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Welcome to the July edition of Playing Out Loud! LATEST UPDATES: 20th July - New Review / 19th July - Festival Focaus Updates (Various), New Message / 12th July - New Review, Festival Focus Update (Titchfield Abbey & Wallingford Bunkfest), New Message / 9th July - New Review, Listings update (Shoe Inn & Platform Tavern), New Message / 6th July - News update, New Message / 5th July - 2 New CD Reviews, Listings Update (The Joiners), 2 new Messages / 2nd July - 2 New Reviews, Festival Focus Update / 1st July - New July edition of Playing Out Loud!

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Welcome to
PLAYING OUT LOUD!
JULY 2004
An online monthly guide to live music in the South.
    Welcome to the July 2004 edition of Playing Out Loud, POL for short. More comprehensive than ever with in-depth articles and interviews. As regular visitors will know, and there are thousands of them now making 70,000+ hits per month, our mission is to stimulate interest in live music and let you know what’s on and where 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. But POL is not just a gigs listing site.
      Our Message Board has proved a popular innovation, but has been mainly used to recruit band members or announce last-minute gigs. So this month we will be starting an Articles For Sale section for anyone who wishes to sell albums, CDs, books, musical instruments, magazine, music ephemera - in fact anything music-related. And it’s completely free. We will continue to review gigs, CDs, books and restaurants and provide you with the latest news.
      We also offer our services, for a small fee, to bands and performers
looking to improve their press, media or web content, and help them get more gigs.
      With over twenty years media experience, I personally know what is required to get media coverage and how to present it, so email me for more details. If you like the look of this website my website manager can also help you set up your own website or improve your existing one. Again, just email for more information.

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JULY
Featured artists:
(see Articles for info)

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Hazel O'Connor - Tower Arts Centre, Winchester - Thursday July 8
Hazel O'Connor Tower Arts Centre, Winchester Thursday July 8

StiX - Talking Heads, Southampton - Friday July 9
StiX
Talking Heads, Southampton
Friday July 9

Dionne Warwick - Eastleigh Summer Festival, Eastleigh - July 29
Dionne Warwick Eastleigh Summer Festival, Eastleigh Thurs July 29

Nigel Kennedy - Larmer Tree Festival, Tollard Royal - Saturday July 10
Nigel Kennedy Larmer Tree Festival, Tollard Royal Saturday July 10

Chuck Berry - Prtsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth - Tuesday July 6
Chuck Berry Prtsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth
Tuesday July 6

Zoe Schwarz - Various gigs throughout Hampshire in July
Zoe Schwarz
Various gigs throughout Hampshire in July

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