By Martin Brisland. How High the Moon is a jazz standard song dating from 1940. The enduring popularity, since it started in 1955, of the Guinness World Records books shows that people are always fascinated to learn what is the fastest, longest, heaviest, oldest, tallest in any given field....
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Preview: Dreamcoat Stars, Theatre Royal Winchester
Musical theatre fans can enjoy every minute of Dreamcoat Stars – a chance to revel in the biggest musical numbers – when the show returns to Theatre Royal Winchester on Sunday 16 March. Dreamcoat Stars features four sensational singers from the global hit, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, performing...
Book Review: The Transgender Issue – Shon Faye
By Mabel Wellman. In continuation of the articles for LGBT History Month, I have very much looked forward to rereading perhaps the most important book released for transgender people in decades, originally published in 2021. This book is not, by definition, a history book. Instead, Faye has written an...
Crowdfunder set up to support Southampton vegan cafe after break in
A popular blogger – The Bearded Vegan – has set up a crowdfunder to support Southampton’s Cafe Thrive. The popular Southampton city centre vegan cafe shared a social media post this morning (28/2/25) sharing that last night their front door was smashed and staff tip jar was stolen. They...
Review: Picture You Dead – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
By Dan O’Farrell. The crime genre has been a massively popular feature of British cultural life since the first Sherlock Holmes stories rolled off the Victorian printing presses. TV schedules are still awash with ‘whodunnits’, murder-mysteries and increasingly dark thrillers, and crime fiction remains the most reliably high-selling flavour...
Preview: Three Little Vikings, Theatre Royal Winchester
Child audiences and their grown-ups are invited to meet three brave little Viking girls when Three Little Vikings comes to Theatre Royal Winchester on Saturday 15 March. Three Little Vikings tells the story of three little girls from a Viking village where everything is going wrong – chickens are...
Review: Hinds, Papillion, Southampton 25/02/2025
By Darren Grayer. After releasing their third studio album The Prettiest Curse in 2020, Spanish indie rockers Hinds were ironically hit with indifferent fortunes. The band split, losing their rhythm section, then parted company with their management and record label. That left founding members, Carlotta Cosials and Ana Garcia...
Preview: The Rock of Ages Experience, Theatre Royal Winchester
Rock fans will enjoy a tribute to the music of the popular Hollywood musical and film when The Rock of Ages Experience visits Theatre Royal Winchester on Friday 14 March. The Rock of Ages Experience takes audiences on a trip through time with a full 1980s rock playlist with...
Review: Eun-Me Ahn Dance Company – Dragons, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
By Spring Wise. I went into this show honestly not knowing what to expect and I left feeling that I’d been on a journey I didn’t fully understand, and perhaps that’s how it was intended. The first minute or so filled me with dread that it was going to...
Preview: Tess, Theatre Royal Winchester
Thomas Hardy’s classic novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, is told through the language of dance and circus when Tess comes to Theatre Royal Winchester from Tuesday 11 March. This retelling of Hardy’s work, which told of a country girl who is wronged and then faces judgement from her community,...