Give your wardrobe an autumn/winter refresh without damaging the environment through fast fashion with Southampton’s November clothes swap on November 5. The clothes swap will be held from noon to 3pm at Mercantile Flea market , an emporium of antiques and vintage clothing with a variety of curious and...
Sea Girls talk about their album, Homesick, ahead of their date at O2 Guildhall Southampton
Right before the pandemic hit, London-based band Sea Girls were poised to make their next triumphant step. Henry Camamile (lead vocals, guitar), Rory Young (lead guitar), Andrew Dawson (bass) and Oliver Khan (drums) had just come off their first European headlining tour, playing 20 dates across the continent and...
Southampton musician Amy Da Silva wins Youth Music award in national competition
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,...