words and images by Charlotte Ndupuechi. Southampton joined a Global March for Gaza as communities across the south coast united for justice, humanity and Palestine. On Sunday 15 June 2025, residents from across the South gathered for a March for Gaza as part of a Global Day of Action...
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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: Don Broco – Engine Rooms, Southampton
Words and pictures by Callum Linklater. If this was just a warm-up, then Download better be ready. Don Broco hit Southampton’s Engine Rooms with the kind of energy you’d expect from a full-blown festival set. From the first riff to the final singalong, the band made it clear they’re...
Southampton Refugee Week celebrates community and culture this month
Southampton is gearing up for Refugee Week, which runs from June 15 to 21. This year, the week is celebrating ‘community as a superpower’. Southampton and Winchester. Southampton and Winchester Visitors Group, which works with refugees and asylum seekers, is hosting a week of free events, to which all...
Review: Calamity Jane – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
By Joy McKay. I grew up enjoying the big Hollywood musicals shown on TV on Sunday afternoons, but my favourite was always Doris Day in Calamity Jane. I related to this hopeless tomboy, never quite getting it right, but always trying so hard to make her mark in the...
Opinion: Disability Rights protest – resisting the cuts
By Manthan Pathak. Pictures by Andrea Barrett. Local campaigners for disabled people’s rights staged a protest at Southampton’s Guildhall Square to bring attention to the government’s plans to cut disability benefits. A new nationwide grassroots group, Crips Against Cuts, created in opposition to the proposals, organised the demonstration, which...
SS Shieldhall resumes sailings for 2025
Southampton’s heritage steamship SS Shieldhall returned from her annual dry dock in Falmouth looking pristine and ship-shape ahead of her first 2025 sailing, which took place on Saturday 24 May. Shieldhall’s high tech, electric blue silicone coating (more environmentally friendly than traditional anti-foul) initially applied in 2022, was re-applied...
View from the Kingsland: Finally Over
By Nick Mabey. It’s finally over. Saints’ season, that started in bright sunshine with an encouraging performance and close defeat, ended the same way. The away loss to Newcastle in August last year, with a blunt attack unable to score against a side reduced to 10-men early on, offered...
Book Review: Stephen Graham Jones Reinvents the Vampire in The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
By Laura McCarthy. Stephen Graham Jones’ latest horror novel is a spectacular, haunting tale of vampirism like you’ve never seen before. It is written in such a way that the reader is forced to slow down to process the narrative and the complex philosophical questions which come with it....
Yungblud to play intimate Southampton gig next month
Yungblud has announced a run of ‘Up Close & Personal’ record store dates across the UK, celebrating the release of new album IDOLS out 20th June 2025. He will visit Southampton Engine Rooms on 15th July in partnership with Vinilo Records. He will be playing songs off the album...