The reaction to the news that Miles Kane was not going to be playing the Bournemouth date of this years NME Awards Tour because he was ill (assumedly he tried SO hard to be Paul Weller that he burst a blood vessel or something), was that of frustration rather than disappointment. The lineup was already…
Balthazar, a Belgian pop/rock group, served as the opening act. Their first number saw them jumping around the stage with frantic energy, but this energy seemed to conflict with that of their music. This sums up my first impression of the Belgian group, I just wasn’t sure of them. The grainy lead vocals were reminiscent…
The first date of Frightened Rabbit’s UK tour started out at The Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth (the opposite end of the country to their hometown of Glasgow!) at the beginning of February. The band certainly received a warm and welcoming reception from the crowd and it was definitely worth the drive from Southampton with a car load of…
A couple of years ago, I found myself half-accidentally in Southampton at The Joiners, watching a bunch of hardcore bands, some of which turned out to be relatively big names later on. Truth be told, I was only there to see a band called Dead Swans; I was still a bit of a newcomer to…
The Kerrang Tour 2013 was always going to be controversial, with a band as polarising as Black Veil Brides headlining and an eclectic support line-up including the recently reformed Chiodos, Australian pop punk band Tonight Alive and rising stars Fearless Vampire Killers, with William Control handling DJ duties. Despite the controversy surrounding them, Black Veil…
Steve Knightley’s gig at Centre Stage in Bournemouth may have seemed like a strange experience for the average gig goer. There was no mosh pit, in fact, everyone was sat. There was no support act; Knightley played two sets himself. Oh, and I was one of only five people under the age of forty there.…
The number of “Who’s he?”‘s I get in response to mentioning Jake Bugg in conversation has dwindled down phenomenally over the past year, evidencing Bugg boy’s recent successes in the music industry. Being the second youngest artist ever to debut at number one and more recently, being nominated for the British Breakthrough Acts at the…
Continuing in traditional style, NME have put together four of this year’s brightest indie stars onto one billing. Almost exactly a year since it last appeared, Bournemouth’s O2 Academy will play host to the NME Awards Tour on 20th February. Described as one of their hottest line-ups yet it promises new music aplenty with Peace, Palma…
If you have yet to hear the experimental indie rock of Everything Everything, it would be useful to know that this four piece band from Manchester aim to make their music sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Standing in the intimate venue of Wedgewood rooms in Portsmouth, it’s hard not to agree that they…
In addition to the already fantastic line-up of The Blackout, Don Broco, Mallory Knox, Arcane Roots, While She Sleeps and Max Raptor, Takedown Festival have announced that We Are The Ocean and Glamour Of The Kill will also be playing at this daylong event at the university. Tickets went on sale today as the highly recommended rock festival…
Nestled in the shadow of the maths building on Highfield Campus is the Turner Sims concert hall. As a third year, I’ve wandered past its entrance countless times, but I’ve never really had any impetus to venture through its plate-glass doors or give anything more than a cursory glance toward the posters for the jazz, classical and traditional music…
On arrival at UNIT, which seemed to me like an odd venue for this sort of club-night anyway, it was immediately apparent that the place was spectacularly empty. Despite this, the SEMSU DJs were already managing to create a decent atmosphere to somewhat fill up the empty spaces. By the time Cholombian (2nd on the…
Glasgow-based alternative rock band Frightened Rabbit will be commencing their UK tour tonight at The Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth, with support acts coming from Wintersleep and Washington Irving. The tour consists of an impressive 15 dates at some of the best venues in the country and will be finishing up in Scotland at the end of…
The rock festival returns to Southampton for another year featuring The Blackout and Don Broco