By the Power of Greyskull!
Once again I've found myself pondering the eternal question, the quandary that keeps me awake at night counting the ceiling tiles, that nags away at the very fibre of my being and cannot be rationally explained.
Nickelback.
Why?!
*koff*
Moving swiftly on, a here are the gigs wantonly picked from the back pages of this week's NME:
The Maybes? @ The Barfly, Brighton - 25/03/2008
The Duke Spirit @ Audio, Brighton - 04/04/2008
Lowgold and It Hugs Back @ Pressure Point, Brighton - 04/04/2008
Chris T-T @ Komedia, Brighton - 08/04/2008
65daysofstatic @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 13/04/2008
Yelps @ Unit 22, Southampton - 19/04/2008
iLiKETRAiNS and Kyte @ The Barfly, Brighton - 21/04/2008
Lethal Bizzle @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 21/04/2008
Lethal Bizzle @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 01/05/2008
Vampire Weekend @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 12/05/2008
The Bluetones @ The Brook, Southampton - 16/05/2005
The bare-dressed SoMC Events Calendar will be bedecked with the above gigs just as soon I work out how to stop my V+ box from recording America's Next Top Model (which it has decided to do as it's somehow confused ANTM with The New Adventures of Superman; isn't technology wonderful?). The Events Calendar is, as I'm wont to mention from time to time, a most handy tool for the idle gigabout, containing as it does many fine gigs. Like these:
Lights And Sounds, Lost On Landing and Luke Leighfield @ The Joiners, Southampton - 27/02/2008
Exile Arise, Hagakure and Driven By Suffering @ The Railway, Winchester - 27/02/2008
Kate Walsh @ Turner Sims, Southampton - 27/02/2008
Gallows @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 27/02/2008
The Magic Tones @ The Square Brewery, Petersfield - 27/02/2008
The Gary Grainger All Stars @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 27/02/2008
Hot Chip @ The Corn Exchange, Brighton - 28/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Ron Trueman Border @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 28/02/2008
Kill The Arcade and Canterbury @ Unit 22, Southampton - 28/02/2008
One Blood @ The Fawcett Inn, Portsmouth - 28/02/2008
Helen Boulding @ The Square Brewery, Petersfield - 28/02/2008
Not Advised, Ghosts On Pegasus Bridge and Organs As Black @ The Joiners, Southampton - 28/02/2008
The Bootleg Beatles @ The Anvil, Basingstoke - 28/02/2008
The Rebs, Blind Turtle, Still Frame and The Vision @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 28/02/2008
Maxraptor and Fearne @ The Railway, Winchester - 28/02/2008
Bjorn Again @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 28/02/2008
Jumbo Boomers @ The Railway, Winchester - 29/02/2008
Unkle @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 29/02/2008
The Perils and The Way @ Drift Bar, Southsea - 29/02/2008
Matt Schofield Trio and The Riotous Brothers @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 29/02/2008
Them Is Me (ex-Reef), Subdued and The Strings @ The Joiners, Southampton - 29/02/2008
Are You Experienced (Jimi Hendrix tribute) @ Kings Theatre, Portsmouth - 29/02/2008
The Silver Beatles @ The Brook, Southampton - 29/02/2008
Richard Fleeshman and Murray James @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 29/02/2008
Hipstar @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 29/02/2008
Charlie Messiah & MightyZ Allstars @ Café Havana, Southsea - 29/02/2008
Stilet-Hoes (DJ) @ Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth - 29/02/2008
Skulls, The Family and I See Sparks @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 29/02/0008
XX Teens @ Unit 22, Southampton - 01/03/2008
The Architects @ Café Havana, Portsmouth - 01/03/2008
Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 01/03/2008
Kirsty McGee & Mat Martin @ Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham - 01/03/2008
The Baker Brothers @ Soul Cellar, Southampton - 01/03/2008
Gerry & The Pacemakers, Swinging Blue Jeans and Dave Berry @ Kings Theatre, Portsmouth - 01/03/2008
The Grammatics and Crystal Arcade @ Lennons, Southampton - 01/03/2008
Who's Who @ The Brook, Southampton - 01/03/2008
Echobeat, Black Daniel and I Falter @ The Joiners, Southampton - 01/03/2008
Atlantico @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 01/03/2008
Devilish Presley and Torpedoes @ The Railway, Winchester - 02/03/2008
Inertia Blooms, The Scarlett Letter Union and Animal Magic Tricks @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 01/03/2008
RTP and James Moss @ Drift Bar, Southsea - 02/03/2008
Michael Weston King @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 02/03/2008
Fearne, Hopeless Attendance and Frantic Bliss @ Unit 22, Southampton - 02/03/2008 CANCELLED!
