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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.

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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 Previews section we focus on a few gigs to give you a bit more information. Featured this month are folk-roots, Americana, blues, bluegrass, pop and punk-folk in the shape of Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes, The White Top Mountain Band, Radu Lupu, Herbie Goins & The Norman Beaker Band, Jerimiah Marques & The Blue Aces and Annabelle Chvostek.

Our Coming Soon section looks ahead to gigs right up until the end of October to help you plan ahead with your live music outings. Album, gig and book reviews will be added during the month so keep coming back to us to keep up to date.

Our Festival Focus section covers the tail end of the festival season, and we have a recent addition, The Shop, in which we offer music-related items for sale at reasonable prices – vinyl records, CDs, music magazines like Q, Record Collector etc, music memorabilia, book and much more. You can also contact The Shop for specific enquiries if you are searching for a particular record, CD etc and we will try to help you.

Our Food & Things section includes reviews and a list of recommended restaurants. We hope to update this section a bit more regularly in future and welcome the submission of reviews from any of you out there who want to share their eating out experiences with a larger audience!

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 RONNIE SPECTOR & THE RONETTES, THE BROOK, SOUTHAMPTON – WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25
RONNIE SPECTOR & THE RONETTES
THE BROOK, SOUTHAMPTON
WED SEPTEMBER 25

JERIMIAH MARQUES & THE BLUE ACES, BLUES AT THE FORT, FORT PURBROOK, PORTSMOUTH - FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19
JERIMIAH MARQUES &
THE BLUE ACES
BLUES AT THE FORT, FORT PURBROOK, PORTSMOUTH
FRI SEPTEMBER 19

RADU LUPU, TURNER SIMS CONCERT HALL, SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY – SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30
RADU LUPU
TURNER SIMS CONCERT HALL SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY
SAT SEPTEMBER 30

HERBIE GOINS & THE NORMAN BEAKER BAND, CELLARS AT EASTNEY, SOUTHSEA – TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30
HERBIE GOINS &
THE NORMAN BEAKER BAND
CELLARS AT EASTNEY, SOUTHSEA
TUES SEPTEMBER 30

AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, RAILWAY INN, WINCHESTER – TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16
AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
RAILWAY INN, WINCHESTER
TUES SEPTEMBER 16

ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK, FOREST ARTS CENTRE, NEW MILTON – FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12 & ASHCROFT ARTS CENTRE, FAREHAM – SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13.
ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK
FOREST ARTS CENTRE
NEW MILTON
FRI SEPTEMBER 12
& ASHCROFT ARTS CENTRE
FAREHAM
SAT SEPTEMBER 13

WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN BAND, SQUARE & COMPASS, WORTH MATRAVERS, DORSET – WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 & BOURNEMOUTH FOLK CLUB THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25
WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN BAND SQUARE & COMPASS
WORTH MATRAVERS DORSET
WED SEPTEMBER 24 & BOURNEMOUTH FOLK CLUB
THUR SEPTEMBER 25

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