By Manthan Pathak. If you haven’t watched Ken Loach’s final film, The Old Oak, it tells the story of a village divided by the arrival of a family of Syrian immigrants who are greeted with tremendous hostility, but build friendships as they work with the community to save...
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Hampshire Young Poets Competition returns for 2025 with the theme Friendship
Winchester Poetry Festival and Hampshire Cultural Trust are working together once more to encourage young people in Hampshire to express themselves through poetry, in the Hampshire Young Poets Competition 2025. This year’s theme is ‘Friendship’ and young people from across Hampshire are asked to write a poem of no...
Preview: The Baddies, Theatre Royal Winchester
Family audiences are invited to meet the worst villains ever when The Baddies comes to Theatre Royal Winchester from Friday 21 March. The Baddies is a stage adaptation of the book by children’s author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler and tells of a witch, a troll and an...
Michael Rosen brings solo show to Poole this month
Former Children’s Laureate and Pen Pinter Award winner, performer, broadcaster, author and scriptwriter, Michael Rosen brings his new one-person show, Getting Through It, to Lighthouse on Friday 21 March. A powerful and personal double bill of monologue and poetry that delves deep into the themes of trauma, grief and mortality,...
Experience: banging the drum for anti-racism on the streets of Southampton
By Gerald Elliott. One thing I’m always proud of about our city is that whenever the far-right tries to hold a “protest,” they have to leave early to catch their trains home, because they’re never actually from this area. There just aren’t enough fascists in Southampton to hold a...
Preview: Sexbomb: Celebrating the Music of Sir Tom Jones, Theatre Royal Winchester
Fans of the legendary Sir Tom Jones can now reflect on his incredible life in music with Sexbomb: Celebrating the Music of Sir Tom Jones, which comes to Theatre Royal Winchester on Thursday 13 March. Sexbomb celebrates one of the biggest names in pop music – Sir Thomas Jones...
Southampton gig guide – March 2025
By Vicky Greer. We’ve almost reached the rush of fresh gigs that arrive before the chaos of festival season. Soon enough, it will still be light when we leave our houses to head down to the venue, and we won’t have to worry about what we’re going to do...
Review: Coldwave at Heartbreakers, Southampton
By Dan O’Farrell. A Monday night in Southampton might not be the most inspiringly rock ‘n’ roll stop on any Australian band’s tour itinerary, but Adelaide’s Coldwave made the stage their own last night (3/3/25) with a jaw-dropping display of musical intensity that left the gathered music-obsessives feeling both...
Review: Bikini Body & Conscious Pilot – Heartbreakers, Southampton
By Russell Foxall. Photos: Anita Foxall. Having seen the impressive Conscious Pilot before, it was an easy decision to head out on a cold early March Sunday (2/3/25), particularly as I had enjoyed the various songs by Bikini Body I had sampled on line. The opening band was Winchester-based...
Robert Jon & The Wreck head to Portsmouth this spring
Image: Laurence Harvey. Californian southern blues rockers Robert Jon & The Wreck have rescheduled three of their Spring 2025 UK tour dates. They will now play Birmingham O2 Academy 2 on Tuesday 6 May, Gloucester Guildhall on Wednesday 7th May and Chester Live Rooms on Thursday 8 May. They’ve...