Eels @ The Dome, Brighton - 02/03/2008 SOLD OUT!
Avondale 45, You Are A Beautiful Robot, Middle Hill and The Expidition @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 02/03/2008
The Boy Least Likely To @ The Joiners, Southampton - 02/03/2008
Sterling, The Cartel, Pathway and The Ramblings @ Tiger Tiger, Portsmouth - 02/03/2008
Rossco, Andy Foster, Ragz and Will McNicol @ Drift Bar, Southsea 03/03/2008
Old Age Punks, Feral Mare and Willy Boyle @ The Railway, Winchester - 03/03/2008
Chicago 9 @ The Fat Fox, Portsmouth - 03/03/2008
Mumm-Ra @ The Joiners, Southampton - 03/03/2008
Sonic Boom Six, Last Man Standing and Multi-Coloured Green @ The Joiners, Southampton - 04/03/2008
The Bootleg Beatles @ Kings Theatre, Portsmouth - 04/03/2008
3 Daft Monkeys and Thinker @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 04/03/2008
Solent City Jazzmen @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 04/03/2008
Dave Wheat, Andrew Jarmin and Fixation @ Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth - 04/03/2008
Tonight's Waster at Portsmouth's Liquid Envy features live music from My Device and Fresh Legs, plus Udy from the Southsea Mafia DJs at the decks with the best indie/electro/punk/dance/rock for your foot-tapping pleasure. Doors open at 2200, entrance is only £1 before 2300 (after which it's a still reasonable £3).
Bourbon Roses and The Elizans are the guest artists at Roger Courtney's Open Mike Club at The Milton Arms in Portsmouth tomorrow, Thursday 28th February. The regular Open Mike session, during which budding performers have a two song chance to entertain the crowd, starts at 2115. Admission is FREE and the doors open at 1900.
Regional try-outs for the Red Stripe Music Awards continue this month; the second Southern heat is being held at Brighton's Concorde 2 on Thursday 28th February. The winners will progress through to the next round, with the chance of making it to the competition's Grand Final in May (where festival gigs and a decked out tour bus await the winners).
Funkt-If-Ino kicks off the new month at The Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth this Saturday, 1st March, with resident DJs Darth Fader, Jabba and Boba Funk supplying the regular 'funksoulboogiediscohiphop'. If that wasn't enough there'll also be an 80s Games Room open, with Twister, Buckaroo and Kerplunk on offer. Doors open at 2200, tickets are £5 in advance.
Southampton venue The Hobbit will be hosting a punk all-dayer this Sunday, 2nd March. The line-up includes Facel Vega, Achtung Everybody!, You, Me And The Atom Bomb, Constant State of Terror, Our Time Down Here and, from the Netherlands, Staathaat and Cathode. Entrance is £5, doors open 1400-2100, and the first band is onstage at 1430.
Club 12th Hour descends on The Fat Fox in Portsmouth on Friday 29th February for a slap-up indie disco (and it's FREE entry too).
Put a fork in me, I'm done. This afternoon, when not padding about the dark recesses of the office clutching a broken monitor and looking a bit lost (that'll learn me to stay up late on a school night), I have mostly been listening to Editors, The Gossip and Eagles of Death Metal. Join me next week when I'll be investigating the viscosity of corn syrup.
