The Plymouth Daily's essential guide to your weekend

Every week we bring bring you the most extensive listings so you can have the best weekend imaginable. 

Events

Plymouth Seafood Festival 2013
Friday to Sunday, The Barbican
Showcasing the fantastic quality seafood available in Plymouth, local and celebrity chefs will demonstrate a range of mouthwatering dishes using catch fresh off the boats.

Wild About Plymouth - Discover the Laboratory on the Hoe
Saturday 10am – 12pm, Citadel Hill Laboratory
Experts from the MBA and SAHFOS will give family-friendly talks and there will be a chance to view objects relating to marine science and learn something new about one of the world’s oldest functioning marine laboratories.
Admission is just £2 per adult and £1 per child (three to 16 years). Under-threes go free. Places are limited and must be booked in advance through Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery’s Welcome Desk.
For full details of the Wild About Plymouth programme visitwww.plymouth.gov.uk/museumwildaboutplymouth or call 01752 304774.

Dev-Con 1: Sci Fi Convention & Toy Fair
Saturday 10am – 4pm, Plymouth Guildhall
Final Frontier presents Dev-Con 1: Sci-Fi Convention & Toyfair at the Plymouth Guildhall this September.
With Signings, dressed characters, traders, comic artist alley, Toyfair Traders Seling and much more!
Tickets from £3

Edward Waite Live Studio
Saturday to Wednesday, Royal William Yard
Royal William Yard is hosting an opportunity to watch professional artist Edward Waite at work in a live studio event.
In a unique event Waite will be taking part in a ‘Live Studio’ where you can personally meet the artist and see him create large scale partings of urban landscapes.
The Live Studio will take place between 10:30am-1pm and 2pm-4:30pm on 21 -25 September.
Free

St Luke's Swimathon
Saturday 6pm-11pm, Plymouth Life Centre
Come and give your support to sponsored swimmers raising money for St. Luke’s Hospice.
The Swimathon event opens at 6.30pm at the Plymouth Life Centre. The swim will consist of three distances to choose from; 1km and 2km for individuals or the ultimate 5km as a team only.
There will be food and refreshments available to purchase at the venue. Spectators are welcome, wristbands will be given to enter the viewing area.

Theatre

Fight Night
Until 12 October, The Drum Princess Royal Theatre
Five performers. Five Rounds. Your vote. One survivor.
Belgium’s multiple Fringe First-winning company Ontroerend Goed and Australia’s The Border Project put the power into your hands to vote for your favourite candidate amongst our five actors in an immersive exploration into the intricacies and traps of voting systems and democracy.

Music

Joey The Lips
Friday  8pm The Guildhall
Hi-Energy 10 Piece Soul/Funk & Disco

Rusty Angels
Friday 10pm The Mount Pleasant
A highly energetic and experienced 4 piece band, actively gigging on a regular basis around the Plymouth area.
Playing everything in rock n roll from Elvis to Metallica, from The Doors to System of a Down, and from Kings of Leon to Rage Against The Machine.

Vicious Kitten
Friday  9pm Cherry Tree
Vicious Kitten are a four piece high energy Pop/Rock covers band, providing a high standard of entertainment to the west country. The four experienced musicians have their own sound that puts their stamp on modern rock, pop classics and contemporary covers from the 80's, 90's, and today.

Nine Lives
Friday 9pm, Millbridge Inn
5 piece band Covering four decades of classic rock covers and not a single one from this century!

ReZonance
Friday 10pm The Live Lounge
ReZonance are a well established, female fronted rock indie covers band based in Plymouth

Joker and Alice Gullick
Friday 8pm, Walkabout Inn
JOKER are a 4 piece Indie/rock covers band based in Plymouth. JOKER formed in 2003 and are regarded as setting the standard for the live music scene in the South west.
With guest Alice Gullick Breathtaking young singer songwriter from the West Country

A Total Stranger
Friday 9pm, Crown & Anchor
Local solo artist  who always draws a crowd

Black Cat Bone
Friday 9pm The Clifton
Three piece power trio playing material from the likes of ZZ Top, Rory Gallagher, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, Thin Lizzy, Muddy Waters, Free and many, many more

Crush
Friday 9pm  The Minerva
Crush are an exciting and energetic pop & rock covers duo based in Plymouth.
With many years gigging experience in various bands over the years, we are no strangers to entertaining the crowds.

Less Is More
Friday 9:30pm The Blues Bar
Kris & Dave Hacker with Mike Isaac on bass mixing original material with blues/rock covers. Hot, dynamic and tight but loose!
Forthcomin

Out To Grass
Friday 9pm the B-Bar
Favourite bluegrass boys who mean bad-ass business as they apply their amazing ability to well-known tunes. Like Plymouth's Hayseed Dixie, but better
£3

v8
Saturday 9pm,  Plymouth Argaum Rugby Club
High powered three piece playing high standard, uber energy covers from the best of today and yesterday

Phil Lewis
Saturday 10pm The Notte
Phil Lewis is a multi talented performer covering a wide range of musical styles from artists such as David Bowie, Gary Moore, Snow Patrol, Rolling Stones, Kaiser Chiefs, Greenday, Status Quo, Nirvana, Steve Earl, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Billy Idol, Santana, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc.
The SwampHogs
Saturday 9pm Millbridge Inn
Rockin' Power Trio, playing a healthy dollop of Blues, with just the right amount of Rock & Chutzpah to leave audiences reeling in the aisles and coming back for more..

Fluke
Saturday 9pmThe Walrus
FLUKE are a dynamic 3-piece group from Plymouth, UK. They play classic music from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Their aim is to get people moving, to create the right setting in which everybody has a good time.

Banana Thieves
Saturday 9:30pm Thistle Park Tavern
6 piece band (Drums, Bass, Guitar, Guitar, Keyboards, 3 vocals and sax) playing an eclectic range of songs and styles. Expect songs from The Specials, James Brown, The Cure, The Clash, Duran Duran, Green day, The Jam, The Kinks, Gary Numan, The Police, Public Image, R.E.M......and many others

Out Of The Box
Saturday 9pm The Albemarle
Duo of local legends on the music scene Out of the Box plays rock pop covers.