Category: Gigs

Ant Henson at Hope FM

Hope FM, Studio, Bournemouth When most people were sleeping off their New Years Day hangovers, the clean living Tim Heywood and myself, with our guest rock ‘n roll chameleon Ant Henson.

Soulhole/George Appleton

Victoria Cross, Parkstone Soulhole formed in early 2012 after being asked to provide a band for a friends wedding. This ignited a further hunger for more and after regularly rehearsing the band started to...

Pass The Buck at Hope FM

Hope Fm, Bournemouth Who ever thought up the mad idea of having a barn dance on the radio? Well presenter of Hope Fm’s “Live Wire Live” show Tim Heywood certainly did!

Angelic Upstarts/Crashed Out/The Reaktors/Lo Fi Poet Band

The Joiners, Southampton On a mild winters evening a packed Joiners Arms awaits the arrival of one of Punks “elder statesmen”, none other than the Angelic Upstarts. At just £12 adv, we seem spoilt...

Violetic/The Plastic Dots

Blue Line Studios, Bournemouth What’s this? An e-mail inviting me to a secret gig, very intriguing as I have not been to any of these in a very long time – with social media...

Broken Branches/Shona Lowe

Kasbah Club, Boscombe, Bournemouth For tonight’s show we have a new venue to sample, it is situated just above the Sainsbury’s store in Christchurch Road in Boscombe East, just down from Pokesdown train station.

Voodoo Vegas

Christmas Stage, Bournemouth Square This year in Bournemouth Square a Christmas Market, a German bar and a large music stage has been put up to provide some welcome entertainment. The stage has given local...

Hello Hawaii

Hope Fm Studio, Bournemouth Wesley Bennett and Joe Wilkinson of Bournemouth band “Hello Hawaii” came along to the Hope Fm studio in the middle of December clutching a copy of their brand new debut...

Toseland/Skinny Skulls/Voodoo Vegas

Old Fire Station, Bournemouth Fashionably late as usual I got to the Old Fire Station at 7.15 and just caught the tail end of Voodoo Vegas’s set.