The Plymouth Daily's essential guide to your weekend
There's a wonderful array of music and art on in the city this weekend, promisinig something for anyone to have the best weekend they can.
Events
Plymouth Respect Festival
Plymouth University, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October
The Plymouth Respect Festival is designed to promote respect and celebrate diversity across all areas of the community. The festival organised by the Plymouth and Devon Racial Equality Council and hosted by Plymouth University in 2013.
Since its launch 16 years ago, the festival has traditionally taken place every October, although it took a break in 2012. In previous years, the festival has included parades in the city centre, live music, dancing and theatrical events, play activities, world food, information stands and many showcased events.
The plan is for that to continue at suitable venues on the University campus and the programme will be confirmed in due course.
http://plymouthrespectfestival.blogspot.co.uk/
Film: Diana
Plymouth Arts Centre, from Friday
Diana (certificate tbc)
This eagerly anticipated film focuses on the final two years of Diana's life, when she had separated from the Prince of Wales and had been in relationships with Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed, who was also killed in the crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.
Directed by German Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) and shot in England, Croatia and India, the film also features Douglas Hodge as royal butler Paul Burrell and Naveen Andrews (The English Patient) as Khan, the British-Pakistani heart and lung surgeon who is said to have been the love of her life.
Fri 11 October 6pm
Sat 12 October 8pm
Sun 13 October 5.30pm
Tues 15 October 8.30pm
Wed 16 October 2.30pm & 6pm
Thur 17 October 8.30pm
To book by phone call 01752 206114
Making Space: Fluttering Light
Plymouth Arts Centre, Saturday 10am-1pm
£4
Inspired by the work of Luke Fowler, you will be creating environments in motion. Making screens from all sorts of unusual materials you will work with artist Tabatha Andrews to alter the shape of the space. Together you can then project light, drawings and film footage across the studio and with the addition of blowing fans, create a huge moving collage.
Making space is a programme of creative activities for children aged 8 – 13 years, led by practising artists and open to all children who like making things or using materials. The sessions reflect ideas and methods used by artists whose work is exhibited in the galleries and can help children to access different ways of thinking and looking whilst having fun and exploring their own creativity.
Exhibitions
Bob And Roberta Smith Exhibition,
Plymouth Arts Centre, ongoing
Bob and Roberta Smith is recognised for his trademark, text-based paintings. These colourful signs are hand painted onto scraps of wood and roughly nailed together. These paintings use the visual language of folk and punk; the use of drop shadow text and a mixture of different fonts and letter sizes evokes the aesthetics of protest and is reminiscent of makeshift public notices and temporary shop signs from an era before the computer.
Luke Fowler: The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper And The Deluded Followers Of Joanna Southcott
Plymouth Arts Centre, 10am- 7:10pm ( film on loop), Ongoing
Luke Fowler is an artist who works with film, sound, installation and photography.
This new film focuses on the work of Marxist historian Edward Palmer Thompson who, at the age of 25, was employed by the WEA (Workers’ Educational Association) in Yorkshire. He taught literature and history to adults who, historically, had been unable to access higher education, including miners, factory workers and the unemployed. E.P Thompson and his peers, Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart, were committed to the WEA values of delivering a ‘socially purposeful’ education and to the cause of adult education as an engine for cultural democracy.
Luke Fowler’s film explores the issues that were at stake for post war progressive educationalists and exposes an historical struggle that resonates within education today.
The film is screened in a loop from 10 am, last screening 7.10pm
Women In Art
Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, ongoing
See an impressive selection of works from our permanent art collections that either portray or were created by women. From Renaissance times to the modern day, from muses and models to portraits and 20th century ceramics, this exhibition is dedicated to the memory of one of the museum's favourite women in art – the late Keeper of Art Maureen Attrill, who sadly passed away in February 2011 and who is much missed.
Artists Make Faces
Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, ongoing
‘Artists Makes Faces' feature a distinctive and personal selection by Monika Kinley OBE of works from public art galleries and collections including Arts Council England, Tate and the Whitworth. Some of the works that will be on display have not previously toured.
Theatre
War Horse: Only Remembered
The Lyric, Theatre Royal, 7pm Sunday
War Horse: Only Remembered with reading by Michael Morpurgo and songs performed by John Tams and Barry Coope.
Author Michael Morpurgo tells the powerful and deeply-moving story of young Albert and his beloved horse Joey. Seen through the eyes of Joey, who witnesses the pity of war on both sides of the trenches, as he moves from life on a farm in peaceful Devon to the devastation of the Western Front in the First World War.
Michael is joined by acclaimed musicians John Tams and Barry Coope, who accompany him with the rousing yet haunting songs specially composed by John Tams for the National Theatre’s award-winning production of War Horse.
To check performance times and to book tickets, please visit the Theatre Royal website at http://www.theatreroyal.com/.
