Southampton Philharmonic Choir will be performing Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony on Saturday, 9th December 2023 at 19.30 at the Southampton O2 Guildhall. London’s Docklands Sinfonia is, once again, joining the choir to perform a programme including Carl Nielsen’s Helios Overture and Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region. Emma...
Southampton march for Day of Action for Climate Justice this weekend
Activists from Friends of the Earth and Extinction Rebellion are calling for immediate government action on climate change with a march on Saturday, 9th December in Southampton. The march is part of an international day of action by the Climate Justice Coalition, with events happening across the globe. The...
Paul Weller coming to Poole Lighthouse in spring
Paul Weller has announced a full UK tour for 2024 with 14 dates lined up through April, including Poole Lighthouse on the 4th April. This year has seen Paul’s tour schedule taken up with extensive travels around Europe peppered with a handful of UK Forest Live shows and a...
Suburban Safari: Freemantle Common
Words and images by Katie Isham. We’ve just had National Tree Week (25 November – 3 December) . I know what you’re thinking: surely every week is tree week? Indeed, it should be. But it’s not. So this seems like the perfect excuse to celebrate the wondrous trees in...
Review: Cinderella, Theatre Royal Winchester. 5th December 2023.
By Chris Richards. These are two hours I hope to remember always. Since a young age, I have marvelled at the high energy, bright colours and joyous humour of pantomimes. They are not everyone’s cup of tea but, honestly, to me, nothing is more festive than going along to...
The volunteers helping solve Southampton folks’ money worries
By Megan Streb. On a typical Wednesday morning, a handful of volunteers gather at St Albans Church in Swaythling. They are there to help resolve Southampton residents’ financial problems, one at a time. “It’s all about the client – how they are, how they are affected by having debt....
Southampton listings 5 – 11 December
By Neil Glasspool. Image by Stuart Martin. Over the last few weeks you may have detected a degree of Christmas-curmudgeonliness in the listings. Well, it turns out we’re only human after all. And if there’s anything to melt our cold heart and get us diving into the Christmas spirit...
Fatboy Slim, Snow Patrol, Jamie T and Biffy Clyro announced as headliners for Victorious
Fatboy Slim, Snow Patrol, Jamie T and Biffy Clyro have this morning been announced as headliners for Victorious Festival 2024, on Southsea Common. Courteeners, Pixies, Becky Hill, Wet Leg, Idles, Louis Tomlinson and Jess Glynne will also join the bumper line-up for next summer. There will also be comedy...
Interview: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’s Ivano Turco
By Hugh Montgomery. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie comes to Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre in January. Ivano Turco who stars in the title role talks about the affinity he feels for the role. In his short career so far, super-talented musical theatre star Ivano Turco has already demonstrated formidable range: having...
Chance to win signed bestselling novel as Soton bakery revives Regency meal of ‘nuncheon’
Southampton residents are being asked to help revive the Regency meal of ‘nuncheon’ by entering a recipe competition run by a community bakery in the city. Shirley-based CommuniBakes wants ideas for cake or bread it doesn’t already make that would be suitable as a mid-morning or afternoon snack. The...