Dub Pistols
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 [...]
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) [...]
review: Heathward – Decipher
Take a hop, skip and jump into Emmett Brown’s Delorian, reach 88mph and travel back to the Castle Morton free rave in 1992. Then add a vicious dollop of bass upside the head, two-step all night to The Prodigy whilst prancing your way through a Psy-Trance forest and BAM! You have experienced Heathward’s debut album [...]
Festival Competition Winners announced
We’ve been running a couple of competitions over the past few weeks to win tickets to both the Eastleigh Festival of Music, and Endorse It In Dorset. Firstly, a big congratulations to Steve Curtis who is the lucky winner of our Endorse It In Dorset Festival tickets competition. Steve has won himself a family ticket [...]
Blissfields – A review by a 10 year old
This year at Blissfields there was an amazing line up of bands and I had been very excited for months. The journey to Blissfields this year was much quicker than last year as they had moved to a new site and I couldn’t wait to see what it looked like. When I arrived on Friday [...]
First ever Crunk Rock band to support Dub Pistols in Southampton this Saturday?
Barry Ashworth and his Dub Pistols are set to return to the south coast this weekend (Saturday 9th July) when they play The Cellar (formerly The Soul Cellar) on the Southampton leg of the Endorse It In Dorset Festival showcase gigs. Only last week they played one of the sets of the weekend at Blissfields [...]
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 – [...]
Competition: Win Endorse It In Dorset Tickets
We have been given a Family Weekend Camping Ticket to Dorset’s world famous Endorse It In Dorset festival and we are going to be giving them away to one lucky winner, along with 4 tickets to the Endorse It showcase in Southampton on 9th July. Endorse It In Dorset will be headlined by The Rezillos [...]
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 [...]
Charlotte Hatherley and Dub Pistols to headline new VW Festival on the IOW
V-Dub Island is the Isle of Wight’s brand new VW festival taking place on 19th =21st August. The event caters for all VW owners, enthusiasts and like-minded people and features the best entertainment, heaps of family fun and more. The event will take place on the Isle of Wight’s County Showground at Northwood with stunning [...]
Bearded Theory festival confirm Athlete to headline – and Lords and Ladies fancy dress theme revealed
BEARDED THEORY FESTIVAL has revealed that ATHLETE will headline the festival on Friday night. The platinum selling, Mercury Prizenominated, Ivor Novello Award winning band join The Waterboys and Alabama 3 as this year’s headline acts. The festival fancy dress theme of ‘Lords and Ladies’ has also been revealed. The headliners complete an eclectic line-up of world class artists, [...]
Could Kings of Leon be heading to Southampton? (And other Festival rumours)
The festival season finished just over 6 weeks ago, and already rumours are flying around as to who will be playing next years festivals. Here in Southampton, tongues are really starting to wag, especially with news of the city’s own huge music event in May. Rock The Park is a large scale music event planned [...]
Review: Blissfields 2010
So, Blissfields is over for another year, and everybody there had the best time they could imagine (once again). There is no doubting that Blissfields is probably the best small festival in the world, and it’s pretty much impossible not to have the time of your life, whether you are three, 33 or a 103 [...]