Technology has meant the musical world has changed, and it’s sometimes difficult to keep up
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Folk superstar Donovan spent a summer in Torquay, where he wrote his first hit – and picked up his famous fisherman’s cap in Brixham. The rest, as they say, is history
Torquay is a hot-bed of creativity. Here’s a run down of some of the bands that have sprouted from The Bay’s fertile music heritage, including She’s Gone, Last Tik Band, The Indiana Highway, Subdued Hubub, Hip Hooray Band, Riff Power Band, Headlode, The Wurzels and Five Knots Max What a weekend for arts (starting Saturday, June 20). The contemporary dance troupe Task Force, led by Stephan Koplowitz, begin stepping their way around the historic South Devon with their Liquid Landscapes tour. Over on arts+culture there’s a run down of the venues, plus a diary of South Devon artist Helen Snell‘s involvement with Devon Eccentric Colin Shaddick (no it’s official – he came third in this year’s competition), dropped us a poetic line to explain a bit about the origins of his award-winning eccentricity. You could get more of an insight at the Salon del Eccentrica, an Eccentric evening at the Broomhill Art Hotel, Barnstaple on Thursday, It was the Laser Poetry that caught our eye from an immensely eye catching, not to say tongue twisting, ecopoetics event called Skylines that’s taking place at the CCANW until the end of the month, with a big festival day on June 20. Katie Marie spends a week tackling spiders in her studio without resorting to her famous brews How fantastic is all this lovely sunshine? It’s almost been worth putting up with all that yucky rain for this wonderful week of wonderful sunny stuff… we want more! 1 comment - ()Things do get pretty heated in the political arena but it’s not often a candidate is described as a ‘greasy-haired twat’. More’s the pity, we reckon. Bath-based band Slovakia moved up three places this month to take the number one spot on the Radio Free South West monthly people’s vote chart with their track Part of The Factory. The PRSD caught up with Plymouth-based alt-rockers Crazy Arm ahead of the release of their debut elpee Born To Ruin and the Broken by the Wheel single. Here’s what frontman Darren Johns had to say for himself. 2 comments - ()PRSD contributor singer/songwriter Katie Marie, who writes the Not Bad For A Girl column, is in a ‘Local Record of the Week’ competition of Palm FM’s morning show. Vote for her now. Morwellham Quay is hosting the Taste of the Tamar event this weekend, profits from which will be going towards the Children’s Hospice South West’s Precious Lives appeal to build a third hospice in Cornwall. Katie Marie chills out to Mad Dog Macrae at the Dartmouth Music Festival Well hello there peeps! Hope you’ve had a wonderful week, as usual I’ve had a week full of various wonderful musical adventures. Soundart Radio’s friend Bruce is bringing his Bring Your Own disco road show to Dartington Village Hall to spin your vinyl on Saturday, May 2. All music is welcome (not just disco) so long as we can bop to it – us at the PRSD our digging out our Renee and Renata picture disc. |
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