The first wave of acts have today been announced for this years Camp Bestial, which takes place at the end of July. It’s already looking to be one of their best ever line-ups with Hot Chip confirmed to headline the Friday night. Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind & Fire, Adam Ant and festival favourites [...]
The first wave of acts have today been announced for this years Camp Bestial, which takes place at the end of July. It’s already looking to be one of their best ever line-ups with Hot Chip confirmed to headline the Friday night. Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind & Fire, Adam Ant and festival favourites [...]
Art school dropout, pensive introvert, grunge obsessive, fan of dressing up in brightly coloured wigs: as FOE, 21-year-old, Hannah Clark is all of these things and more. A wonderfully twisted prospect live, suburban punkette FOE is pleased to announce a headline tour in January 2012, around the release of her debut album. Having filled support [...]
Lists, lists and more lists, this time of year is full of them. Lists telling you who you need to hear, what albums (most of which are still unrecorded) will change your life, un-booked gig’s you will have to be at and countless lists of bands with slightly quirky names who are guaranteed to be [...]
Those of you tuned into the Facebook and Twitter pages today would have witnessed a bit of a party going on as we announced 12 new things for Camp Bestival 2012 one every hour from 9am this morning. They’ve also announced a draw with 100 once-in-a-lifetime prizes for everybody who buys a ticket over the next two weeks. You can now [...]
Calendar Girls has become the most successful play ever to tour the United Kingdom and has taken more at the box office than the original film. The award winning producers of Calendar Girls, David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers, have announced that this will be the farewell tour before the amateur rights are released on 1 September [...]
The hotly tipped The Cast of Cheers, who visit Southampton Joiners Arms on March 7th, have released their video for début single ”Family“. Their free album “Chariot”, which they recorded in 3 days, has racked up over 150,000 downloads on BandCamp, they got nominated at the Choice Music Awards and “Family”, which is released on February 20th on School Boy [...]
It looks like its still early days for Stir of Echoes on the demo front so we cannot really critique them thoroughly. Their vocals are hard to judge with rough recording but seem to have spirit. As ever with newly formed artists there is promise. It’s difficult to carve a niche in the overgrowing mass [...]
Almost 20 years to the day, the legendary club night Fantazia held one of the most memorable events in Bournemouth when over 10,000 ravers turned up for ‘Summertime’ at Matchams Park, causing motorway tailbacks to make prime time national news. Those lucky enough to get in witnessed magical performances from a legendary line-up featuring The Ratpack, Easygroove, EllisDee, DJ SS, DJ Phantasy, and who can forget Robbie Dee suspended in mid [...]