IDLES have grown from strength to strength, from seeing them in Exeter in 2016, they have gone on to fill festival stages, produce (in my opinion) one of the finest debut albums in the world ever and manage to sell out a tour of the United Kingdom. We caught them playing at The Hub in Plymouth, read on to see how the evening unfolded....

New album – Islands – 18.05.19

UK live dates including Live at Leeds & Autumn tour
US – newly announced shows

Frank Turner is sharing ‘Make America Great Again’, the latest new track to emerge from his forthcoming album Be More Kind, which was today’s “World Record” on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. Available through Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records, ‘Make America Great Again’ is a wry riposte to the poisonous invective of Trump’s White House, with Turner’s knack for an irrepressible hook bolstered here by the hints of electronic pop which tinge Be More Kind. 

Last year the Black Voices Quintet packed out the Camden’s ever popular Jazz Café with a tribute to the soulful stylings of Nina Simone. This year, building on that success, they have picked another female jazz icon to frame an evening around. Their timing in selecting Billie Holiday, born 103 years ago to the day, was apposite. Not a landmark birthday but it certainly added a sense of purpose to the evening and , as the MC pointed out, although she died before most of the audience that night were themselves born, their very presence was testament to the lasting legacy of her work.

PP Arnold can only be described as a legend, she started her career way back in 1964 when she joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, she left in 1966 and went on to work with some of the most famous names in the music industry including The Small Faces, Barry Gibb, Rod Stewart, David Bowie and Roger Waters to name just a few.

During the late 1980’s, she worked with some ground breaking dance acts including The Beatmasters, The KLF and even provided vocals for Altern-8.

She’s remained active on the music circuit and is due to release her latest album in the Autumn (more on that later).

We heard that she's going to be performing at this year’s Cornbury Festival so we arranged some time to have a chat, she was in her villa in Spain, I was in a gloomy office in London, we chatted for far too long about all sorts of things, read on to find out what....

Check out the premiere of the video to "Human", the lead track from the new EP from London based alt-rockers The Night Suns.

For Fans Of: Queens Of The Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana

I'm not sure if SHONEN KNIFE have ever played in Exeter before, maybe they appeared at The Cavern a long long time ago but either way, we were ready for them to come and showcase their offerings to the city.

We sent Rhodri Cooper and his lovely wife Charlotte along to capture the action, read on for the full live review and interview with KOLARS.

King King are the band to beat. Glasgow’s favourite sons have already been saluted as ‘the best blues-rock band in the world’ (Blues Rock Review), credited for ‘setting the blues world on fire’ (Classic Rock), nominated for Best New Band at the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour and handed back-to-back British Blues Awards. They’ve proved their mettle on bills with Thunder and John Mayall, triumphed as far afield as Mumbai and taken the roof off major venues from the 02 Glasgow to Wembley Arena.  

‘One of the best and most original guitarists in America’ - ROLLING STONE
‘One of the 100 Greatest Living Guitarists’ - CLASSIC ROCK
‘The Thinking Man’s Guitar Hero — A-List’ - THE NEW YORKER
‘Legendary left-field guitarist’ - THE GUARDIAN
‘The world’s most popular Avant-rock guitarist’ -THE INDEPENDENT

In 1982 The Jam released their last studio album, The Gift. Often cited as one of the band’s finest albums, it featured singles Town Called Malice, Just Who Is The 5 O’Clock Hero and Precious.

From the Jam will perform a selection of songs from The Gift album as well as classic hits and albums tracks from their back catalogue.

‘One of the highlights of Glastonbury Festival’
OFFICIAL GLASTONBURY GUIDE 2013

‘ELECTRO SWING AT ITS BEST’
BBC, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, 2014

‘Ambitious, genre-busting folk’ 
THE GUARDIAN 

★★★★ ‘Resurrects the brassy swagger of Bellowhead.’ 
FINANCIAL TIMES 

‘Recalling Gabriel-era Genesis with a dash of Bush and Bowie.’ 
OBSERVER

‘In my experience nobody can bring you the chaos of a dystopian street carnival better than Jon Boden’ 
SIMON MAYO

‘…a standout performer of his generation’
THE GUARDIAN

The soulful and tender blues singer performs with his band.We were fortunate enough to catch him a couple of years ago where he bought his daughter along who performed ahead of and alongside Eric at the show. If that was anything to go by, you definitely DON'T want to miss this!

‘…they are as tight as a drum, it doesn’t get much better than this’ - CHRIS EVANS, BBC RADIO 2

The Cuban Brothers are entertainment personified. They will make you laugh, sing along, cry with joy, wet your pants and shake your booty.

‘Ferocious Dog are the new noise on the block – and are surprising everyone with their rapid ascent. There is no way they’re following any hipster templates – fronted by a big burly man with a mohican who sings impassioned political songs of broken Britain whilst his band seethes like a punky Levellers – they are the music business’s worst nightmare – a great band who are going to make it without anyone’s permission’ - LOUDER THAN WAR