The fans of Isaac Gracie may feel close to him whilst they listen to his gentle tones in the library. However, it is at his live performances where one can truly acknowledge his soulful yet simultaneously rocky voice, along with his gentle sense of humour and rhythmic harmonies. The 24-year-old Isaac Gracie catapulted into the […]
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Live Review: Loyle Carner @ Exeter Phoenix
A year ago, I’d never heard of the name Loyle Carner, let alone his real name, which is (confusingly) Benjamin Coyle-Larner, despite the fact that it was beginning to pop up all over various ‘one to watch’ lists. Over the course of 2017, I’ve watched him release his debut album, feature on 6 Music Live […]
Live review: Stornoway @ Exeter Phoenix
“W e honestly never dreamed we’d come this far,” Stornoway front man Brian Briggs admits. “Swindon, perhaps… but Exeter? No way.” The whoop this earns almost cancels out the outrage he unleashed earlier, back when he suggested to a tipsy Phoenix crowd that cream teas might have come from Cornwall. Yep: between the regional banter and […]
Organisers of ‘Tribal Dance’ apologise as students brand the event ‘appalling’
The organisers of a student ‘Tribal Dance’ in Exeter have changed the title of their event after an Exeposé investigation. The title has now been changed to ‘The Temple of Dance.’ Organisers Good Life Exeter also altered potentially offensive elements of the description of their event on Facebook. Phrases such as ‘our tribal drums’ and ‘Tribal […]
Live Review: Amber Run @ Exeter Phoenix
Amber Run returned to Exeter to play Phoenix off the back of their new album, For A Moment, I Was Lost. Support came from Meadowlark and Island. Meadowlark played as a two-piece, playing some interesting yet slightly chart-friendly pop. Nevertheless, they put on an impressive set, and are definitely worth a listen. Island, the second […]
Live Review: Beans on Toast @ Exeter Phoenix
Beans On Toast. A simple, unassuming English moniker, wholly suitable for Jay McAllister the cult folk performer from Essex. Beans is a one of a kind, if you don’t believe me then maybe the fact that he rocked up to the phoenix stage barefoot, encapsulates his unpretentious personality. The night celebrated Independent Music Week- as […]
Live Review: Poltimore Festival Launch @ Phoenix, Exeter
At times Exeter Uni’s music scene leaves something to be desired. It might be easy to turn your nose up at its modest institutions and its humbly strumming virtuosos, especially if you’ve been snuffling around Bristol’s musically dank sanctums – dripping with edge and bloated with vape smoke. While they may have a cold-war cargo […]
New Model Army @ Exeter Phoenix
At harrowing times such as these (geopolitical disasters incurred, essay deadlines approaching, cold dark days) it’s imperative to find a place where you can escape for a while, and for me it is music which offers its consoling bosom on which to rest my weary head. Lucky then than that all this angst coincided with […]
Live Review: Ronnie Spector @ Exeter Phoenix
Born over three decades after she released her first single with The Ronettes, to me Ronnie Spector has only ever existed in the mythology of glimmering press shots, the lore of biography, like many stars of that era lingering far beyond the oblique parapet of reality. Beautiful, iconic, somewhere between Broadway and Spanish Harlem, early punk rocker or pop […]
EP Review: Wolf Choir – Zoo of the New
Wolf Choir Zoo of the New EP 6 December 2015 Wolf Choir may not be a name you’re familiar with, but the band’s latest EP release – Zoo of the New – is something to be taken seriously. Strongly influenced by the hazy indie-rock of Phoenix and Real Estate, this is only the second release for […]