The 7th Torbay Schools Festival of Performing Arts involving hundreds of young people gets underway tonight.
The ten day festival of competitions and concerts is supported by the Torbay Academy of Performing Arts (TAPA), the Torbay Council run music advisory service. It gives individuals and schools across Torbay the opportunity to showcase their musical talents.
The musical [...]
Legally Blonde The Musical Comes to Torquay’s Princess Theatre as the Theatre turns 50 Years old!
The Lincoln Lawyer offers plenty of tasy legal jargon but ultimately delivers little. By scattering its supporting cast into the wind and leaving lead star Matthew McConaughey with nothing to do other than reprise his act from A Time to Kill, it remains a film where the ingredients are in place but the pressure cooker’s been [...]
Judging by how much the camera wobbles around and how much debris and metal flies all over the place in Battle Los Angeles, you’d think the film was attempting to set a newbenchmark for sci-fi actioners. It doesn’t of course - it’s complete rubbish. But it’s enjoyably visceral, noisy rubbish nonetheless, launching the viewer into war-zone hell and [...]
Skipping over heavy philosophical issues with an appreciably light and frothy touch, The Adjustment Bureau stakes a claim to being the most accessible adaptation of a Phillip K. Dick story to date. Forget the posters blaring ‘Bourne Meets Inception!’ It’s nothing like either of those blockbusters, despite starring Matt Damon from the former and grappling [...]
Below are a list of events taking place across Torbay this week.
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Monday 21st March
Craft club at St Peters Community Centre, Queensway, Torquay from 10am
‘Chippendales – Most Wanted’, at the Princess Theatre, Torquay, from 7.30pm
Tuesday 22nd March
Percy Palm 4 Parents , a [...]
Stephen Fry is to Narrate at the Princess Theatre, Torquay on March 24th 2011.
Below are a list of events taking place across Torbay over the next seven days.
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MONDAY 14TH MARCH
Craft club from 10:00am at St Peters Community Centre, Queensway, Torquay.
Save a life give blood. Help boost blood stocks this March. For all sessions [...]
The great irony of Unknown is that, despite its title, it’s hardly an unknown quantity. In fact, it’ll be surprising if a less remarkable thriller is released this year. That’s not to say it’s a terrible film. On the contrary, the first half is riveting and builds a sense of quietly clammy menace. However, as [...]
Surprisingly entertaining, I Am Number Four (adapted from Jobie Hughes’ and James Frey’s novel) reclaims the teen fantasy movie from the mopey, lovey dovey wiffle of Twilight – but for how long? After all, it’s not sophisticated enough to linger in the minds of more discerning viewers and yet it may not have enough angst for those seeking a [...]
Below are a list of events taking place across Torbay over the next 7 days.
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MONDAY 7TH MARCH
Craft club at St Peters Community Centre, Queensway, Torquay from 10am.
Brixham Trawlers Our Heritage, a talk given by Bill Wakeham at 2:30pm ( Doors open [...]
A rare sequel that’s superior to the original, West is West observes race and family with warmth and clarity, whilst miraculously avoiding to be patronising and condescending on what are tricky, thorny subjects.
Its progenitor East is East was a massive hit on release in 1999 and won the BAFTA for best British Film. That said, [...]
Torbay residents are taking part in the largest book give-away ever attempted as part of World Book Night on Saturday 5 March.
Torbay Libraries have received delivery of over 1200 books from gifting publishers for 25 lucky book lovers to give away free to the public. In all, World Book Night will see one million free [...]
Tue 1 March
REGAN’S FOUND A JAM SESSION @ Church House Inn, Stokeinteignhead 8pm
Thu 3 March
80 DEGREES @ The Spinning Wheel Inn, Paignton
JAM NIGHT @ Molloy’s, Torquay 9pm
Fri 4 March
SLYTHERIN @ Ryan’s Bar, Torquay 9.15pm
BARRACOODAS @ The Kings Arms, Kingsteignton
THE QUINCIES @ The Coach House, Paignton 9pm
THE BANNED BROTHERS @ The Wild Goose, Newton Abbot 9pm
ROCK [...]
Ever wanted to watch some of the best classic movies ever made, as they should be seen – on the big screen? Well now is your chance, as Torquay Museum launches its Friday Afternoon Classic Film Club.
Every fortnight, at 2pm on a Friday afternoon, classics such as Casablanca and Breakfast at Tiffany’s will be screened [...]
Below is a list of events taking place in Torbay this week.
If you have an event you’d like promote on Talk Torbay and Riviera FM, email all the details to liam@riviera.fm
Tuesday 1st March
Heatwave at the Babbacombe Theatre, from 8.15pm.
