Chart topping Indie Pop act Scouting For Girls announce another headlining tour, visiting Plymouth Pavilions on Sunday 2 November 2008.

It is little over a year since Scouting For Girls singed their first recording contract with Epic UK and already the West-London trio of Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse and Peter Ellard have sold enough copies of their self titled debut album to reach number 1 and achieve platinum status.

The first taster to their wider audience was the release of the ‘It's Not About You' EP in June 2007. It became the first limited edition EP to chart in UK history.

Remembrance 2008 will take place at Plymouth Pavilions on Friday 7 November 2008, this year commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the cease fire on 11th day of 11th month 1918. 

With a total disregard for life, regardless of country, this years Festival will commemorate the multitude of service personnel who lost their lives during both World Wars and those who lost their lives during active service including non combatants of the Merchant Fleet in Palestine, Malaya, Korea, Kenya, Cyprus, Suez, Aden, Brunei, Borneo, British Honduras, Belize, Northern Ireland, Falklands, the Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.

We in Plymouth have, or know of, servicemen and women who served with units in Devon & Cornwall and have been killed or wounded in active service in either in Afghanistan or Iraq recently.

The Welsh metal-core band Bullet For My Valentine has spent most of the past 2 years taking over the world with massive UK, European, U.S and worldwide tours, sharing the stage with Guns N Roses, Metallica and Iron Maiden, playing the Main Stage at just about every rock festival on the planet, and seeing their 2006 debut album The Poison - an album The Sun called "One of the finest debut albums in rock history" - sell more than one-million copies worldwide - 350,000 in the U.S. alone - a very rare achievement for an emerging band.

Back home, Bullet For My Valentine has graced the covers of the UK's Kerrang!, Rock Sound, and Metal Hammer. They won Metal Hammer's 2006 "Golden God Award" for Best British Band, and the 2006 Kerrang! Award for "Best UK Single" for their track "Tears Don't Fall".

The bands latest album 'Scream Aim Fire' was released earlier this year and reached No.34 in the UK album charts.

On the eve of the 200th episode of Later…, Jools Holland announces his much anticipated 2008 Autumn tour. To celebrate his golden 50th  birthday, the master of the ivories will embark on a 31 UK date tour alongside his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra heading to Plymouth Pavilions on Saturday 15 November in what will be his most glittering tour yet.

Following his hugely successful sell out tour last year and the release of ‘Best Of Friends' which stormed the album top 10, Jools Holland's 2008 UK tour will kick off on 24 October and will see the music maestro returning for a show stopping two nights at London's majestic Royal Albert Hall. Bringing audiences another taste of his blues and boogie woogie fun, Jools Holland - the hardest working and most prolific British musician, promises a trademark foot-stomping night out.

With guest vocals from Ruby Turner, Louise Marshall along with Marc Almond, Jools will perform tracks spanning his 11 albums from the past 11 years as well as songs taken from his latest hit album ‘Best Of Friends' which was released last Autumn. The album includes some of Jools' most loved collaborations with guests including the late George Harrison, Norah Jones, Tom Jones, Bono and Stereophonics.

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Two different men. One Mighty Boosh.

Following the sell out success of their debut live tour, “the funniest comedy double-act in Britain,” (NME) Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, return to the live stage with their glorious mix of music and comedy.

Back with a vengeance, Vince Noir and Howard Moon will be joined on stage by a profusion of characters from their hit TV show. See Naboo the Enigma dazzle with shaman magic, see Bollo the Gorilla takes on the irksome evil Cockney Hitcher and marvel at the worldly observations of the Moon… There may be punks and yetis, monsters, music and mayhem, in one terrific psychedelic melting pot.

“A triumphant spectacle… One of the most joyful shows around.”
The Observer

“A beguilingly trippy comic universe… Overwhelmingly fun for fun's sake.”
The Telegraph

Dylan Moran's stand up shows have sold out across the world and now he makes his debut at Plymouth Pavilions on Thursday 20 November 2008.

From New York and LA through Europe and onto Australasia ‘Monster I', ‘Monster II' and ‘Like Totally' have cemented this unkempt wordsmith's reputation as one of the foremost comics of his generation. Likened to Dave Allen and labelled ‘The Oscar Wilde of Comedy' Dylan is unpredictable, bizarre, elegiac, often cruel but above all painfully funny. Dylan sees through the joys and disappointments of human existence with the sensibility and intense perception of a man teetering on the edge. He chews life up and spits it out stamping it into the pavement as he goes.

