Rock Regeneration Blog

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...

EP: “Happyness” by Happyness

Four tracks of some great lo-fi pop, that seems to be unintentionally uplifting in a very laid-back way.

News: Bournemouth Music Magazine

The Dorset Music Magazine The new name for the Bournemouth Music Magazine, is “Dorset Music”, the name change came about after feeling that it would give the county’s music scene further options and a...

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!

Rock Regeneration Christmas Shindig

Mr Kyps, Poole 29th December 2013 Don’t forget on the 29th December at Mr Kyps in Poole we have our Rock Regeneration Christmas shindig with four amazing local Rock bands Sansara, Saints Of Sin,...

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...

EP: “Raising my Own Hell” by Toby Jepson

Many years ago the local Arthouse/Venue used to put on rock and metal gigs every summer, and I got to see some great acts. One of those I saw a few times was the...