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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 January edition of Playing Out Loud, and
a Happy New Year to all you music lovers. As usual we’ve got pages and pages of
live music listings,
news and gig and CD
reviews. Our
Festival Focus section returns
with a list of dates for your 2007 diary, and the lineups for the festivals will
be added in due course.
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 pretty
percussionists Drum Blonde, blues singer Martin Harley, jazz trumpeter Guy
Barker, singer and guitarist Jamie Moses, synth-poppers Hellogoodbye and
Canadian folk outfit Wailin’ Jennys.
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. In fact, we welcome feedback of
any kind, so criticism, praise or content suggestions will be gladly received.
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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.
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Don’t forget to check
the
COMING SOON! 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:
16th January - Festival Focus Returns!
5th January - CD Review,
Single Reviews
1st January - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
Martin Harley Band Tower Arts Centre,
Winchester
Friday January 19
Hellogoodbye Pyramids Centre, Portsmouth
Tuesday January 23
Jamie Moses
The Brook, Southampton Thursday January 18
The Wailin’ Jennys Ashcroft Arts Centre,
Fareham
Tuesday January 23
Drum Blondes
Turner Sims, Southampton
Sunday January 21
Guy Barker
& Various Artists
Concorde Club, Eastleigh
Wednesday Jan 17 |
Southampton's No 1 recording studio
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