Southampton musician Amy da Silva has won the Youth Music Best Original Track Award (Solo) sponsored by TikTok with her her track Think Twice. She has featured on both Sounds of Southampton Vol 1 and Vol2 albums,made by SoCo Music Project, a not-for-profit music organisation that provides inclusive music-making...
Preview: Isle of Wight’s Plastic Mermaids come to The Joiners, Southampton
Isle of Wight quintet Plastic Mermaids will embark on a UK headline tour in November, bringing them to The Joiners, Southampton on the 3rd. With sets at Glastonbury and Camp Bestival under their belts from earlier this year, the band are looking forward to getting on the road again....
What’s on in Southampton, October 25 – 31
It’s half term and it’s almost Halloween, so there’s plenty of spooky but not too spooky family fun to be had this week. This includes a free community-run trail in St Denys, Southampton. Read about it here. There’s more family fun to be had in the form of a new...
Preview: Austentatious at Theatre Royal Winchester
Smash-hit improv Regency comedy, Austentatious, is set to delight Jane Austen fans when it comes to Theatre Royal Winchester from Friday 4 November. Austentatious is an improvised comedy play featuring rakish dukes, swooning ladies and romantic entanglement – with a brand new and unique-to-that-performance ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel created...
Campaigners for access to an NHS dentist for all to hit Southampton’s streets
Campaigners for everyone to have access to an NHS dentist will be on the streets of Southampton tomorrow (October 25). Members of the Toothless in Southampton campaign will be giving out leaflets and talking to shoppers and residents at the junction of Burgess Road and University Road from 11am....
Southampton business directory, 24 – 30 October
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Write a Note Poetry October: Andy Buchanan, Deborah Gearing & Panda-monium
by Anita Foxall. Here’s your monthly review of Write a Note, a spoken word open mic, which takes place at MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton. This was another wonderful evening of poetry, fairy tales and pandas. Yes, you read that right. These were two of the brilliant poets who attended...
Review: Richard II – MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
by Martin Brisland. Tangle Theatre Company’s aim is to perform classic plays in new and surprising ways in their distinctive Southern African township theatre style. In association with MAST Mayflower Studios, Tangle have devised a radical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Richard the Second. The original Zimbabwean score is impressive,...
Review: The Little Mermaid – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
by Sarah Groszewski. The Northern Ballet’s The Little Mermaid had its world premiere at the Mayflower Theatre in 2017 and has returned for a brief stint after 5 years. Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fairytale (with not a Disney reference in sight!), The Little Mermaid tells the story...
Suburban Safari: Cake by the Coast
by Katie Isham. This Suburban Safari explores somewhere a little further afield. In fact, we’re venturing into a PO postcode. Don’t leave! I promise it’s for a good cause. Or two good causes in fact. Next week sees the glorious relief of half-term for many students and teachers. Blessed...