Wednesday 2nd March
Adoption & Fostering Information Day from 11:00am – 3:00pm at St Peters Community Centre, Queensway, [...]
Imagine This is England but with the political subtext replaced with ambiguity and philosophy, and you come some way to getting a measure of Peter Mullan’s latest, NEDS.
The title stands for Non Educated Delinquents, and sees the acclaimed Scottish actor/writer/director return to home ground after his angry, impassioned and disturbing The Magdalene Sisters from 2002. [...]
Never Let Me Go is superior adult drama but a gruelling emotional experience. Mark ‘One Hour Photo’ Romanek’s chilly, reserved visual style denies it a knockout emotional punch but nevertheless it’s cloaked in a heartrendingly ominous air of foreboding from the start.
Adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel, many fans of the author have stated the film [...]
Once upon a time, a town centre was more than a place of commerce, a place where people can buy things for 99p and then head back home. A town centre used to be a meeting place; a centre of the community!
Hello. It’s been a busy few months for me with planning artsy things, but now I’m back for a blog about something I feel is a very important issue.
Before we moved to Devon, Hannah and I lived outside of Liverpool for about a year. I would listen to Radio Merseyside quite frequently and often they would [...]
Imagine if Rocky had fought not for the title but for family, status and environment. By and large that’s the measure of The Fighter, David O. Russell’s terrific new biographical drama (based on the true story of boxer Mickey Ward) which, although not an especially original film, is nonetheless a tremendously well-observed one.
Much of its success can be summed [...]
Tue 8 February
REGAN’S FOUND A JAM SESSION @ Church House Inn, Stokeinteignhead 7.30pm
Thu 10 February
JAM NIGHT @ Molloy’s, Torquay 9pm
Fri 11 February
OUT OF THE BOX @ The Kings Arms, Kingsteignton 9pm
RASPBERRY FISH @ Pub Alibi, Torquay 9pm
SLYTHERIN @ saracens head, Newton Abbot 9.15pm
HOT CANDY @ The Ship Inn, Newton Abbot 9pm
WIRED @ Blue Cargo Bar, [...]
There’s no better way to enjoy a great music line-up than go to a music festival. But anyone who has endured the facilities at Glastonbury will tell you that some aspects of festival going are not much fun. We know what we are talking about here – the legendary loos…..
So the enterprising [...]
Below are a list of events taking place across Torbay & South Devon.
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MONDAY 31ST JANUARY
Craft club at St Peters Community Centre, Queensway, Torquay from 10am
WEDNESDAY 2ND FEBRUARY
HCPT The Pilgrimage Trust, Prize Bingo and Draw, to raise funds to take children [...]
There’s no dilemma about how to appraise Ron Howard’s latest: it’s a smug, irritating, boring disaster on every level. Talky beyond belief, not funny, not dramatic and with a bafflingly miscast Vince Vaughn at the centre, it’s hard to think of a recent movie more misguided than The Dilemma.
The trailer would have you believe it’s an [...]
Natalie Portman gives a tour de force performance in Black Swan. Contorting and pirouetting to within an inch of her life, she is putty in director Darren Aronofsky’s merciless hands, a pawn in a wider game of chess playing out to the thunderous strains of Tchaikovsky. Mirroring the structure of the classic ballet, this is a [...]
Tue 25 January
REGAN’S FOUND A JAM SESSION @ Church House Inn, Stokeinteignhead 7.30pm
Thu 27 January
THE DARKSIDE OF PINK FLOYD @ The Spinning Wheel Inn, Paignton
JAM NIGHT @ Molloy’s, Torquay 9pm
Fri 28 January
STAX OF SOUL (SAX BASED SOUL BAND) @ Pub Alibi, Torquay 9pm
HOT CANDY @ The Spinning Wheel Inn, Paignton 9pm
ECLYPSE @ The Coach House, [...]
Below are a list of events taking place across
Torbay & South Devon.
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Monday 24th January
Pantomime Goldilocks and the3 Bears, in aid of local charities. 7:30pm daily until Saturday 29th January and 2:30 for Saturday matinee. At Kingskerswell [...]
The greatest irony of 127 Hours is that such a stripped down, minimalist story makes for one of the richest, most profound and most rewarding films of director Danny Boyle’s career. By zeroing in on a single target (in this case reckless adventurer Aron Ralston, who was forced to sever his arm after it was trapped by a boulder in [...]
Below are a list of events taking place across Torbay & South Devon.
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Saturday 15th January
Free Business Start Up info session – Find out more about a free programme in Torbay called Outset Torbay helping local people who might want to [...]