Are you a local musician, band or in a choir? Have you always wanted to play at a festival? Then you could be in luck. Applications are being sought from local musicians and bands to play at next year’s Wickham Festival by Sound Level. Following the success of the...
Suburban Safari: A drop in the Itchen
by Katie Isham. Dip a toe into the Itchen Navigation. Not literally. Keep your walking boots on. But we’ll wander a small section of the trail that runs alongside the river to get a taste of what those dedicated long-distance walkers find so alluring. Start in Bishopstoke, on the...
Reader’s Letter: Business, buses and busting corporate dystopia
by Meg Sherman. City Red buses’ decision to terminate their entire service in Southampton from February 2023 is an acute manifestation of a regressive wider trend of public service retrenchment, associated with fiscal austerity. It is the sad but inevitable consequence of a culture of reckless privatisation and outsourcing...
Local shopping event at Southampton’s October Books this weekend
Independent radical bookshop, October Books, in Portswood, Southampton, is holding a local shopping event tomorrow (December 3). Held in the shop from 10.30am to 1pm, the event will offer a chance to support local businesses with your Christmas shopping. “If you’re giving gifts this year, we’re inviting you to...
Warm Home campaign takes to Southampton streets tomorrow, December 3
Campaigners from a new coalition of local organisations fighting for warm homes will gather in Southampton tomorrow (Saturday, December 3) as part of a national day of action on the energy price crisis. The campaign aims to unite communities and organisations across the area that are working towards a...
DON’T TALK ABOUT Y***N national day of Solidarity with Yemen comes to Southampton on December 3
by Sally Churchward. As part of the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) National Day of Solidarity with Yemen, campaigners will be on the streets of Southampton for ‘”DON’TTALK ABOUT YxxxN.” Protesters will be gathering outside Southampton City Art Gallery from noon for poetry and reflection, before marching to Leonardo,...
Reader’s letter: “Where are you from?” is a loaded question
Reading the transcript from Buckingham Palace where Ngozi Fulani, a domestic abuse charity founder was greeted by Lady Susan Hussey was uncomfortable, but I’m sure not as shocking as it was to experience in person. For me it wasn’t that Lady Hussey asked the question “Where are you from?”,...
On World Aids Day Southampton councillor calls or action to drive down undiagnosed HIV in the city
This World Aids Day (December 1, 2022), a Southampton councillor is calling for more action to be taken to drive down rates of undiagnosed HIV. Cllr Lorna Fielker, Cabinet Member for Health, Adults and Leisure has called for HIV testing to be done whenever blood is taken in Southampton...
Review: Raymonda, English National Ballet at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, November 2022
by Joy Richardson. Despite being considered a standard of classical ballet Raymonda, which was first performed in 1898, tends to only be seen in excerpts today and it has never before been performed in full in this country by a UK company. Keeping the original score of Alexander Glazunov...
Review: Marcus Mumford at The Brook, Southampton – November 2022
words and photos by Peter Nicholson. In all honesty, this wasn’t a gig that I was particularly excited about. Despite it being at my favourite venue, The Brook, Southampton, I suspected it would simply be an artist with an acoustic guitar, playing a short, forty-five-minute set. However, and for...