:o)
Horace Goes Skiing
So the question is, do I have enough beer to play 'drink-a-long-a-Brits' tonight?
All I have to do is take a swig every time Ozzy inadvertently swears on live TV, Amy Winehouse dedicates a song to her incarcerated husband, Macca gives 'two thumbs up to camera or one of the guest presenters fails to recognise who they're giving their award to.
[thinks]
I'm going to need a bigger fridge.
*koff*
Moving swiftly on, here for your delectation and delight are the gigs lovingly plucked from the back pages of this week's NME:
Headway @ The Hope, Brighton - 27/02/2008
Metronomy and Primary1 @ Digital, Brighton - 03/03/2008
Magnetic Man @ Digital, Brighton - 10/03/2008
The Hoosiers and The Script @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 11/03/2008 SOLD OUT!
The Hoosiers and The Script @ The Dome, Brighton - 13/03/2008 SOLD OUT!
Midnight Juggernauts @ The Barfly, Brighton - 21/03/2008
Be Your Own Pet! @ Audio, Brighton - 31/03/2008
Dan Le Sac v's Scroobius Pip @ My Kyp's, Poole - 03/04/2008
The Subways @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 07/04/2008 SOLD OUT!
The Subways @ The Brook, Southampton - 08/04/2008 SOLD OUT!
Dan Le Sac v's Scroobius Pip @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 12/04/2008
Dan Le Sac v's Scroobius Pip @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 15/04/2008
I Am Kloot @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 17/04/2008
Alphabeat and Frankmusik @ Audio, Brighton - 19/04/2008
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong @ The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth - 27/04/2008
Iron and Wine @ The Great Escape, Brighton - 15/05/2008
The Charlatans @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 16/05/2008
The Whip @ The Joiners, Southampton - 16/05/2008
Paul Weller @ The Opera House, Bournemouth - 17/05/2008 SOLD OUT!
One Night Only @ Student Union, Southampton University - 19/05/2008
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 20/05/2008
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 25/05/2008
If I can find the time in my hectic and busy schedule of watching Lois & Clark re-runs (no really, I just can't help myself) I will of course update the (rather forlorn looking) SoMC Events Calendar with the gigs above. As I continually stress, the Events Calendar is a most useful utility for tracking down gigs to watch of an evening; here's a selection:
Sine Star Project @ The Joiners, Southampton - 20/02/2008
Claude Bourbon @ The Alma Arms, Portsmouth - 20/02/2008
Natasha Bedingfield @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 20/02/2008 CANCELLED!
Iris, Only Heroes Die and Finely Tuned Assassins @ The Railway, Winchester - 20/02/2008
Isla St Clair @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 20/02/2008
The Casual Nelsons, Van Der Plas and HourstilAutumn @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 20/02/2008
The Wide Eyes @ The Square Brewery, Petersfield - 20/02/2008
The Cribs, The Ting Tings, Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong and Does It Offend You Yeah? @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 21/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Sidecar46 @ Unit 22, Southampton - 21/02/2008
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings @ The Anvil, Basingstoke - 21/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Mark Ronson @ The Dome, Brighton - 21/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
The Ian Parker Band and The Darren Verne Band @ The Brook, Southampton - 21/02/2008
Benji Kirkpatrick @ The Forge, Basingstoke - 21/02/2008
Valhalla, Moral Soul and The Titanic Survivors @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 21/02/2008
Dave Arcari @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 21/02/2008
Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper @ Turner Sims Hall, Southampton - 21/02/2008
Bloodline, Insinerate, Dead Saviour and When Duty Calls @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 21/02/2008
Forget The Script, Draegon, Xerath and Ten To Never @ The Railway, Winchester - 21/02/2008
Newton Faulkner @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 22/02/2008
White Sunday, Maker and Intraverse @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 22/02/2008
Akakios, White Knuckle Revolution and Insinerate @ The Chichester Inn - 22/02/2008
