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Not Bad For A Girl: How do you know when you're good enough?

Singer songerwriter Katie Marie

Katie Marie has been whizzing around the world in a very busy summer. But while she was travelling she had enough time to ponder if she was good enough at what she does. The answer came from an odd source is something plenty of us could take heed of

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Torquay's other history: The Mod squad in Torquay

Torquay Harbour

Max Bygraves was one of the 1,000 Mods who visited Torquay on Easter Monday, 1966. Kevin Dixon finds about a bit mor about the Torquay Mod scene in Torquay’s Other History

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Torquay's other history: the inspiration of folk superstars Donovan and Mac Macleod

Torquay Harbour

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

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Torquay's other history: the historic bands of The Bay

Torquay Harbour

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

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Not Bad For A Girl: Katie Marie gets to grips with her stomp box

Singer songerwriter Katie Marie

Katie Marie has been on a mission to find and get to grips with an acoustic stomp box to add a little more oomph to her set as she gets ready for a new tour of Germany

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Not Bad For a Girl: Katie Marie makes her drums sound like new and look pretty swanky

Singer songerwriter Katie Marie

Katie Marie is in the process of preparing to record her next CD, which means clearing out the studio if she’s going to get that acoustic roomy sound she’s after, and in the process she decides to do a bit of drum maintenance

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From harmonising on the way home to singing sensation Sound of the Sirens. We caught up with the Exeter band

Exeter band Sound of the Sirens developed their singing through friendship – and it’s one of the strengths in their performances. We found out more

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