I have been meaning to get a chance to see a gig at Room Six since its re-launch as a live music venue for over a month now, but gig cancellations (Nion Abeo, Rapids!) meant I had to wait. At last a night had finally arrived where I could witness local talent, see Room Six ...

Whilst there was little in the way of musical symmetry between tonight’s three acts, anyone who has even the slightest hint of an open mind musically should have been tempted along to this one. Clearly Six Nation State and The Neon Tigers have the ability to draw a crowd, but The LCD? I had no ...

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 ...

If there’s a local band who are hot right now it’s without doubt The Neon Tigers. Their piano driven classic rock sound is a simple enough formula, but their songs are packed with melody and energy in equal doses. When frontman Rich Peacock dons his double-necked (drunken e-bay purchase) guitar the band’s sound is mid-70s ...

Had I known Andy Stock was opening up I’d have arrived twenty minutes earlier. If anyone deserves support at the moment, it’s him. Not only that, but the man has the most glorious, soulful voice which I was gutted to only hear three minutes of. Clearly, the vast majority of the one hundred or more ...