The Plymouth Daily's essential guide to your weekend
At a loss on how to fill your weekend? Fear not - your one-stop shop of gigs, plays and gallery shows is here again. This weekend sees some great events for children at the city museum as well as some of the livelist gigs in the South West.
Event
Calstock Jazz & Blues Festival
Various Venues, Friday to Sunday
All three headliners have now been announced – the Jacqui Dankworth Trio will be playing in the Old Chapel on Saturday 26 October, and on Sunday 27 October, also in the Old Chapel, Jean Toussaint and two of the late Abram Wilson’s critically acclaimed young rhythm section, plus Jean Toussaint’s regular bass player, present ‘Saxophone Giants: A Tribute to Jazz’s Greatest Saxophonists’.
Tickets for all these events are now on sale.
There will also be jazz and blues events in every other venue in the village, including workshops for all ages, a gospel choir, rhythm ‘n’ blues and swing bands, blues soloists, dancers, stalls, excellent catering including jazz cream teas – and much much more.
For further details and the full programme of events visit http://calstockjazzfestival.co.uk/
Pop-up Museum
Drake Circus Shopping Mall, 26-29th October 10am to 4pm
Meet and chat to experts from the City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, South West Film and Television Archive and South West Image Bank!
Why not pop along for this exciting opportunity to see and handle real specimens and objects – and discover more about the City's amazing art, human history, natural history and archive collections?
Admission is free and there is no need to book. Just come along to our stand on the ground floor of the Drake Circus shopping mall (outside Starbucks and Primark) for as little or as long as you like.
Halloween 2013: Little Monsters
Plymouth city museum and art gallery, Saturday 11am, 1:30pm and 3pm
Make masks, wands and origami in a spooky 60-minute craft session at the City Museum and Art Gallery. Perfect for children aged: 5 - 11. Three sessions during the day. Contact organiser to avoid disappointment.
Exhibitons
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
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.
Hidden in Plain Sight
Plymouth museuem and Art Gallery, opens Saturday
The term 'abstract' can mean many things – to remove, to summarise, to be difficult to understand, to be impersonal – all of which can apply to abstraction in art. It can refer to art that has an object or landscape as its subject or starting point, or it can use forms that have no source from the visible world. This exhibition will focus on abstraction from our collection, including work by Patrick Heron, Ian Davenport, and Justin Knowles. It will also include previously unseen footage of Patrick Heron in his studio from the late 1950s.
26 October 2013 to 11 January 2014
Contempary Textiles
45 Southside Gallery, ongoing
Exhibition of contemporary textiles by artists from Devon and Cornwall. Weavers Debbie Rudolph and Sue Spooner will join mixed media textile artists Helen Edwards, Jane Price and embroiderer Beverley Bailey to show wallpieces, scarves, bags, jewellery and much more. Ceramic Artist Emma West will be showing her ceramic wallpieces, which feature impressions of her own embroidered works.
Theatre
The Secret Agent
The Drum, Theatre Royal, until Saturday
Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots… this is London, 1896. Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s classic novel, The Secret Agent is theatre O’s heartbreaking but hilarious chronicle of passion, betrayal and terrorism.
Set at a time of social upheaval and growing disparity between rich and poor, at the heart of this tale is a woman fighting to protect her young brother from exploitation and violence.
In their trademark highly imaginative style, music hall and early cinema collide in theatre O’s return to the stage after five years away.
Music
Brother and Bones
The White Rabbit, Friday 8pm
With a sound between Dead weather and Mumford and Sons this band bridges the delicate and the destructive. Catch them on their UK tour. Tickets from £7.70
Emily Maguire
B-bar, the Barbican, Friday 9pm
Maguire is an independent English singer songwriter. With her thought provoking lyrics and heart melting melodies she is a must see this weekend. Tickets from £3
A Total Stranger
Cherry Tree, Friday 9pm
Local legend who never fails to impress
ReZonance
Boomerang Sports Bar, Friday 9.30pm
ReZonance are a well established, female fronted rock indie covers band based in Plymouth. A professional, friendly and approachable unit with many years of performing experience, they're no strangers to entertaining the crowds.
Phil Lewis
The Pennycross Sports & Social Club, Friday 9.15pm - 11.45pm
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 Normals
Millbridge Inn, Friday 9pm
The Normals were formed on deepest darkest Dartmoor. James and Chris (now brother's in law) spent many a night jamming down the local pub with Tom (also from the village).They built up quite a reputation and their love for music led onto thoughts of bigger things and forming a proper band and to get out gigging.
