Well, how was your Christmas? Fun? How are you feeling? Full? Fat? Funky? We have a couple of events coming up in the next four days which will hopefully entice you out of your festive slumber… Firstly, at the Winchester on Wednesday we have our hunky dory music quiz. Doors are at 7pm, the quiz ...

Year on year the Dorset Music Awards has grown to the point where now, it would appear the Bournemouth O2 Academy is required as the venue for the final. The 500 capacity Royal Bath Hotel reached its limit in no time this year, so next year’s event will see its climax held in the grand, ...

Tonight’s line up gave me a great realisation of how little I’ve been out recently… and by recently, I could quantify this as the last year. The first act of tonight’s show is the charismatic Mischa. After seeing him shortly after he started gigging, many many months ago, I had rarely crossed paths with him ...

Another night of quality live music at Champions… another disappointing turnout (in terms of numbers anyway). A lively bunch though, especially when those cockney skanksters Mouthwash took to the stage. Okay, it’s a Sunday, the worst day to put on a gig, but for a venue that busting a gut to get decent bands and ...

Last weekend the Larmer Tree Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary. In 1990 it was just a one day affair in front of 200 people, headlined by the late Dick Heckstall-Smith, this year the number of artists and performers was in well in excess of that or original audience, with around 4000 punters flocking to the ...