Not content with releasing and promoting their fourth studio album Plumb earlier this year, Field Music have decided to record a covers CD, entitled Field Music Play…, and an accompanying October tour, calling at Southampton Cellar on the way. Plumb was released 13th February, and features some of the duo’s most progressive and ambitious work…
This year sees the launch of Live Music Mondays which will see bigger acts come to SUSU alongside smaller artists as part of the monthly Frequency event run by AIM (the Alternative and Indie Music society). The first Live Music Monday will take place on the first Monday of Freshers’ Week, 24th September. As opposed…
Aiden Grimshaw is setting off on his first headline tour off the back of releasing his debut album Misty Eye. Since his emergence on The X Factor in 2010 Aiden truly has left that behind and found his own unique sound, aside from the show. He will be playing a host of shows across the UK,…
With Freshers Week fast approaching, RPS Shows are putting on three free-entry gigs at The Avondale House, in Bedford Place, to welcome back Southampton’s student population. With headline performances from Johnny Foreigner, The Social Club and This Town Needs Guns, it promises to be the most fun you can have without actually putting your hand…
Well look who it is. Ever since the release of his debut solo album Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds in autumn last year the ex-Oasis Commander in Chief has been on an absolute roll, touring non-stop with his new band in tow bringing the familiar sound of Britpop to the four corners of the globe.…
Marti Pellow, one of Britain’s great music icons, follows his current run in the West End UK tour of Willy Russell’s smash hit musical Blood Brothers in the role of The Narrator. Written by British playwright Willy Russell, Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides…
Bastille have announced their Triangle Tour. They have simply let the public (via Facebook) decide three locations in which they will be playing an outdoor, unplugged session for those dedicated fans that decide to show up in the random locations. Southampton prevailed and got the most votes out of all the cities nominated (Go Southampton!),…
This year’s Reading Festival is just around the corner so now’s the time to get excited and prepare yourself for a fantastic time at one of the UK’s best festivals. Reading gets bigger and better every year and the three headliners this year really are pretty legendary: The Cure, Kasabian and Foo Fighters. The Main…
This year’s WTFest boasts an impressive line-up, with more than 50 local and international punk, ska and hardcore acts descending on the city centre for four days of good-natured carnage. This fourth incarnation of Southampton’s only independent, multi-day festival brings with it headline sets from Kingston’s indie-rockers Tellison, London’s dub and ska outfit The Skints,…
The people at Boardmasters this year have introduced an all new attraction in the form of Day Sessions. Located on the beautiful Fistral Beach these sessions will be free of charge. Live music will be on between 2pm and 4pm on Wednesday 8th August, Thursday 9th August and Sunday 12th August. So whilst you’re catching…
Every time I go and see these guys I’m always taken aback by what an incredible sound they can make. Who needs a bass player when you can sound this good as a duo? Their joint presence fills the stage enough; the musical chemistry between them is obvious, the breaks are spot-on, the fills are…
Not heard of Savages? Neither had I until a few weeks ago, but this post-punk London all-girl four-piece, (who have barely been together for a year) are certainly receiving some welcomed interest. They describe their intention as being to “create a sound, indestructible and musically solid, written for the stage, designed with enough nuances to…
For those of you looking to escape to the beach this summer, look no further! Located on the wonderful Cornwall coast in Newquay, Relentless Energy Drink Boardmasters is set to be an amazing weekend for all those attending. With the line-up getting bigger and better each year, it’s soon becoming one of must-go-to festivals of…
Think of Glastonbury. Thousands of enthusiastic, happy festival-goers. A wide variety of music. Crazy outfits. Hippies. Booze. Mud. Now scale this down by a hundred or so and you have the briefest of snapshots into the weird and wonderful world of Truck Festival. Founded in 1998 by Robin and Joe Bennett (of the band Goldrush, and…