Pop sensation and bona fide National Treasure, Lulu is renowned for her powerful voice and enduring career having burst onto the music scene in the 1960s with her chart-topping debut single Shout at the age of 15. Last year she played Glastonbury and completed her sold out final tour...
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Experienced live music booker joins Lighthouse team
Lighthouse Poole has announced the appointment of John Blakeley as Music Programmer, working as part of their programming team. John started his career in Bristol promoting gigs at various venues including Thekla, The Canteen and The Wardrobe Theatre before establishing his own concert promotions company, Ear Trumpet Music. He...
Kathryn Tickell comes to Lighthouse Poole this autumn
Playing Lighthouse Poole on Tuesday 1 October with her band The Darkening, Kathryn Tickell is a composer, performer, educator and successful recording artist with a string of releases to her name, whose work is deeply rooted in the landscape and people of Northumbria. Named after the old Northumbrian word for...
Indie singer/songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich comes Poole
Image by Hariett K Bols. Acclaimed indie singer songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, best known for his gentle acoustic output, is set to appear at Lighthouse Poole on Wednesday 20 November as part of a tour to showcase his new album, Some Things Break. Artistic transformation is often associated with a...
Review: Jah Wobble, Lighthouse, Poole
By Sam Wise. Whatever you think Jah Wobble is going to do live, he might. He really might, whatever it is. One thing and one thing only you can be sure of, and that’s that it won’t be the only thing he does. At the start of this show,...
Interview: Jah Wobble chats ahead of Lighthouse, Poole date
By Sam Wise. Jah Wobble, at least for me, was one of those names that hovers at the periphery of your consciousness without you necessarily being certain why. I remember that in my case, he first came into actual focus in the runup to a Womad festival in the...