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South Devon Labour’s Luke Pollard on PR, spin, Lib Dems and Conservative spending

PRSD — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:35:22 +0000

Early in September, naked protestors descended on the PR company Edelman in London to protest the company’s involvement its advertising plans for the coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent. Edleman also happens to be the workplace of South Devon Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Luke Pollard, South Devon Prospective Parliamentary Candidate. We also posted some things we found out about the company from SourceWatch and then Luke got in touch to put the other side.

Luke has been on the conference trail lately posting video from the Lib Dem conference and audio on the Conservative spending plans.

Watch, listen and enjoy. And any comments, just plonk them below, please.

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Radio Free South West interview: Simon Bish

PRSD — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:13:13 +0000

East Devon singer-songwriter Simon Bish has just released a solo EP featuring two of his songs with a mini-album scheduled to follow shortly.

Listen to Stuart Wills’ interview with Simon Bish after a recent gig at the Exeter Picture House. This podcast includes two of Simon’s tracks.

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Simon describes his Sarah Records and early Creation Records influenced indie-pop as ‘lo-fi, haunting and dreamy’.

Simon has put out the EP on his own record label, Pop Noise Records. The label has previously released CDs by many Devon based bands including Fat Battery, National Pastime, Some Beans and Simon’s band Noise Annoys Simon.

During the late 80s Simon was in the band Thrilled Skinny who were often played by the late great John Peel and featured in the NME and Melody Maker.

To find out more about Simon visit his myspace page.

And for more about Pop Noise Records visit their myspace, or the soon to be improved site.

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Jump for the Joy Collective

PRSD — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:14:43 +0000

posted by Thin White Duke

The Joy Collective musing in the woods

Visual, musical and digital media artists from around the region have joined forces with local choreographers to produce an hour-long live showcase, being premiered at the Exeter Phoenix in November.

Under the name of the Joy Collective, Alice Leach, Beth Carter, Clair Beckett, Curt Hennels, Darren Harvey Regan, Drunk With Joy, Emma Molony, Ione Rucquoi, Joanna Cartwright, Roger Lewis and StuM have a shared interest in art as a platform for social commentary.

The collective aims to bring contemporary dance and the visual arts to the masses and ensure work doesn’t disappear into private collections.

The event will feature sculpture, animation, dance, photography, film, painting, drawing, new media, printmaking and music, with digital media artist StuM helping to bring out the complexity of the art by displaying it on a large screen.

The collective believes that this innovative way of presenting the work does even more justice to it than exhibiting it in a gallery space.

Find out for yourself at the Joy Collective premiere at the Exeter Phoenix on Thursday, November 6 at 8pm.

Tickets cost £7/£5 on 01392 667 080 or visit the Exeter Phoenix website.

• Listen to Stuart Mitchell of the Joy Collective talk about the art group’s gig, ethos and aspirations.

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Natasha Kuler-von-der-Luhe speaks

PRSD — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:26:30 +0000

Desolate tearoom by Natasha Kuler-von-der-Luhe

Natasha Kuler-von-der-Luhe seems to be Exeter’s burgeoning Renaissance Person, she paints, she writes, she takes pictures, plays Mediaeval music – and she’s even put quill to touchscreen for the People’s Republic of South Devon. Lee Morgan caught up with her in the noisy Cafe Espresso in Exeter.

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Open Studios close

PRSD — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:11:42 +0000

posted by Cptn

Another year of trekking, travailing and talking through a collection of the county’s art, artists and art studios has come to an end. And from whichever angle we’ve tried to cut it, the whole thing seems to have been quite successful. Here’s just a tiny selection of what we’ve seen. If you’ve got anything you’d like to share about the event – thoughts, pictures and so on, then get in touch.

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Peter Randall-Page #6

PRSD — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:50:28 +0000

posted by Cptn

Sculptor Peter Randall-Page and photography Chris Chapman, whose work documenting the local distinctiveness project makes up the Granite Song exhibition, are in conversation in our final film of the series. Watch and enjoy.

To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.

The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.

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Peter Randall-Page #5

PRSD — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:34:39 +0000

posted by Ctpn

Our week of top sculptor Peter Randall-Page talking about his work in and around the north Dartmoor artistic idyll of Drewsteignton continues.

To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.

The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.

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Peter Randall-Page #4

PRSD — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:05:55 +0000

posted by Cptn

The couple of weeks of arts events throughout the county during the Devon Open Studios event, organised by Devon Artists Network are coming to an end. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what the cultural economy is all about in this corner of the world. Take a gander at what Peter Randall-Page has been getting up to with his local distinctivness work that’s collected in Chris Chapman’s photographs Granite Song – the exhibition of which is currently touring schools.

To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.

The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.

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Peter Randall-Page #3

PRSD — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:37:15 +0000

posted by Cptn

It’s worth mentioning, during our Peter Randall-Page week, that the exhibition doing the rounds for Devon Rock year was supported by community arts group Common Ground. The project investigated local distinctiveness and the role of the artist in reflecting and enhancing that.

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Peter Randall-Page #2

PRSD — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:00:54 +0000

posted by Cptn

Devon Rock is more than just Muse (our less Global Supa-Groops notwithstanding). We caught up with man of Rock Peter Randall-Page talking about Granite Song local distinctiveness work.

It’s part of an exhibition of the photographic documentation by Chris Chapman of the sculptor chipping away at his locality to create unique work for the community.

To read more about Peter Randall-Page, have a look at Arts+Culture online magazine.

The films are made by the relatively inimitable Rhys Bonney.

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Peter Randall-Page #1

PRSD — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:43:59 +0000

posted by Cptn

It’s Peter Randall-Page week here on the PRSD. As part of the Devon Rock programme, an exhibition of his work exploring local distinctiveness is doing the rounds of schools. Called Granite Song it features Chris Chapman’s photographic documentation of Peter’s sculptures around the not-so-sleepy Dartmoor village of Drewsteignton. We caught up with him at the launch at Bideford’s Burton Gallery to find out more about the project.

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