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Public Service Broadcasting to headline Exeter's Lost Weekend Festival

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 09/15/2017 - 10:58am

Lost Weekend is delighted to announce the headliner for the Lost In Music part of the festival will be the amazing Public Service Broadcasting.

The band will bring their spellbinding show to Exeter’s amazing gothic Cathedral on Saturday, October 7.

Other bands taking part in the festival include Dutch Uncles, Denzel Himself, Big Zuu, Mise En Scene, Muncie Girls, Eliza and the Bear and Zion Train, and much more.

Public Service Broadcasting is the corduroy-clad brainchild of London-based J. Willgoose, Esq who, along with drumming companion Wrigglesworth and multi-...

INSPIRE strategy comes to Like Minds Exeter business breakfast

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 08/31/2017 - 10:19am

Jonathon Slobham, leading marketing consultant for scale up SMEs, will be sharing his INPISRE strategy at next week’s business breakfast.

Jonathon is the founder of Peppered Moth, an exceptionally action orientated, strategic marketing consultancy that helps "scale ups" achieve exceptional growth.

With a passion for working with small and medium sized enterprises, Jonathon helps business leaders drive change and build confidence.

Jonathon’s proven methodology is INSPIRE: Insight, Needs analysis, Segmentation, Prioritisation, Intended positioning, Readiness, and...

New speaker announced for Like Minds Festival

The CEO of investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has confirmed he will be taking part in the Like Minds Ideas Festival.

Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Exeter based Crowdcube, will join a host of speakers from global organisations, such as Lego, Beano Studios and LinkedIn, as Like Minds returns to Exeter for its Ideas Festival in September.

Darren will be taking part in the panel debate on the main stage, joining Janet Coyle of London & Partners and John Courtney of Stockwood Ventures. Together, they will be debating the subject of How to Build a High Growth...

Stalls and attractions bring crowds to Honiton Community Festival

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 08/07/2017 - 11:14am

Around 500 people visited the Honiton Community Festival where many local community groups held stalls and attractions.

A number of demonstrations were held throughout the day at the event which was held at Allhallows Playing Field.

These included displays by SYTL Karate, which included a very useful Stranger Danger message, the SPS Kickboxing group who showed off their skills, the lively Honiton Twirlstars who put on a great performance and musicians from the Honiton Youth Orchestra provided some great music for the event.

Officers from Wild East Devon made...

Lapstock triumph despite the rain

Authored by Proteus
Posted: Tue, 08/01/2017 - 5:01pm

The 11th Lapstock Music at the Mill festival last weekend was heralded a resounding success by organisers despite torrential rain on the Saturday evening.

1600 festival goers descended on the mid-Devon village of Lapford and defied the weather to hear some 30 acts over two nights including a free session for new and undiscovered local talent on the Friday night.

London based Tankus the Henge headlined the event fresh from playing Glastonbury and stole the show with a magnificent set amid the Saturday evening in the rain.

Festival organiser Steve Keable said: “In...

From Glastonbury to Lapstock

Authored by Proteus
Posted: Tue, 06/27/2017 - 12:29pm

Tankus the Henge to headline at Mid Devon music festival

Fresh from playing the Avalon sage at Glastonbury last week, London based band Tankus the Henge and Holsworthy based Lionstar will soon be heading for the mid-Devon village of Lapford to play as the headline acts at the 11th annual Lapstock Music Festival.

The highly popular Tankus' music is influenced by rock 'n roll, Gypsy jazz and Romani music, Balkan music, ragtime, New Orleans music, and ska and they proved an immense hit with festival goers at Glastonbury. Lionstar are renowned for their unique reggae/rock/world...

Curtain up on Sidmouth’s annual Summer Play Festival

Award-winning West End producer Paul Taylor-Mills will be raising the curtain on his hugely popular Summer Play Festival at Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion Theatre from Thursday (June 22) with a three-month run of productions featuring works from iconic playwrights including Cooney, Coward, and Ayckbourn.

Tickets for the play season went on sale last month and the box office took an astonishing £14,000 in the first four hours of trading.

The theatre – owned and managed by East Devon District Council - is the last in the UK to offer a season of repertory productions that...

Global Lego expert comes to SW for international ideas festival

Lego’s head of social media has been announced as the latest speaker at the Like Minds ‘From Startup to Scaleup’ Ideas Festival coming to the South West.

James Poulter will join experts from Google, LinkedIn, Facebook and StartUp Britain at the international event taking place in Exeter in September. As well as running the online LEGO Life phenomenon, James is a senior manager at the Global Social Media Team at LEGO Group and member of the leadership team. James works on both the social media marketing strategy of LEGO Life, as well as new feature development such as the LEGO Emoji...

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