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Welcome to
PLAYING OUT LOUD!
Welcome to the latest edition of Playing Out Loud,
POL for short, a monthly guide to live music
in the South of England, with gig listings, articles, interviews, news, CD and
gig reviews and much more. We now get nearly 250,000 hits per month, reflecting
the success of our mission to stimulate interest in live music in Hampshire,
Dorset and Wiltshire and parts of adjoining counties.
Jazz, pop, blues, folk, country, rock, soul and classical music are all covered
- if it’s live it’s here. Just click on the headings above to go where you want
to go, or use our search engine to keep track of your favourite artists.
As experts in the music media field with a host of contacts in the music
industry, we also offer our services, for a small fee, to bands and performers
looking to improve their press, media or web content, and get more gigs, and to
venues wishing to raise their profile and pull in more customers. Please email
me for more details. And if you like the look of this website our website
manager can also help you set up your own website or improve your existing
one. Again, just email for more information.
 And
don’t forget to look out for AND Magazine where PLAYING
OUT LOUD has a
double-page spread in each issue. The magazine covers the same geographical area
as POL and also includes leisure, travel,
food, fashion, cinema, theatre and
many other subjects.
POL Editorial.
Welcome to the August edition of Playing Out Loud. As
usual we’ve got pages and pages of live music
Listings which includes more
information about the artists and styles than most websites, and in our
Previews section we focus on a few
gigs to give you a bit more information. Featured this month are folk, ska-punk,
Americana, blues and punk-folk in the shape of Amy Wadge, Conor Oberst & The
Mystic Valley Band, Owen Tromans & The Elders, Gwyn Ashton, Voodoo Glow Skulls
and Tofu Love Frogs.
Our Coming Soon section looks ahead
to gigs right up until the end of October to help you plan ahead with your live
music outings. Album, gig and book reviews will be added during the month so
keep coming back to us to keep up to date.
Our Festival Focus section covers
the tail end of the festival season, and we have a recent addition,
The Shop, in which we offer
music-related items for sale at reasonable prices – vinyl records, CDs, music
magazines like Q, Record Collector etc, music memorabilia, book and much more.
You can also contact The Shop for specific enquiries if you are searching for a
particular record, CD etc and we will try to help you.
Our Food & Things section
includes reviews and a list of recommended restaurants. We hope to update this
section a bit more regularly in future and welcome the submission of reviews
from any of you out there who want to share their eating out experiences with a
larger audience!
Finally, if you like this site and want it to continue, or you are a promoter,
artist or venue who appreciate our efforts, you can make a donation by clicking
on to our Donations logo. All contributions gratefully received, as we have been
operating at a loss for the last five years!
NUJ Member No 0896708
CDs for review or press packs etc should be sent directly to:
Playing Out Loud
Co/ Peter Ashton
45 Roselands Gardens,
Highfield,
Southampton,
Hants SO17 1QG.
STOP THE PRESS!
Don’t forget to check
the
COMING SOON! PREVIEW section which enables you to plan ahead. It gives advanced listings for
most of the bigger venues, with further dates added throughout the month.
LATEST UPDATES:
16th August - Stokes Bay Festival Review,
Single Reviews
9th August - Gig Review
1st August - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
AMY WADGE
ALBERT BAR
SOUTH PARADE PIER FRIDAY AUGUST 22
GWYN ASHTON CELLARS AT EASTNEY SOUTHSEA
WED AUGUST 20
VOODOO GLOW SKULLS
TALKING HEADS SOUTHAMPTON
SUN AUGUST 17
OWEN TROMANS
& THE ELDERS RAILWAY INN WINCHESTER FRIDAY AUGUST 8
CONOR OBERST
& THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND WEDGEWOOD ROOMS, PORTSMOUTH
TUES AUGUST 26
TOFU LOVE FROGS DORSET,
SIXPENNY HANDLEY FRIDAY AUGUST 8 |
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