Southampton Stand Up To Racism have announced that they have called off today’s counter-demonstration, set to take place this evening in Portswood (17/4/26). It comes in response to ‘Southampton Patriots cancelling their weekly anti-asylum seeker protests outside Highfield House Hotel in Porstwood, which houses asylum seekers, placed there by...
Community Heroes: Step By Step, helping to prevent homelessness
In our new series celebrating charities and community organisations that are making a real difference to the lives of people in the local area, we take a look at Step by Step. Right now, there are young people across Southampton without a safe, stable place to call home. For...
Review: Hurn Court Opera’s La Traviata – Regent Theatre, Christchurch
By Nick Mabey. “Pleasure makes life longer” sung by our protagonist, Violetta – played wonderfully by a blooming Caroline Taylor – sums up the first act of La Traviata. Guiseppe Verdi’s famous nineteenth century opera has been reimagined in Paris in the 1930s and it’s all finery and decadence...
Free music industry workshops for 18-25 year olds at Turner Sims
Image: The Vibe with Baby Panna by Nosa Malcolm. Calling all 18-25 year-olds! Have you ever wanted to put on your own music event? Are you aiming for a career in the music industry? Turner Sims is offering free music industry workshops for young people across April and May...
Review: Roebucks – Heartbreakers, Southampton
By Darren Grayer. Brighton four-piece The Roebucks returned to Southampton on Tuesday (14/5/36) for the third time in just under a year, after impressing at Wanderlust Festival last May. Since forming in 2021, the band have steadily built a reputation for producing harmonious guitar driven music with influences taking...
Review: Don Quixote, Birmingham Royal Ballet – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
By Joy McKay. Birmingham Royal Ballet have returned to Mayflower Theatre with Director Carlos Acosta’s revival of the Marius Petipa classic ballet Don Quixote. A, famously, technically challenging ballet to perform and, at almost three hours long, usually considered one for the aficionados, how does Acosta’s version compare to...
Review: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) – Mayflower Studios, Southampton
By Martin Brisland. Shakespeare’s words that ‘one man in his time plays many parts’ seem very appropriate for this production. Directed and co-written by Adam Long, this is a theatrical compression that is the stock-in-trade of this RSC – the Reduced Shakespeare Company – not to be confused with the...
Music in the City organisers launch a raffle to help keep the Southampton festival free
Plans are underway for Music in the City 2026, a free multi-venue community music festival that brings hundreds of free live music gigs to venues across Southampton, and organisers are raising funds for the event through a new raffle. With a collection of top prizes that have been specially...
Review: The Kairos with support from Florentenes & Skäl – Heartbreakers, Southampton
Word and pictures by Rhona Murphy. There’s a lot of gig competition in Southampton tonight (11/4/26) with Wigan quartet The Lilacs playing a sold-out show at The Joiners so it’s a testament to the quality of this Heartbreakers show with The Kairos headlining that it’s also sold-out and absolutely...
View from the Kingsland: Wow – Speechless
By Nick Mabey. It’s very rare I can find no entry point for these articles. Normally, as you may have noticed, when I have nothing to write then I write nothing. But now is not one of those times. There’s so much to say and yet I’m speechless –...