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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 eographical area
as POL and also includes leisure, travel,
food, fashion, cinema, theatre and
many other subjects.
POL Editorial.
Welcome to the October edition of Playing Out Loud. As
usual we’ve got pages and pages of live music listings which includes more
information about the artists and styles than most websites, and in our
Articles section we focus on a few
gigs to give you a bit more information. We cover rock, pop, folk, Americana,
jazz and world music this month in the shape of artists Ray La Montagne, The
Handsome Family, Tiris, Kate Rusby, Georgie Fame, The Puppini Sisters and Justin
Currie of Delamitri.
Our Festival Focus section keeps
you up to date with the tail-end of the festival scene in the South and beyond.
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. Our
Coming Soon section looks ahead to
gigs right up until the end of the year. 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!
*NOW WITH PREVIEWS UNTIL 2008 *
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:
23rd October - Listings Update (The Lights, Andover),
Coming Soon Preview
15th October - 2 CD Reviews, News (The Handsome Family BBC2 Gig)
8th October - CD Review, Single Review
2nd October - Gig Review
1st October - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
THE HANDSOME FAMILY
THE BROOK, SOUTHAMPTON
MONDAY, OCT 29
THE PUPPINI SISTERS
TURNER SIMS CONCERT HALL, SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY, THURSDAY OCT 11
TIRIS
SALISBURY ARTS CENTRE
WEDNES OCT 24
JUSTIN CURRIE WEDGEWOOD ROOMS, PORTSMOUTH,
WEDNES OCT 24
KATE RUSBY
THE ANVIL, BASINGSTOKE SUNDAY OCT 14
GEORGIE FAME CONCORDE CLUB, EASTLEIGH,
WEDNES OCT 31
RAY LA MONTAGNE SOUTHAMPTON GUILDHALL,
MONDAY OCT 29 |
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