Salif Keita, Tony Allen and Awadi @ The Anvil, Basingstoke - 22/02/2008
Al Kent @ Soul Cellar, Southampton - 22/02/2008
Gob Sausage and The Reason @ The Railway, Winchester - 22/02/2008
Bad Company (XCOM) @ The Brook, Southampton - 22/02/2008
Chas & Dave @ The City Hall, Salisbury - 22/02/2008
Six Nation State, The Dawn Chorus & The Lonely Cardinals @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 22/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Keith James & Rick Foot @ Havant Arts Centre - 22/02/2008
Bury Tomorrow, April Dead and The Fake Exterior @ The Joiners, Southampton - 22/02/2008
Bog Rolling Stones @ The Brook, Southampton - 23/02/2008
Dizzie Rascal @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 23/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
The Alive and Big Num @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 23/02/2008
Los Campesinos! and Johnny Foreigner @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 23/02/2008
Elle S'appelle and Go Faster @ Lennons, Southampton - 23/02/2008
The Mekons and Darren Black @ The Railway, Winchester - 23/02/2008
Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 23/02/2008
Cool Banana, Delphic Oracle, Life With Max and Bemis @ Café Havana, Southsea - 23/02/2008
I Was A Cub Scout and Rolo Tomassi @ The Joiners, Southampton - 23/02/2008
Wilko Johnson and The White Knuckle Blues Band @ The Studio at The Petersfield School - 23/02/2008
The Plymouths @ Unit 22, Southampton - 23/02/2008
Shrink Floyd @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 24/02/2008
Sum 41 @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 24/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
My Last Mistake @ The Railway, Winchester - 24/02/2008
The Bowie Experience @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 23/02/2008
RTP and Becky Anderson @ Drift Bar, Southsea - 24/02/2008
The Go! Team @ Student Union, Southampton University - 24/02/2008
Ade Cull and The Two Chiefs @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 24/02/2008
Stu & Denovo @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 24/02/2008
You Me And The Atom Bomb, On Flight Movie and We're All That's Left @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 24/02/2008
Royworld @ The Joiners, Southampton - 24/02/2008
Saiichi Sugiyama Band @ The Fat Fox, Portsmouth - 25/02/2008
David Gray @ The Dome, Brighton - 25/02/2008
Mexicolas, Munroe Effect and Dekolta @ The Joiners, Southampton - 25/02/2008
The Mekons @ Komedia, Brighton - 25/02/2008
Reel Big Fish @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 25/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Yop Radio Saga, Helen Keller and Carbon Factory @ Café Havana, Southsea - 25/02/2008
Paramore @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 26/02/2008 (rescheduled date)
Gabrielle @ The Dome, Brighton - 26/02/2008
Klaxons @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 26/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Nitrate (EP launch event) @ Drift Bar, Southsea - 26/02/2008
Flying Pigs @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 26/02/2008
The Visitors and The Phil Campbell Band @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 26/02/2008
Four Day Hombre, Super Tonic and Hayley Angel @ The Joiners, Southampton - 26/02/2008
Doug Alldred, Luke Leighfield and Rob Warman @ The Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth - 26/02/2008
Defy This, Stratospherics and Stencils @ The Railway, Winchester - 26/02/2008
78 Blues @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 26/02/2008
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset @ The Joiners, Southampton - 24/04/2008
Son of Dave @ The Joiners, Southampton - 25/04/2008
Little London and The Levels will be providing the live music at indie club night Waster this evening, with resident DJs from the Southsea Mafia furnishing the best pre-recorded sounds for your aural pleasure. The doors at Portsmouth's Liquid Envy open at 2200, entrance is only £1 before 2300 (after which it's a still reasonable £3).
Roger Courtney's Open Mike Club tomorrow night features Portsmouth's own psychedelic collective Cool Banana and indie rockers At The Weakend, plus the regular open mike session. Doors open at The Barn at The Milton Arms at 1900, admission is, as always, FREE.
