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We’re back with another Southsea fest update and we’re headed to The Wine Vaults again. We’ve already previewed the downstairs stage, but head up the wooden staircase to find the volume turned right up and the vocalists competing to obliterate your face. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? Much heavier than the stages we’ve looked at previously,  [ Read More ]

The Wine Vaults is such an integral Southsea Fest venue that it has two stages! Today we’re focusing on the downstairs stage WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? A smorgasbord of styles that pretty much covers every base. NOT TO BE MISSED: Head Full Of Yoko. The editor caught these boys a week or so ago and  [ Read More ]

Nick Courtney brings us the Porters Bar stage this year and, as always, it’s Southsea Fest’s free entry venue… if last year is anything to go by the audience will be spilling onto the street and enjoying a mixed bag of local performers. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? All manner of things, opening with the venue  [ Read More ]

So, the time is almost upon us once again… Our favourite one day festival returns on 18th September and once again grizzled Cap’n Josie Curtis and her scurvy ridden crew of expert promoters have booked their favourite acts to entertain at venues up and down Albert Road in Southsea. Who can you expect to see?  [ Read More ]

Double A side “Fast Car / Slow Traffic” / “Andromeda” will be the next single release from Paul Weller’s overwhelmingly critically acclaimed hit album “Wake Up The Nation” which has been hailed as the best album of his career. Released on September 13th, the single also reunites Paul with his former Jam bandmate Bruce Foxton  [ Read More ]

THE WORLD CUP CARNIVAL 2010 A MECCA TO WORLD CUP FOOTBALL & CUTTING EDGE MUSIC 11 JUNE TO 11 JULY 2010 SHEPHERDS BUSH PAVILION, LONDON www.worldcupcarnival2010.com Brazil certainly seems to have it all, with one of the most envied teams of the World Cup and a natural born ability to throw some shapes and party!  [ Read More ]

On Tuesday 22nd June Example will be celebrating the release of his brand new album ‘Won’t Go Quietly’ in style with a treat for fans, friends and chicken lovers alike with his very own crawl of selected Nando’s restaurants on the London Underground Circle line. With his current single ‘Kickstarts’ at No.2 in the midweek  [ Read More ]

Deluxe edition vinyl re-issues of “Kill ‘Em All”, “Ride The Lightning” and “Master Of Puppets” won Classic Rock Awards Re-issue Albums Of the Year at 2008 Awards (3rd November 2008). Following the hugely successful deluxe edition vinyl re-issues of the first three Metallica albums in early 2008 and “…And Justice For All” and “Metallica” in  [ Read More ]

“There’s no mystery about what makes this film the special occasion that it is. The band members – Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart – are thoughtful, terrifically likeable and brilliantly articulate.” – The Wall Street Journal Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company, in association with Banger Films is thrilled to announce  [ Read More ]

 Wintersleep – New Inheritors Album Released May 17th 2010  on One Four Seven Records The title track from the album will be released as a Single on May 10th,  it is available for a limited time as a FREE DOWNLOAD  at www.wintersleep.com Wintersleep return to the Europe in May for a Camden Crawl appearance and  [ Read More ]