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The Robin Guthrie Trio in Exeter
The Robin Guthrie Trio played at the Phoenix Arts Centre in Exeter last week with the venue appropriately laid out café style with round tables and chairs. This was music to drift off into a reverie...
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Raymond Cusick
Raymond Cusick has rightly been hailed for his design of the Daleks for the original Doctor Who story in which they appeared in December 1963, only the second serial in its very first season. It was a...
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Electronic and Experimental Music at Oxfam, Exeter
The Oxfam Music and Arts shop in Exeter recently received a huge donation of records from the University Music Department, who were moving to smaller premises (a sign of the times, alas). I immediately...
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Ways With Words: Stuart Maconie, David Kynaston, Carol Ann Duffy and Others
The Dartington Ways With Words festival basked in sunshine for the entirety of its two weeks this year, where last it had remained soggy throughout. The beautiful gardens surrounding the medieval hall...
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Trembling Bells and Mike Heron at the Exeter Phoenix
Trembling Bells and Mike Heron stopped off at Exeter last Sunday night to play at the Phoenix during the lengthy wanderings of their 'Circle is Unbroken' tour. This was an exciting meeting of...
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Bristol Harbourside Festival and Adventureland Golf at the Arnolfini
Car free festivalThe annual Bristol Harbourside Festival attracts hordes of people from near and far (some 250,000 this year, it’s estimated) to the wharves and waterfront cobbles around the dock basin...
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Two Nights of Beckett at the Bike Shed
Last week I enjoyed two nights of Samuel Beckett plays at the Bike Shed Theatre in Exeter, part of a Beckett-centric season entitled, presumably with a certain amount of irony, Winter Warmed. The first...
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Neil Innes at the Phoenix Arts Centre Exeter
The multi-faceted Neil Innes visited the Phoenix Arts Centre in Exeter last week, a man who can claim to be a founding Bonzo, honorary Python, compiler of the Innes Book of Records (release it on dvd,...
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The Robin Guthrie Trio in Exeter
The Robin Guthrie Trio played at the Phoenix Arts Centre in Exeter last week with the venue appropriately laid out café style with round tables and chairs. This was music to drift off into a reverie...
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Raymond Cusick
Raymond Cusick has rightly been hailed for his design of the Daleks for the original Doctor Who story in which they appeared in December 1963, only the second serial in its very first season. It was a...
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The Exeter Riddles Finale
It’s become something of a tradition over the past few years for the Animated Exeter festival to stage an open air spectacular for the delight of the local citizenry. The cathedral has proved the...
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Jazz Tours, Existential Croons, Trombone Dogs and Holy Cant
Some interesting stuff has made it onto the Oxfam online shop from the Exeter Oxfam Music and Art HQ, courtesy of yours truly and my backroom compadre Kevin. It features delights from the well-lit...
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British Art Up North: Leeds, Wakefield, Manchester and Birmingham
PART TWO – The Twentieth Century Walter Sickert - O Nuit D’AmourWalter Sickert’s O Nuit D’Amour in Manchester shares the unconventional perspective of Gwen John’s A Corner of the Artist’s Room In Paris...
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Katy Dove at the Spacex Gallery
Sundazed flight - October (2011)Katy Dove, whose exhibition Meaning and Action is currently on show at the Spacex Gallery in Exeter, is a Glasgow-born artist who combines painting, animation and music...
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John Boorman at the BFI
There’s an interesting cinematic jumble of objects from John Boorman’s six decade career on display at the BFI Southbank at the moment. This coincides with a season of films which includes his daughter...
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Crisis of Brilliance at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery is currently hosting the exhibition A Crisis of Brilliance in the elegantly formal side rooms of its Sir John Soane designed building. The selection of paintings, drawings and...
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At the Moment of Being Heard at the South London Gallery
The exhibition At the Moment of Being Heard at the South London Gallery in Peckham includes a number of works of sound art in which the sounds are either heard, implied or prompted in the viewer’s...
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Tales of Mystery and Horror
An interesting charity shop find in the traditional Gollancz yellow, grown a little less bright with the years. The utilitarian cover is fascinating in its insistence on ‘Amazing Value’, with story and...
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Public Service Broadcasting at the Phoenix Exeter
Public Service Broadcasting played to a packed crowd at the Phoenix in Exeter last week, a sign that the post-war nostalgia which is the subject and substance of their music has struck a resonant...
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Jacques Demy's The Pied Piper (1972)
Jacques Demy’s 1972 film The Pied Piper is a countercultural take on the legend which in some ways comes a little after its time. Donovan’s fey troubadour is a figure from 1967 rather than the early...
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