The Gigwatcher 19/07/2006

Yo Blairs.. how's it hanging?

That George Bush, he's so street. I bet his air-conditioning works as well. Don't get me wrong, I like the heat.. but it's a dry heat (first one to name the movie wins a bag of molten yoghurt covered banana pieces). Moving swiftly on, with my Diet Coke warming gently, here are the goodies from the back pages of this week's NME:

The Automatic @ Southampton University, Southampton - 04/10/2006
The Goo Goo Dolls @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 08/10/2006
Paolo Nutini @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 09/10/2006
Larrikin Love @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 04/09/2006
Aberfeldy @ The Joiners, Southampton - 12/09/2006
The Flaming Lips @ BIC, Bournemouth - 04/11/2006
The Feeling @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 11/11/2006

I'll bung the above onto the Son of Music Club's Events Calendar where they'll join the large number of gigs that I trip over on my endless journey across the interweb, for example:

Dead Jack @ The Frog On The Front, Southsea - 20/07/2006 (OK, so I've not added this one in yet)
John Otway @ South Parade Pier, Southsea - 21/07/2006 (nor this one.. NTL have been 'fiddling' with my broadband)
Who's Who @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 25/07/2006 - This is a benefit gig for local guitarist Steve Kew.
Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 28/07/2006
Manfred Mann's Earth Band @ The Brook, Southampton - 27/09/2006
The Selecter @ The Joiners, Southampton - 08/11/2006

Don't forget that the first heat of The Wedgewood Rooms 'Showcase 06' competition (featuring The Pancake Eating Freaks) takes place on Monday 24th July.

Blah blah if you want to interrogate the vault of local gig-ness that is the Events Calendar blah blah just point your browser to blah blah and log in (there's bound to be something in there that tickles your fancy, or the fancy of someone you know, or the fancy of whoever happens to be sat beside you).

And on the Forum, the Girls Aloud saga rumbles on. There have been letters in The News every day this week, all decrying the NIMBYs. Lovely. Oh, and the Mercury Music shortlist has been announced; tough one to call this year.

And that about wraps it up for this week. If you go out in the sun don't forget the sunscreen (so you should now remember that song and have it in your head all day (it makes a change from Brett whistling the theme to The Great Escape I guess).

Adios!