The fifth Phoenixsounds showcase returns - Saturday 29th September - Voodoo Lounge - Exeter Phoenix, featuring more of the best artists in the region.

ARTISTS PROFILES

EVI VINE
Evi’s potent, dark and beautiful tones stretch flesh and sinew over the raw, animal skeleton of the music. Isolation, sex, death, alienation, passion, betrayal and redemption all wend their way into her narrative style. Evi’s work is more than just her voice, which is other-worldly in its ability to twist around a piece and really make you believe in what she is singing to you.

Gracing the main stage at the Secret Garden Party, where she performed a ‘dreamy and distinguished’ set the Evi Vine live experience is one of enchantment and dark beauty, with audiences often moved to tears at the sense of dept and involvement in her work.
Her self-produced debut EP, “Human Remains” is available to buy now

For tickets and for further details contact Exeter Phoenix Box Office (01392 667080)

NOZZLE
Nozzle offer up a hard-edged blend of anthemic rock and melodic British pop music.
Nozzle was originally formed in 1995 by singer, guitarist and songwriter Dave Blomberg and consists of Dave on guitar & vocals, Leigh Winsor on bass guitar and Joe Breban on drums.

Since forming Nozzle have continued to tour Europe, appearing at festivals in Germany, Italy and on the main stage at the Beautiful Days festival in Devon. Nozzle recently opened for the band New Model Army at their Christmas show at the Astoria in London where they were favourably received by NMA’s 1,000 strong audience.

SIOBHAN McCRUDDEN

Haunting songs with a unique fragility and deeply personal themes.

‘…beautiful and powerful vocals crying out folk in the classic tradition of bards immemorial. Whether a historical tragedy, a recent broken heart, or lovers’ anticipated embrace, the emotion flows, inundates, and recedes like a tempestuous river whose irresistible force carries you along for the ride leaving you breathless and travelled at the fertile conclusion.”

ROB SWANN

Local singer songwriter Rob Swann plays his own highly personal brand of melodic and intimate songs and has been gathering a local following playing in and around Exeter. Sweet tones and strange tunings combine with personal lyrics.

PHOENIXSOUNDS music showcases - The Voodoo Lounge - Exeter Phoenix

SOUND GALLERY (in association with The FUTURE SOUND of EXETER) present PHOENIXSOUNDS Respect showcase - July 7th - 8pm - Voodoo Lounge - Exeter Phoenix.

Artists profiles

DRAGONSFLY
East meets West in an exciting cross-over featuring bagpipes, tablas, bouzouki, mandolin, guitars, hurdy-gurdy, recorders and more. With this unique celtic-eastern-folk-fusion Dragonsfly have thrilled festival audiences across Europe.

Dragonsfly will also be holding a Breton dance taster workshop in the Voodoo Lounge from 4-5pm before the evening performance.

For tickets to all events over the Exeter Respect weekend and for further details contact Phoenix Box Office (01392 667080)

PANACEA
live bagpipes, harmonium, bouzouki, bass and percussion combine with sequencers and drum loops melodies, interweaving harmonies and engaging rythms.

“Panacea combine driving, funky bass with dextrous Turkish percussion, beautiful acoustic guitar and pulsating bouzouki, stirring pipes and droning harmonium, all overlaid with strong drum loops and atmospheric samples. They get an audience moving and create a wonderful ‘east meets west ambience’ ideal for any high quality world music night”

CLAUDE BOURBON
Claude Bourbon, Progressive Medieval & Spanish Blues finger-picking guitarist A breathtaking acoustic fusion of Blues, Jazz,Folk, Classical and Spanish guitar Claude Bourbon, who trained for many years in Switzerland and has performed and studied all over the world, has crafted an inspired fusion of classical and blues, with ethereal Eastern influences, Spanish and Latin elements with strains of Western folk.

Claude’s musical roots are blues, however, his music has and will continue to evolve over the years. Bourbon gets his musical inspiration from around the world including Spanish Middle Eastern, Russia and Europe.

Claude Bourbon takes the different sounds heard from different regions and molds them into the songs and melodies you hear at his shows.

His songs may be blues-sounding, ballads, rock, jazz or even unique and unclassifiable.

This performance forms part of The Future Sound of Exeter’s World Music night at Exeter Respect Festival - tickets are £12.50/£11 and provide access to an amazing five area show at Exeter Phoenix - Saturday 7th July.

For more information on the other events, performances, workshops taking place that night and for all artist profiles visit Exeter Respect 2007.

Radio Session
Listen to Dragonsfly on BBC Radio 2 at 10pm on Wednesday 6th June.
The Charles Hazlewood show.

Charles Hazlewood returns for another series of eclectic musical exploration. The classical conductor will play music from Bach to Bjork, punk to polka…joining the dots in between music of all genres.

Recorded on location at Charles’ home in rural Somerset, there’ll be unusual musical juxtapositions, fascinating conversation and live performance. Each week a special guest musician joins Charles in the studio to produce a unique musical collaboration.

06 June
This week Charles is joined by ‘Celtic’-Eastern-Folk Fusion band Dragonsfly who’ll be playing live.