Fifth of the month Special

On Wednesday's  The Multifarious Mix  we welcomed two top class - and quite different - musicians to the Phonic FM studio, both of whom gave us superb live sets.



Listen again to the show here.


Jay Tamkin is a young singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He performs with other musicians as the Jay Tamkin Band, a band who have achieved popularity in Holland, Germany and Austria as well as the UK. For us he was solo. He brought in his keyboard and performed three of his own songs with tremendous passion and expertise:
Dancing In The Rain, Kiss And Tell and Loving Man.


Find out more about Jay and his band on their website.

Kouatchou is a singer, guitarist, songwriter who performs meaningful songs with strong conviction. He performed three of his songs for us: Kings And Queens, Perseverance and Groove It. Kouatchou comes from The Cameroon, lived in Brazil for a while and has lived in the UK for over ten years. All his experiences are reflected in his songs. See Kouatchou at 13:15 this Saturday 2 June on the Acoustic Cafe Stage at Exeter Respect Festival in Belmont Park. Hear and see Kouatchou performing on Youtube.


Recordings played
Sky..Westway..Masterpieces
Kouatchou..O'Amanhecer
Jay Tamkin..Circles..Alibi
Dakar Audio Club..undidentified track from Youtube
Bryan Ferry..Falling In Love Again..As Time Goes By
James Taylor..Sweet Baby James..Classic Songs
Bo Walton..Hey Mister Night
Eric Ness..Valentine..Eric Ness
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart..Little Rock..Dedication
Monkey Gland Blues Band..Mad Woman Blues
Bhundu Boys..Pafunge..Muchiyedza (Out of the Dark)
Jay Tamkin..You Got The Heart..Alibi
Jerry Cahill..The Enchanter..Armchair Traveller
The Four Brothers.. Rudo Chete..Brothers
Julaba Kunda.. Massina..Traders
Brendan Power..The Bucks of Oranmore..Blow In

Theatre and Live Music...

...on this week's  The Multifarious Mix . Listen to the show here.

We featured two sets of excellent musicians. From Frome we welcomed two members of the band My Social Orbit: Pierre Shepard and Graeme Lawson. The full band are pictured. We were given a fine acoustic set. Their self-penned songs were Legal Bank Job, Festival Fantasy, Line Of Least Resistance and Life's Not Easy. Find out more about their music on Facebook and MySpace.

It's always great to have local singer songwriter guitarist Nicky Swann playing for Phonic FM. Nicky has a wonderful new album out featuring songs connected with her home town of Newton Abbot. It's called How Does Your Land Lie and from the album we played New Found Lands. Nicky's live songs are also featured on the album: Union Babies, Diving and Run Away.

Thank you very much to all the talented musicians.

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Exeter Blitz, Viva Voce, in collaboration with Exeter's BikeShed Theatre, have created a theatrical Blitz experience based on accounts by people who experienced the blitz. The production runs from 3-19 May. Full details on the BikeShed Theatre website. Many thanks to co-director Jessican Beck for telling us all about this innovative and exciting production.

We were pleased too to hear from Malcolm about productions coming up at Exeter's New Theatre, home to the Cygnet Training Theatre. The theatre consistently produces top class shows. The next productions are Trouble and Strife (5 May), The Cygnet Review (12 May), Born in the Gardens - Creative Cow (16-17 May) and The Taming of the Shrew (28 May - 1 June). Details here.