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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 May edition of Playing Out Loud. As
usual we’ve got pages and pages of live music
listings,
news, gig, DVD and CD
reviews and our
Festival Focus section.
A recently introduced feature is our totally revised
Food & Things section which is
already proving popular. It lists 160 restaurants and eating places across the
South. We’ve eaten in all of them and given them the POL seal of approval. So if
you want to find somewhere to eat before or after going out to a music gig, or
are looking for somewhere to celebrate a special occasion, just take a look at
Food & Things which is set out geographically just like our Listings section.
We’ve spotlighted some of the best May gigs in our
Articles section, namely bluesman
Kent DuChaine, folk upstarts Kerfuffle, American rockers The Brian Jonestown
Massacre, Canadian humourists The Arrogant Worms, Eliza Gilkyson from Austin,
Texas, the Soweto Gospel Choir from South Africa and jazz singer Stacey Kent.
Folk, country, rock, jazz, gospel are covered in our articles, and the listings
are equally comprehensive and eclectic. Whatever your musical tastes, you’ll
find something to attract you in our listings.
Our Festival Focus section is
beginning to expand as organisers confirm bookings. You can use the link at the
top of the page to go straight through to the Wickham Festival website .
Organisier Peter Chegwyn has arranged a fabulous lineup including Richard
Thomnpson, Sparks and Los Pacaminos.
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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!
COMING SOON. Don’t forget to check
this section which enables you to plan ahead. It gives May listings for most of
the bigger venues, and June dates will soon be added.
LATEST UPDATES:
15th May - 2 CD Reviews,
Coming Soon!
9th May - 3 CD Reviews, 2 Messages
5th May - Gig Review
4th May - Single Reviews
3rd May - Restaurant Review
1st May - GOSPORT & FAREHAM EASTER FESTIVAL REVIEW
1st May - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
Soweto Gospel Choir Bournemouth Pavilion, Bournemouth
Monday May 22
Arrogant Worms Talking Heads, Southampton
Saturday May 27
Stacey Kent Concorde Club, Eastleigh
Wednesday May 10
Eliza Gilkyson
Havant Arts Centre, Havant
Friday May 26
Kent DuChaine
Forest Arts, New Milton
Saturday May 20 & Tower Arts Centre,
Winchester
Tuesday May 23
Kerfuffle
MayFest,
Winchester
Saturday May 13
Brian Jonestown Massacre Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Saturday May 20 |
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