General Features
Southampton’s Mr Tom to head out on tour
Mr Tom are a bunch of likely lads in their early twenties from the Southampton and Waterside Area. Formed two years ago, the band is fronted by Nick Crowe, with Steve Colver ‘The Revolver’ on lead guitar, Dom Andrews on bass, and Leeroy Marcer on drums. Characterised by upbeat melodies, witty lyrics, and catchy hooks; this [...]
review: Four Year Strong & Don Broco at The Wedgewood Rooms
Over the last few years Four Year Strong have been crafting a reputation for themselves with their high energy levels and impassioned vocal interaction; inspiring an audience of millions worldwide. After releasing their third album ‘in some way, shape or form’, they head back to our shores on their biggest UK headline tour to date. [...]
Steve Cradock plays Southampton this Friday
Steve Cradock begins his acoustic UK tour this February and he visits Southampton’s Soul Cellar this Friday (3rd February 2012). As quintessential as beans on toast and a parka jacket, he epitomizes British cool and is constantly regarded as one of the finest guitarists and songwriters in the land. His outstanding achievements in the 90s [...]
Unit 6 Practice Rooms are saved by Viper
Just under a month ago, at the break of the New year, it was announced that one of Southampton’s most popular music rehearsal venues, Unit 6, was to close. The practice rooms, based at Manor House Industrial Estate near the Western Docks have been extremely popular with Southampton musicians since opening 13 years ago. Many [...]
Arcadia arrives at BoomTown Fair
Strange scenes have been unfolding during this sleepy winter in BoomTown. A monstrous mechanical beast known as Arcadia Spectacular has crash-landed and seized a whole area of downtown BoomTown! As an unprecedented festival exclusive, BoomTown will feature the one and only incredible new Arcadia Spectacular show; a fusion of post apocalyptic huge moving sculptures, pyrotechnics, light and laser extravaganzas, aerial trapeze shows [...]
WIN tickets to see FOE in Winchester
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 [...]
12 New Things to do at Camp Bestival – plus 100 amazing prizes if you buy your tickets now
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 [...]
Farewell tour of Calendar Girls to visit The Mayflower Theatre in March
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 Cast of Cheers release video for début single
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 [...]
Get ready for the Fantazia ‘Revolution’ in Bournemouth
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 [...]
Honeyfest announce first acts for this years festival
Following the success of last year’s inaugural sold-out Honeyfest and the airing of a prime-time BBC documentary on the making of the festival; the Honeyfest bees have been busy gathering the goods for 2012. The intimate Honeyfest will also be adding the all-new BBC Introducing Stage this year with more info coming soon; for now the first batch of artists set [...]
BBC Introducing Masterclass Highlights
BBC Introducing held their annual Masterclass earlier this week, with a whole range of music industry professionals giving hints and tips on how to make it in the music industry. The videos are now available to watch again online – we really couldn’t recommend them enough. We’ve picked a few of the highlights, below, but [...]
Spring Season of Sensational Shows at The Mayflower
The Mayflower is all ship-shape for the New Year as the breathtaking Broadway and Barbican production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific has already opened and runs until 4th February 2012. Starring Samantha Womack, this new production is set on a tropical island during World War II. This is the sweeping romantic story of two couples, [...]
Jessie J and more for Isle of Wight Festival
More of the hottest acts around today join the already jam-packed line up at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival. For the first time, the Festival welcomes the sensational Jessie J, who will bring her pure ghetto pop fabulosity to the Main Stage before Tinie Tempah on Saturday June 23rd. Headlining the Big Top on [...]
Four Year Strong tour calls in to Portsmouth later this month
Four Year Strong, who recently confirmed that they will release their new single “The Security Of The Familiar” in the UK via Island Records on February 27th will be calling in to Portsmouth Pyramids on Tuesday 31st January. The single is the second to be taken from the album “In Some Way, Shape, or Form” [...]
Steve Cradock to play The Cellar
Steve Cradock begins his acoustic UK tour this February/March and he calls into Southampton on 3rd February 2012. As quintessential as beans on toast and a parka jacket, he epitomizes British cool and is constantly regarded as one of the finest guitarists and songwriters in the land. His outstanding achievements in the 90s with Ocean [...]
The Farm to play The Brook
After playing several festivals during the summer and the recent ‘Justice Tonight’ tour with Mick Jones, The Farm have decided to reform and play a UK tour due to popular demand. They will be performing their UK No 1 album Spartacus in its entirety. It is twenty years since Spartacus topped the UK album charts [...]
mINtSOUTH Writers’ Highlights of 2011 & Tips for 2012
2011 was a great year for new music – personally, there was so much good stuff I literally couldn’t keep up. We asked a few of our writers to put together a few words on their new music highlights of 2011. We also asked them for their top tips for 2012. Joel Ransom (Express FM) [...]
mintsouth Christmas party set to be a cracker
The full line up for this years mINtSOUTH Christmas Party has been announced and it promises to be a cracker*! For the first time, our annual “Festive Festival” will be held at the recently renovated Guava Bar (formerly Hamptons) in Above Bar Street, Southampton and and you can expect a variety of music on the [...]
Maccabees’ tickets on sale today
Tickets for The Maccabees tour went on sale today (Friday 16th December) and they are already selling fast. They play Southampton Guildhall on 16th March 2012. Call the Box Office on 023 8063 2601 for tickets. They recently announced they will release their highly anticipated third studio album ‘Given To The Wild’ on January 9th on [...]