By Darren Grayer. Additional reporting: Anita Foxall & Russell Foxall. Image: Hot Stamp. Saturday The sun came out in glorious fashion and shone on Southampton over the weekend for the third Wanderlust Festival (23-24/6/26). Some seven hundred music lovers descended on the city to see around fifty bands perform...
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Preview: Wanderlust Festival brings more than 50 bands to Southampton
By Darren Grayer. This weekend will see the third Wanderlust Festival take place in Southampton (23-24 May). A total of fifty one bands drawn from across the alternative music scene will perform in three of the city’s venues-Heartbreakers Bar, The Joiners and The 1865. A mixture of established and...
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: 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...
Review: Lucy Kitchen album launch, Heartbreakers, Southampton
By Darren Grayer. Sunday night saw Romsey singer/songwriter Lucy Kitchen headline Heartbreakers Bar for the release of her latest and third album In The Low Light (1/3/26). Written in the aftermath of tragically losing her husband, Stephen, to cancer in October 2022, it’s a heart-wrenching and stark piece of...
Southampton’s Myriad to launch EP with hometown gig next month
By Darren Grayer. Southampton 4-piece Myriad are celebrating the release of their new EP on March 20th with a hometown gig at Suburbia the following night (Saturday 21st). Following on from last year’s Living On The Internet EP, it’s titled Notes She Never Read, and the quartet have just...
Lucy Kitchen album launch comes to Southampton’s Heartbreakers next month
By Darren Grayer. Romsey singer/songwriter Lucy Kitchen releases her third album at the end of February with a gig to celebrate its launch at Heartbreakers Bar on Sunday 1st March. Lucy’s music is steeped in traditional folk, with threads of Americana and the timeless spirit of 70s singer/songwriters, and...
Rising artist Tom A. Smith comes to Southampton’s Heartbreakers in April
Picture by Katie Anderson. Hotly tipped as one to watch for 2026, rising Sunderland artist Tom A. Smith has announced a new run of UK headline shows, taking his explosive live energy on the road this spring. Kicking off at Glasgow’s iconic King Tut’s on March 26th, the tour...
Review: Dan O’ Farrell & The Difference Engine- Heartbreakers
By Darren Grayer. Pictures: Anita Foxall. Southampton born and bred and English teacher by profession, Dan O’ Farrell has been an integral part of the local music scene since the late 80s when he formed Accrington Stanley with his school chums Richard ‘Baz’ Barrett and Chris Walsh. They became...
Review: Interesting Wallpaper – album launch, Heartbreakers Bar, Southampton
By Darren Grayer. Southampton’s Interesting Wallpaper have been playing their infectious blend of indie pop music locally since forming in 2021. Their melodic and thought- provoking tunes take in a number of influences that include a hark back to the classic C86 sound that gave us bands such as...