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 ...

Having sat through forty acts at last weekend’s Dorset Music Award Heats, and been given some of the responsibility of choosing who progressed to the next round, we shall be watching very closely as the competition unfolds and develops over the coming months. Losing twenty out of the forty wasn’t an easy task. Watching well ...

Dusty Cuts first came to our attention a couple of years ago, maybe less, amongst those triumphant though ultimately miserable Gander days (the recent years). I think I met them personally before watching them as a band, having heard good things… diamond geezers they were too, full of passion and energy not just about their ...

Without doubt one of the event highlights from last year was the inaugural Bournemouth Ink Tattoo Convention, held at the Opera House (now O2 Academy) in Boscombe. This year’s event looks like being even bigger and better, having moved to the BIC. For those unaware of what’s on offer, there’s far more than ink on ...