This past Wednesday, Cavern hosted the first event for the local music event, Poltimore Festival. The festival takes place every summer in Exeter, featuring a variety of local musicians, artists, authors, and poets. Cavern often hosts an assortment of live shows, so locals were familiar with both the intimate venue and resident musicians that performed…
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It’s time for Poltimore Festival once again! The non-profit festival supports artists from across the South West, blending art, music, theatre, and film into one whirlwind event in May. For the seventh year running, the festival will host numerous artists at a one day festival in a celebration of creativity. Poltimore Festival will kick things…
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Photo credit: Poltimore Festival. Our taxi curled into the romantic shadow of Poltimore House, its scaffold-smothered stature would be an emblem for the festival’s essence of collaboration and support. The soul choir’s radiant sound check coaxed us through the gates and into the heart of that Eden, where our faces were baptised with sparkles from…
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George James Gordon Chiara and The Vu In response to the question ‘how would you keep your fans if all the world went deaf?’, a scenario evoking something from sci-fi fare, the band’s apparently unanimous response was: ‘We’d start playing naked’. Having followed them from their inception, I would suggest this spontaneous and unexpected answer epitomises…
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With a mixture of music, artwork, writing, theatre and film, Poltimore Festival is a glorious celebration of the arts all in a one-day experience. Organised in the name of love for creativity, the festival aims to provide people with the opportunity to support and explore local culture and original work. Exeter’s Poltimore Festival brings a…
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Image: Private Agenda Image Credit: Emile Hussell “Talk about milking it’”, the lead singer of Private Agenda jokes to the audience at the Exeter Phoenix after continuing to sing the lyrics ‘’it’s just a feeling’’ from their single Full Moon after the music has ceased to play. The singer’s comment was met with laughs from…
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As I set foot upon the grounds of Poltimore House, it became immediately clear that this was going to be a special day. The whole festival was decorated beautifully, with bunting hanging up everywhere and adorable handmade signs leading the way. With a yoga area in the woods, the Slacklining society set up in the…
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