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Running through the second part of our 2013 festival round-up, The Edge gives you the Affordable Festival Guide featuring Blissfields, Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Parklife & last weekend’s Takedown Festival
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The Edge takes you through the first of our three part festival guide, with this year’s most anticipated festivals, featuring Isle of Wight, Benicassim, Glastonbury, Bestival, and Reading & Leeds.
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A relentless evening of mathcore-funk and insanity is set to hit Joiners.
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Following the release of Animal earlier this year The Pigeon Detectives went on tour, releasing their fourth album ‘We Met At Sea’ just days ago, between playing in Stoke and Norwich. Their appearance at Wedgewood rooms, Portsmouth on Saturday the 11th May will mark the end of a 15 venue tour that’s being used as […]
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For those of you unaware, last year the University of Southampton played host to the Takedown festival, which transformed the university into a full blown music festival. With last year’s 4 stages hosting the likes of Skindred, Deaf Havana, Lower Than Atlantis, Bury Tomorrow and Bleed From Within, the festival successfully managed to bring the […]
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The Barnardo’s Society will take over Live Music Monday in The Bridge next week to showcase a selection of Southampton’s musical talent.
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On Friday, the much-hyped Alt-J make their Southampton debut with a DJ set at RoXX. The electronic-folk-trip-hop quartet were the indie darlings of 2012, having been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for their debut album An Awesome Wave. Alt-J compliment moody guitars with intimate lyrics, backed by synth samples and pacy percussion. Their unusual […]
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Following the release of their debut album ‘If You Leave’ Daughter are embarking on their European Tour. They will be playing at The Old Fire Station in Bournemouth on Wednesday 24th April supported by the talented Bear’s Den. Elena, Igor and Remi are not names you would necessarily be familiar with, but added together they […]
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Indie rock Band Morain have been making waves in the undercurrent of the music scene since 2010, when they were signed by Bright Black Records in the summer. Since then, the band have gone from playing venues in their local city of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, to embarking on tour to support fellow musicians Canterbury across […]
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Bastille are set to play at the Mo’ Club on 7th March 2013 and it is the 6th show on their sell out headline tour. For those of you who were lucky enough to get tickets you are in for a treat. Bastille’s live sets are known for their insane amount of energy and perfect […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]