image by Steve Gullick. Ash have announced their first new album together in more than five years, alongside news of an upcoming UK / EU tour. Race The Night, the band’s eighth studio album, will be released on 15th September 2023 via one of their earliest label homes Fierce...
For the Queer Joy of it
By Alex Thurley-Ratcliff. Image of Ri Baroche at Art House show by Anita Foxall. ArtfulScribe, that provoker and promoter of writers and writing in Hampshire and Dorset, recently enticed me into their workshops on Queer Joy. It’s not a phrase I had heard before; growing up in an...
Stretch in the city – the growing popularity of Park Yoga in Southampton
by Nick Mabey. Running around the common one Sunday morning just over a year ago, I was surprised to stumble across about 50 people on yoga mats in the lovely green space behind the Cowherds Inn. Back home and a quick bit of on-line research led me to the...
Free family fun day comes to Southampton’s Turner Sims this July
Image: Folk Dance Remixed by Natasha Khamjani. Head to Turner Sims Southampton on Sunday, 9 July for a day of free magical musical activities and events for children and grown-ups of all ages. Book your tickets and join Little Boy and Cat to explore those Big Emotions, or sail...
Skinny Lister come to Southampton as part of UK tour this winter
Folk-punk rabble Skinny Lister are back with a new track “Down On The Barrier” plus details of two extensive tours in North America and UK and Ireland throughout Autumn/Winter 2023, bringing them to Southampton’s Engine Rooms in December. Blending pogo-primed percussion, punk hooks, and a chorus that demands to...
Review: The Isle of Wight Festival, 2023
Words by Nick Mabey (Friday) & Lewis MacLean (Saturday & Sunday). Additional reporting by Paula Wilson. Main image by Chloe Hashemi. Friday by Nick Mabey. Friday at the festival and Newport was rocking. The sun shone, the crowds swarmed, everything was as it should be. For me it...
Southampton listings 20-26 June
Today is World Refugee Day and this weekend Southampton Refugee Week will be marked with a day of events on Saturday including a carnival and an afternoon of entertainment at Palmerston Park. On Saturday there are two more great daytime events to fit in, if you’re up to the...
Blue Apple’s Animal Farm comes to Theatre Royal Winchester in July
Blue Apple brings a fresh look at the classic story of Animal Farm to Theatre Royal Winchester in July with three live shows on stage at 7.30pm from Wednesday 12 to Friday 14 July and one livestream on Friday 14 July. Nearly eighty years after George Orwell’s novel was...
OperaUpClose bring The Flying Dutchman to Turner Sims, Southampton, this month
Inspired by the original ghost story of a damned man condemned to wander the world forever unless he finds someone willing to sacrifice themselves for him in the name of love, OperaUpClose, in partnership with recent RPS award-winning Manchester Camerata, open their new production The Flying Dutchman at Turner...
Heritage: the real life King and I story, and its links to Southampton
by Martin Brisland. The much-loved musical play, which has recently been at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre, and film tells the real-life story of the tempestuous relationship that develops between King Chulalongkorn of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British school teacher whom the King brings to Siam (Thailand) to teach his many...