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.
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 - 28/02/2008SOLD 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 - 02/03/2008CANCELLED! Eels @ The Dome, Brighton - 02/03/2008SOLD 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.
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.
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 - 11/03/2008SOLD OUT! The Hoosiers and The Script @ The Dome, Brighton - 13/03/2008SOLD 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 - 07/04/2008SOLD OUT! The Subways @ The Brook, Southampton - 08/04/2008SOLD 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 - 17/05/2008SOLD 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 - 20/02/2008CANCELLED! 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 - 21/02/2008SOLD OUT! Sidecar46 @ Unit 22, Southampton - 21/02/2008 Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings @ The Anvil, Basingstoke - 21/02/2008SOLD OUT! Mark Ronson @ The Dome, Brighton - 21/02/2008SOLD 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 - 22/02/2008SOLD 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 - 23/02/2008SOLD 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 - 24/02/2008SOLD 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 - 25/02/2008SOLD 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 - 26/02/2008SOLD 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.
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.
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 - 25/02/2008SOLD 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 - 01/03/2008SOLD OUT! Trash Fashion @ Unit 22, Southampton - 06/03/2008 Duffy @ Komedia, Brighton - 10/03/2008SOLD 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 - 14/02/2008SOLD 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 - 16/02/2008SOLD 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 - 17/02/2008SOLD OUT! Jodie and Apostle @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 17/02/2008 Hot Chip @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 18/02/2008SOLD 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 - 19/02/2008SOLD 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).
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.
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 PirateBattleships 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 - 08/02/2008SOLD 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 - 09/02/2008SOLD 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 - 12/02/2008SOLD 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 - 12/02/2008SOLD 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.
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?"
