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...
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Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls come to Southampton on their April tour
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls are set to continue their relentless tour schedule this April with a number of headline shows in the UK. After kick-starting the year with a series of dates in Mexico and a special, intimate gig for BRITs Week and War Child, Frank Turner...
Elkie Brooks adds new Fareham date to her extensive ‘Long Farewell Tour’ due to demand
Sixty years into her storied career, Elkie Brooks has added a raft of additional new dates to her Long Farewell Tour, including one at Fareham Live on 12 May. A celebration of her illustrious, award-winning six decades in music, Elkie will be performing some of her biggest hits on...
Preview: Alabama 3, Engine Rooms, Southampton
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...
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...