Navigating the post-pandemic touring world, where nostalgia is king of the jungle, Alabama 3, have agreed to give fans a hypo full of love and hook in a mainline to 1997 and 2000 when they visit Engine Rooms on Friday 28 March. In December, Alabama 3 marked the 25th...
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UB40, Judge Jules, Feeder, Happy Mondays and Brandon Block head the line-up for Poole Harbour Festival
Having enjoyed its most successful year to date, Poole Harbour Festival is proud to announce a star-studded line up for 2025 that takes the family live music festival to a new level. Up to 15,000 live music fans are expected to attend the three day festival, running from July...
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...
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: Polly Paulusma, Winchester Hyde Tavern, Winchester
Photo credit: Lina Jusevičiūtė Wildfires, the sixth studio album from English singer-songwriter Polly Paulusma, is out on February 28 via One Little Independent Records and Wild Sound, ahead of a date at Winchester Hyde Tavern on Thursday 20 March 2025. Across nearly two hours and six sides of vinyl, folk instrumentation...
Southampton’s Caity Baser releases new single, Watch That Girl (She’s Gonna Say It)
Image by Finn Waring. Southampton’s Caity Baser has released her brand new single, ‘Watch That Girl (She’s Gonna Say It)’, out now via Capitol Records UK. The song signals a bold new direction for the 22-year-old BRIT Award-nominated singer, both in terms of sound and lyric. Co-written and...
Craig David to play homecoming gig at Southampton Summer Sessions show in June
Live Nation and Cuffe & Taylor have announced this morning that multi-award-winning global superstar Craig David will join the lineup for TK Maxx Presents Southampton Summer Sessions. Returning to his hometown, Craig will bring his TS5 show to Guildhall Square on Saturday 21 June 2025, joined by renowned DJ and crowd-favourite Patrick Nazemi....
Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet – The Brook, Southampton
Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet continue their “They Want What You’ve Got.” tour, bringing them to The Brook, Southampton, on February 12, with homegrown support from Still Moving DJs. Ríoghnach Connolly, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year, leads Honeyfeet with her eclectic taste for musical adventure. Together,...