Entertainment & Reviews

Seaton Wetlands Welcomes BBC Countryfile!

East Devon District Council’s Countryside Team recently hosted the BBC’s Countryfile team at Seaton Wetlands Nature Reserve for two days of filming.

Presenters Sammi Kinghorn and Matt Baker visited the council-owned and managed reserve to learn about its biodiversity and the important...

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Vintage, Collectors, Crafts and Antiques Fayre at Redlake

The Old Clay Factory at Redlake (between Ivybridge and Bittaford) will host its first ever Vintage, Antiques, Crafts and Collectors Fair on Sunday 12th June, which was unfortunately cancelled from 8 May due to unforeseen circumstances.

This historical building sits between Bittaford and Ivybridge and is seen as a hub for all communities within a radius comprising the South Hams and...

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This years Lord Mayor's Festival brings a new theme

The annual Lord Mayor’s Day is changing to Lord Mayor’s Festival event this year.

It will welcome the new Lord Mayor into their role and will give the opportunity for the people of Plymouth to celebrate this occasion. Sponsored by Rowes Honda & Rowes Suzuki.

This year’s theme will be ‘Super Heroes’, so come along and take part in the Super Hero under 5's and over 5's fancy...

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Destination: Saltram, travelling the world through the collections

Destination: Saltram is a new pop-up exhibition exploring the world through the collections of the eighteenth century National Trust house near Plymouth. Opening on Saturday 7 May, the temporary exhibition will run until Sunday 26 June.

A two-hundred year old vase from misty Japanese mountains, tales of heroism and tragedy from Ancient Greece, and risqué painted mirrors imported from...

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Tying Knots in Plymouth with artist Elena Brake

Elena Brake, a 23-year-old BA (Hons) Fine Art student from Plymouth College of Art, recently completed Tying Knots, a very successful performance involving members of the public in Plymouth city centre.

Designed to draw attention to the everyday action of tying a knot and the ways simple things like this can be overlooked, Elena set up a box and two stools beside the sundial in the...

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Plymouth Live Music Night

Friday 27 May 2016

Plymouth Live Music Night in May provides even more fantastic live music by your favourite local bands! Sponsored by C&G Catering. From 7pm, get yourself down to Plymouth’s Piazza for a free night of performances:

Enjoy Jacob Hunt, an acoustic aspiring musician who took to MTV Crashes Plymouth stage in 2015, Rockafella; an energetic four-piece rock covers...

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Plymouth Pirate Weekend returns

Following the huge success of 2015, the award winning Plymouth Pirate Weekend returns on 14 and 15 May 2016 for a family fun packed weekend in The Barbican and Sutton Harbour.

Come and see Jonty Depp who will be lurking the cobbled streets and go aboard our real Pirate Ship for free. Take part in a Pirate Trail and see if you can uncover Cap ‘n’ Jack’s hidden clues! Test your pirate...

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Plymouth Pavilions powered by The Ticket Store

Launched this April, The Ticket Store is a new customer facing bespoke ticketing solution, offering a dedicated ticket selling platform for businesses.

The impressive portfolio of clients already selling tickets through The Ticket Store include Plymouth Pavilions, the South West’s biggest permanent Arena, Plymouth City Council who are currently ticketing the hugely successful MTV...

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BIG the Musical comes to Plymouth

Be the first to see BIG, the heart-warming and hilarious Broadway musical based on the classic movie starring Tom Hanks.

Josh Baskin is twelve-years-old and hates being little, until one night at the carnival the mysterious Zoltar machine grants his wish to be big. Now trapped in an adult’s body and alone in New York, he innocently tries to find his way around a grown-up world where it...

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Bassline Festival comes to Powderham Castle

Great news for everyone who missed out on tickets for this summer’s Radio One Big Weekend!

Bassline, the South‐West’s biggest dance music festival, will take place in the grounds of the magnificent Powderham Castle, Exeter on the weekend of the 9th - 11th of September 2016.

Phase One acts now confirmed: Rudimental, Krept & Konen, Sigma, Wilkinson, Sub Focus, Charlie Sloth,...

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More acts revealed for Radio 1's Big Weekend Exeter

BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac and Huw Stephens last night announced the line-up for the BBC Introducing stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Exeter, revealing that acts including The Hunna, Emmi, Black Foxxes and Declan McKenna, will perform alongside returning acts Rosie Lowe, Blossoms, Spring King and Izzy Bizu at Europe’s biggest free ticketed event at Powderham Castle on 28 and 29 May.

The...

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