“We’re immensely proud of this record, we feel it is the best thing we’ve done so far. And can’t wait to share it all with you”. Southampton musician Seán McGowan delivers his acoustic music in a folk/protest/punk style, described suitably as “The People’s Music”, also the title of his next E.P (debut E.P, ‘McGovernment’ was…
Queue girlish scream of excitement. I’m not going to hide the fact that I am well and truly a Mayniac and proud of it at that! This date has been circled on my calendar since Conor Maynard released his tour dates earlier this year. Excited isn’t quite the adjective. Over the past eighteen months Conor…
Following the release of her third album The Haunted Man, Bat For Lashes will play at the Pyramids Centre in Portsmouth this Saturday. With 3 albums under her belt, 2 of them being Mercury Music Prize nominated, Khan is sure to play a mix of her most compellingly enchanting tracks such as ‘Daniel‘, ‘What’s A…
Dog is Dead have been growing from strength to strength after their prestigious appearance as an unsigned act at Glastonbury in 2010 that catapulted them into the limelight. Since then they have been working on their debut album All Our Favourite Stories, which was released earlier on this month. Dog is Dead will be gracing…
After several inevitably sweaty gigs at The Joiners, Glaswegian band Twin Atlantic return to Southampton for their penultimate gig of their current tour. After having a number of their own small venue headlining tours and supporting the likes of Blink-182, My Chemical Romance and Biffy Clyro, Twin Atlantic are soon to start their biggest venue…
To Kill A King have just kicked off their UK tour and they are coming to The Joiners in Southampton on Sunday 28th October, which will be roughly half way through. I for one cannot wait to see them play live again! They performed at this year’s Bestival, on the Band Stand stage, and it…
After their successful triangle tour Bastille have released a string of tour dates as part of their ‘Flaws’ tour. Thursday 18 October will see them play at Brighton’s Komedia. This gig pre-empts the release of their new EP ‘Flaws’, which is due for release 22/10/2012. Bastille have managed to cultivate quite a following in the…
Electropop, synthpop, dance-punk, even ‘Indietronica’; call them what you want, but Hot Chip are undoubtedly one of the most critically acclaimed and popular electronic bands in British Music, and they’re coming to our very own Guildhall. With five albums under their belts (one of which, The Warning, was mercury-nominated, they’ll have you know), you would…
A band like Mayday Parade give me goosebumps. Some people will love them, some people will absolutely despise their emotional pop-rock. I am in the former set of people; I absolutely love Mayday Parade and having missed each live opportunity so far, finding out that they were playing the Old Firestation in Bournemouth made me…
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs will be playing in Portsmouth on Saturday 13th October and it is definitely a show not to miss. Orlando Higginbottom and his excellent use of technology is set to make the evening extremely enjoyable. Since the release of his debut full length album Trouble, TEED have gone from strength to strength…
It’s just under a week until this hotly anticipated ‘I Kicked A Tour In The Face’ tour arrives at Southampton’s Guildhall, lead by The Midnight Beast. It is their first headline UK tour since the release of their debut album so prepare for a hurricane to explode through Southampton on the night of 11th October.…
Dan Le Sac, or Daniel Stephens as his parents prefer to call him, is usually found as the other half of hip-hop double act ‘Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip’, signed to the record label Sunday Best. Dan Le Sac, a producer, remixer, DJ and photographer (it that all!?) portrays himself equally well musically without Scroobius…
When Bloc Party announced their hiatus in 2009, Britain lost one of its defining bands, but now we can finally say that, fresh off the back of their reunion and brand-new album Four, the indie legends are coming to Southampton Guildhall. As a band that defined a genre with their début album Silent Alarm, and continued to…
Catch a Fire at the Guildhall is set to pay tribute to the legendary music of Bob Marley and the Wailers, whilst celebrating 50 years of Jamaican independence, on Friday 12 October. Part of the the Lively Up! festival, which is touring 50 musicians and dancers to ten UK cities, honouring several reggae icons including…