Today... • Carley Varley (Holme Bush Inn) • Jazz Jam (Tom Browns) • Hunters Moon (Bournemouth Arcade Shopping Centre) • Open Mic Night (Athelstan Arms) • Rabbit, Rabbit! – Chas And Dave Tribute Act (Concorde Club) • Rain Of Animals (Square and Compass) • Lee Burton (New Queen) • So Meghan (Meghan Trainor Tribute) (Concorde Club) • John Springett (Foundry Arms) • Lee Rasdall-Dove (Boathouse) • Ben Tyzack (Platform Tavern) • Hugh Budden (Yachtsman Pub) • Electonique (Chapelhay Tavern) • Circus of Thieves (Lord Nelson (Poole)) • Rumsoaked (Dolphin Pub (Southampton)) • Anne-Marie (Thomas Tripp (Christchurch)) • Kingsmen (Taphouse (Wimborne)) • Balance of Power (Three Compasses) • St. Fian (Ropemakers) • Open Mic Night (Crown Inn (Bridport)) • Darren H Presley (Elvis Tribute) (Poole Centenary Hall and Club) • Sammi Jo-Jo (Picnic Park Deli) • Chaplin's Sunday Sessions (Chaplin's Cellar Bar) • The Jays (Cliff House Hotel & Resturant) • Tin Cat Jam Session (Tin Cat) • Suburbia - Live & Local (Suburbia) • Crystal Tides (Tap & Grape) • Wheatus (1865) • Marine Theatre Jazz By The Sea (Marine Theatre) • The Wombats (Bournemouth International Centre) • Eliza Marshall (Hanger Farm Arts Centre) • Millie Watson (Run Ashore) • Skinny Bob (Railway Inn (Winchester)) • Noble Jacks (The Brook) • Kev Jackson (Monkey Brewhouse) • Open Mic Night (King Charles (Poole)) • David Marks (Angel (Poole)) • Peter Cooley (Bricklayers Arms (Poole)) • Harry Cambridge ( Luther Vandross Tribute) (Concorde Club) • Shotgun Smile (Admiral Drake) • Harry Cambridge ( Luther Vandross Tribute) (Concorde Club) • Talon (Tribute to The Eagles) (Concorde Club) • Matthew Fairman (Chaplin's Cellar Bar) • Spike & the PieMan (Bird In Hand) • Julie Lewis (Tom Browns)
The Anvil, Bournemouth Having only seen In The Hills once before, who were struggling through a set fraught with technical difficulties, I was pleased to get the chance to see them again so soon. As before, their heavy, sludge rock drew me in with its trance like rhythm infused with great riffs and break downs.
Sound Circus, Bournemouth Oh my. Sometimes, just sometimes, I go to a gig that is so good that all I want to write is “THAT WAS SO GOOD”, because I know that my clumsy attempts to manipulate the English language in such a manner in which to describe it to you will not do it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chaplins, Cellar Bar, Boscombe The sun had been shining all day and perhaps everyone had been enjoying themselves so much that they lost track of time as things kicked off a little later than planned. As the Cellar Bar is one of my favourite places to watch live music I certainly didn’t mind the wait.
O2 Academy, Bournemouth I came away from tonight’s show wishing that I had grown up in the 70’s, owned a leather jacket and had a perm. Unfortunately, whilst the bands were amazing enough to blow my mind, they didn’t quite have magical powers, so I will just have to dream about those things. Voodoo Vegas […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mr Kyps, Poole I’m guessing that for a few people, tonight was a night for reminiscing, with Wheatus being one of those feel good bands whose most popular tracks such as Teenage Dirtbag were released over 10 years ago. There was decent turnout for the opening band City Stereo, who got things warmed up with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I Am Freddie Mays are a 5 piece outfit from Bournemouth and Southampton who started kicking ideas about back in November 2010, before coming together in February of this year to form the current band. The line up consists of vocalist Danger, bassist Mike, guitarists Mart and Alex and drummer Crackerz and this is their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
