The Gigwatcher 20/09/2006

Cor blimey guv'nor..

This week's Gigwatcher comes to you from the nicely air-conditioned climes of our London office, a fairly large and mundane example of 1980's architecture. Sadly no-one is dressed as chimney sweeps or talking like Dick Van Dyke, neither has Babs Windsor made an appearance.

London, it's not like on TV is it?

Still, it's Wednesday and that means that, yes, I've once again squandered my lunchbreak to bring you good people the head's up on what's coming our way gigwise, courtesy of the back pages of the NME...

Bugs In The Attic @ Orange Rooms, Southampton - 24/09/2006
Battle @ Lennon's, Southampton - 14/10/2006
The Cooper Temple Clause @ The University, Southampton - 15/10/2006
Vincent Vincent & The Villains @ The Joiners, Southampton - 18/10/2006
Badly Drawn Boy @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 04/11/2006
The Sunshine Underground @ The Joiners, Southampton - 13/11/2006
Mika @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 15/11/2006
Little Barrie @ Pressure Point, Brighton - 23/02/2007

I'll add the above gigs onto the SoMC Events Calendar when I get a spare five minutes. Once added they'll join all the other gigs I find out about in my trundlings across the interweb, like these for example...

Showcase '06 Grand Final @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 21/09/2006
Flip Top @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 23/09/2006 (OK, so who remembers the Jail House?)
Soma High @ The Joiners, Southampton - 23/09/2006
Manfred Mann's Earth Band @ The Brook, Southampton - 27/09/2006
James Yorkston & The Athletes @ The Brook, Southampton - 16/10/2006
Scott Matthews @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 06/11/2006
CSS @ The Joiners, Southampton - 17/11/2006

Once registered on the SoMC forum you can interrogate the Events Calendar to your hearts content, if you're not registered then, well, you can't (them's the breaks I'm afraid).

This weekend sees the return of Blues at The Fort, once again high on the hill at Fort Purbrook. The line-up includes Dr Feelgood (Friday) and The Ben Waters Band (Saturday) as well as a fairly good selection of real ales. More information is available from the entries on the Events Calendar.

Red Honey and The Pimps, featuring the legendary John 'Two Chillies' Nixon, have found themselves minus a bass player. If you're tempted, or know of one who may be interested, more information can be found here.

The Tacheback campaign continues; as mentioned before some of the SoMC are proudly growing Chopper-esque facial hair to raise money for the Everyman cancer charity. If you would like to donate then links (to both their website and photos of the guys taking part) can be found here.

And that's about it for this week; hopefully I should make it safely home from The Big Smoke (and not get on the wrong tube train like I did this morning, doh!).