There is literally too much going on at Exeter Phoenix in August, it's a melting pot of many art forms, you'll always find a great variety of Film, Art, Exhibitions, Courses, Performance and of course Music. 

Here's some of the bands and acts that you can look forward to seeing during August.

THE BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB

The Bridge Jazz Club is the home of Exeter’s jazz scene. Pete Canter & Friends + Jam Session. First set from the house band followed by jam session. All welcome. Bring charts for the rhythm section. Entrance fee includes a free raffle.

2018 DATES: 

·       Wed 6th June

·       Wed 4th July

·       Wed 1st Aug

·       Wed 5th Sept

·       Wed 3rd Oct

·       Wed 7th Nov

·       Wed 5th Dec

Wed 01 Aug 2018 - 8.30pm | £8 (£4 for jammers) pay on the door only

GUILTY PLEASURES

Guilty Pleasures is a place where everyone is welcome. It’s irreverent, unapologetic and above all fun… Like prom but without the dodgy date, over priced dress and all those awkward memories!

It’s like a night where Lady Gaga popped down the pub and Britney was putting on a karaoke night with Rihanna, while The Spice Girls were behind the bar serving drinks and The Backstreet Boys were playing pool. A night where Madonna and Bryan Adams were playing darts and Freddie Mercury was on the fruit machine, all the while Eminem and George Michael were having a fag in the beer garden.

So join them as they take you on an all night nonstop pop journey, where all they ask is that you check your poker face at the door, shake it off, cut loose and don’t stop believing!

It really is what Friday nights were invented for!

Fri 29 Jun 2018, Fri 10 Aug 2018 | 10pm - 2am | £10 (£8)* | 18+

BA BA BOOM

Highest Grade and Eyes Open Promotions present Ba Ba Boom, Exeter’s finest regular reggae dance sessions featuring Highest Grade Sound System playing the latest cuts in   dancehall, conscious vibes and classic roots reggae.

Sat 02 Jun 2018, Sat 07 Jul 2018, Sat 11 Aug 2018 | 9pm - 2am | Free before 10pm | £5 after | 18+

NICK COPE FAMILY SHOW

Nick Cope is a professional singer and songwriter, and has over 20 years of experience in music, including international success as lead singer and songwriter with The Candyskins in the 1990s.

For the last 8 years Nick has been writing, performing and recording music for children and their families and has established a fanatical army of little people and their parents from all over the world. His five CD’s of original songs have become a must have for thousands and thousands of young families all over the world. Nick performs all over the UK at theatres and art centres and at many of the established art, music and literary festivals including the Edinburgh fringe and Book festival.

Nick Cope’s family performances are legendary! He has a fanatical army of little and not-so–little fans from all over the world, if you haven’t heard his songs or seen his shows before come and find out what you’re missing.

Expect songs about head lice, dogs eating soap and dragons called Keith.

‘Nick Cope is the indie-surrealist kids’ entertainer Robyn Hitchcock and Syd Barrett, foolishly distracted by cult status, never were.’
STEWART LEE

‘Funny, profound, educational, our children have talked about everything from gravity to grieving thanks to Nick Cope’s songs. Our family’s favourite singer /songwriter’
LUCY PORTER

‘A brilliant show’
★★★★★ EDINBURGH REPORTER

‘Even the shyest of kids will warm to his unpretentious style.’
★★★★ FEST MAGAZINE

‘Go and see him.’
★★★★ BROADWAY BABY

‘A delightful show full of charming songs ….this is very much one for all the family’
★★★★ FEST MAGAZINE

‘This really is a show that is full of enjoyment for all ages, and not to be missed. We will definitely go again’
PRIMARY TIMES

Sat 11 Aug 2018 | 11am | £10 (£8)* | Seated

NO CULTURE

THE NO CULTURE CLUB PRESENTS

No pop music | No shopping | No dancing
No crowdfunding | No private viewing | No shiny shoes
No idle conversation | No posing | No popups
No superstar Djs | No pretending | No timewasting
No whispering | No tweeting | No post-modernity
No fine dining | No dress code | No bad boys
No flashmobs | No credit | No comment
No sense | No style | No scene

JUST

Favela funk | Thai Molam | R&B
Souljazz | Afrobeat | Bossa Nova
Jazzfunk | Afrocuban jazz | Electric soul
Caribbean disco | Underground hip hop | Beattapes

…And maybe a drink

Tue 10 Jul 2018, Tue 14 Aug 2018 | 8.30pm - 11pm | Free

SHHH! SILENT DISCO

Get your dancing shoes on and practice the art of not accidentally singing your head off to tunes no one else can hear – silent discos are back this summer.

As the sun sets, we’ll be bringing forth a series of eccentric summer nights. Expect a terrace party under the stars. with two channels of music led by a live DJ. Get your groove on to your favourite indie classics, or choose the cheesy option to shake your stuff to guilty pleasures until late. Shhh…

Fri 17 Aug 2018 | Doors 9pm | £5* | 18+

UNTAMED

SONGS WRITTEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF TOURETTES

Danny Sumbler was born and bred in Brighton, and first began treading the boards at age 12. A prolific singer-songwriter, with testimonials from Johnny Cash producer Jack Hale and actor Patrick Bergin – he has composed over 300 compositions and is also an author, maker of films and an artist with a large repertoire of evocative paintings and drawings. His work is unique in whatever medium he chooses to express in.

