Nick Horton
Dorset Echo
United Kingdom
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GIG GUIDE: Music continues… for now
IT’S a truly dreadful time, we all know, but many pubs and clubs are staying open and continue to host live music this week as they try to keep… → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Power Ballads... Steve Knightley... Vets fest
FIRST, blow dry your pet poodle and attach it firmly to your head, then pull on a ridiculously tight pair of ripped, bleached jeans (a well-worn… → Read More
Gig guide: Amy Mayes' show...Micky Biggs' gig, plus the week's live music listings
After a pretty stupendous 2019, blues and soul singer Amy Mayes is looking forward to getting her feet back on the ground in 2020. → Read More
Music for Mind charity fundraiser at Tom Browns in Dorchester
Not all superheroes wear capes, nor do they all wear their pants outside their trousers. → Read More
Gig listings for the week ahead
They say if you can remember the Sixties, then you clearly weren’t there. → Read More
Review: Bowie, Berlin & Beyond was a well-attended evening of minimalist music
REVIEW BOWIE, BERLIN & BEYOND DELTA SAXOPHONE QUARTET DORCHESTER CORN EXCHANGE FOUR men, of varying vintage and build, emerge into the darkness, all clad in black and armed with saxophones of varying sizes, and only the small glow of the spotlights illuminating their music stands breaking the gloom. Some squeaking, coughing and rasping and the Delta Saxophone Quartet launch into a… → Read More
Gig guide: The Leylines, Queen Rhapsody and all the band listings
Praise the lord and hallelujah, after endless agonising weeks, weeks that tuned into months, months that turned into years, it’s finally, at long… → Read More
Gig Guide: Delta Saxophone Quartet's Bowie tribute
It takes an inordinate amount of genius and nift, plus no less an amount of chutzpah, to take on any controversial, confrontational yet compelling… → Read More
Gig guide: Weymouth punk rockers and Portland blues guitarist
PUNK rockers Weatherstate play their first hometown gig for two years next Friday and they can’t wait to be let off the chain. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Guitar heroes…. Ironhide debut… and Ronnie Scott’s jazz
THE history of rock’n’roll and popular music is littered with great guitar players. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Jaki Graham… Pasadenas… Bowie and Beyond
I MUST admit I’m rather disappointed with the new thesaurus I received for Christmas. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Season’s greetings with bumper Christmas and New Year listings
‘TIS very much the season to be jolly, with peace, love and good will to all mankind. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: As Flames Rise hometown metal bash… Kim Wilde leaves garden shed
HE’s making a list, he’s checking it twice and you just KNOW Santa’s going to find out if you’ve been naughty or nice. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: All-day bash to aid homeless… Jimmy’s Christmas party
SO here we are, on the cusp of another December, the season of joy and goodwill to all. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Wille and the boys… Bands reunion…. Freezer reform shocker
WHEN rock legends Iain Paice, Joe Bonamassa and Francis Rossi are singing your praises, you know you’re on to a good thing. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Wood’s Wizzard wheeze... Trumpet ace Ben
THOSE of you who wish it could be Christmas every day may have finally got their way, what with festive decorations and cards on sale since August… → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Canadian/US folk duo… Music at Fort… Danny Adams
YOU know when you’re driving through one of our county’s more remote villages and it’s a dark and stormy night and it’s really quite spooky… → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Festival favourites… Infernal Theatre… Get cosy with Jim
AS we hurtle headlong into November, the heady and glorious days of the long-gone summer’s festivals seem light years away. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Brave Face fund-raiser...Lizard triple-header
IT was World Mental health Day this week and it’s good to know there’s support and help at hand for those living in the Slough of Despond. → Read More
GIG GUIDE: Classic rock double-header… Folk duo in Thatch Aid
CLASSIC rock fans are in for a treat next weekend when the ground-breaking music of two of this country’s most popular and influential bands will… → Read More