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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.
We’re well into a great autumn season of live music in the South of England and
we have highlighted some of the best of them in our
Articles section. The photographs
down the right hand side of our home page show you which acts we
are previewing this month. Australian superstar Natalie Imbruglia, folk-rockers
Kindred Spirit, Eastern European band Szapora, Irish musician Finbar Furey,
upcoming singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, folk singer Emily Smith and US
bluesman Sherman Robertson are among the acts we give you a little more detail
on this month.
Full details of what’s on in November appear in our
Listings section, what’s coming up
in December appears in our Coming Soon
section and January dates will appear as the month goes on, so you can plan your
gigs several months ahead. This is the only music website in the South which
offers such a comprehensive service, so bookmark us straight away!
Gig reviews and
CD reviews will be added
as the month goes on and our Message
Board allows you to keep in touch with what’s happening on the music scene
generally, and post your own news and suggestions. As usual, we welcome your
input - if you have any comments, criticisms or suggestions, we’d be glad to
hear them. And we are also looking for people to help us with reviews, so if you
would like help getting free tickets in return for a review, just contact us. In
the meantime, enjoy your live music wherever you are.
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!
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:
21st November - 3 News items,
2 Messages
15th November - 4 CD Reviews
9th November - 4 Gig Reviews, 2 Messages
1st November - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers
Theatre Royal, Winchester
Friday November 4
Natalie Imbruglia Southampton Guildhall, Southampton
Tues November 22
Emily Smith
Forest Arts Centre, New Milton
Sat November 12
Kindred Spirit
Central Studio, Basingstoke
Friday November 25
Finbar Furey
Arc Theatre, Trowbridge
Sat November 5 & Tower Arts Centre,
Winchester
Thurs November 24
Sherman Robertson The Brook, Southampton
Wed November 23
Szapora
Turner Sims, Southampton
Thurs November 24
Martha Wainwright Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Mon November 14
Peter Bruntnell
The Railway Inn, Winchester
Sat November 12
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