think of Squeeze. However, since an acrimonious split in 1998 Squeeze has been on the back-burner. Although you might forgive him for resting on his laurels after 13 albums and countless tours all over the world, Tilbrook has continued to write and perform with the same enthusiasm that he brought to Squeeze’s earliest recordings.
With his two solo albums, The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook and Transatlantic Ping-Pong, he proved he’s lost none of the joie-de-vivre that became Squeeze’s trademark. This has been complemented by a...
Over the course of many album releases over the years Bibb has been nominated for multiple Blues Music Awards in several categories. In addition to the Grammy-nominated Shakin’ a Tailfeather children’s album (with Taj Mahal and Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir), other noted albums included Friends, which featured Odetta, Charlie Musselwhite, Guy Davis and Mahal as special guests.
Tickets: £22 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/eric-bibb/
Big Country are back big time, with a new album, new members… and the classic sound.
Big Country are a new wave/alternative rock band which formed in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1981. 30 years on, they are still as committed to the live stage and performing their unique sounding music as ever. ‘Back then we built our audience through non-stop gigging” says founder member Bruce Watson, “The band feels reborn and we are happy to go out there and prove it every night no matter how far we have to travel”.
Tickets: £20 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/big-country...
Turin Brakes are a modern English folk duo, comprising Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, hailing from Balham, London. They had a UK top 5 hit with their song Painkiller (Summer Rain) and are joined on stage by their live band, consisting of Rob Allum and Eddy Myer. Since starting out in 1999, the band have sold around 1 million records internationally. They are set to release a new album, We Were Here, in August 2013.
Tickets: £20 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/turin-brakes/
After selling out more than 10 comedy nights in Bristol, What The Frock! is coming to Exeter! Headlined by the inimitable Jayde Adams (Time Out award nominee), the line-up also includes Alice Frick (‘exuberant and perfectly pitched’ – Three Weeks), Viv Groskop (‘my god girl, you’ve got some guts’ – Dame Judi Dench), and Laura Lexx (‘next generation Lucy Porter’ – Chortle).
What The Frock! launched in May 2012 to promote talented female comedians. Since then, it has become a regular Bristol night, put on a show at the Royal Festival Hall, and been profiled on BBC Woman’s Hour. Come...
Medicine is jolly serious, life and death, pain and suffering, pills and needles. But wouldn’t a trip to the doctor or a rush up to A+E be much more fun if it was a game? In his BRAND NEW show, Dr Phil turns the whole of medicine into a succession of games for you to play with your doctor.
Learn how to sing your symptoms, sniff a thermometer, diagnose your doctor, arm wrestle for drugs, get passed the bearded receptionist and get out of the NHS alive – all through Dr Phil’s highly subversive guerrilla tactics, some of which may be counter-productive. But at least they’re not boring...
Drunk folk singer, barefoot troubadour and cult legend Beans on Toast is about to embark on his biggest tour to date. Spanning from Aberdeen to Brighton and hitting as many places as possible on the way.
The Beans on Toast live show is an odd and unpredictable experience. A singer, storyteller and guitar player his self-deprecating quality is not something you often see, but it breaks down the barrier between musician and audience, creating a sense of equality.
Tickets: £6 (£5) Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/beans-on-toast/
The new, hilarious show from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man-half-Xbox, direct from his 6th consecutive sold out Edinburgh Fringe and hot on the heels of a massive year of live touring, television appearances and his debut DVD release… BOOK EARLY!
‘Hysterical… A stunning show of observational humour’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘Charming, self-deprecating and genuinely funny’ TIME OUT
Tickets: £13.50 (£10) Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/daniel-sloss-stand-up/
Fossil Collective, a two-piece from Leeds, consists of multi instrumentalists David Fendick and Jonny Hooker. Their first recordings saw them taking inspiration from classic albums by Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Simon and Garfunkel and suggested comparisons with more contemporary artists such as Fleet Foxes, Midlake and Bon Iver. But in truth their exquisitely structured songs and glorious, rich harmonies owe as much, if not more, to a solid English song tradition, and their material holds that distinct English quality that many North American artists hanker after.
