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Dreadzone and Subgiant to play The Brook tomorrow
Dreadzone, the fervently followed British institution and musical pioneers have announced a major UK to support the recently released compendium of their musical story so far: ‘The Good, The Bad And The Dread’. They call arrive at Southampton’s The Brook tomorrow (Friday December 9th), where they play with Subgiant. (tickets here) Still going strong after seventeen [...]
Last festival of the year close to selling out
What is most certainly the last festival of the year, Close Encounters, takes place this weekend (15-16th October) near Landford/Nomansland. Featuring some of the best live acts on the festival circuit, the 2 day event offers people one last chance to dance the night away, go camping and chill around a camp fire before the cold weather [...]
Review: Bestival
F*CK OFF! That is my message to those idiots who go to see an act that they have no interest in, then shout their way through the set, only shutting up when the one song they’ve heard on the radio gets played. It happened twice to me over the course of the weekend, first at [...]
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 [...]
Review: Endorse It In Dorset
2011 was just my third Endorse It In Dorset but 2011 has firmly cemented itself as my favourite ‘small’ festival. Much of the reasoning is all down to Scrumpy Sunday or Ladies Day. Ladies Day brings possibly the most amount of fun one could wish to have. It’s brilliant that so many grizzly and normally [...]
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 [...]
Last chance to buy Endorse It tickets on-line
On-line ticket sales for this years Endorse It In Dorset Festival will close next Tuesday (9th August 2011). Endorse It takes place from Friday 12th – Sunday 14th August and will be headlined by New Model Army, The Rezillos, Alabama 3, The Dub Pistols with Subgiant, The Wurzels, The Cropdusters and Pronghorn (the festivals curators) [...]
Alabama 3 added to Endorse It In Dorset line up – get your tickets quick
ENDORSE IT IN DORSET have added an acoustic performance by Country Acid House Music legends ALABAMA 3 (hailed by The Guardian as ‘the best live band in the countrty) to the bill. They join the previously announced line-up that features headline performances from The Rezillos, New Model Army and The Dub Pistols alongside over 50 [...]
Competition: Win Heathward’s new album
Heathward have just released their début album, Decipher, to rave reviews – and we have a couple of copies to give away. Heathward are an electro duo made up of Mark Ward and Jon Heath and despite not even playing a handful of gigs, they are rapidly building up a strong reputation as one the [...]
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 [...]
Bestival Unveils Myriad Music delights: Fly Frankie Fly, Subgiant & lots more added to the line up
As ever, crazy things are afoot in the Besti-bunker with loads of truly amazing new additions to add to the line-up plus we have news of a rip-roaring party throw down from the Nextmen for you too! Rob da Bank says: ‘Out of everyone that I’ve booked so far for Bestival I’m possibly more excited, nervous [...]
Win tickets to Blissfields and Pulse at Road To Blissfields
The Road To Blissfields arrives in Southampton tomorrow (Friday, 8th April 2011) with a line up featuring the cream of Southampton talent. The first heat, last Friday at Envy in Portsmouth, saw over 550 through the door to see Bear Cavalry win themselves a slot at the July festival, which will be headlined by Tricky [...]
mintroducing: BigTopp
Continuing our Road To Blissfields coverage ahead of the Portsmouth gig this Friday, today we bring you BigTopp. BigTopp are a massive ska band from Portsmouth whose front man recently excelled on Total Wipeout by not falling in the water too often! They’ve formed in October 2006 and have since headlined The Joiners, won Battle [...]
mintroducing: Bear Cavalry
Each day this week, in the run up to the first Road To Blissfields gig in Portsmouth this Friday (1st April 2011) we will be featuring each band that have been selected to play. First up are Bear Cavalry. Bear Cavalry are a four piece band from Gosport currently getting rave reviews from the likes of [...]
Competition: Win tickets to see Subgiant this Saturday
We have two pairs of tickets to see festival favourites Subgiant play Mr Kyps in Poole this Saturday (19th March 2011). Support comes from Transend. Details here: To win, simply comment below by naming any of the festivals they are booked to play this year. You can see all their gigs on their website www.subgiant.co.uk [...]
Endorse It In Dorset tickets on sale today
Possibly the UK’s nuttiest festival, Endorse It In Dorset, have today put tickets for this years event on sale, along with some new additions to the line up. Bands announced today include SubGiant, Citizen Fish, Los Albertos, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Tragic Roundabout and Tracy Jane Sullivan the Sidewalk Doctors. Jodie Luke Copeland | [...]
Pulse Festival Announce This Years Headliner
Pulse Festival have announced this years head-liner as Kissmet, an East West band at the forefront of the British Asian fusion scene that combines elements of Bhangra, Rock and classical Indian Raags, creating a unique blend of Anglo Indian music. Also confirmed to play the one day bash on the outskirts of Southampton are Pronghorn, [...]
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 [...]
Southampton set for weekend of Oxjam gigs
This weekend in Southampton promises to be a musical delight as Oxjam take over some of the best venues in the city. The gigs begin today (Saturday 23rd October) with an all day event at The Joiners. Kicking off at 4pm, bands including Doyle and the Fourfathers, Burn The Fleet, The Long Haul, Manhatten, Drawings [...]