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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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Review: King Charles @ Club NME Portsmouth
by Ben Clark photos by Hannah Mesquitta January is a month that has become synonymous with many things; resolutions, quiet weekend nights in, the breaking of aforementioned resolutions and the endless list of artists tipped to shape the sound of the next twelve months. Radio stations and record labels clamour like jesters at court to [...] -
Review: Club NME @ The Wedgewood Rooms
by Ben Clark photos by Hannah Mesquitta and Mark Hayward For such a long standing club night whose modus operandi is to debut next year’s greatest bands and DJs, it is always interesting to see how a new city and venue will take up the mantle when it comes to the aspect. With this in [...] -
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: 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: 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 [...] -
Review: Howling Bells @ The Wedgewood Rooms
by Ben Clark photos by Hannah Mesquitta Australian four-piece Howling Bells have had a long road to the desired cult/cool position they hold in the world of music today. Hailing from Sydney in 2004, their release two years later epitomised the cool atmospheric sound characteristic of Aussie godfather Nick Cave. Vardenafilo levitra Levitra reviews Songs [...] -
Review: The King Blues @ The Wedgewood Rooms
words and photos by Mark Hayward I didn’t know completely what to expect. Cheap Levitra online I’d heard quite a lot about The King Blues from word of mouth and from my friends who themselves had seen them play at Butserfest last year. As I wasn’t sure who they were, I had done some background [...] -
Interview: Fucked Up
by Mark Beeston Mark talks to Damian Abraham, ahead of their gig a t Zithromax pharmacyThe Wedgewood Rooms. Cheap Levitra online You guys are touring Europe right now, how’s it going? How are the crowds? Great actually. We have certainly had our fair share of “sedate crowds” on the mainland over the years but [...] -
Interview: Friends Electric
by Vicky Halliday photos by Martin Hoare Sooooo, you’ve just played at Somerset House with Blondie. How was that Levitra reviews ? Dan: We had a call from Metropolis, who also work with Debbie Harry. Cheap Levitra online Order Doxycycline Was a surprise but a nice one. Blondie were amazing and very friendly. Somerset House [...]