Hot Vamp Club
As I entered Champions, I was hit by a heat wave as I saw a flood of indie kids spread across the venue. Hot Vamp Club are the headliners and they have come a...
Category: Gigs
Kids Can’t Fly/Mimi Soya/This Fall/The Bottom Line
Champions, Bournemouth Kids Can’t Fly and Mimi Soya are two of the most promising upcoming pop punk bands in the UK at the moment and Champions was the last stop on their joint UK...
Western Sand
Chaplins Cellar bar, Boscombe, Bournemouth Hell yeah, I’d been looking forward to seeing these guys play an extended show and I was lucky enough to have been invited to the launch of their debut...
The Frequency/The Push/Kings Of Hearts/Lauren Bannen
The Winchester, Bournemouth Its Friday night at The Winchester and it’s launch night for The Frequency’s debut single ‘High Society’. But what about the supports you ask me? Due to a late line-up re-shuffle...
Mark Greaney/Voodoo Vegas
Mr Kyps, Poole Its Wednesday night and Mr. Kyps is once again hosting an ‘In the Round’ gig featuring none other than JJ72 frontman Mr. Marc Greaney. But first we are treated to a...
Funeral For A Friend/Rise To Remain/Tiger Please
The Old Fire Station, Bouremouth First it was a venue change, then a date change; I was starting to think this gig might not happen. Luckily for me and all that were in attendance,...
Big Country/Mike Marlin/The Crowns
Portsmouth Pyramids At a U2 gig in 1983 Bono described Big Country and The Alarm as the “new breed”, two bands that bucked the trend of the electronic music of the time and stuck...
Poze/Damnation Alley
Champions, Bournemouth Tonight Champions played host for the first of three gigs for an old Bournemouth band, back from when the Gander and Mr. Smiths were the primary live music venue for some of...
Paige/Pump Action Radio/Dom Remi
iBar, Bournemouth In all honesty, there was a very dim atmosphere surrounding IBar as I entered with my friends. There were only a few people in the intimate venue and after walking down into...
Dorset Music Awards – Semi Final
Mr Kyps, Poole County Hospital/Constellation/Fearne/Bel Casino/Cella Creeps Saturday night at Mr Kyps and the 1st semi Final of the Dorset Music Awards, last years event was won by Bournemouth’s The Longest Day who fought...
