Life After Brain Injury An exhibition by Headway Devon Pictures in a range of mediums by clients of Headway Devon that illustrate an individual’s journey following brain injury. This insightful exhibition shows the reality of life after brain injury, and reveals both surprising positives as well as the darker side of learning to cope after such trauma. Headway Devon Headway Devon has over 17 years of experience in supporting people with brain injury. The people they work with are from all walks of life, but all have survived life changing...
Elizabeth Jardine is a British artist who has recently relocated to Exeter from the South East. This new body of work explores the interplay of structural and architectural elements within a nebulous and ambiguous painterly landscape. Elizabeth’s work is concerned with the in-between-space, with limbo and wilderness. She oscillates between negotiating a balance and accepting a dichotomy, reconciling presence and absence, choice and chance, belonging and un-belonging. VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX CAFE BAR GALLERY
Sitting ‘somewhere between the lushness of Norah Jones and the quirkiness of Joanna Newsom’, Bridie Jackson & The Arbour’s music is simultaneously beautiful, ethereal, dark and powerful. Recently revealed as winners of the 2013 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition, they are ‘the kind of beguiling, affable folk band whose sound feels so natural and inviting you wonder why your first listen wasn’t so much sooner’. They released their début album in January 2012, with a sold out show at The Sage Gateshead, and have since gained national...
Caravan With support from Tristan Mackay Formed in 1968, Caravan played a major part in what became known as the ‘Canterbury Scene’, a cradle for the most freewheeling British bands of the post-psychedelic era. Founders Pye Hastings, Dave Sinclair, Richard Sinclair and Richard Coughlan , had previously played at various times with a local band, The Wilde Flowers, which also featured Kevin Ayers and future Soft Machine members Robert Wyatt and Hugh Hopper. After a 10 year break from the studio, the band are set to release their brand new...
The Hoax Arguably the most influential British blues band of the last 20 years, The Hoax blasted through the 1990s, forging a loyal and widespread following and firmly established a cult status as one of the most exciting live acts ever. In the early 1990s, a band with fire in its belly and Blues in its heart emerged from a tiny village in deepest, darkest Wiltshire. That band was called The Hoax. Their high-energy stage performances gave the UK blues scene a much-needed shot in the arm, and with a string of highly-acclaimed albums, the band...
Winter Mountain Hailing from the shores of Cornwall and Donegal, Winter Mountain blend melodic folk songs, heartfelt lyrics and two voices in a sound reminiscent of a time before digital recording, when the emphasis fell on the importance of live performance, the power of harmony and the essence of the song. The duo share song-writing duties, their individual styles, like their voices juxtaposing yet beautifully complimenting the other. There have been the obvious comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel, the Fleet Foxes and the Everly Brothers and when you...
Dub Mafia Since forming just two years ago, Bristol-based Dub Mafia have become one of the most popular dance acts in the UK, Europe and beyond. The five piece band – who blend drum and bass, dub, dubstep, bashment, breakbeat and world music into their own unique sound (with a strict policy of ‘no backing tracks’ – ever) receive rave reviews wherever they play – from sweaty clubs to packed festivals. Fronted by singer Eva Lazarus, the band have won over hundreds of thousands of fans over the last year, including show-stealing performances on the...
The stand-up legend and Red Dwarf star returns with a show which contains the continuation of The Sugababes debate amongst many more subjects. The show will feature his iPad attached to the microphone stand from which he will depict images onto a screen to delight and astound you. The title of the show is exactly that, a title.
‘Few comedians inhabit their stage persona as completely as Lovett does his. In other words, it’s not an act: the man really is funny’ THE SCOTSMAN ‘A true master of his craft’ ...
With spring finally pushing through the last remnants of winter, St Paul’s Church in Honiton is set to play host to a Spring Violin Recital on Wednesday 19th March at 7.30pm.
The event, sponsored by Gilbert Stephens Solicitors, will feature Devon violinist Marie Langrishe. Marie is 19 and lives near Honiton. She started learning the violin aged 7, and continued musical studies whilst studying at Maynard School in Exeter, where she led both the school orchestras and the school quartet for a number of years.
During this time she gained Distinction in her grade 8 violin,...
Exeter’s MP Ben Bradshaw has said that Devon County Council cuts are ' very short-sighted' and will lead "to more social problems down the line" today at a meeting with users of the Westside Youth centre on Merrivale Road
Over 20 young people, many of whom missed school to attend, spoke with Mr Bradshaw and Devon County Councillor Roy Hill to voice their concerns on the potential cuts to Devon’s Youth Service.
Young people who use the youth centre spoke of their anger at the extent of the proposed cuts to the service and expressed concerns that any communtiy-run alterntive...