Tomorrow night's planned Club 12th Hour, at The Fat Fox on Albert Road in Portsmouth, has been CANCELLED. Details of the rescheduled date will appear on the events' MySpace in due course.
The Isle Of Wight's own Rob Da Bank will be pitching up his Bestival Reunion Tour at Southampton's Orange Rooms tomorrow night, with a DJ set from the man himself plus a live performance from The Cuban Brothers. The next evening, Friday 22nd February, the tour meets up with Sumo at Little Johnny Russell's in Portsmouth, with DJ sets from Sinden, The Go! Team and DJ Derek.
And that's it for another week. This afternoon I have mostly been listening to Feist and Goldfrapp (the latter's new album is really rather good). Join me next week when I'll be conducting the imaginary orchestra in your head.
:o)
You're gonna need a bigger boat...
Someone paid $3000 for Shakira's bra?
[thinks]
Too easy.
*koff*
Eyes down for a full house; here be the gigs plucked from the back pages of this week's NME:
Operator Please @ Pressure Point, Brighton - 25/02/2008
Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 25/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
The Bad Robots @ The Barfly, Brighton - 26/02/2008
Gallows @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 27/02/2008
UNKLE @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 29/02/2008
Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 01/03/2008 SOLD OUT!
Trash Fashion @ Unit 22, Southampton - 06/03/2008
Duffy @ Komedia, Brighton - 10/03/2008 SOLD OUT!
CUD @ The Barfly, Brighton - 15/03/2008
Birds of Wales @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 20/03/2008
Birds of Wales @ The Joiners, Southampton - 30/03/2008
Blood Red Shoes @ Komedia, Brighton - 07/04/2008
Blood Red Shoes @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 08/04/2008
Twisted Wheel @ Digital, Brighton - 18/04/2008
Twisted Wheel @ Lennons, Southampton - 19/04/2008
Digitalism @ The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth - 20/04/2008
iLiKETRAiNS @ The Barfly, Brighton - 21/04/2008
¡Forward Russia! @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 23/04/2008
The Courteeners @ Student Union, Southampton University - 25/04/2008
Pendulum @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 07/05/2008
If I can tear myself away from my sock drawer, which is in dire need of a major reorganisation, I'll cut and paste the above gigs into the SoMC Events Calendar (though I'm not promising anything, the sock drawer is a cruel mistress). The Events Calendar is, as I mention pretty much every week, a fine and dandy tool for seeking out gigs in these parts, full as it of goodly events, like these:
Laura Veirs @ The Joiners, Southampton - 13/02/2008
The Derrin Nauendorf Band and Jeff Lang @ The Brook, Southampton - 13/02/2008
MXPX, The Get Go and Punchline @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 13/02/2008
Louche Manouche @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 13/02/2008
The Sterlings, The Way, The Vintones and The Levels @ Yate's, Portsmouth - 13/02/2008
Black Francis and Bobbie Peru @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 14/02/2008
Alison Moyet @ The Dome, Brighton - 14/02/2008
Pete Harris & Hugh Budden @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 14/02/2008
Moishe's Bagel @ Salisbury Arts Centre - 14/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Nazareth @ The Brook, Southampton - 14/02/2008
Black Arc, Los, Furisode and Puresist @ The Joiners, Southampton - 14/02/2008
The Chris Barber Big Band @ The City Hall, Salisbury - 14/02/2008
Into The Bleach and U-Rhythmix @ The Brook, Southampton - 15/02/2008
Bang Bang Lulu @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 15/02/2008
586 and The Ramblings @ The Railway, Winchester - 15/02/2008
Glockenspiel, Dogeesesegod and Ni dieus ni maitre @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 15/02/2008
Whole Lotta Led @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 15/02/2008
Salif Keita, Tony Allen and Awadi @ The Dome, Brighton - 15/02/2008
The Mopes, Hijak Oscar and The Family @ The Joiners, Southampton - 15/02/2008
The Hamsters @ Salisbury Arts Centre - 15/02/2008
Jack Dale @ Student Union, Southampton University - 15/02/2008
Munroe Effect, Alternative Carpark and Leptany @ Havant Arts Centre - 15/02/2008
