First up to the stage was XpressionFM’s Leah Finegold, guitar in hand and ready to lead the room through a set of perhaps predictable but well-executed covers, comprised mainly of folk/pop hits. Opening with Vance Joy’s ‘Riptide’, Finegold established an enthusiastic energy that she maintained throughout her performance, clearly at ease in front of an […]
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ExTunes at the Old Firehouse, 8/11/15
It was a lazy autumn evening and I was due to review ExTunes, among the best Sunday night expositions of musical talent with an EX4 postcode. I sauntered along to The Old Firehouse an hour before the music started and pensively sipped a two-pint pitcher of passion fruit cider through a straw, unsure of what […]
Has the uni cut too deep?
Jacqui Marshall, Interim Chief, Operating Officer: The University of Exeter is enjoying a sustained period of exceptional success. We are ranked solidly in the top ten in the main UK higher education league tables, we continue to strengthen our international reputation, and were recently named as The Time and The Sunday Times Sports University of […]
ExTunes Welcome Party at the Old Firehouse, 13/09/15
ExTunes never struggles to put on a good line-up. With their aim to unite as many genres of music, and societies performing music within the University, a night of old and new awaited, against the perfect backdrop of blackboards listing three thousand different types of cider and the best pizza the city has to its name. […]