By Vicky Greer. There’s nowhere quite like Southampton, is there? Somehow, you can always see the biggest stars on the tiniest stages, and this month features one of the best examples of this phenomenon. It’s what makes the city’s music scene so special. Our beautiful venues have been home...
Artful Scribe’s LIT FEST 2024 comes to Southampton in March
LIT FEST 2024 brings literature from around the country to Southampton. This three day festival is produced by ArtfulScribe and delivered in partnership with University of Southampton and with funding from Arts Council England. Featuring a diverse, community-focused programme of showcases, workshops, open-mics and free events, LIT FEST 2024...
Southampton RSA Fellows Festival on this week
Photo by Chris Moorhouse. The Southampton RSA Fellows Festival is taking place from 3.30pm on Thursday 29th February. It aims to bring together a diverse group of leaders from across the City and its institutions to discuss how the City can achieve a sustainable, regenerative future and the courageous...
Review – Blood Brothers, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
By Graham Hiley. It is not just the audience who regularly return to Blood Brothers time after time – so too do the cast. Willy Russell’s powerful and provocative piece stays with anyone who sees it – or appears in it. For the touring production at the Mayflower, 11...
Big Special come to The Joiners, Southampton this spring
Big Special have announced their debut album Postindustrial Hometown Blues for release on 10th May via SO Recordings. The Black Country duo are also sharing their first new music of 2024, in the shape of new single Dust Off/Start Again, along with more UK / EU headline shows and...
Photos: Bursfest 13
Words and pictures by Anita Foxall. Main image: Pegasuses. It has been 13 years of Bursfest and this year’s was another fantastic one. Rob Swallow and Ron May work relentlessly to make it happen every year supported by an incredible, warm, welcoming group of volunteers. Both the Village Stage...
Royel Otis to support headliners Kaiser Chiefs at Southampton Summer Sessions concert
Image by Georges Antoni. Royel Otis will support headliners Kaiser Chiefs, for this year’s inaugural Southampton Summer Sessions series on Sunday 30 June. They join previously announced Tom Jones, Madness, Nile Rodgers & CHIC and Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the growing lineup of unmissable acts who will take over Southampton’s Guildhall Square for Summer Sessions from 15 to 30 June. The vibrant...
Trans Pride returns to Southampton in June
By Mabel Wellman. Trans Pride Southampton is returning to Southampton this year on the 29th June. Last year Trans Prids was a small and intimate event at Watts Park. The event started with a march through City Centre, then a picnic in Watts Park. Trans Pride Southampton this year...
Orbital come to Southampton on The Green + Brown Album headline tour
Orbital have released a new single, Tonight In Belfast, ahead of their Southampton gig in April. The new single from Orbital, David Holmes & DJ Helen featuring Mike Garry, “Tonight In Belfast” is available now through London Records. This brand new track interpolates their 1991 classic “Belfast” and heralds...
Review: Shrek, Mayflower Theatre
By Graham Hiley. It was bright, beautiful and ogre-the-top! Shrek The Musical stank the place out – in the best possible way. With enough fart, burp and body odour jokes to stink a battleship, this slick new production of the animated classic left the Mayflower audience… swamped! This is...