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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 August 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 folk, country,
punk and much more in the shape Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds, Eugene
Hideway Bridges, Mary Gauthier, Sonic Boom Six, Leftover Crack and Jeffrey Lewis
& The Junk Yard. Our Coming Soon
section looks ahead to gigs right up until the end of September 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 covers
all the remaining summer festivals in the South with details of lineups and
links to relevant websites. 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!
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!
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:
24th August - New Gig Review
16th August - New Review
7th August - Single Reviews,
Stokes Bay Festival Review,
New Interview,
2 CD Reviews
1st August - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW WITH
C MANAGEMENT
MARY GAUTHIER
LANTERN THEATRE ROMSEY
FRIDAY AUGUST 7
JEFFREY LEWIS & THE JUNK YARD JOINERS ARMS,
SOUTHAMPTON FRIDAY AUGUST 21
EUGENE HIDEAWAY BRIDGES
MR KYPS,
POOLE
SAT AUGUST 8
ADRIAN EDMONDSON
& THE BAD SHEPHERDS
MR KYPS,
POOLE
SAT AUGUST 22
LEFTOVER CRACK TALKING HEADS,
SOUTHAMPTON TUES AUGUST 11
SONIC BOOM SIX SALISBURY
CITY HALL
SAT AUGUST 22 |
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