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! |
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