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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 December edition of Playing Out Loud. As
usual we’ve got pages and pages of live music
listings,
news and gig and CD
reviews. Our
Festival Focus section is taking a
rest until early next year, but we’ll be the first to give you the 2007 lineups.
If you haven’t caught up with our
Food & Things section, then take a look now. It lists 160 restaurants and
eating places across the South and we will soon be updating our Restaurant of
the Month, and will do so each month from now on! All of the restaurants listed
have been sampled and given 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 out geographically just like our Listings section.
We’ve spotlighted some of the best gigs of the month in our
Articles section, including superb
death metal band Darkest Hour, jazz singer Katya Gorrie, jump-jivers The
Cadillac Kings, ex-Edward II members K & Latouche, Canadian singer Rachelle Van
Zanten and American new blues band Rocco & The Burden.
We’ve got Gig and CD reviews coming
up throughout the month so dive in to POL regularly. If we’ve left anything out
in the area in which you live, just let us know. Apologies for any mistakes or
omissions this month, we had a major crisis at POL HQ when the computer crashed,
so we had to start again from scratch!
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 advanced listings for
most of the bigger venues, with further dates added throughout the month.
LATEST UPDATES:
12th December - Coming Soon!
8th December - Single Reviews
5th December - CD Review
4th December - 2 Single Reviews
1st December - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
T&Latouche
Salisbury Arts Centre,
Salisbury
Friday Dec 15
The Cadillac Kings Talking Heads,
Southampton Saturday Dec 9
Darkest Hour Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea
Thursday Dec 14
Rachelle Van Zanten Railway Inn, Winchester
Thursday Dec 14
Rocco DeLuca
The Joiners Arms, Southampton Thursday Dec 21
Katya Gorrie
Forest Arts Centre, New Milton
Friday Dec 15 |
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