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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, and in our
Articles section we focus on a few
gigs to give you a bit more information. We cover blues, opera, rock, soul,
country, Americana in the shape of Lisa Mills, Roger Chapman, The Opera Babes,
The Endrick Brothers, Rita Coolidge and Smokey Robinson. We would like you to
help us with the Save The
Brook campaign. The Brook music venue in Southampton is having a few
problems at the moment, so we urge you to support it by turning out in force
this month. Roger Chapman is one of the visitors, and others acts on this month
include Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack, The Silver Beatles, Rufus Stone, Mostly
Autumn and T-Rextasy. It’s a great venue and we don’t want to lose it so go to
www.the-brook co.uk,
see what’s on and book some tickets!
Our Festival Focus section is back
with a list of dates for your 2007 diary, and all the lineups have been updated.
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.
Album, gig and book reviews will be added during the month so keep coming back
to us to keep up to date.
We welcome your input, so if there’s anything we’ve left out or you would like
to see on our site, just email us.
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!
Don’t forget to check
the
COMING SOON! PREVIEW section which enables you to plan ahead. It gives advanced listings for
most of the bigger venues, with further dates added throughout the month.
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
The Endrick Brothers +
The Jamestown Union,
Railway Inn, Winchester
Tuesday June 19
Rita Coolidge
The Anvil, Basingstoke
Sunday June 17
Lisa Mills
Blues On The Farm, Pumpbottom Farm, Chichester
June 21 – 24
The Opera Babes Theatre Royal, Winchester
Friday June 29
Roger Chapman
The Brook, Southampton Thursday June 14
Smokey Robinson BIC,
Bournemouth Thursday June 28 |
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