By Sally Churchward. Picture: Chris Moorhouse. Beloved Southampton music venue The Joiners will be closing its doors this weekend until September. The building will be underdoing essential works. In a social media post, they explained they were closing “for some essential reconstruction of the old girl, born in 1829,...
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From The Joiners to the Guildhall: Why Southampton still feels like home to Frank Turner
Words by Rachel Jones @HMP_SHE. Picture by Callum Linklater. Ahead of his return to Southampton on Friday, June 26th, Frank Turner reflects on the venues that shaped him, the communities that sustained him, and why, in an increasingly digital world, nothing can replace the experience of sharing a room...
Review: Wanderlust Festival 2026, Southampton
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...
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: Calva Louise with support from Knife Bride – Joiners, Southampton
Words and pictures by Chris Taylor. It’s a Tuesday night, Saints are playing at home, the roads are gridlocked, there’s no parking – and the Joiners is still full. As usual, a round of applause for the Southampton music scene (28/4/26). Luckily it’s an 8pm start, so we make...
Review: Millie Manders and the Shutup, Joiners, Southampton
Words: Laura McCarthy. Pictures: Rhona Murphy. It’s a Wednesday night (08/04/26) but Southampton punk fans are out in full force at The Joiners. They’ve all come for Millie Manders and the Shutup and no threat of work in the morning is going to stop them. If you miss the...
Interview: Millie Manders on how to be anti-billionaire
By Laura McCarthy. Photos: Tina K. “I’m late. I lost track of time.” I’ve been waiting for my meeting with Millie Manders for ten minutes and the late start is no surprise; she is, and always has been, a busy person, what with numerous gigs, tours, interviews, and advocacy...
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...
Review: Callous Daoboys with Knives and Love Rarely at The Joiners, Southampton
By Chris Taylor. Every few years I’ll catch a Southampton show that’s so intense and important that I’m literally left gasping for air. They’re the times when you can tell the whole crowd knows that this is the last time we’ll ever see this band in an intimate setting....
Reader’s letter: support our independent venues
By the team at The Joiners, Southampton. As you’ve probably taken note of, the British economy is in a bit of state and heading towards April when business rates increase alongside staff wages, independent places are more likely to shut up shop than any others. SO we’re REALLY putting...