Author: Jon

EP: “The Sound Of Your Demise” by Beyond Betrayal

“You can’t kill The Metal, The Metal will live on” – Jack Black – Tenacious D …and it’s true, heavy metal, for all of its ridiculous sub-genres (Post grunge hardcore deathpunkcore, I mean really?)...

ACMR – Battle of the Bands Final

Mr Kyps Live Music Venue, Poole Featuring October Fires, Ordering Chaos, Beth Bayliss, Hello Hawaii and Bad Magic We all know and love it, it’s the go to place for fans of live music...

Preview: PiL to Play Bournemouth O2

“Public Image Ltd” announce Tour including Bournemouth O2 Academy Live Date. Following on from their monumental live performance at BBC Radio 6 Birthday Celebrations at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday March 16th which saw...

Preview: Shinedown

Shinedown Announce UK Tour and New Single On the 10th July 2012 – Rock radio giants, Shinedown were thrilled to announce a 9-date UK tour for this winter including a local date at Southampton...

Wonky Donk Festival 2012

Lytchett Matravers, Hall Road Farm Last year a group of friends and musicians got together for a rural party in the grounds of an animal sanctuary in Lytchett Matravers near Poole, Dorset, the event...

EP: “The Sound Of Your Demise” by Dead By Dawn

Where do you start with a band whose name is also a quote in a Sam Raimi film, and then use a little bit of George A Romero inspired imagery? At the beginning that’s...

Mutant Vinyl/Vlad

The Winchester Pub, Bournemouth A brand new local team of promoters by the name of H.A.M made up of students from Bournemouth University have recently got together in bringing a new refreshing live music...

CD:”Sounds Like…” by Adam Scholey

Adam Scholey – Former Sonority of a Home Studio 2005-2012 album Review When this 20 track “compendium” came my way I decided to give it a good few listens, knowing Adam as I do...

Video: “Going Down” By Western Sand

Of all of the bands gigging around Bournemouth at the moment, one of the best and one that has bags of potential is the Hard/Southern Rock outfit called Western Sand. Not only are they...