Can you tell me a little more about Volksfest, the idea behind it, how it started and why you chose Plymouth as a location? It all started back in 2008, when two friends and VW enthusiasts – Vince Davis and Chris Smith – decided to start their own gathering of vintage VWs in the southwest, as an alternative to Run To The Sun, the idea being it would be a bit of a low key affair, a few beers, a marquee and a ...

Artist: The Dark Plains EP: Come On and Get Some Released: 4th February 2013 Tracks: 5 A couple of days ago, I checked into my inbox to discover a link to The Dark Plains' music profile on ReverbNation along with a recommendation to give them a listen. The Plymouth-based trio released their début 5-track EP Come On and Get Some just under a month ago and it could best be described as combining raw grunge, r ...

Artist: Jack Cookson Album: Five Times EP Running Time: 19 minutes Released: 20th July 2012 If you haven't heard of Plymouth-based Jack Cookson yet, then what you need to know is that on the 20th July 2012, the 18-year-old musician gave us his début release, an EP that he recorded, mixed, and mastered independently. Since then, Jack's popularity for Five Times EP has grown slowly but surely due to web expos ...

Whether its music, films, TV Shows or games, I often find myself  getting bored and wanting new things to entertain me, but I never seem to have the time to do the research. I've recently found myself in a gaming rut, I like Call of Duty, Halo & Need for Speed as much as the next guy, and I'm also quite a big fan on RPG's, but there's got to be so much I haven't had the time to find and experience. I wa ...

Last week, I was lucky enough to spend 2 days at ExPlay 2012, the South West's only Indie Games Festival. Having started in Plymouth only a year previously, I was interested to see how it had developed and moved on to bigger and better things. ExPlay did not disappoint to say the least. It was talk after talk and panel after panel of inspiring, insightful and downright awesome speakers, including keynotes f ...