One Weird Fish @ The Swan, Woolston - 15/02/2008
Epideme, Demons and Sad Shield @ The Nell Gwynne, Portsmouth - 15/02/2008
The Horse and Black Bart @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 15/02/2008
Amy MacDonald @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 16/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 16/02/2008
Colvin Quarmby @ Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham - 16/02/2008
Collective Responsibility, MFT and The Directors @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 16/02/2008
Green-ish Day @ The Railway, Winchester - 16/02/2008
Lovvers, The Maddisons and The Vision @ The Joiners, Southampton - 16/02/2008
The Oli Brown Band @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 16/02/2008
The Anomalies @ Unit 22, Southampton - 16/02/2008
Alex Criche @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 16/02/2008
T-Rextasy @ The Brook, Southampton - 16/02/2008
The Silver Beatles @ The Studio at Petersfield School - 16/02/2008
The Elastic @ Soul Cellar, Southampton - 16/02/2008
Roxanne Johns & Rob Hampson, Jazica, Jessica Spencer, First Night Nerves and Steve Lowis @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 16/02/2008
Arnie Cottrell @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 17/02/2008
Ben Griffith @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 17/02/2008
Fucked Up, Our Time Down Here and The Under Coretet @ The Joiners, Southampton - 17/02/2008
Deadstring Brothers and James Walbourne Band @ The Railway, Winchester - 17/02/2008
RTP, Will McNicol and The Cartel @ The Drift Bar, Southsea - 17/02/2008
Jimmy Eat World @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 17/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Jodie and Apostle @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 17/02/2008
Hot Chip @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 18/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Tonight Is Goodbye, Attack Attack and Cut The Blue Wire @ The Joiners, Southampton - 18/02/2008
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 18/02/2008
Pete Harris Blues Band @ The Fat Fox, Portsmouth - 18/02/2008
Castillo, The Ex Patriots and The Vision @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 19/02/2008
Biomechanical, Out Cry Fire and Exile Arise @ The Joiners, Southampton - 19/02/2008
Brigade, Midasuno and The Nightlife @ The Railway, Winchester - 19/02/2008
Turin Brakes @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 19/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Chango Spasiuk @ Turner Sims Hall, Southampton - 19/02/2008
Owen Tromans, Streebeck and Peanut Albinos @ The Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth - 19/02/2008
Solent City Jazzmen @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 19/02/2008
Not Advised, Ghost on Pegasus Bridge, Hardly Heroes and Sheilatakeabow @ Railway Rifles Club, Portsmouth - 19/02/2008
The Coal Porters @ Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham - 15/03/2008
Boy Kill Boy @ The Railway, Winchester - 23/03/2008
I Am Kloot @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 17/04/2008
Ezio @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 23/04/2008
The Buzzcocks @ The Brook, Southampton - 01/05/2008
Jonny Winter @ The Brook, Southampton - 02/05/2008
Level 42 @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 17/10/2008
Indie club Waster fires into life at Portsmouth's Liquid Envy nightclub this evening, with live music from The Cartel and The Stations, plus some classic tunes courtesy of the Southsea Mafia DJs. Doors open at 2200 through to 0230, and it's only £1 entry before 2300 as well (£3 after).
Party night SUMO returns to The Wedgewood Rooms this Saturday, 16th February, for two rooms of mayhem. Joining resident DJs Albino Monkey and Gentle Bren are the legendary Scratch Perverts. Tickets are £12 in advance, and doors open at 2130.
Portsmouth Scene Promotions have organised another of the very successful Portsmouth Showcase events, to be held at The Guildhall in Portsmouth, on Saturday 8th March. So far confirmed to appear are Django, The Rebel Ching, Hijera, Palais and The Darling Age, with a guest appearance by Karen Tween. Tickets are £9 in advance, £10 on the door.
