Peoples Republic of South Devon

Innovate or die

Media innovations? Why, us li’l ole things? Well, yes, and stop talking like Penelope Pitstop.

The has been shortlisted by Plymouth Media Partnership for its innovations award - huzzah! But what’s innovative about getting young bands together for an interview and live session with an audience, streaming it all and then pulling certain tracks for a podcast? Nuff said.

Hosted by Niki from AEON, these events in the back half of last year were legendary, so fair dos for the Plymouth Media Partnership for catching on to the zeitgeist (look it up).

But if you want innovation, tune in on February 9 for the first of the - an interview and session all filmed live at the Music Mill studios in Newton Abbot, and brought to you over internet telly by spectralworkshoptv.

But hey why stop there, let the podcasts, the telly and the other blurb just whet your appetite for real live music: March 18 is the AEON Sunday Chill at the Exeter Hub and April 11 is the Melting Pot live again at the Exeter Hub, followed by the Hot Bitches Party at the Lemon Grove on May 25. And all this just leads up the the AEON festival on August Bank Holiday weekend.

These people just can’t stop innovating.

Posted by Cptn

January 29th, 2007

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Morsels on which to suck

Art/protest; protest/art. Hey, who knows, but whether it’s partying on down down on the underground or taking apart the shopping psychology A-Z in the Bullring, you’ll get a healthy dollop of both from the Vacuum Cleaner in their 13 Morsels to Suck On at the Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday, January 30.

The evening will consist of films of the group’s favourite activities as well as stories, anecdotes and, if you plead long enough, the occasional song-and-dance number, I’m sure.

But who is the Vacuum Cleaner? ‘It is an artist and activist collective, fashioning radical social and ecological change.

‘By employing various creative legal and illegal tactics and forms, the Vacuum Cleaner attempts to disrupt concentrations of power and reverse the impending collapse of planet earth.’ Like duhh.

Go along and see what can be done. And to all you Torbay residents, get a glimpse of home - they show the Bullring, people.

The fun kicks off at 8pm at the Exeter Phoenix, Tuesday, January 30. And it’s £8/£6 in, depending on your status.

Posted by Cptn

January 29th, 2007

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Eaze does it

Who needs a farmers’ market when you’ve got foodeaze?

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January 29th, 2007

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