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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
September 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, classical
guitar this month in the shape of artists Hayseed Dixie, King Creosote, Arnie
Cottrell, How Gelb, Maud La Forest and Kosheen.
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 for the next
couple of months. Indeed we are trying to provide details of gigs at all major
venues right up to the end of the year this month.
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
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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:
24th September - Single Reviews
13th September - COMING SOON! UPDATE
6th September - COMING SOON! PREVIEWS (*NOW WITH PREVIEWS UNTIL 2008 *)
3rd September - Festival Focus
1st September - New Edition of Playing Out Loud.co.uk
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Featured artists:
see POL Articles
Hayseed Dixie
The Brook, Southampton
Friday Sept 21
Maud La Forest
The Point, Eastleigh
Saturday Sept 15
Kosheen Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Saturday Sept 22
Howe Gelb
Larmer Tree Gardens Friday Sept 14th
& Sunday Sept 15th
Arnie Cottrell Louisiana album
with Steve Howell
King Creosote
The Joiners, Southampton
Friday Sept 14 |
Southampton's No 1 recording studio
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