by Lewis MacLean. Last night was the first time I got dressed up and went out for Beans On Toast. The LOFT in Bedford Place was already pretty busy by the time support act Jack Francis took his well-earned place on the stage. When Jack started singing I immediately...
Review: Southampton Literature Festival, MAST Mayflower Studios, March 10-12
by Anita Foxall. Southampton has a Literature Festival, and it was brought to the MAST Mayflower Studios by ArtfulScribe, with the support of Arts Council England and University of Southampton. The festival took place between the 10th and the 12th of March and was organised by ArtfulScribe’s poet/producer Antosh...
Southampton Philharmonic Choir perform at O2 Guidlhall Southampton this weekend
Southampton Philharmonic Choir (SPC) will be joining forces with Southampton University Philharmonic Choir at the O2 Guildhall Southampton on Saturday, March 18. They will be performing Vaughan WIlliams’ popular and evocative The Lark Ascending and Dona Nobis Pacem and Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light. Docklands Sinfonia will also be performing....
Climate scientist leading event discussing how to tackle the climate crisis at Southampton event
A community talk in Southampton will give people the chance to express their feelings about the climate and nature emergency and what we can do about it. Bors Hulesch, a climate and social scientist from Eastleigh, will lead the discussion at the Friends Meeting House in Ordnance Road at...
Review: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, March 14
by Tessa Hurst. Whenever Matthew Bourne produces a ballet, you know that you are in for a real treat. It will be a totally new and different interpretation of a classic, a well-known story magically reimagined. Sleeping Beauty is no exception, a gothic love story that encompasses good versus...
Interview with AJ Jenks, who stars in Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, coming to the Mayflower Theatre
by Joy McKay. February 3rd 1959 was immortalised by Don McLean when he described the tragic death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson in a plane crash as ‘The Day The Music Died’ in his 1971 hit American Pie. Exactly 64 years later, in...
Southampton listings 14 – 20 March
Protest songs, warrior queens, magical worlds, a very long running show, dinosaur-loving DJs and more are amongst the entertainment options on offer this week. Southampton Philharmonic Choir and Southampton University Philharmonic Choir will be performing Vaughan WIlliams’ The Lark Ascending and Dona Nobis Pacem and Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light at the O2...
Southampton MP Royston Smith among those who voted for controversial Illegal Migration Bill
by Sally Churchward. The Illegal Migration Bill, one of the most controversial pieces of legislation to come before Parliament in recent years, passed its second reading in the Commons last night. The vote was passed by 312 votes to 250. No Conservative MPs voted against it, although 44 abstained....
Book review: Mother Power – A Feminist’s Guide to Motherhood by Poppy O’Neill
by Carolyn Thomas. This empowering read encourages mothers to jettison the guilt and self-sacrifice so often associated with modern parenting and to put their own mental and physical welfare needs front and centre. As author Poppy O’Neill puts it, ‘You can’t pour from an empty cup’ – meaning that...
March Under the Covers: Mothers in literature
by Carolyn Thomas. As we celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK this month I started thinking about the vast range of mother characters in literature. From the 19th century’s loving and capable ‘Marmee’ in Little Women, through to the resourceful and resilient 21st century ‘Ma’, held captive with her...