Danny recently gave a BBC TV interview about his short film Call of the Jesterwhich will be juxtaposed with his live acoustic show. Danny links his own and many other mental health conditions to the ways of the shaman and mystic – by choosing the road of alchemy and preserving an incorruptible mind.

Sat 18 Aug 2018 | 8pm | £8 (£6)*

WYE OAK

Wye Oak are coming to Exeter following the release of their triumphant fifth album The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs. 

The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs begins with an explosion. For a few seconds, piano, drums, and a playful keyboard loop gather momentum; then, all at once, they burst, enormous bass flooding the elastic beat.

The moment declares the second coming of Wye Oak, a band that spent more than a decade preparing to write this record — their most gripping and powerful set of songs to date, built with melodies, movement, and emotions that transcend even the best of their catalogue.

Sat 18 Aug 2018 | doors 8pm | £12* | standing

HAYSEED DIXIE

Is there really such a thing as a hillbilly band covering rock classics? You betcha. They are called Hayseed Dixie and they play Rockgrass.

Barley Scotch is on lead vocals, fiddle and guitar. The Reverend Don-Wayne Reno is on banjo, Deacon Dale Reno is on mandolin and guitar and Jake ‘Bakesnake’ Byers is on acoustic bass. Hayseed Dixie are an awesome live band, who have, to date, released 9 albums. The latest, Killer Grass was released in 2010. A live DVD entitled No Sleep ’til Liverpool is also available.

Songs by artists such as Kiss, Outkast, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith get the Rockgrass treatment, but the band play original songs too. – numbers such as Moonshiner’s Daughter, Kirby Hill and Blind Beggar Breakdown raise the roof at live shows. Hayseed Dixie songs cover the four key elements of any song worth playing; – Drinkin’, Cheatin’, Killin’ and Hell! – The band also recorded an album of rocked-up bluegrass classics, called *Choose Your Own Title using the name The Kerosene Brothers.

Brothers Dale Reno and Don–Wayne Reno are the sons of bluegrass maestro Don Reno, who wrote many hits, including Dueling Banjos, and the band even once played at a house-warming party for AC/DC bass player Cliff Williams.

Beware of instrumental cover tracks mis-tagged as ‘Hayseed Dixie’! (often from the Pickin’ On… series of albums.)… as Barley Scotch has said, “If a song’s got word’s we’ll sing ’em!” – A full list of albums and tracks can be found at the band’s website.

Mon 20 Aug 2018 | 8pm | £15*

PUSSY RIOT

RIOT DAYS

PUSSY RIOT ARE BACK!!!

Following their sell out 2017 tour Pussy Riot are back in the UK with a brand new tour.

PUSSY RIOT need little introduction, the Russian protest art collective have one of the most important voices of the last 10 years who’s lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, and opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the group consider to be a dictator.

Gaining global notoriety in 2012 when three of the groups members, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich were imprisoned for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” for their preformance inside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, a protest directed at the Orthodox Church leaders’ support of Putin during his election campaign. Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikov were released in December 2013 (Samutsevich was freed on probation in 2012). In March 2014, Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova founded Zona Prava, an organization that defends prisoners’ rights. Alyokhina is a recipient of the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace and has also been awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. In September 2017 Maria Alyokhina released her memoir RIOT DAYS (Penguin Books), the accompany piece to the book is the touring play RIOT DAYS (“Revolution”) that merges punk, electronica, theatre, documentary footage and protest.

RIOT DAYS (“Revolution”) will see Maria Alyokhina, Kyril Masheka – her main stage partner on “Burning Doors”, Nastya (one of the leaders of Pussy Riot of 2011-2012) and Max of the music duo AWOTT (Asian Women On The Telephone), and Olga (another Pussy Riot member), perform throughout the UK. The project is produced by Alexander Cheparukhin and directed by Yury Muravitsky – one of the leading Russian theatre directors, winner of the “Golden Mask” annual Russian theatre award.

Fri 24 Aug 2018 | 7pm | £17* | 14+ | Standing

EXETER STREET ARTS FESTIVAL

Exeter Street Arts festival sees the city brought to life with live performances and DJs until late.

·       10am – 5pm: Live music on the terrace

·       5pm – 8pm: Green Butter Club DJs on the terrace

·       8pm – 12am: After Party

AFTER PARTY

Stick around for live bands in the auditorium and Jam The Channel DJs in the bar. Bands to be announced soon. 

Tickets on sale soon

Sat 25 Aug 2018 | 10am - late

EDDI READER

Known for her work with Fairground Attraction and her enduring solo career, what sets this three-time BRIT Awards winner apart is the depth of her emotional live performances.

Constant touring with her band has created a magical organic chemistry between Eddi and her players, and the results of this relationship can be found on her most recent release.

From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings joyous life to all forms of song. Her taste in co-writers, writers, songs and players is impeccable and anything with her name on it is a guaranteed musical treasure. The perfection of her technique, her ability to move the listener, and connect her experience to that of her audience, is widely acknowledged. She has effortlessly developed into one of popular music’s most thrilling and affecting performers.

Sun 26 Aug 2018 | 8pm | £20* | Seated

For more information and to buy tickets for all of the above shows, please click HERE to be taken to the Exeter Phoenix website.