Code Red
The Swan, Friday9pm - 11.30pm
Rock covers band playing classic rock including Pink floyd , Eagles , ACDC and many more through to modern classic crowd pleasers such as Greenday and Kings of Leon
Slim Jim's Rock 'n' Roll Disco
The Swan, Friday 9pm – midnight
With shows since 1969 Slim Jim’s is a 1950s rock n roll disco/record hop, playing all the hits and misses from 1950 to 1960, rockabilly, doo wop and many retro sounds.
Less Is More
Thistle Park Tavern, Friday 10pm
Kris & Dave Hacker with Mike Isaac on bass mixing original material with blues/rock covers. Hot, dynamic and tight but loose!
FireFly
The Mount Pleasant, Friday 9pm
Starting from the make-shift band Lydford Jam put together to play a short set at Lydstock, they couldn’t let it lie and now gig as a full line-up.
Backbeat - Beatles tribute
The Ships Tavern, Friday 9pm - 11pm
Plymouth premier Beatles covers band they play all the favourites from the fab fours back catalogue.
Stormin Norman
The Ships Tavern, Friday 9pm - 11.30pm
Stormin Normin has performed as a solo guitar/vocalist throughout Britain and across Europe, including Greece, Germany, Spain, The Canary Islands and Cruise Ships. He regularly plays to appreciative audiences in Germany.
He is mostly known for Classic Rock and blues from Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Gary Moore, black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy
Hawklords
The White Rabbit, Saturday 8:30pm
Following their critically acclaimed 2012 album release 'We Are One' Hawklords return to the UK tour circuit with a new show featuring many classic 'Hawk' songs alongside brand new material and songs from the 'We Are One' album. The live shows also feature a stunning digitally projected lightshow specially created by lighting designer extraordinaire, Dave 'Lighthouse' Johnson. Formerly known as Hawkwind. Tickets from £11
Phil Lewis
The Notte, Saturday 10pm – midnight
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
Tracks Of Time
Cherry Tree, Saturday 9pm
One of the South West's Best Live Performers covering music from every major decade.
A truly great sounding show, with special effects and hi tech laser lighting to make shows stand out from the crowd, and create a superb atmosphere. Also known as Stuart.
Blackbird
Boomerang Sports Bar, Saturday 9pm
Blackbird are a two piece acoustic duo from Plymouth. They play covers from a wide range of genres and decades. Always great entertainment these two guys definitely know how to get the crowd going.
Rockafella
Kitty O'Hanlon's, Saturday 9pm
Rockafella are an energetic Plymouth based four piece covers band playing storming rock tunes from the 90s through to today. With a set based around modern classics, forgotten gems, and a few special Rockafella twists on the unexpected
Fluke
Royal Oak, Saturday 9pm
FLUKE are a dynamic 3-piece group from Plymouth, UK. They play classic music from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Their aim is to get people moving, to create the right setting in which everybody has a good time.
Raining Globe
The Roundabout Saturday 6pm
Raining Globe are an Indie rock/pop band and that write and perform their own songs. with strong, catchy choruses easy to dance and sing along to.
Orangutan Wheelbarrow
The Roundabout, Saturday 10pm
A 4 piece outfit from the Tavistock area, playing rock music to cater for everyones needs from the alternative Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam to the Classics Ac/Dc and Neil Young rite up to the modern party tunes from Kings of Leon and Arctic Monkeys
The Vibes
The Brass Monkey, Saturday 9pm - 11.30pm
The Vibes are an indie band who play high energy, high quality indie anthems by bands such as Oasis, Stereophonics, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkey's, The Libertines, The View, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, The Enemy, The Killers, The Vaccines, The Hives, Coldplay and The Strokes
Jaded Angel
The Cock'n'bull, Saturday 9pm
Jaded Angel is a highly entertaining act from the South West, playing a range of classics, rock and pop music. With amazing vocals and awesome live guitar, this talented duo gives high-energy and crowd pleasing performances that will be sure to fill the dance floor.
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Black Jacks, Saturday 10pm
Hi powered three piece playing high standard, uber energy covers from the best of today and yesterday
Rusty Angels
Thistle Park Tavern, Saturday 9pm
A highly energetic and experienced 4 piece band, actively gigging on a regular basis around the Plymouth area. Playing everything from Elvis to Metallica, from The Doors to System of a Down, and from Kings of Leon to Rage Against The Machine, there's literally something for everyone to enjoy in their set