Music
Jayne Freeman & Adam Piggott
B-Bar, the Barbican, 9pm Friday
Combining powerful acoustic guitar and ukulele with inspired melodies in the folk and pop tradition, the duo take a unique slant on some well known and unexpected covers. Their previous musical projects have taken them from performances at The Royal Albert Hall, BBC Radio 6, The National Theatre and tours across Italy, Holland and France
Mis**s, Elithia, System Meltdown and Six Sins Till Sunday
White Rabbit, 7pm – 11pm Friday
Heavy Metal and Hard Rock night at the White Rabbit bar. with tribute bands to Misfits and System of A Down
Phil Lewis
The Notte, 10pm Friday
Phil Lewis is a multi talented performer covering a wide range of musical styles from artists such as David Bowie, Gary Moore, Snow Patrol, Rolling Stones, Kaiser Chiefs, Greenday, Status Quo, Nirvana, Steve Earl, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Billy Idol, Santana, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. These feature in his electric set accompanied by his own self recorded unique backing tracks. Phil's diverse vocal talent and his own passionate virtuosity on lead guitar have impressed and won him fans wherever he plays.
The Prevention
Cherry Tree 9pm Friday
The Prevention are:
Adrian Withers
Simon Michael
Nick Fox
Classic rock covers from Newquay's most exciting band.
The Prevention - better than the cure!
A Total Stranger
The Minerva 9pm Friday
Local legend who never fails to impress
Blackrose Grace and Midnight Blues Train
The Mount Pleasant,10pm Friday
Classic Rock covers in the Mount Pleasant bar.
The Old Dogs Blues Band
The Clittaford Club, 8:30pm Friday
A bunch of 'mature' guys and a gal who love to play The Blues with a bite
Formed in the summer of 2010 the band is now Playing a set of traditional and modern, slow and uptempo Blues dipping into the repertoires of the predictable 'greats', the giants of the sixties UK Blues Boom, and some tasty morsels from the new guys on the block.
Glass Curtain
The Ships Tavern 9:30pm Friday
Glass Curtain are a 5-piece Plymouth based covers band providing high quality live musical entertainment to pubs, clubs, private or corporate functions.
The Band play a variety of different music ranging from Rita Ora, Oasis, Katy Perry, Whitesnake, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Lady gaga, Thin Lizzy, The Offspring, Black Sabbath, Elvis, Beyoncé, Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson to name some of them.
Inner Vision Orchestra
Roland Levinsky Arts Building, Plymouth University 7pm Saturday
Indian maestro and Musical Director Baluji Shrivastav has brought together musicians from around the world who are blind or partially sighted.
Their uplifting music moves between songs from Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, to soulful Gospel and Blues to sublime Indian Ragas and Western Classical compositions.
Driven by the intensity of an inner vision they celebrate the power of music to transform lives
Inner Vision are Takashi Kikuchi, Victoria Oruwari, Abi Baker, Tristram Llewellan, Rikki Joldelko, Baldev Singh, Peggy Scott , Fereshteh Khosroujerdy, Ziad Sinno
Facemelter
The Junction, 9pm Saturday
FACEMELTER are a high-energy, authentic and theatrically-fronted band paying tribute mainly to the 70's and 80's classic rock era. The band evolved entirely from a genuine passion of this genre & is aimed at the true and discerning fan. FACEMELTER was never intended to be a 'middle of the road' sort of band, which ironically has a lot to do with their success.
Vicious Kitten
The Golden Hind 9pm Saturday
Vicious Kitten are a four piece high energy Pop/Rock covers band, providing a high standard of entertainment to the west country. The four experienced musicians have their own sound that puts their stamp on modern rock, pop classics and contemporary covers from the 80's, 90's, and today. Including: - Feeder, Pink, Guns N Roses, Inxs, Donna Summer, AC/DC, Gossip, Michael Jackson, Katrina and the Waves, Foo Fighters, Bon Jovi, Thin Lizzy, Kings Of Leon, Manic Street Preachers plus a load more with new artists being added to the set list every month.
Mamma Feelgood & The Hangups
Millbridge Inn, 9:15pm Saturday
Mamma Feelgood and The Hangups are a locally based soul funk band playing classics from the Motown, Atlantic and Stax record labels.
Ashes to Ashes
Kitty O'Hanlon's, 9pm Saturday
Sometime in the 1980s.
An up and coming band, playing the hits of the time in a bar full of yuppies.
A freak accident in the bullet factory next door sees the entire band wiped-out by a single exploding box of 5.56mm hollow points.
Or were they...?
When the band next wake, they're in the 21st century. Somehow shot forward in time.
The fashion's changed. There's something called the Internet. You can get to France on a train under the sea, and why does no-one drive around in a Sinclair C5? It seems the whole world has changed.
But their music still sounds great.
Ashes To Ashes are back. Just a bit more retro than they used to be.
Xlr
Thistle Park Tavern, 9:30pm Saturday
5 piece Plymouth based rock covers band, who enjoy playing both classic rock from the last 30 years and many tracks from the more recent guitar based bands. Formed in Xmas 2006, from the ashes of various past bands such as Jovio, De-v-8, Limited Edition, Flying Blind and Fallout.