‘He's one of a kind”. The Daily Telegraph

Dylan Moran first came to public attention when he won Channel 4's ‘So You Think You're Funny', followed 3 years later by the Perrier Award. Since those early stand-up beginnings Dylan has had huge success as both a writer and a performer. The Simon Nye comedy ‘How Do You Want Me' established him as a serious acting talent. Three series of the Channel 4's sitcom ‘Black Books' followed, winning him a BAFTA and a Bronze Rose of Montreux, before Dylan turned his back on the huge financial incentives for a further series and lay grumpy Bernard and witless assistant Mani to rest.

Dylan's film career has included the smash hit ‘Rom-Com-Zom', ‘Shaun of the Dead' alongside Simon Pegg, ‘The Actors' opposite Michael Caine and Michael Gambon; ‘Notting Hill' and Michael Winterbottom's ‘A Cock & Bull Story'. Last year Dylan teamed-up with Pegg once again to star in David Schwimmer's directorial debut ‘Run Fat Boy Run'. Dylan has recently completed filming ‘A Film with Me in it' due for release later in the year.

‘About as perfect an evening as I can recall'.  The Times

Dylan Moran makes you laugh so hard you have to put your head between your knees and gasp for air". The Observer

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At last, an event to celebrate the universal love for some of the most enduring music ever created will head to Plymouth Pavilions on Friday 21 November 2008.

A Night at the Opera starring Jonathan Ansell, special guests and the Night at the Opera Orchestra is a glorious celebration of the most famous and best loved arias from the world's favourite operas.

Jonathan Ansell, the charismatic young singer with the sensational tenor voice who shot to fame three years ago with pop opera group G4 on the X Factor, has now established himself as a bona fide solo star. Jonathan achieved amazing success with the classically-trained group G4, whose final performance as a group was a sensational sold out show at the Royal Albert Hall. But surpassing this, he has now achieved a debut solo album that topped the classical charts and also hit the top ten of the pop charts.

Including Aida, The Barber of Saville, La Boheme, Carmen, Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Madame Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Rigoletto Tosca, La Traviata and many more.

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St Cecilia's Day Concert
Albinoni Adagio for organ and strings
Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
Rodrigo Concierto d'Aranjuez
Elgar Sospiri
Hadyn Symphony NO. 94 'Surprise'
Conductor - Simon Ible
Soloist - Carlos Bonnell (guitar)

The Ten Tors Orchestra was launched at an inaugural concert in Tavistock in the heart of rural Devon in December 1998. It is now established as the premier professional chamber orchestra in Devon & Cornwall performing a year round series of concerts in the region.

The Ten Tors is a chamber orchestra of 31 professional players. A 17-piece string ensemble plus flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, percussion and harpsichord. On some occasions the orchestra is just 15 players - often there are as many as a small church venue can accommodate and on occassion it can extand up to 50 players according to the demands of the particular event.

In August 2008 Paddy hits the road again with his eagerly awaited brand new show ‘Paddy McGuinness Plus You', heading to Plymouth Pavilions on Friday 28 November 2008.

This new show will have the “plus you” element, where specially invited guests from the South West will be hand-picked by Paddy himself to be his new support act! All this plus a winner's cheque for two thousand pounds and a chance to appear in his new live DVD. The competitions will run on Paddy's website www.patrickmcguinness.co.uk .

Paddy's last tour ‘The Dark Side' was the fastest selling of 2006, taking in 115 sold out dates and selling more than 160,000 tickets! His following live debut DVD entered the comedy charts at No 1 and has currently sold in excess of 250,000 copies.

Pendulum formed in their home-town of Perth (Western Australia) in 2002, when producers Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen teamed up with acclaimed local DJ Paul 'Elhornet' Harding. While their individual formative roots ranged from producing drum & bass, breakbeat and hardcore, to playing in metal and punk bands, their comparable talents proved an unstoppable force when they managed to single-handedly conquer the world of drum & bass in their first 12 months together.

After selling more that 225,000 units of their debut artist album "Hold Your Colour", remixing for such respected artists as The Prodigy, being play-listed and featuring regularly on BBC Radio 1, all whilst continuing to tour the world over as DJs...Pendulum decided that it was finally time to take things to the next level - performing live.

The last 12 months have seen Pendulum retreat to the depths of the underground to work on their second album, and to hone and perfect their sound for the live arena.