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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 over 200,000 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 - resuming this
month is our Festival Focus section giving full details of all music festivals
in the South through to October.
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.
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 3rd anniversary edition of Playing Out Loud. We’ve grown from a
few thousand hits to nearly a quarter of a million hits a month, picking up a
few awards along the way. We think we’ve got the mix about right, but we
welcome suggestions for new features and we hope to expand geographically and in
content over the next year.
The best of the music seems to be at festivals this month, and you can read
detailed information about the lineups at all the major festivals in the South
in our Festival Focus section.
Some of the artists featured in our
Articles
section are on festival bills, like The Ukrainians, The Duhks, Lightnin’ Willie
& The Poorboys and Rory Ellis, but we also put the spotlight on a couple of
excellent bands playing at music venues, namely The Blockheads and The
Honeymoon Machine. Our Listings section gives comprehensive details of all the
acts appearing at venues, although some theatres and arts centres are taking a
summer break.
Elsewhere you’ll find CD
reviews, gig reviews,
and the latest news in our News section
and on our Message Board. And to
see what’s coming up in September and October go to our
Coming Soon section.
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!
Due to public demand we are introducing this new section to enable you to plan
ahead. Coming Soon! will give basic live music listings over the next couple of
months after the current month. Full listings with details of music genres will
of course appear in the monthly Listings later. Please don’t forget to have a
look at Festival Focus for lineups right through to the end of September!
This
section will be constantly updated throughout each month, so keep coming back!
Click here to see what is COMING SOON!
LATEST UPDATES:
22nd August - News,
3 Messages
16th August - 3 CD Reviews, 2 Messages
12th August - Eastleigh Festival Review, 2 Messages
5th August - Coming Soon!
2nd August - 2 CD Reviews, Message
1st August - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
The Blockheads
The Brook,
Southampton
Friday August 19
Lightnin’ Willie
The Albert Tavern, Southsea
Thursday August 25
The Ukrainians Endorse It Festival, Sixpenny Handley August 12 - 14
The Duhks
Eastleigh Festival, Eastleigh
Saturday August 6
Rory Ellis
Various venues throughout Hampshire
The Honeymoon Machine
The Joiners, Southampton Thursday August 11
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