By Laura McCarthy. Without a doubt, Agatha Christie’s novel Murder on the Orient Express is her finest and most famous work, offering up complex questions surrounding morality and what it means to abide by the law. Due to the multifaceted nature of this murder mystery, adaptions for film, TV,...
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Drama at Mayflower Theatre and Mayflower Studios
Experience a range of captivating dramas at the Mayflower Theatre and Mayflower Studios this year. Shows include: Murder on the Orient Express – 18 – 22 February 2025 – Mayflower Theatre Winter 1934 and an avalanche stops The Orient Express dead in its tracks. A murder. A train full...
Boff Whalley of Chumbawamba and Commoners Choir comes to October Books
But: Life Isn’t Like That, Is It? is a new collection of stories by Boff Whalley, musician, author, and one of the founding members of the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba and Commoners Choir. These are stories about real lives, real people, and real life. Stuttering, wayward, disjointed, funny, ridiculous, and unplanned....
Suburban Safari: Winter Sun on the Shore
By Katie Isham. In the midst of a cold, dark winter, any bright, sunny days are heralded like the returning hero after a battle; the second coming of a messiah. Any appearance of the sun from behind the great, grey shroud we currently live under, and we must make...
The K’s announce extensive UK tour dates
The K’s are back with new of a brand new album, lead single, and a wave of UK dates this spring and summer. With sold out headline tours, various main stage festival shows and a #3 Official Charts Album, The K’s swiftly became one of the most exciting and...
Review: Welly: Dork Hype List Tour, Heartbreakers, 13 February 2025
Words by Spring Wise. Photos by Dan Reddick. The Pill – Polly Money – Welly Early on Thursday morning, and this is no word of a lie, I accidentally exposed myself to a man putting up scaffolding at my house. With some kind of cosmic synchronicity, the first track...
Preview: Michael Ball & Alfie Boe, Bournemouth International Centre
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are back at Bournemouth International Centre on Sunday 30 March 2025, and this time it’s personal. Together at Home, the pair’s brand new sixth studio album was released on 8 November, marking their 10th year making music together and is the much-loved collaborators’ hymn...
Local Talent wanted for Hat Fair 2025
Local people from in and around Winchester who are interested in performing at this year’s Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts – can now apply to take part. Singers, musicians, comics, choirs, dance troupes and others with a short performance piece they would like...
Heritage: The Plaques of Southampton
By Martin Brisland. Blue plaques started in London in 1866 and the first one there was to poet Lord Byron. There some blue and are several other types of plaque found in our city. Southampton Council facilitated some black ones to remember local people who had a connection to...
Miss Saigon to play Mayflower Theatre in 2026
Miss Saigon will visit Southampton in 2026, as Michael Harrison and Cameron Mackintosh announce that a new version of Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical will tour Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 27 January to Saturday 7 February. In the last days of the Vietnam War, 17-year-old Kim is forced to work...