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
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
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)
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