by Joy Richardson. Despite being considered a standard of classical ballet Raymonda, which was first performed in 1898, tends to only be seen in excerpts today and it has never before been performed in full in this country by a UK company. Keeping the original score of Alexander Glazunov...
Review: Marcus Mumford at The Brook, Southampton – November 2022
words and photos by Peter Nicholson. In all honesty, this wasn’t a gig that I was particularly excited about. Despite it being at my favourite venue, The Brook, Southampton, I suspected it would simply be an artist with an acoustic guitar, playing a short, forty-five-minute set. However, and for...
Preview: Podcaster James Haskell comes to MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton, next year
Podcaster James Haskell from The Good, the Bad and the Rugby, author of Sunday Times Bestselling book “What A Flanker”, smash-hit follow up “Ruck me” and host of Amuse Douche is back on the road once again with his new stage show – “Sex, Tries and Videotape”. The show...
Campaigners celebrate victory after Southampton Airport loses tree felling appeal
Environmental campaigners in Southampton are celebrating after Southampton City Airport lost its appeal to remove more than 100 trees from Marlhill Copse after the decision was announced this afternoon (November 29). The appeal was heard on Wednesday, November 21, after Southampton City Council had previously rejected an application to...
Southampton listings 29 November – 5 December.
by Sally Churchward. With December beginning this week, there’s no denying Christmas is on its way. The Christmas market with the confusing water wheel is in Southampton city centre, as is the more typical ice skating. Soul 45 are going to be at Belgium and Blues with their Motown...
Studio B.A.D exhibition launches new year programme at Southampton’s God’s House Tower
An exciting new exhibition from Southampton design collective, Studio B.A.D Architects, kicks off the new year for award-winning arts and heritage venue God’s House Tower this January. ‘Architecture Through a Shared Collaborative Process’ celebrates four years of working collaboratively and highlights the process and potential in working collectively to...
Heritage: the punishment didn’t always fit the crime
by Martin Brisland. There is an old belief that the punishment should fit the crime. Yet, in the past, you could be hanged for 160 different crimes including chopping down a tree or poaching rabbits. William Shawyer was the last person to be publicly hung at the gallows on...
Review: Welsh National Opera, Migrations – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
by Sam Wise. The WNOs Migrations is an opera of bold ambitions; to weave together different stories of migration into a compelling, engaging whole which changes the thinking of the audience forever. It fails, on all counts. Before we go further, it Is important to say that the musicians...
Review: Welsh National Opera, The Makropulos Affair, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton November 2022
by Martin Brisland. The Makropulos Affair (1926) confronts the question: ‘if you could live forever would you really want to?’ I thought I knew opera, having seen many productions of all the classic works, but never one by Janáček. In fact, I have avoided his work so far thinking...
Southampton union members call on MPS to boost workers’ pay
Members of Southampton UNISON District branch joined hundreds of trade union members from all over the UK in descending on Westminster earlier this month (November) to put pressure on MPs to take drastic action to boost workers’ pay – the best possible solution to easing the current cost of...