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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 July 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.
A recently introduced feature, our totally revised
Food & Things section is already
proving popular. It lists 160 restaurants and eating places across the South.
We’ve eaten in all of them and given them the POL seal of approval.
Soif 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 July gigs in our
Articles section, including the
king of swamp rock Tony Joe White, hillbilly rockers Hayseed Dixie, former
Catatonia star Cerys Matthews, continental blues band Lazy Jumpers, American act
Parts & Labor and Essex blues-rockers Eddie & The Hot Rods.
We aim to cover all styles of music, both in our listings and in our
reviews, but we welcome input from
you music lovers out there if you feel your kind of music is not represented.
Our Festival Focus section
provides a complete guide to summer music festivals in the South. Some of the
best festivals are imminent including the Larmer Tree Festival and Trowbridge
Festival. Festival Focus gives full details of
lineups at festivals right through until the end of September.
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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.
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:
27th July - 2 Messages
14th July - News, CD Single Reviews, Message
12th July - 2 CD Reviews
10th July - Blues On The Farm Review, Listings (Pig & Whistle Bournemouth, Railway Inn Winchester & Southsea Bandstand), Coming Soon!,
News
5th July - Message, Listings (Platform, Thomas Tripp), Festival Focus
1st July - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
Hayseed Dixie Guilfest, Guildford Friday July 14
& The Brook, Southampton
Monday July 17
Tony Joe White
The Brook, Southampton
Sunday July 23
Eddie and The Hot Rods
The Joiners Arms, Southampton Thursday July 6
Cerys Matthews
The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth Friday July 21
The Lazy Jumpers Forest Arts,
New Milton
Saturday July 8
Parts & Labor
Talking Heads, Southampton
Thursday July 20
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart
Larmer Tree Festival
Saturday July 15 |
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