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...
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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...
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...
Preview: Beans on Toast, The Joiners, Southampton
Beans on Toast will be back out on the road this March, including a stop at The Joiners on Tuesday 25 March 2025. Touring in support of his critically acclaimed latest work, Wild Goose Chasers, Beans and his long time musical partner Matt Millership are sizing up 16 headline...
Preview: Dracula, Theatre Royal Winchester
Fans of gothic horror are invited to an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel, Dracula, at Theatre Royal Winchester from Monday 3 March. Set in London, across provincial England, and the mountains of Transylvania in 1897, Dracula tells the story of a group of young men and women, led...
Preview: Hamilton, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The multi award-winning Hamilton will play a six week season at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton from 18 March – 26 April 2025. Hamilton is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken the story of American...