Since 2013 Southampton Keep Our NHS Public (SKONP) has been campaigning on streets, lobbying MPs and raising public awareness about the threats posed to the NHS through privatisation. As a local branch of Keep Our NHS Public, SKONP works to advocate the values of the NHS: publicly owned, accountable,...
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Preview: Jersey Boys at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in the Olivier Award-winning, original Broadway sensation, Jersey Boys, which is playing at the Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 16 July 2022. They were just four guys from Jersey who had a...
Preview: Let’s Rock Southampton: The Retro Festival at Southampton Common, Southampton
by Catherine Collins. Top Gun is showing in the cinemas, Kate Bush is number one in the music charts with Running Up That Hill and Southampton is set return to the ‘80s when Let’s Rock: The Retro Festival comes to Southampton Common on Saturday 9th July. Thousands of revellers...
Preview: Bat Out of Hell at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The award-winning Bat Out of Hell – The Musical, featuring Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf’s greatest hits, will burst onto the stage of the Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 28 June to Saturday 2 July 2022. Bat Out of Hell became one of the best-selling albums in history, selling over...
Dinosaurs are set to roam in Southampton this summer
IT has been 65 million years since dinosaurs last roamed the earth, but Royal Victoria Country Park in Southampton will see T-rex, Velociraptors, Stegosaurus and Pterodactyls roaming through its parkland once more as 2022’s most ‘roarsome’ experience comes to town. Jurassic, Triassic and Cretaceous periods are set to resurface...
Still-Moving DJs – Family festival at The Brook this weekend
Southampton’s Still Moving DJs and The Uplifter are hosting their very own all-day festival at the Brook this Saturday, the 26th June, with a programme for all the family. In the afternoon there is family friendly fun, with Hand to Mouth Theatre, vintage games, face-painting and dinosaurs – outside...
NHS campaign group meeting to discuss crisis in midwifery
Campaign group Southampton Keep Our NHS Public will be holding an online public meeting, entitled Call The Midwife, on Monday, June 27. The Zoom event, to be held oat 7pm, will feature recently retired midwife Jane Well, who will be talking about the crisis in the NHS midwifery service....
Preview: Rock of Ages at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
by Catherine Collins. The smash-hit musical, Rock of Ages, is back and the party is going to be bigger than ever when it takes to the Mayflower Theatre stage from 24 to 25 June 2022. Leave it all behind and lose yourself in a city, and a time, where...
Giant Sky, Last Seen Alive and March at Southampton’s Heartbreakers this weekend
Giant Sky, Last Seen Alive and March! will be coming to Heartbreakers, Southampton this weekend as part of a mini tour. Rock band Giant Sky come from Bristol and London and are made up of Jay on guitar, Jon on bass, Toby on drums and Olivia on vocals. The...
Preview: Singin’ in the Rain at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
by Catherine Collins. Singin’ in the Rain will take you on a journey back to the glamour of Hollywood during the roaring 20s, when it comes to the Mayflower Theatre from 14 to 18 June. Silent movie star, Don Lockwood, has it all, a string of hit films and...