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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 April 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 new 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 our
geographically just like our Listings section.
We’ve spotlighted half a dozen of the best April gigs in our
Articles section, namely Janis Ian,
Chris Difford, The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Robin Trower, Tasmin Little and
Soweto Kinch. Folk, pop, country, rock, jazz and classical - we try and cover as
many musical genres as we can.
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 Fareham and Gosport Easter
Festival website, and click on Festival Focus to
see the latest names booked for the Larmer Tree Festival, Wickham Festival and
many more.
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!
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:
21st April - 2 CD Reviews,
Festival Focus
11th April - CD Review,
Coming Soon!
1st April - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
Soweto Kinch
The Anvil, Basingstoke Thursday April 20
Janis Ian
Ferneham Hall, Fareham
Saturday April 15
Tasmin Little
Turner Sims
Concert Hall,
Southampton Univerisity
Tuesday April
25
The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
The Talking Heads, Southampton
Friday April 7
Robin Trower
The Brook, Southampton Wednesday April 26
Chris Difford and
Lisa Fitzgibbon
Talking Heads, Southampton
Friday April 21 |
Southampton's No 1 recording studio
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