I dropped in to see Pentire on what was the penultimate show of their tour on a sold out evening at Heartbreakers in Southampton. If you don’t know Heartbreakers it’s a small 100 capacity independent venue almost no stage so you’re eye to eye with the band and it gets hot and loud, perfect! Online…
The Clause are on tour promoting their first album release, ‘Victim Of A Casual Thing’ which has gone top 20 in the album charts and No.1 in the indie charts and it is well deserved. I first saw The Clause at The Chalk in Brighton three years ago as the first support act before for…
Reef stopped off in Southampton at The 1865 on their 30th Anniversary Tour of the album Replenish, yes 30 years ago. An English rock band, sometimes called at the time surf rock, originally from Glastonbury with founder members Gary Stringer on vocals and Jack Bessant on bass, now with Amy Newton on guitar and Luke…
Last night we went to The Joiners in Southampton to see Only the Poets for their ‘Going back to where it began’ tour. The first of two shows on the evening. I had heard good things about them so thought I’d go and see for myself. Only the Poets are an English band from Reading…
I’m not going to deny it, I went in tonight uninformed, I went in having Spotifyed (is that a verb?) the first few tracks and thinking ‘YES’ I want to see this band! I mentioned it online on ‘X’ to which Rough Trade answered “We Love Bodega!” As I sat there thinking how did I…
In what was I believe the first gig of the year for Johnny Marr and his long time bandmates, they chose The 1865 in Southampton to warm themselves up for the year ahead. This gig is only a few days before they take to the main stage at The National Bowl in Milton Keynes at…
Tom Meighan just owns it! The second support finished but there was no big rush to reassemble an entire stage, just his guitarist plugging his effects pedals for his semi-acoustic in, a playlist taped down and a fading out of the filler music. His guitarist started playing and with his big trademark sunglasses, black and…
It was the last night of the tour for The Stanley’s at The Heartbreakers in Southampton and having seen them last November supporting Cast I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity, especially at such a small intimate venue. The printed poster by the door set 9.15 as a set time and two supports, they’re spoiling…
This needs support, local and from industry. A social post / link from one of the local papers appeared on my feed tonight titled as above ‘Campaign to secure future of iconic music venue The Joiners’. This filled me with dread as it’s a venue I have frequented for more years than I’d like to…
Pushing beat-driven industrial, corrosive metal and electronic body music. Front Line Assembly, the electro-industrial band was formed in Canada in 1986. Their music was introduced to me back in 92 or 93 when a friend at college made me a cassette of some of their songs with some intermix and Front 242 after a conversation…
