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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.
POL Editorial.
Welcome to the February edition of Playing Out Loud.
We’re now into our 8th year of promoting music in the South of England, and 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 pop, country,
jazz and world music in the shape of Richmond Fontaine, Holly Williams, Nik
Kershaw, Moishe’s Bagel, The Visitors and Jacqui Dankworth.
Our Coming Soon section looks ahead
to gigs right up until the end of March 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. And our Festival Focus
feature returns to keep you in touch with the lineups to all the festivals in
the South.
This month we bring you the fourth in our new “My
Music” feature in which local musicians are quizzed about their musical
preferences.
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 seven 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.
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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:
7th February - 5 CD Reviews
5th February - New My Music
1st February - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
GIDEON’S DEMISE
RICHMOND FONTAINE
THE RAILWAY INN, WINCHESTER SATURDAY FEB 27
HOLLY WILLIAMS TOWER ARTS CENTRE,
WINCHESTER
THURS MARCH 18
NIK KERSHAW TALKING HEADS,
SOUTHAMPTON FRIDAY FEB 26
THE VISITORS CELLARS AT EASTNEY,
SOUTHSEA
FRIDAY FEB 19
MOISHE’S BAGEL WILTSHIRE MUSIC
CENTRE,
BRADFORD
ON AVON
FRIDAY FEB 12
JACQUI DANKWORTH SPRING ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE, HAVANT
THURSDAY FEB 18 |
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