According to Chris Martin, being signed to EMI is a bit like living in your Grandparent's house.
By this I'm assuming he means he and the rest of Coldplay are plied with lashings of cake, ginger beer & chocolate and are allowed to stay up well past their bed-time (and not that it smells of wee all the time).
*koff*
Quite. And here are the gigs purloined from the back end of this week's Pete Doherty-tastic NME:
Fighting With Wire @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 15/05/2008
Thomas White @ Komedia, Brighton - 16/05/2008
Glasvegas @ Komedia, Brighton - 17/05/2008
Fighting With Wire @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 18/05/2008
Adem @ Komedia, Brighton - 24/05/2008
Johnny Foreigner and Dananananaykroyd @ The Joiners, Southampton - 06/06/2008
The Maybes? @ The Joiners, Southampton - 10/06/2008
Thomas White @ The Cellars, Portsmouth - 10/06/2008
The Maybes? @ The Railway, Winchester - 11/06/2008
Beck @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 01/07/2008
Blood Red Shoes @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 13/10/2008
The Rifles @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 20/10/2008
Okkervil River @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 12/11/2008
The Rifles @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 19/11/2008
I'll update the SoMC Events Calendar with the above gigs as and when I have the time; given that there's some event in London I'm attending this weekend (yes, I'm going to Wembley, and my legs have gone all trembly) my time will mostly be taken up with football, over-priced pies and (all being well) copious celebratory beverages. Alternatively, if the wheels fall off Arry's FA bandwagon, I'll be retiring to my room with a box set of Ingmar Bergman DVDs for a good long mope.
But I digress.
When it's not being left to its own devices the Events Calendar can prove a useful aid to the local gig monkey at a loose end, full as it would be of gigs like these (or at least it would be if I updated the damn thing):
On Flight Movie, The Architects, Pancake Eating Freaks and Just Add Fire @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 15/05/2008
Empirical @ The Pavilion, Brighton - 15/05/2008
Ron Trueman Border @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 15/05/2008
Vampire Weekend @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 15/05/2008
Kevin Devine, Tournaments and AA Bondy @ The Joiners, Southampton - 15/05/2008
Ben Ottewell (Gomez) and Jeremy Warmsley @ Komedia, Brighton - 15/05/2008
Sarah Saville @ The Fawcett Inn, Portsmouth - 15/05/2008
The Fratellis @ The Dome, Brighton - 16/05/2008
The Smyths @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 16/05/2008
The Bluetones @ The Brook, Southampton - 16/05/2008
The Wombats and Pete & The Pirates @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 16/05/2008
State of Undress @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 16/05/2008
Superfly @ The Red Lion, Stubbington - 16/05/2008
The Whip, South Central Live and The Exits @ The Joiners, Southampton - 16/05/2008
El Rodeo and Great Walls @ The Railway, Winchester - 16/05/2008
Whole Lotta Led (Led Zeppelin tribute) @ Salisbury Arts Centre - 16/05/2008
Spiral @ Soul Cellar, Southampton - 16/05/2008
goFASTER, Hardly Heroes and Caspian Sea Society @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 16/05/2008
The Charlatans @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 16/05/2008
The Mike Sanchez Band @ Havant Arts Centre - 16/05/2008
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus @ Student Union, Southampton University - 16/05/2008
Novak'n'Goode @ The Fawcett Inn, Portsmouth - 16/05/2008
Jazica, Hayley Angel, Jessica Spencer and Emily White @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 16/05/2008
The Strange Death of Liberal England, The Dawn Chorus and Fresh Legs @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 17/05/2008
Delays @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 17/05/2008
One Blood and Lionpaw Soundsystem (DJ) @ The Nell Gwynne, Portsmouth - 17/05/2008
The Subways and Ebony Bones @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 17/05/2008
Perfect Alibi (Pink Floyd tribute) @ The Brook, Southampton - 17/05/2008
The Continentals @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 17/05/2008
Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 17/05/2008
