Today... • Golden Touch Festival (Wedgewood Rooms) • The Beat (feat. Ranking Jnr) (Engine Rooms) • Paul Kinvig (The Lighthouse Seaside Bar (Milford On Sea)) • Rag'n'Bone Man (Guildhall Square) • Mallory Knox (Old Fire Station) • Steampunk Orchestra (St Peters Church (Ashley Cross)) • Marky Dawson (Ringwood Meeting House) • Murphy's Lore (White Hart (Longham)) • 3 Piece Sweet (Aunt Fanny's Farm Shop & Café) • Power Regression (Hobbit Pub) • The Jam'd (Tribute to The Jam) (The Harlington(Fleet)) • Michael starring Ben (Michael Jackson Tribute) (Regent Centre) • Whitney: Queen Of The Night (Whitney Houston Tribute) (Anvil Arts Centre (Basingstoke)) • Rainy Days, Mondays and Good Old Dreams - Kerry Le Bern'sTribute To The Carpenters (Verwood Hub) • These Wicked Rivers (Papillon) • Heaven 17 (1865) • Average Blues Band (Forest Arts Centre) • Gun (Joiners) • Space (Marine Theatre) • Typically Tina (Tribute to Tina Turner) (Hanger Farm Arts Centre) • Diabel Cissokho (Lighthouse) • Wessex Acoustic (Royal British Legion (Blandford)) • Blender (Heartbreakers Bar) • Dr Beatroot (Stourvale Pub) • Jason Hinchey (Monkey Brewhouse) • Route 66 (Sonny's Speakeasy) • Brad Chappell (Elvis Tribute) (Angel (Poole)) • Fleetwood Cave (Royal British Legion (Blandford)) • Tom Clements (Boathouse) • Paul Jude Wilson (Steamtownbrewco) • Someday Soon (The Gloucester) • Mudeford & Sons (Beachcomber Café) • Curveball (King Charles (Poole)) • The JDJ Band (Tap & Grape) • Swerve (Fawcett Inn) • The Transitions (Turfcutters Arms) • Andromeda (Blue Boar) • Rackham (Crown Stirrup) • Mafia (Lord Raglan) • Downtown Collective Band (Dorset Soldier) • Bow Ties & Braces (Kinson Conservative Club) • Jordan Watts (Drift Micro Bar) • All Funked Up (Lord Nelson (Poole)) • Carley Varley (William Walker) • Forever Oasis Tribute to Oasis) (Townhouse Pub) • The Hooked (Belvedere Inn) • Groove Rush (Royal Portland Arms) • Myriad (60 Million Postcards) • Bifröst (Stile Inn) • Sheads (Thomas Tripp (Christchurch)) • The Pete Harris Blues Band (Platform Tavern) • The Midnight Hour (Amberwood Inn) • Groovit (1812 Lounge (The Royal Exeter Hotel)) • Spike & the PieMan (The Heroes) • Hugh Budden & The Blue Chords (Bermuda Triangle) • We Afro Tallawah (Chaplin's Cellar Bar) • Whitley Lake Band (Taphouse (Wimborne)) • The Tiddlywinks (Chamberlayne Arms) • Two Man Ting (Ropemakers) • Monster (Admiral Drake)
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…
