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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 May edition of Playing Out Loud. We’ve
been having a few computer problems recently here at POL HQ, hence the lack of
reviews and updates. We think we are back in business now though and that this
month’s edition will be back up to our normal standard.
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 preview American bluesman Little
Toby Walker, upcoming London band Good Shoes, Americana band Richmond Fontaine,
talented young classical violinist Nicola Benedetti, alt country band Jesse
Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter and rock maverick Julian Cope.
Our Festival Focus section is back
with a list of dates for your 2007 diary, and the lineups for the festivals will
be added as they are announced. 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.
LATEST UPDATES:
22nd May - 2 News
9th May - Festival Focus
1st May - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
Richmond Fontaine Talking Heads, Southampton
Sunday May 20
Nicola Benedetti Turner Sims, Southampton
Thursday May 24
Little Toby Walker Various Dates
during May
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Railway
Inn, Winchester
Saturday May 12
Julian Cope Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Tuesday May 15
Good Shoes
The Joiners, Southampton
Friday May 18 |
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