Roger Courtney's Open Mike Club takes a week off, as it's Valentine's Day tomorrow, but will return to The Barn at The Milton Arms in Portsmouth next Thursday, 21st February.
Well, that about wraps it up for another week. This afternoon I have mostly been listening to Simian Mobile Disco and Brannigan's Law, a heady combination I can tell you. Join me next week when I'll be hunting the ceiling cats.
Beetroot For All!
So who really believes that the Spice Girls didn't fall out/argue/have volcanic tantrums/chuck the toys out of their collective prams on their recent tour and that, instead, their tour bus was an oasis of peace, light and girl power?
Does anyone actually care?
[thinks]
Yeah, I figured as much.
*koff*
Moving swiftly on, here are the gigs plucked from the back pages of this week's NME:
Late Of The Pier @ The Fez, Reading - 07/02/2008
Late of The Pier @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 10/02/2008
Crystal Castles @ Digital, Brighton - 15/02/2008
Grammatics @ The Barfly, Brighton - 23/02/2008
Islands @ The Barfly, Brighton - 24/02/2008
Mexicolas @ The Joiners, Southampton - 25/02/2008
Mexicolas @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 26/02/2008
Grammatics @ The Joiners, Southampton - 01/03/2008
Kid Harpoon @ The Joiners, Southampton - 12/03/2008
Kid Harpoon @ Pressure Point, Brighton - 15/03/2008
Frank Turner @ The Joiners, Southampton - 29/03/2008
Patrick Watson @ The Hanbury, Brighton - 03/04/2008
Good Charlotte and Rooney @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 08/04/2008
Sia @ Komedia, Brighton - 08/04/2008
José González @ The Pavillion, Bournemouth - 13/04/2008
65daysofstatic @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 16/04/2008
Frank Turner @ The Hanbury, Brighton - 21/04/2008
Frank Turner @ The Railway, Winchester - 24/04/2008
Air Traffic @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 25/04/2008
Adele @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 03/05/2008
I'll add the above gigs onto the SoMC Events Calendar as soon as I get a spare five minutes (which is unlikely given then the seven Scrabulous and six Pirate Battleships games I'm taking part in on Facebook; it's all go I can tell you). As mentioned once or twice before, the Events Calendar is (when up to date) a very handy tool for the idle gig monkey about town, featuring many many lovely gigs. Like these:
Behemoth, Suicide Silence and Devilish Impressions @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 06/02/2008
Primitai, Days of No Trust and Draegon @ The Joiners, Southampton - 06/02/2008
The Borderlines @ The Platform Tavern, Southampton - 07/02/2008
Dead Rock West and Stewboss @ The Railway, Winchester - 07/02/2008
Courtney Pine @ Turner Sims Hall, Southampton - 07/02/2008
Sons of The Delta @ South Parade Pier, Southsea - 07/02/2008
The Rocket Summer and The Secret Handshake @ The Joiners, Southampton - 07/02/2008
The Rascals @ Unit 22, Southampton - 08/02/2008
Travis @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 08/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Vislander @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 08/02/2008
Letz Zep @ Havant Arts Centre - 08/02/2008
Dirty DC @ The Brook, Southampton - 08/02/2008
Who's Who @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 08/02/2008
Lightspeed Champion @ The Joiners, Southampton - 08/02/2008
Operahouse and Brassneck @ The Railway, Winchester - 08/02/2008
Steve Lowis @ Student Union, Southampton University - 08/02/2008
Panama @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 08/02/2008
Manti @ The Square Brewery, Petersfield - 09/02/2008
New Found Glory @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 09/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
The Bon Jovi Experience and Gasoline Alley @ The Brook, Southampton - 09/02/2008
Moisse Ichama @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 09/02/2008
Chicago 9 @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 09/02/2008
Hijera @ The Joiners, Southampton - 09/02/2008
Flip Top @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 09/02/2008 TBC
Steve Knightley @ Havant Arts Centre - 09/02/2008
Kathleen Haskard @ The Railway, Winchester - 09/02/2008
The Bongolian @ Soul Cellar, Southampton - 09/02/2008
Paul Potts @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 09/02/2008
