Last  night Small Town Jones kicked off this years folk and cider festival at the Landmark in Ilfracombe. A fantastic set as always, setting a high standard for the rest of the weekend. Check out this track recorded live from their set:

Today we still have Helghyer, Full English and The Oggle Band playing,  we are currently being treated to the rich sound of Julian Langer. Its going to be a great weekend and we highly recommend you pop down and check it out! Come back here for more live tracks from the weekend.

Malcolm Langford is kindly offering a lifetimes worth of sheet music for free. There are over 250 pieces of music looking to find a new home. Included is Solo Vocal Music, Choral Music, SATB Libaries, Christmas music and much more. Perfect for anyone looking to expand their library with some of the all time greatest hits.

A spreadsheet outlining everything that he has can be found here.

Price: Free
Delivery: Collection Only
Area: Bideford
Contact: Malcolm Langford - 01237 451381

We Are Looking For Enthusiastic People Who Love Music To Join Our Street Team…

What Is A Street Team?
The Factory Street Team informs people about upcoming shows and events happening here at The Factory. So, this would mean distributing flyers and putting up posters in your town. Spreading the word about news, gigs and events online via social media!

What’s In It For Me?
FREE entry to loads of gigs and events! It looks great on your CV and is a fantastic opportunity to get your foot in the door of the music industry!

How Old Do I Have To Be?
As long as you are over 16 – that’s cool

How Do I Apply?
Email thefactory@petroc.ac.uk Ask for a street team application, fill out your details. And we will be in touch. Easy!!

Adding an event to the site is a quick and easy process, we try to list as much live music as possible and submitting your own events will help us make that a reality. After posting your first event it should take no longer than a couple of minutes to add new ones. At this point in time we ask that you do not post regular open mic nights, we plan to build a table displaying were every regular open mic night is held throughout the week.

Sign Up

Start off by hitting Log In in the top right

If you already have an account enter your details and hit Log In.
If you do not have an account hit Register and follow the instructions to create a new account.

Account Menu

Once signed in you will find an new selection of options on a bar at the top of the site

1. Edit your profile settings
2. Go to site posting
3. Comments
4. Create new posts
5. Notifications

Go to ‘New > Event’ to list a new event

This is the back end for adding a new event, it may look intimidating but it is quite simple.

1. Title – This is for our reference only, it should be ‘Artist DD/MM’
2. Date – Use the calendar picker to select which day your event takes place on.
3. Name – Insert the Artists name or the event name
4. Venue – Where the event will be happening
5. URL – A link to a page providing more info; venue site, artist site, Facebook event etc. Must include ‘http://’
6. Button – Text you would like displayed on the URL button. i.e. Visit Site, More Info, Visit Page, Buy Tickets.
7. Sold Out – If the event sells out you may need to come back and tick this box to let people know.
8. Cancelled – If the event is cancelled ticking this box will inform people of the cancellation.
9. Preview – No need to use this button, it should only display the event title, this is only to check database listings.
10. Submit – If you are happy with the details submit the event to us, we will check the information then post it to the site.

A completed event should look something like this

After a few weeks of amazing weather it has started to rain again, hopefully it shouldn’t hang around for too long. Forecast for Thursday looks promising. We have been lucky to have some fantastic acts playing recently including Sonic Fusion at the Landmark, James Hollingsworth at The Thatch, Steven Paul Ley at The Chill Bar & The Rivals at The Palladium Club. We don’t always get a chance to make every gig but we have heard good things. If you are interested in posting gig write-ups for the website please let us know.

We have just posted an exclusive release from The Devil Delta Blues Band recorded at The Greatest Blues Show on Earth. The gig raised over £500 for North Devon Hospice and you are still able to donate here. A fantastic effort by all and great evening of entertainment.

Also why not pop down to the Croyde Sandcastle Competition on the 11th of August. As long as the weather holds up it should be a great day out!

Attempt at the world record for the most sandcastles made in one hour from wavedreamer on Vimeo.

You may have noticed a few more Artists that have added their tracks to the site, if you would like your music posted please let us know or fill out the submission form on the music page.

Today we launch the public beta of our site, after many late nights and hours spent staring at screens this is what we have created. The site is built entirely with WordPress, it wasn’t the obvious choice but we are all really happy with what we have created with this CMS. We have added a service to upload your own tracks and given the ability to register for the site with Facebook. At this point expect to see a few bugs here and there, we are still very busy at work getting it ready for the official launch on 4th July. At this point we greatly appreciate any feedback you have for us, this website is for the musical community of North Devon and your input is very important to us. If you have any suggestions for the feature, would like to get involved or simply spotted an error please drop us a message on our contact page. Soon we will be rolling out some new features, including an instrument/kit for sale service along with some other resources. Also check out our Twitter & Facebook profiles!

We hope you like it!

We are currently looking for fresh local music to feature on the site. Any artist from the area can be featured on the site for free, we will have a listen to your music and if we like what we hear then you become our new featured artist.

We are accepting Soundcloud URLs and MP3s to generate your unique artist profile. While we build the content submission form please send us tracks via the Contact Us page.