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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 June 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. 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 June gigs in our
Articles section, including rock
guitar hero Joe Satriani, quirky singer Regina Spektor, American singer Beth
Garner, the touring gypsy troupe The Dhoad Gypsies, underrated bluesman Jim
Condie, Brazilian singer Monica Vasconcelos and her band Nois, and several more
enticing acts. 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 is
beginning to expand as the festival season gets underway. You can use the link
at the top of the page to go straight through to the Wickham Festival website .
Organiser Peter Chegwyn has arranged a fabulous lineup including Richard
Thomnpson, Sparks and Los Pacaminos.
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!
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:
20th June - Coming Soon Preview
15th June - Bon Jovi Gig Review
9th June - 3 CD Reviews
2nd June - Festival Focus
1st June - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
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Blues On the Farm, Pumpbottom Farm, Appledram
Thursday June 22
Beth Garner
Mr Kyps, Poole
Thursday June 22
Regina Spektor Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Tuesday June 27
Dhoad Gypsies Wiltshire Music Centre,
Bradford-on-Avon
Saturday June 17
Jim Condie
Eastney RMA Tavern, Southsea
Thursday June 22
Monica Vasconcelos Theatre Royal, Winchester
Thursday June 29
Joe Satriani Bournemouth Pavilion,
Bournemouth Wednesday June 21 |
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