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‘Music which is uncomfortable and makes you take notice.’ Rock duo Le Chat Noir in conversation (part one)

Le Chat Noir are famed for their live energy and their lusciously dark, killer tunes. We caught up with Dartmoor’s rockin’est duo to find out more about their style, their sound and their story

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The Sounds of Young Plymouth annual concert at the Guildhall

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The Sounds of Young Plymouth are expected to be especially dulcet – that’s sweet – at the Plymouth Youth Music service annual concert in the Guildhall, Plymouth, on Saturday (January 24), from 6.30pm to 9pm.

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Theatre Royal, Plymouth, wants Hip Hop dance acts

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Get up and dance – the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, is on the look for Hip Hop dance acts to perform as part of Break in Convention (or is that Breakin Convention?) ,its international festival of Hip Hop Dance Theatre on Friday and Saturday, May 22 and 23.

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Volunteer at the Plymouth Barbican Theatre

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You’ve got till the end of today to sign up as a volunteer at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, to help out with all kinds of work around the theatre.

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News, reviews and interviews - the pick of stories from the South West on the PRSD in 2008

Enough news, reviews, interviews from throughout the South West to shake a stick at.

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Now that the dust has settled on 2009, we thought we’d remind you of some of the most popular news, interviews and reviews from the South West that peppered the People’s Republic of South Devon during 2008. As you

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Auditions for the Torbay Acting Factory on Saturday

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The Torbay Acting Factory is on the look-out for some budding new talent from the Bay and will be holding open auditions on Saturday, January 10 for young people aged between six and 18 to join the factory.

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Get on the airwaves with Soundart Radio

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Soundart Radio is to become the permanent arts radio station of South Devon in January, and they are looking for anyone with ideas for making radio shows, regardless of experience.

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Artist Carers called to take part in Caring exhibition

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The experience of being a carer can be lonely, demanding and insightful and carer artists are being called to put their ideas forward for a Caring/Carers exhibition and public events for late spring. The deadline for expressing an interest is December 31.

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Comic strip creator Peter Richardson at View From Here Talent Showcase

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Star of stage and screen and a citizen of the People’s Republic of South Devon, Peter Richardson has scaled the greasy pole of comedy through the Comic Strip, Stella Street and blockbusters like The Pope Must Die and Churchill: the Hollywood Years. You’d expect he’d have plenty of stories to

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Plymouth's Proximity Effect art show to, er, take effect

Red Ape gets the Proximity Effect show swinging at Plymouth Arts Centre today at 6.30pm, a ‘daring’ (artspeak for kooky and intriguing) programme of events, which runs until January 11.

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Crave – Theatre Review

Review of Sarah Kane’s Crave at the Exeter Northcott, November 21. by Natasha Kuler-von-der-Luhe

Crave is the penultimate play of Sarah Kane, the troubled and contraversial playwright who wrote consistently throughout terrifying episodes of severe depression, culminating in her suicide by hanging herself in a bathroom at London’s King’s College Hospital in 1999.

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Protect the Human competition winning play to be performed in Plymouth

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To celebrate International Human Rights Day and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, Drum Theatre, Plymouth, will present the winning play of the 2008 Protect the Human playwriting competition.

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Reach for the stars! Cupola Bobber at the Exeter Phoenix

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When the blurb for Cupola Bobber’s performance at the Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday November 18 at 8pm, mentioned vaudeville and the night sky, I had an odd vision of Patrick Moore in some kind of Christmas special. Which was made even more ominous by the show’s rejoinder: “If I die, my

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European Union funding for Devon

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With a pot of European gold (that’s Euros to you) up for grabs, Devon County Council is stepping in line to finance some of the county’s projects with the next round of funding, which ends in 2013.

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