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'The Dirty South focuses on music and culture from across the South coast. Everything from club nights and art exhibitions to gigs and theatre.
'Brought to you by Vicky Halliday (with assistance from Dai Howells and the glamorous Dirty South family) we'll take a light-hearted look at all things Southern - and Dirty! From Bournemouth to Brighton (with the occasional jaunt to London) The Dirty South team will give you an insight into all things cultural "Southern Style"
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Archive for October, 2011
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Interview: Mojo Fury
The debut album by Mojo Fury “Visiting Hours of a Travelling Circus” was released in May to rave reviews, Vicky caught up with Mike at their headline show at The Edge of the Wedge. Two Door Cinema Club and And So I Watch You From Afar are really putting Northern Ireland back on the msic [...] -
Review: James Vincent McMorrow @ The Wedgewood Rooms
by Dai Howells 8:30 on a Sunday evening sees Albert Road oddly quiet. Pubs look disconsolate and empty, very few revellers line the streets, and – rather optimistically – a kebab shop worker (kebabier? kebaberer? supervillain?) puts a spinning stick of petrified dogshit on the heat. Then, two girls wearing Carnage t-shirts stumble from the [...] -
Review: Chapel Club @ The Wedgewood Rooms
by Dai Howells Throughout tonight’s gig, there’s one band that keep bubbling up from the subconscious: The Horrors. (Ok, yes this is a review of Chapel Club but you’ll have to bear with me on this or else these will be an uncomfortable few hundred words for the both of us). See, when The Horrors [...] -
Review: VNV Nation @ The Talking Heads
by Vicky Halliday photos by Chris Meany In 1998, I went to see Funker Vogt at Camden Underworld. Their support band for that gig was VNV Nation. Since then, VNV have become one of the “Big 4″ of the synthpop scene (along with Mesh, Covenant and Apoptygma Berzerk) and played sold-out gigs around Europe. This [...] -
Review: Art Brut @ The Wedgewood Rooms
by Graham Rice Tonight, it seems, is a night for the students. The smell of processed chicken bites permeates the air, while the beams from the lighting rig clumsily refract through smuggled translucent water bottles, raised in the air, from frugal concert-goers who aren’t planning to go to the bar. Tonight the Wedgewood Rooms plays [...] -
Review: Ghostpoet @ The Registry
by Ben Clark photos by Andrew Hayward Success is a complex thing to understand and, quite frankly, rarer for an artist to find than a fair priced gig ticket. This is because the thing with success in any art form, is that ninety nine percent of the time; it has nothing to do with the [...] -
Review: Emmy the Great @ The Wedgewood Rooms
by Daniel Cook The Wedgewood Rooms will always hold a special place in my heart. From the days of seeing bands in my late teens, to dancing like a special case on a Friday night, it’s always been a sweet love of mine, or a cheating whore, depends really. But anyway, I digress. On this [...]