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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. [...]
review: The Maccabees, Given To The Wild
Brighton formed The Maccabees‘ third album, Given To The Wild, begins with a dream-like intro before flowing into Child and Feel to Follow, the latter in particular is an exceptional song. Ayla sounds like the X-Files theme tune and now I’ve associated this it will be impossible for me not to have images of spaceships in my [...]
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 [...]
Orbital to headline Big Top at “Wildlife” themed Bestival
Orbital are to headline The Big Top at this years Bestival, on the Isle of Wight, on Sunday 9th September. It has also been announced that this years fancy dress theme will be Wildlife… Here’s the full announcement from the Bestival team: With some rather handsome Bestival announcements on the horizon, the mighty Rob da [...]
review: The Southern Sessions ft Huw Olesker, Count Drachma and Anja McCloskey
The Southern Sessions run by Tom Armstrong carries the ethos that ‘There is a larger musical space outside the cities than inside them’, and he makes a very valid point. Too often bands flock to London attempting to find fame and fortune, leaving behind their dedicated local fan base. At a time when venues are closing down [...]
Listen To Jack Whites new single
Jack White has today unveiled his new solo single online, titled ‘Love Interruption’. You can listen here: The song is the first to aired from White’s début solo album Blunderbuss, which will be released on April 24th. A special 7″ of Love Interruption is available to pre-order from http://jackwhite.thirdmanrecordsstore.com/ It is released on February 7th.
Kool and the Gang, Hot Chip and Dub Pistols confirmed for Camp Bestival
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 [...]
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 [...]
review: King Charles at Club NME, Portsmouth
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 [...]
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 [...]
review: Stir of Echoes demo
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 [...]
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 [...]
Review: Anja McCloskey’s single launch at The Bent Brief
Anja McClosky’s single launch was a very civilised affair. There were all manner of fine fancy cakes and sophisticated banter. Local jazz hideout, The Bent Brief, was packed to the rafters, the audience crammed in and totally focussed on the live music, with some of the regular drinkers around the corner peering around from the [...]
Lostprophets tour calls in to Southampton in May
Lostprophets have announced the release of their brand new album ‘Weapons’ and their first headline UK tour in two years. The new album is released on April 2nd and is followed by a 14 date tour of the UK and Ireland culminating with a show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton. It’s been two years since [...]
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 [...]