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Joiners crowned Best Small Venue by NME
Southampton’s Joiners was today crowned Best Small Venue in the annual music poll run by the NME. Intense voting saw over 76,000 votes cast in the past few weeks as the popular venue faced stiff competition from Stoke’s Sugarmill and the Basement Coffee House in Ayr. Frank Turner, who recently played a benefit gig at the [...]
Review: Road To Blissfields at The Railway, Winchester
In the run up to Blissfields 2013, The Road to Blissfields landed in Winchester on Sunday night (5th May, 2013). As four local bands battled it out for a place at the festival, there was tough competition as they fought for the spot. Jonny Dare First up were KIN. Delivering enough noise to blow the [...]
First Blissfields Festival band applications open today
The hugely popular Road To Blissfields is returning this year and it promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Last years competition was held across three cities, but this year the search for talent will be spreading to Reading, Basingstoke and Brighton. Applications opened today (1st January 2012) and acts have until the [...]
Preview: Pulse Festival – Part Two
Pulse Festival organisers are getting excited as the site has been growing over the past couple of days to weather that seems to be getting hotter and hotter. The fence has been going up today and organiser Mark Ward told me they’ve already sold more than double the amount of tickets than they had at [...]
Four Weeks until Pulse Festival
With just 4 weeks to go until festival organisers decamp to Sunnyfields Farm this years Pulse Festival lineup is now complete and all plans are in place for a fantastic festival. This years festival boasts three stages, the amazing outdoor stage with top notch lighting and sound rig, the new Marquee stage in field 2 [...]
Review: Blissfields Festival – 2011
Blissfields Festival move to a new home has been hailed as a massive success after the annual bash went Out of this World this weekend. After 10 years based at the family home in the village of Bradley, this year the Blisses moved a few miles around the corner to the village of Woodmancott – [...]
Festival 2011 Round Up
With the festival season virtually upon on, we have taken a glance at what is happening on the South Coast and the surrounding areas. We’ll be covering most of these (some more extensively than others!). If we have missed any out, just send a message to festy@mintsouth.com What? Ejector Seat Arts Festival When? Saturday June 4th [...]
mintroducing: Find X, Then Party
Last up in our Road To Blissfields band features are Find X, Then Party. Catch them TONIGHT (Friday 15th April) at The Railway. Extending the band’s palette of influences to now include Foals and Nobuo Uematsu; Find X, Then Party get by with a combination of invisible PAs, nose to drumstick collisions and dudes falling on [...]
mintroducing: Stinger
Playing this Friday (15th April) in the last Road To Blissfields heat in Winchester are Stinger. Here’s what we know about them: Stinger are a 3 piece made up of Nick, Ross and Luke, who play an adrenalin fuelled mix of pop, reggae and rock, or in other words, music that gets your feet moving. [...]
mintroducing: Casablancas
Third from last in our Road To Blissfields featured bands is Casablancas who are all set to rock the Railway this Friday (15th April). Young four piece indie/post rock band with a great ear for a tune and growing live following. They recently supported Chapel Club at the Talking Heads in Southampton and impressed. Casablancas [...]
Road To Blissfields
The Road To Blissfields finalists have all been announced (since we have been going through our upgrade) and, as a catch up, here are all the details In an ongoing effort to support local music, Blissfields Festival will once again be hosting its Road To Blissfields competition. Taking place in three venues around Hampshire, Road [...]
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