Author: Alex Payne

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    Is Charlie Sheen Really Winning on his collaboration with Snoop Dogg?

    I’m sure we are all aware of Charlie Sheen’s rather public implosion as he indulged in various vices of sex and drugs with pornstars. Particularly is the highly entertaining interview on Good Morning America with the infamous quote of ‘bi-winning’ – whatever that means and his seemingly rational egotistic ideology that he has some superhuman […]

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    Hugh Laurie brings down the House with his debut album ‘Let Them Talk’

    A rich, Cambridge graduate releasing a blues album called Let Them Talk; it doesn’t seem right, does it? A genre of music based on having nothing or losing everything isn’t supposed to be played by someone who is the highest paid actor in US TV drama. Yet Hugh Laurie pulls it off. And if you […]

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    The Blackout – Hope

    The Blackout are back. Having changing record company to Cooking Vinyl, the band seems to have a new passion and enthusiasm which really shines through on this latest offering, Hope. The Blackout have honed their post-hardcore sound and this record really shows *cliché alert* the signs of a band coming to maturity. Hooks, catchy riffs […]

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    EDGE Goes 90s: Britpop

    The Edge reminisces in all things British as the resurgence in British guitar pop and ‘Cool Britannia’ led to the movement of Britpop which gave us Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Ocean Colour Scene, Ash and many more.

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    EDGE Goes 90s: Ocean Colour Scene bring Britpop to the Guildhall

    Ocean Colour Scene found success on the back of the Britpop wave and they have surfed this wave to the Guildhall to take Southampton back to the nineties by playing their classic ‘Moseley Shoals’ album in its entirety.

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    Live and Dangerous with 10 O’Clock Live

    Brooker, Carr, Mitchell and…. Laverne serve up a tasty offering of live interviews, discussions and comedy in the new Channel 4 show 10 O’Clock Live.

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    Ocean Colour Scene set to hit Southampton

    Ocean Colour Scene bring back some Britpop nostalgia to the Guildhall.

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    [Spunge] live @ The Joiners – 27/11/10

    The Perennial Ska-punk band return to Southampton

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    Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra – Rockinghorse

    Jools Holland is back. Bigger, better and brassier than ever, Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra deliver a superb brand new 19 track album, ‘Rockinghorse’.

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    Heralding Hendrix, The Infallible Legacy of a Musical Icon

    40 years on since the passing of one of the musical greats but how and why has his legacy lived on.

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    Reckless Love LIVE @ Southampton Joiners

    Dust off your hairspray and dig out your leather trousers as Reckless Love brings the eighties to the noughties.

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    OK GO Win Video of the Year and Best Rock Video

    OK GO – The real Kings of the music video?

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    The Bees – I Really Need Love

    The Bees take us back to the summer with their new single.

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    Alter Bridge Line Up for a New Tour

    Alter Bridge hit Southampton Guildhall – preview