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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 over 100,000 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 - resuming this
month is our Festival Focus section giving full details of all music festivals
in the South through to October.
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.
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 June edition of Playing Out Loud, which
is now approaching 200,000 hits per month. This month’s edition is probably the
most comprehensive ever as far as listings go, but we don’t rest on our laurels,
so we welcome
news of any gigs or venues that we have missed.
The festival season is now in full swing and you can catch up with what’s going
on in our Festival Focus section.
Elsewhere in our Articles section
you can find out about the best blues gigs this month, which includes Taj Mahal
and Robert Cray. We also focus on rising comedy/music duo Bang Lassy, jazz diva
Christina Jackson, folk outfit Bellowhead, punk upstarts Towers of London, and
madcap band Los Albertos. You can also read our new reviewer Tara Knight’s
impressions of the recent appearance of
Girls Aloud at Portsmouth
Guildhall.
Another of her reviews, this time on Supergrass will follow soon. Our
Reviews section will also keep you
up to date on the latest albums and singles, while our popular
Message Board service helps venues,
bands, agents and musicians
to keep in touch with each other and broadcast the latest music
news. And just to help you plan ahead,
our Coming Soon section covers
events at major venues right up to the end of August.
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:
20th June - News,
4 Messages
13th June- 2 News items
6th June - 3 Gig Reviews, News, Coming Soon!
1st June - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
Bellowhead
Crawley Folk Festival, Sussex Sunday June 26
Bang Lassy
The Plough, Tiptoe Sat June 25 & The Dolphin, Southampton Thurs June 30
Taj Mahal & many other blues acts
various venues throughout June
Towers of London The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth Tuesday June 7
Los Albertos
Talking Heads, Southampton
Sat June 18
Marieanne Faithfull Salisbury Festival Saturday June 11
Christina Jackson Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury
Sat June 30
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