Category: Gigs

The Agency at Hope FM

Hope FM Studio, Bournemouth There are not many local bands that can boast that they have been together for over 29 years.

Saturday Sun/The Plastic Dots/Si Genaro

Winchester Pub, Bournemouth Saturday Sun have been causing quite a stir in the media for quite a while now with their gentle melodies, stunningly powerful vocals and top class songwriting.

Maine Street/Martin Ruddock/Geoff Barker

Chaplin’s, Cellar Bar, Boscombe On a relatively mild January evening we await the return of one time Bournemouth “Indie hopefuls” Maine street.

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.