Jeanne You @ Tudor Merchants Hall, Southampton - 09/02/2008
Mojito and Magic Mushrooms @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 10/02/2008
Speedtheory and Moral Sense @ The Joiners, Southampton - 10/02/2008
The Britts, Sombulance and Wyldside @ The Inferno, Gosport - 10/02/2008
Bobby Cochran Band @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 10/02/2008
Stompin' Dave Allen @ The Platform Tavern, Southampton - 10/02/2008
Steve Kaldestad Quartet @ The Inn Lodge, Portsmouth - 11/02/2008
Dropkick Murphys @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 11/02/2008
Sons & Daughters and Black Kids @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 11/02/2008
Data Select Party, Brandon Steep and Jaimison @ The Joiners, Southampton - 11/02/2008
Yop Radio Saga and The Stillet-Hoes (DJs) @ Café Havana, Southsea - 11/02/2008
Yeti, The Foxes and The Sinnicks @ The Joiners, Southampton - 12/02/2008
Louche Manouche @ The Platform Tavern, Southampton - 12/02/2008
Peter Leonard, The Real Raj and Jessica Spencer @ The Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth - 12/02/2008
Alison Moyet @ The Anvil, Basingstoke - 12/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
The Elastic @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 12/02/2008
Brigade and This City @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 12/02/2008
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly @ Komedia, Brighton - 12/02/2008
Queens of The Stone Age @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 12/02/2008 SOLD OUT!
Moishe's Bagel @ Salisbury Arts Centre - 14/02/2008
Ginger (from The Wildhearts) @ The Railway, Winchester - 05/03/2008
Ruby Turner @ The Brook, Southampton - 18/04/2008
Lethal Bizzle @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 01/05/2008
Sherman Robertson @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 07/05/2008
The Move @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 14/06/2008
As mentioned last week the demand for Nik Kershaw's solo acoustic gig at The Cellars in Portsmouth on Saturday 31st May was so great that, after selling out in no time flat, a second date at the venue the next evening, Sunday 1st June, was hastily arranged. It should, therefore, be no surprise that the hastily arranged gig has sold out too. Wouldn't it be good if I'd bought tickets in time?
Indie club night Waster this evening features guest DJs Mike Fielding (aka Naboo from The Mighty Boosh) and Jonny Rhythm (from The Rhythm Factory), plus live music from Trash Money and Hold Fast. Doors open 2200 through to 0230 and it's a mere £1 entry before 2300 (£3 after), though you could always try dressing up as Tony Harrison and blagging your way in for nowt.
Folk artist Tim Hassall and acoustic bluesman Andy Matheson are the guests at Roger Courtney's Open Mike Club tomorrow night, Thursday 7th February, in The Barn at The Milton Arms in Portsmouth. The Open Mike session follows the guest spots at 2115, with the usual two song limit for those wanting to take the stage and entertain the crowd. Admission is FREE and the doors open at 1900.
Stansted Park will again be hosting musical entertainment in its grounds this Summer, with an 80s themed line-up announced for Sunday 20th July courtesy of the Here & Now Tour. The bill so far announced includes Midge Ure, Nick Heyward, Toyah, Limahl, Curiosity Killed The Cat, Kid Creole & The Coconuts and T'Pau. Tickets are £25 and are on sale now (concessions are available for party bookings). Right, let's fire up the Quattro!
Southampton's Talking Heads will be holding an evening in aid of Strummerville, the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music, on Saturday 9th February. The charity, set up by friends of the late Clash front man to reflect his contribution to music, offers support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them. The line-up includes The Good Time Charlies, The Flying Alexanders and Bang Bang Lulu, plus DJ Breezeblok, with tickets £6 in advance.
Put a fork in me, I'm done. This afternoon I have mostly been listening to Just Like Blood and All Maps Welcome by the most excellent Tom McRae. Join me next week when I'll be wondering "just where does the time go when it's not around here?"
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