Tribute band The Killerz are to headline the festival, held in the grounds of The Elvetham Hotel in the Hampshire countryside. FleetingDays is a family-friendly one-day micro-festival located near Fleet, Hampshire. Held on Saturday 17th August 2024, it features bands and performers, children’s entertainment, local food and drink, stalls...
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Graham Norton comes to Portsmouth and Poole for autumn tour
Graham Norton, the nation’s favourite talk show host and author, is celebrating the release of his latest novel Frankie, published by Coronet, with a brand-new tour this autumn. An Evening with Graham Norton sees Graham discuss Frankie and share hilarious tales from his star-studded sofa, and turns the tables...
Southampton April gig guide
By Vicky Greer. With Glastonbury’s lineup finally revealed, everyone’s looking straight ahead to festival season. But there’s still a solid few months left to enjoy local gigs before we get there, and it’s a good time to reflect on the grassroots venues that allow us to have festivals like...
Old Grammarian’s and Hillonians Association reunion this September
Image: Hill College boys’ basketball team c1988. The Old Grammarian’s and Hillonians Association, incorporating former students and staff of the Southampton College for Girls, will be holding this year’s reunion on Saturday, September 28th, at a new venue. After two reunions held at their old school/college, now Richard Taunton...
Preview: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The most fantastic magical musical of all time, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, opens at Mayflower Theatre Southampton on 30 April 2024, where it will play until 12 May 2024 ahead of its UK tour. In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we meet absent-minded inventor Caractacus Potts who restores a broken-down...
Southampton’s Welly release new single, Shopping
Southampton’s Welly have premiered their brand new single Shopping – available now alongside an exuberant music video that introduces one of the UK’s most exciting new bands. You can watch the video here. Satirical, sincere and startlingly accomplished, Shopping is as razor-sharp a send up of modern consumerism as...
Opinion: Trans Pride Southampton statement on puberty blockers
By Trans Pride Southampton. Recently it was announced that NHS England will no longer offer puberty blockers, primarily gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists but also other medicines, to transgender youths and youths who are uncertain about their gender. This news is upsetting to a lot of people, Trans Pride...
Review: The Stranglers, Portsmouth Guildhall
By Nick Mabey. Main image: Hiroki_Nishioka. A packed Portsmouth Guildhall hosted the latest leg of The Stranglers year-long 50th anniversary tour on Saturday (24th March 2024). Two sets, separated unusually by a thirty-minute interval, were packed with songs from the length of their remarkable career. Classic album tracks from...
Review: Welsh National Opea: Cosi Fan Tutte, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
By Martin Brisland. Lessons in love, a day in the school of hard knocks or men behaving misogynistically? Mozart’s opera has divided opinion since it was first performed in 1790. Translated as ‘All women do the same’, it explores sexist male behaviour towards women who are presumed to be fickle and untrustworthy. In...
James announce warm up show in Bournemouth ahead of their arena tour
Music fans in the south are in for a huge treat, as James have announced a new live show at the O2 Academy Bournemouth on Wednesday 29 May. Following the warm up show in Bournemouth, James head out on their biggest ever tour in June, playing across the UK including...