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Showcase Sett, Highlighting The South’s Talent

ShowcaseUK, run by local music champion Xan Phillips, is releasing a compilation CD featuring some of the South’s best Artists.

This is the first (but hopefully not the last) Showcase Sett compilation CD.  Volume One:Propeller is the first compilation from the Angry Badger/ShowcaseUK venture and features 16 fantastic South Coast bands.  This CD has been fully [...]

Blissfields Diary – Day 2

Andy Williams reports from Day Two of Blissfields 2009.
I endured a somewhat difficult night’s sleep. I’m sure that the Russians DID have the best concepts for aeroplane design in the 1940’s and the Americans and Brits probably DID nick them and take all the credit. At the same time, I really don’t care and question whether [...]

Review: Birdpen, Hijera + Science of 8 Limbs

Review: Birdpen, Hijera + Science of 8 Limbs @ The Joiners  (Birdpen Album Launch)
As I walked to The Joiners I wondered if this was the first time I had actually arrived in daylight?! Probably not, but it still seemed weird that at 8pm St Mary’s Street was yet to be anywhere Jack The Ripper would [...]

mINtSOUTH TV: Website Launch ‘Rockumentary’

mINtSOUTH.com launched on 22nd Feb 2009, with an all day party at The Soul Cellar, in Southampton. Here are some interviews with us and the bands involved, plus footage from their sets.

Review: mINtSOUTH Website Launch Party

The Mintsouth website launch was an event that had been in my calendar for months and a stinking cold wasn’t about to keep me away!

Bedbox Talks Festivals

On a snowy day, what’s better than to talk about the Summer!?

Laura Marling to Headline Blissfields.

Returning to its home of the Bliss family farm, the acclaimed Blissfields Festival (Best Small UK Festival 2007) is back in 2009 for another bout of reverent musical merriment under the banner of ‘The United States of Bliss’. Tickets are now on sale through blissfields.co.uk at £41 (+booking fee) for a full weekend camping ticket.

Final Lineup for mINtSOUTH.com Launch Party

We now have the final lineup for our website launch party at The Soul Cellar on 22nd Feb. Doors will open at 1pm, and music is expected to kick off at around 2pm. Entertainment will be spread over two floors and feature some of the best local acts, as well as some exciting up and coming acts from around the UK.

Hijera

While ground level overspills with popular records, etched in minds and dumped on hard drives, the underground are left taking notes, scratching heads but continue to make noise that makes them tick..

Blissfields Ticket Launch Party

Blissfields is back this summer, and will teaming up with mINtSOUTH to put on a ticket launch party at The Soul Cellar on 6th February. Featuring festival favourites Subguant, Dead Dog in a Black Bag, along with a few great local acts.