Hadouken! @ The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth - 17/05/2008
Más y Más @ Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham - 17/05/2008
Echo Chamber, James Yuill and She.Swears.Blind @ The Joiners, Southampton - 17/05/2008
Go Faster and Sandinistas @ Lennons, Southampton - 17/05/2008
Stompin' Dave Allen @ The Platform Taverm, Southampton - 17/05/2008
Colin Hare & Honeybus @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 17/05/2008
Panama @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 17/05/2008
Apnia, Tesseract, Akakios and Driven By Suffering @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 18/05/2008
Julie Felix @ The Brook, Southampton - 18/05/2008
John Gillespie, Bryn Roberts and Kate Smith @ Drift, Southsea - 18/05/2008
Bosh and The Shoots @ The Railway, Winchester - 18/05/2008
James & Denovo @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 18/05/2008
Royworld @ The Joiners, Southampton - 18/05/2008
The Thirst, Loose Tongue and Wilfy Williams @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 18/05/2008
Tcha Limberger's Budapest Gypsy Orchestra @ Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton - 18/05/2008
The Skies @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 18/05/2008
Slava & Leonard Grigoryan @ The Pavilion, Brighton - 19/05/2008
Johnny Flynn, Hats Are For Heads and Paddy Taylor @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 19/05/2008
Skindred @ The Brook, Southampton - 19/05/2008
John Crampton @ The Fat Fox, Portsmouth - 19/05/2008
Popa Chubby @ The Brook, Southampton - 20/05/2008
3 Penny Puppet @ Little Johnny Russell's, Portsmouth - 20/05/2008
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 20/05/2008
Rossco, Christopher Jonathan Brown and Brassneck @ The Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth - 20/05/2008
Harbour Lights, Waiting For Sirens and Blue Sky Summer @ The Joiners, Southampton - 20/05/2008
Tom Baxter @ The Opera House, Bournemouth - 20/05/2008
The Metros @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 20/05/2008
Luke Leighfield and Barnaby Edwards @ The Railway, Winchester - 20/05/2008
The Paperboys @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 20/05/2008
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel @ The Brook, Southampton - 21/05/2008
Digby Fairweather's Half Dozen @ The Anvil, Basingstoke - 21/05/2008
Miriam Makeba @ The Dome, Brighton - 21/05/2008
Julie Felix @ The Forge, Basingstoke - 21/05/2008
Meg & Dia, Mayday Parade and The Color Fred @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 21/05/2008
Delays @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 21/05/2008
White Sunday @ The Railway, Winchester - 21/05/2008
Stereotonics (Stereophonics tribute) @ Chicago Rock Cafe, Fareham - 21/05/2008
James Yuill @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 21/05/2008
Inner Circle @ The Brook, Southampton - 05/07/2008
Seasick Steve @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 03/10/2008
Alex and The Ligers, The Staytogethers, The Cold Cold Hearts, Bruschetta Brothers, Huckleberry and I See Sparks will all be performing live at The Hobbit in Southampton this Saturday, 17th May, when the venue hosts the third fund-raising event for this years Access Festival. Doors open at 2000 and admission is £3 (£2 if you flash your festival badge).
Waster will be pounding to the finest indiepunkelectrorockdance in town, courtesy of the Southsea Mafia DJs this evening. Doors open at Liquid Envy in Portsmouth at 2200, entrance is £1 before 2230 (£2 before 2300, £3 after) and there's usually some beverage or other on offer.
This week Roger Courtney's Open Mike Club features performances from Croydon's Tim Eveleigh, local singer-songwriter Ade Cull and Isle of Wight folksters The Well Being. Doors open at The Barn at The Milton Arms at 1900 tomorrow, Thursday 15th May, with the first band onstage at 1915 prompt. The regular Open Mike slot follows the guest entertainment at 2215. Admission is, as usual, FREE!
Put a fork in me, I'm done. This afternoon I have been mostly listening to the foot-tappingly upbeat new Delays album and the long player from The Last Shadow Puppets (which is worth a listen if you ever wondered what Love, Scott Walker or Jacques Brel would've sounded like if they'd hailed from Sheffield). Be sure to join me next week when I'll be undertaking a mythical quest.
Possibly.
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