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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 November 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, folk, Americana, rock and blues with The Revillos, Nine Below Zero, The Dandy Warhols, Dave Swarbrick, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett of Little Feat and Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan.   

Our Coming Soon section looks ahead to gigs right up until the end of February 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 has now wound up but we have a recent addition, 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!

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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.

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 THE REZILLOS, THE BROOK, SOUTHAMPTON – WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10
THE REZILLOS
THE BROOK, SOUTHAMPTON WEDNES DEC 10

PAUL BARRERE & FRED TACKETT, THE CELLARS AT EASTNEY, SOUTHSEA – SUNDAY DECEMBER 14
PAUL BARRERE
& FRED TACKETT

THE CELLARS AT EASTNEY, SOUTHSEA
SUNDAY DEC 14

ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, WEDGEWOOD ROOMS, SOUTHSEA – TUESDAY DECEMBER 9
ISOBEL CAMPBELL
& MARK LANEGAN
WEDGEWOOD ROOMS
SOUTHSEA TUESDAY DEC 9

NINE BELOW ZERO, MR KYPS, POOLE – SATURDAY DECEMBER 13
NINE BELOW ZERO MR KYPS
POOLE
SATURDAY DEC 13

EDDIE & THE HOT RODS, THE RAILWAY INN, WINCHESTER - SATURDAY DECEMBER 20
EDDIE & THE
HOT RODS

THE RAILWAY INN, WINCHESTER SATURDAY DEC 20

DAVE SWARBRICK, WINCHESTER DISCOVERY CENTRE – FRIDAY DECEMBER 12
DAVE SWARBRICK WINCHESTER DISCOVERY CENTRE – FRIDAY DEC 12

DANDY WARHOLS, BOURNEMOUTH FIRE STATION – THURSDAY DECEMBER 11
DANDY WARHOLS BOURNEMOUTH
FIRE STATION – THURSDAY DEC 11

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