Sad but true, there's only so many times you can tell the same jokes about Amy Winehouse's continuing problems before they're really not funny any more.
[thinks]
Nah, course they are.
*koff*
Moving swiftly on, here are the gigs of note I found amongst the back pages of this week's NME:
Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit @ Hamptons, Southampton - 05/02/2008
Richard Hawley @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 06/02/2008
Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit @ The Albert, Brighton - 06/02/2008
The Anomalies @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 11/02/2008
The Anomalies @ Unit 22, Southampton - 16/02/2008
Lovvers @ The Joiners, Southampton - 16/02/2008
White Sunday @ The Joiners, Southampton - 22/02/2008
Metronomy @ Digital, Brighton - 03/03/2008
The Metros @ The Joiners, Southampton - 14/03/2008
The Metros @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 15/03/2008
Example @ Unit 22, Southampton - 21/03/2008
The Subways @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 07/04/2008
The Subways @ The Brook, Southampton - 08/04/2008
The Long Blondes @ Student Union, Southampton University - 20/04/2008
We Are Scientists @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 22/04/2008
Unless I get waylaid reorganising my sock drawer again, I should have time to shoehorn the above gigs onto the SoMC Events Calendar this weekend, fingers crossed. Once updated the Events Calendar is, as I've been none to mention once or twice, a handy resource for the idle gig monkey. And it's full of local gigs, like these...
First Night Nerves, Georgia Wonder, Hayley Harland, Moma Jest and Will McNicol @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 23/01/2008
Jazica, Beau Monde and At The Weakend @ The Joiners, Southampton - 23/01/2008
The Meniscus Brothers @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 24/01/2008
Our Time Down Here, Take 'Em Out and The Under Coretet @ Unit 22, Southampton - 24/01/2008
Carolyn Mark Trio @ Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham - 24/01/2008
Palladium @ The Joiners, Southampton - 24/01/2008
You've Been Lied To, Incarna and The Safety Fire @ The Railway, Winchester - 24/01/2008
Alter Bridge @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 24/01/2008
T-Rextasy @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 25/01/2008
Fleetwood Bac @ The Brook, Southampton - 25/01/2008
The Parlotones, The Aviators and Major Melon @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 25/01/2008
Skulls, The Rebecas and The Mackeralheads @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 25/01/2008
Dega Breaks, Jonny Dare and Different Day @ The Railway, Winchester - 25/01/2008
Turning Green @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 25/01/2008
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 25/01/208
The Mouth, The Warm and The Stops @ The Joiners, Southampton - 25/01/2008
You Me & The Atom Bomb, Chillerton and The Small Mercees @ The Fawcett Inn, Portsmouth - 25/01/2008
Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 26/01/2008
Air Traffic @ The Opera House, Bournemouth - 26/01/2008
Cool Banana, Autons and The Following Announcement @ Café Havana, Portsmouth - 26/01/2008
John Taylor Trio @ Turner Sims Hall, Southampton - 26/01/2008
Doubleback Alley @ The Baffins, Portsmouth - 26/01/2008
Atomic Badger @ The Square Brewery, Petersfield - 26/01/2008
Echobeat, The Bluescreen of Death and System Anima @ The Joiners, Southampton - 26/01/2008
Who Owns Death TV? @ Unit 22, Southampton - 26/01/2008
Elliot Minor @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 26/01/2008
Mary Jane @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 26/01/2008
Timshel @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 26/01/2008
The Electric Mayhem @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 26/01/2008
Miss Murdoch, Bad Love & The Licker and Eat The Document @ The Railway, Winchester - 26/01/2008
Green-ish Day @ The Brook, Southampton - 26/01/2008
RTP, B of The Bang and The Rebel Ching @ Drift Bar, Southsea - 27/01/2008
Luke Pickett, Dave House and Luke Leighfield @ The Joiners, Southampton - 27/01/2008
Polly & The Billet Doux, Jimmy Goodrich and Ryan O'Reilly @ The Railway, Winchester - 27/01/2008
Stone Gods [ex-The Darkness] @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 27/01/2008
Graham McCullough, James Moss and Mighty Z @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 27/01/2008
The Robin Bibi Band @ The Fat Fox, Portsmouth - 28/01/2008
The Modern Fighting Vehicles, Man From Michael and The Wild Oats @ The Joiners, Southampton - 28/01/2008
Time Cheatle, Tali Trow and Loosetongue @ The Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth - 29/01/2008
Fever Dog, Blacksmith and Ashbies @ The Railway, Winchester - 29/01/2008
The Almighty @ The Brook, Southampton - 30/01/2008
Blood Red Shoes @ The Joiners, Southampton - 05/02/2008
Six Nation State @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 22/02/2008
The Futureheads @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 05/03/2008
Dashboard Confessional @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 09/04/2008
Nizlopi @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 24/04/2008
The Automatic @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 26/04/2008
Nik Kershaw (acoustic) @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 31/05/2008
David Essex @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 13/06/2008
Yazoo @ The Brighton Centre - 15/06/2008
The Musical Box (performing Genesis' Trick of The Tail) @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 18/10/2008
Club 12th Hour has teamed up with PunchFunk and drum'n'bass crew Breakneck for a special two-room shindig at South Parade Pier, Portsmouth, this Friday, 25th January. Breakneck hosts room one, which will feature DJ sets from Mampi Swift, DJ Friction, SDM v's Triple M and Jay Walker. Room two is brough to you by PunchFunk and Club 12th Hour and features live sets from The Exits, The Cartel, Hijera and Japanese Popstars. Tickets are £11 in advance, doors open at 2100 through till 0300.
Portsmouth's Liquid Envy nightclub again plays host to indie/alternative club night Waster this evening, with live music from Kids Can't Fly and Splendid Eddie plus the Southsea Mafia DJs at the wheels of steel. Doors open 2200 and the fun runs through to 0230, with entrance a mere £1 entry before 2300 (£3 after).
Fareham-based rockers Half-Light and Portsmouth's Apostle will be the musical guests at Roger Courtney's Open Mike Club at The Milton Arms tomorrow, Thursday 24th January. The stage will be open to all budding performers afterwards so can try their hand at entertaining the audience. Admission is FREE and the doors open at 1900.
As mentioned previously the Red Stripe Music Awards begins this month, with a series of heats being held throughout the country over the next few months. The first Southern heat is at The Providence, Brighton, on Friday 25th January, the winners of which are in with a chance of making it to May's Grand Final (where they could walk off with slots at two major Summer festivals and their very own tour bus). More information is available on the competition website.
And that wraps it up for this week; this afternoon I have mostly been listening to a compilation CD I knocked up awhile back (y'know, like a mixtape, but flatter). Join me next week when I'll be leaping upstream like the majestic salmon.
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