The Gigwatcher 28/06/2006

Turned out nice again in't it?

The sun is shining, the air-conditioning is fubar again, the baby pigeons in the tree outside the office window have fledged and ickle Tim Henman looks to be on his way out of Wombledon. Oh well. That's the English summer for you. And what to do on these long light evenings now there's a break in the World Cup? I don't really want to check in with the freaks going paranoid in the Big Brother house, and though excellent I've seen Bullitt more times than I can remember. Guess it's time to rearrage the sock drawer again..

Enough of my bimbling, here is the slightly later than usual (due to my having to attend a meeting on Content Management Systems followed by a sojourn in the stores) list of gigs what I found in the back pages of this week's NME:

Rocco DeLuca & The Burden @ The Joiners, Southampton - 03/07/2006
The Pipettes @ The Opera House, Bournemouth - 05/07/2006
The All American Rejects @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 27/09/2006
Hot Chip @ Bournemouth University, Bournemouth - 08/10/2006
Graham Coxon @ The Opera House, Bournemouth - 24/10/2006
The Divine Comedy @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 31/10/2006
New Found Glory @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 28/11/2006

I'll add the above onto the Son of Music Club's Events Calendar. There they'll join all the other gigs I stumble across on my forays across the interweb, for example:

Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 30/06/2006
Dead!Dead!Dead! @ Talking Heads, Southampton - 09/07/2006 (Charity Showcase)
Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers @ The New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth - 12/07/2006
Regina Spektor @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 26/07/2006 (rescheduled from 27/06/2006)
Wilko Johnson @ The Brook, Southampton - 05/08/2006
Hugh Cornwell @ The Cellars At Eastney, Portsmouth - 18/08/2006

I'll also be adding in details of the South Coast Five charity event in aid of Cancer Research UK which takes place at the Royal Beach Hotel in Southsea on the 8th of July. There are 5 bands on the bill, including Brannigan's Law (which, as you all know, features Ant "GuitarMeister ShredKing RiffHero LickMonger Professor of Rhythm" Shue* on rhythm guitar and backing vocals).

Once again, if you want to peruse the invaluable repository of local gigness that is the Events Calendar, for more information on the South Coast Five gig or any of the others mentioned, just point your browser at the forum and log in (there's bound to be something in there that tickles your fancy, or the fancy of someone you know).

The Events Calendar is but a part of the forum, the rest of it features links to interesting stuff, like some cats who look like Hitler. How freaky is that?

So, that's about it for this week. I'm off to listen to the new Seth Lakeman CD, have a good one..





* that's his official name, he told me so.