Words and pictures by Rhona Murphy. The penultimate Summer Session in Southampton was San Francisco’s Train. Formed in the early 90s, Train has been gigging/touring/recording for over 20 years (with hiatus years 2006-2008). The line-up has changed several times with lead singer Pat Monahan being the constant member during...
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Review: The Human League – TK Maxx presents Southampton Summer Sessions
Words: Darren Grayer. Photos: Rhona Murphy. Formed in 1977, The Human League’s influence on electro-synth pop music can still be felt nearly 50 years on. After an initial experimental phase, the original line up split acrimoniously in late 1980 and remaining members Phil Oakey and Philip Adrian Wright found...
Review: McFly – TK Maxx Presents Southampton Summer Sessions, Guildhall Square
Words: Joy McKay. Photos: Bella Briscoe. I’d never been to one of the Summer Sessions events before, starting in 2024 these are larger scale concerts which take place outside in Guildhall Square offering a capacity of 3000, nearly twice the indoor capacity of The Guildhall. We arrived as the...
Review: UB40 featuring Ali Campbell – TK Maxx presents Southampton Summer Sessions, Guildhall Square
Words by Martin Brisland. Photos by: Rhona Murphy. A balmy summer evening and sweet reggae vibes made for a brilliant gig at TK Maxx presents Southampton Summer Sessions in Guildhall Square. Now in its second year, it is a great, well organised venue for music. Everybody was engaged and...
Review: Frank Turner, O2 Southampton Guildhall
By Graham Hiley. Back in 1996 a young Frank Turner came to the Southampton Guildhall to watch a Battle of the Bands contest. There and then he vowed he would one day be standing on that stage taking part in the competition. Although he never actually got to...
Review: They Might Be Giants, Southampton O2 Guildhall
By Dan O’Farrell. Music is memory, as everyone knows. The power of that moment when you really fall in love with a song, album or band will guarantee that your brain magically transports you to that moment every time you subsequently hear it. That’s my only explanation as to...
The Stranglers announced as latest Summer Sessions headliners in Southampton
Today, Live Nation leading live music and event promoter Cuffe & Taylor have announced legendary British band The Stranglers as a headliner for TK Maxx Presents Southampton Summer Sessions, taking over Guildhall Square on Saturday, 14 June. Joining them as main support will be the seminal punk rock band...
Photos: RSA Southampton July event
Photos by Chris Moorhouse. Last week In Common editor Sally Churchward, alongside Port Welcome Ambassador Yana Shkuropat, were keynote speakers at the latest Royal Society of Arts Southampton event, exploring The Southampton Narrative and Civic Pride. The event, held at Mettricks Guildhall on Thursday, July 18th, was attended by...
Review: Madness, TK Maxx Summer Sessions, Guildhall Square, Southampton
By Nick Mabey. “Well if this is madness then I know I’m filled with gladness”. Sums it up really. The lyric from their eponymous first-album song may not have arrived until the encore but it was present throughout the evening. Madness have always been a reminder to not take...
Review: Caity Baser – O2 Guildhall, Southampton
Pictures: Callum Linklater. Words: Vicky Greer. “This is a big one,” says Caity Baser on stage at the O2 Guildhall at the homecoming show of her Still Learning tour. It’s a full circle moment as she tells us about how she came to this very venue as a...