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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.
Firstly, we would like to wish our thousands of music lovers a Happy Christmas
and a Successful New Year. December isn’t always the best month for live music
but this particular December is better than most years. We preview the
best of them in our Articles
section - you can read about Doves, The Fight, The Tubes, Amy Rigby, The Jackson
Analogue, Derren Nauendorf and David Gray.
We will also be reviewing the latest CDs and highlighting recent gigs by Natalie
Imbruglia, Rick Astley, Motorhead and Sherman Robertson in our
Reviews section, which will be
constantly added to throughout the month. The same
goes for our News section and
Coming Soon. We are also reviving
our Festival Focus section earlier
than usual, so you can start planning ahead for next year. And if you want to
send greetings to fellow music lovers you can also use our
Message Board. All the best,
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:
15th December - 2 DVD Reviews,
Gig Review,
2 Messages
12th December - 4 CD Reviews, News, Message
5th December - Listings, 2 Gig Reviews, 2 CD Reviews, Coming Soon!,Festival Focus
1st December - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
EXCLUSIVE POL INTERVIEW
The Tubes
The Brook, Southampton
Friday Dec 2
Amy Rigby
Railway Inn, Winchester
Tuesday Dec 6
David Gray
BIC, Bournemouth
Thursday Dec 8
Derrin Nauendorf
Talking Heads, Southampton
Saturday Dec 17
The Fight
The Joiners, Southampton
Friday Dec 16
The Jackson Analogue
The Venue, Ryde Friday December 23
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