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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 February edition of Playing Out Loud. As usual we’ve got pages
and pages of live music listings,
news,
gig, DVD and CD reviews and our
Festival Focus section.
New this
month is our totally revised Food &
Things section which lists 160 restaurants and eating places across the South.
We’ve eaten in all of them and given them 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 our geographically just like our Listings section.
We’ve spotlighted half a dozen of the best February gigs in our
Articles section - up and coming
acts like Battle and Morning Runner, a world music tour by African Soul Rebels,
American troubador Neal Casal, blues guitar maestro
Michael Messer and 70s rockers Nazareth. We’ve also got
reviews of the latest
singles by our reviewer Martin Sirl, a review of Nick Cave’s latest DVD and a
book review of the autobiography written by our good friend Gordon Haskell.
It’s a brilliant read and we wholeheartedly recommend it.
Our Festival Focus section is
beginning to expand as organisers confirm bookings. You can use the link at the
top of the page to go straight through to the Fareham and Gosport Easter
Festival website, and click on Festival Focus to
see the latest names booked for the Larmer Tree Festival, Eastleigh Summer
Festival and many more.
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:
13th February - 3 CD Reviews,
Message
10th February - Gig Review, 2 CD Reviews, Message
2nd February - Gordon Haskell Book Review
1st February - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
African Soul rebels Poole Lighthouse, Poole
February 18,
The Dome, Brighton
February 21 & Basingstoke Anvil, Basingstoke February 22
Morning Runner
The Joiners, Southampton Tuesday February 21
Nazareth
The Brook, Southampton Wednes February 8
Neal Casal
The Railway Inn, Winchester
Tuesday February 14
Battle
The Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea Tuesday February 28
Michael Messer Raven Hotel, Hook Friday February 3 & Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne
Sat
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