“We are the city’s premier live music festival. A free celebration of music of all styles, in some of the best and unusual settings Southampton has to offer: from funk to punk, jazz to indie, classical to afrobeat, pop to experimental, country to heavy metal. We’ve got… up and coming, amateur and professional, local and…
The Isle of Wight festival has a history dating back to when it was a ‘counterculture’ event that was held from 1968 to 1970. Its history lists an enviable list of artists including Bob Dylan in 1969, Jimi Hendrix in 1970, David Bowie, 2004, R.E.M in 2005, The Rolling Stones in 2007, The Police in…
No, I’m not a Fresher but wouldn’t miss a chance to catch up with Stig and Dead Man’s Pistol. We came across them back in May 2023 at their first gig also at The Railway and been friends since so supporting their rise is important. I believe this was a Freshers week event organised by…
A must for any vinyl collector and everyone’s streaming service just got a little better! Released in 2003, Boomslang is the only album by Johnny Marr + The Healers. The band consisted of Zak Starkey, drummer for the Who and son of Beatle drummer Ringo Starr. Bass guitar provided by former Kula Shaker bassist Alonza…
As soon as this listing appeared at The Brook I bought a ticket, it’s Gary Stringer from Reef, acoustic in a small venue, attendance is a no-brainer! “I’m going to ramble some history first here”. Reef was an instant hit with me and my friends helped by a Sony Minidisk advert using ‘Naked’ as the…
Gary Stringer from Reef is touring a solo acoustic set so it’s only fitting the support mirrors the style and setup. The support for this gig remained unannounced for some time until Rob Clamp was mentioned on socials. I’ve always been a big fan and champion of support acts but also, hopefully like to be…
This morning I started to receive emails from record shops regarding ‘National Album Day‘ as apparently it returns on October 19th 2024 for its seventh year of existence and this year they have decided the theme is going to be ‘Great British Groups’. It is also teaming with what it calls a ‘broadcast partner’ in…
Well, I hope others were luckier than me, I hinted in a previous post that after not being successful in the first ballot I was ready and waiting at 8.55 to hit get tickets expecting a queue but at that exact moment i got a white screen, it thought I was a bot like it…
Just putting this out there as I found it interesting as an experiment. I’ve been experimenting with Ai imagery for a long time now as part of my day to day work and i’m looking forward to Ai video once it reaches a good standard, it may have somewhere but not where I have been…
Before the days out I need to give kudos to a favourite album of the latter 90s. Released on the 5th of September 1995, Jollification is one of those perfect albums that can just lift your spirits no matter what. Id been a fan since ‘The Life of Riley’ was released in 1992 and this…
