Rock Regeneration Blog

C-30’s

Chaplin’s Cellar Bar, Boscombe, Bournemouth After a Saturday evening at the O2 Academy spent in the company of The Who’s Roger Daltery, I was not ready just yet to retire to my bed, a...

The Primitives/The Morphic Fields/Subdued

The Joiners Arms, Southampton We arrive at the venue at around 8.10 to find tonight’s openers Subdued are already on stage. With no band info to hand I’ll assume this 3 piece are Southampton-based....

CD Preview: Funeral For A Friend

Preview: Old Fire Station, Bournemouth A new line up, a new energy and a tour is now underway to promote their new album ‘Welcome Armageddon’ (out 14th March). It is their 5th full length...

Interview: Jeremy Cunningham – The Levellers

15th March 2011 This year the Levellers celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their ground breaking difficult second album ‘Levelling The Land’. To celebrate this the band are on tour of the UK playing the...

Review: Funeral For A Friend – Welcome Home Armageddon

March 14th is the time that many of us have waited for: Funeral For A Friend will release their much anticipated and already critically acclaimed 5th studio album ‘Welcome Home Armageddon’. The new album...

Not Advised/Checking Pulse/I Met Nature

iBar, Bournemouth Walking to iBar, I have to stop and actually think about what I’m seeing. There is a queue going out the door of the intimate venue which can’t help probe the thought...

The Levellers/The Wonder Stuff

Bournemouth 02 Academy In the current days of recession with money being very hard to come by, music promoters have to come up with ways of getting people out of their living rooms and...

EP: Kings Of Hearts

Bournemouth’s very own Kings of Hearts are looking to start off 2011 with a bang. They see in the new year with some new songs that are planned to be released as an E.P.,...

Preview: Hot Vamp Club EP Launch

On April 22nd new band Hot Vamp Club are having a launch party at Champions for their debut EP “I Dream Of Fires”. Supported by Ivienna, Kinnie The Explorer, and Wild Fire.