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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 April 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 pop, country,
folk, Americana and rock in the shape of Kill Henry Sugar, And You Will Know Us
By The Trail of Dead, Kimmie Rhodes, Pam Tillis, Ben Dlugokecki and Chris Wood.
Our Coming Soon section looks ahead
to gigs right up until the end of April 2009 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 is expanding month by month as more bookings for all the summer
festivals in the South are announced. Also see
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 six years!
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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.
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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:
17th April - New Festival review
1st April - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Ben Dlugokecki
The Orange Rooms, Southampton
Friday April 24
KILL HENRY SUGAR RAILWAY INN, WINCHESTER
SAT APRIL 11
AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
WEDGEWOOD ROOMS, PORTSMOUTH
TUES APRIL 14
KIMMIE RHODES
THE TIVOLI THEATRE, WIMBORNE
WED APRIL 29
PAM TILLIS
THE ANVIL, BASINGSTOKE TUESDAY APRIL 28
CHRIS WOOD
QUAY ARTS CENTRE,
NEWPORT,
ISLE OF WIGHT SUNDAY APRIL 26 |
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