By Darren Grayer. Local musician Eloise Carter has been steadily building a reputation with her songwriting and live performances over the last 3-4 years. Saturday (27/09/25) night saw her headline The Joiners for the first time, following numerous support slots with touring artists. Her music can best be described...
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Review: Only The Poets at The Joiners, Southampton
Words and pictures Rhona Murphy. When you arrive at a venue over an hour before doors and the queue is already snaking down the road, you know something special is about to happen (3/9/25). When Reading’s Only The Poets (OTP) announced a small number of intimate show dates entitled...
Review: Bartees Strange – The Joiners, Southampton 26/08/25
By Darren Grayer. English born American artist Bartees Strange returned to The Joiners on Tuesday after appearing at the venue in 2023. Having just completed nearly a month touring Europe, this is the third of four nights in the UK, before heading back to the states. Back in February,...
Interview: Ricky Bates of legendary Southampton venue The Joiners
Words: Darren Grayer. Pictures: Chris Moorhouse. The recent news that Southampton music venue The Joiners is in line to be granted funding from the Music Venues Trust was gratefully received by everyone involved in running it as well as the hundreds of music lovers who regularly attend gigs there....
Review: Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart – The Joiners, Southampton
By Dan O’Farrell. For music fans of a certain vintage, the name Jah Wobble rings a number of musical bells, but ‘famous bass-players from the post-punk world’ is a ‘Pointless’ category waiting to happen. I stroll into a pleasingly busy Joiners on Friday night armed with a dangerously high...
Review: Panic Shack + The Pill – Papillon, Southampton
Words by Spring Wise. Photos by Jamie Wise. Local heroes The Pill, neighbours from across a very expensive bit of water, inhabited every inch of Papillon on Monday night with a bigger confidence than I’ve seen from them before (and their performances are always filled with boisterous energy). Not...
The Joiners, Southampton, included in community ownership campaign
Music Venue Properties (MVP), the pioneering Charitable Community Benefit Society created by Music Venue Trust (MVT), has announced the launch of the next phase of its ground-breaking ‘Own Our Venues’ project — a bold initiative to secure the future of a further seven iconic grassroots music venues (GMVs) across...
Review: Wanderlust Festival 2025 – Southampton
By Darren Grayer. Additional reporting: Anita Foxall, Russell Foxall and Dan O’Farrell. Saturday After a highly successful first year, Southampton’s Wanderlust Music Festival returned at the weekend. Expanded to two days this time around, it saw well over 50 artists appear, spread over Saturday and Sunday at three local...
Review: The Courettes – The Joiners, Southampton
By Darren Grayer. The Courettes are currently the best rock n roll band on the planet. Not convinced? Then let me try and persuade you. Husband and wife duo, Flavia and Martin Couri play a blend of music that perfectly encapsulates explosive garage rock, Girl Group, Wall of Sound,...
Southampton’s Regent to play homecoming show this weekend
Following the release of their sophomore album and a string of singles last year, Southampton-born band Regent return this month with a new track titled “I Feel For You”, a tale of lost love and liberation. Opening with euphoric drums and Britpop-indebted guitar twangs, “I Feel For You” is...