It’s chaos in The Brook. The room is packed out past capacity. Every inch of space is crammed with people, smoke machines, flashing lights. And there in the centre, beating the hell out of a piano and literally jumping up and down in his seat in a frenzy of creative passion, is recent BRIT award…
Arriving at 8.30 for Beats and Swing night, so as not to miss any support acts, we inevitably entered a pretty deserted Wedgewood Rooms. After a brief confusion over the name of the magazine and next door’s ‘The Edge of the Wedge’ – leading the doorman to believe we were trying to review a private…
We Came Out Like Tigers could not have chosen a better venue for their secret show. In the cellar of a tattoo shop with blood red hand prints painted over the walls I felt like I was stepping in to the back of some backstreet modern day speakeasy. For those of you who may not…
I once saw an article in the NME which outlined what it regarded as some “gig essentials”. It was a list of those crucial items that people often forget to grab in the flurry of pre-gig excitement as they rush out of the front door in eager anticipation for the forthcoming show – spare camera…
Not knowing a huge amount about Zulu Winter, the Kaiser Chief’s support act, I was excited to see what was in store to get the crowd going for the main event. Having found out that the band had played with the likes of Friendly Fires, The Horrors and Keane I was expecting something good and…
The sixth night of Bastille’s ‘Bad Blood Tour’ came to Southampton’s Mo’Club this week. The Edge had to opportunity to catch up with the band before the show and talk about their recent chart success and the upcoming festival season. The night kicked off with electro minded indie outfit The Ramona Flowers. Overall they were pretty…
As I stepped into the concert hall, I was greeted by a dimly lit stage bordered with flags and strewn with exotic instruments: a koto, tabla drums and a six stringed ukulele. I knew from first glance that it was going to be a show like no other. The lights went down, even lower, and…
The opening act of the night was my GCSE art book in band-form. The duo from Dublin expressed a wide variety of fun and creative ideas, and were evidently having a great time in the process. Nothing has been perfected yet, however Hudson Taylor have an enormous amount of potential, particularly with their honorable harmonies.…
Determined to prevent themselves from being branded ‘has-beens’, the Kaiser Chiefs brought their energetic spring tour to the Southampton Guildhall this Monday, and certainly did everything in their power to convince us that they wouldn’t be calling it a day any time soon. Recently losing their drummer of fifteen years, Nick Hodgson, to a thirst…
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…