HIGHLY-rated indie rockers Wild Beasts (pictured right) are at the Exeter Phoenix next Tuesday.

Fresh from touring the USA and Australia, the band have just released their second album, Two Dancers. to critical acclaim.

Singer Hayden Thorpe said: "It's such a cliché to be perceived as being different. We're seen as being outsiders, and that makes us close up the ranks even more.''

Wild Beasts are supported by Erland and the Carnival and Lone Wolf.

The Exeter Vibraphonic Festival is in full swing, with Mercury Music Prize winner Speech Debelle at the Phoenix tomorrow night, supported by Gift of Gab.

Also tomorrow night, in the Voodoo Lounge, a new jazz suite called 'Sketches' will be performed by the October Ensemble, a 10-piece featuring tenor/soprano saxophone, jazz rhythm section, violins, cello, flugelhorns and French horn.

Sunday sees the Cuban rhythms of Sierra Maestra at the Phoenix.

Call the box office on 01392 667080.