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The Joiners Arms

141 St Mary's Street, Southampton SO14 1NS

The Joiners is a tiny grassroots venue in a former pub on St Mary Street in Southampton, where live acts first started appearing in the back room in 1968, with a capacity capped at around 200. For more than half a century it has done the unsung, essential job of the small regional stage, catching touring bands early and giving local ones somewhere to learn their trade, and it has been repeatedly recognised as one of Britain's best small venues. The list of acts who played it on the way up is remarkable for a room this modest: Oasis appeared in 1994, with Coldplay, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers, Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys among the many others who have passed through. That heritage has fed a recent community-ownership campaign, a reminder that venues like this one are both irreplaceable and perpetually at risk.

Heartbreakers

7-9 Hanover Buildings, Southampton SO14 1JX

The 1865

Brunswick Square, Southampton SO14 3AR

Engine Rooms

Town Quay Road, Southampton SO14 2NY

Papillon

61 Commercial Rd, Southampton SO15 1GG, United Kingdom

Vinilo Record Store

655 Atlantic City Blvd, Bayville, NJ 08721

The Brook

The Brook, Portswood Rd, Portswood, Southampton SO17 3SD, United Kingdom

Guildhall Square

Southampton, UK

Suburbia

29 Onslow Rd, Southampton SO14 0JD, United Kingdom

O2 Guildhall Southampton

W Marlands Rd, Southampton SO14 7LP, United Kingdom

University of Southampton

University Rd, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom

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Southampton Common

The Avenue, Southampton SO15 7NN, United Kingdom

The Alexandra Beer Emporium

6 Bellevue Rd, Southampton SO15 2AY, United Kingdom

The Joiners

141 St Mary's Street, Southampton SO14 1NS

Mayflower Theatre

22-26 Commercial Rd, Southampton SO15 1GE, United Kingdom

Southampton Summer Sessions

Marine Parade, Hythe CT21 6AJ, United Kingdom

St Marys Stadium Southampton

Britannia Rd, Southampton SO14 5FP, United Kingdom

The Stage Door

78 W Marlands Rd, Southampton SO14 7FW, United Kingdom

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How Caity Baser’s ‘There I Said It’ moves from confrontation to self-acceptance

Across eight tracks, Caity Baser’s 2025 EP makes space for family pain, trauma, forgiveness and a more compassionate view of herself.

14 Oct 2026 • 10:45 am
Is Creeper’s ‘Sanguivore II’ a direct sequel? How the two vampire albums connect
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Is Creeper’s ‘Sanguivore II’ a direct sequel? How the two vampire albums connect

‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’ returns to Creeper’s vampire universe, but begins a new story with a different cast.

14 Oct 2026 • 8:20 am
A four-song guide to Bury Tomorrow’s reinvention on ‘The Seventh Sun’
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A four-song guide to Bury Tomorrow’s reinvention on ‘The Seventh Sun’

From electronic foundations to strings and a deliberate change in emotional temperature, these four tracks show how Bury Tomorrow widened their frame on 2023’s ‘The Seventh Sun’.

13 Oct 2026 • 10:05 am
Caity Baser’s ‘Holiday Song’ and ‘Flaunt It’ make confidence a choice, not a mask
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Caity Baser’s ‘Holiday Song’ and ‘Flaunt It’ make confidence a choice, not a mask

After the emotional candour of ‘There I Said It’, Caity Baser’s 2026 singles find room for carefree pop without pretending insecurity never happened.

6 Oct 2026 • 11:10 am
Why Creeper’s ‘American Noir’ is more than a leftovers EP
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Why Creeper’s ‘American Noir’ is more than a leftovers EP

Creeper’s 2021 EP returns to Calvary Falls as a purposeful epilogue, preserving songs from the painstaking sessions behind ‘Sex, Death & The Infinite Void’.

6 Oct 2026 • 7:45 am
Where ‘DEATH (Ever Colder)’ and ‘LIFE (Paradise Denied)’ fit in Bury Tomorrow’s catalogue
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Where ‘DEATH (Ever Colder)’ and ‘LIFE (Paradise Denied)’ fit in Bury Tomorrow’s catalogue

The two 2022 releases were Bury Tomorrow’s first recordings after ‘Cannibal’, introducing a reshaped lineup before ‘The Seventh Sun’.

5 Oct 2026 • 10:35 am
Creeper have put fans centre stage in their new ‘Parasite’ video
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Creeper have put fans centre stage in their new ‘Parasite’ video

Creeper’s new ‘Parasite’ video celebrates the costumes, dedication and singalongs of their vampire era, while Harry Steel will film their first full-length concert movie.

28 Sept 2026 • 12:52 pm
How ‘Average Student’ took Caity Baser from TikTok to Future Cut
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How ‘Average Student’ took Caity Baser from TikTok to Future Cut

Caity Baser’s homemade TikTok upload found an audience overnight, opened a line to management and led to a lasting creative partnership with Future Cut.

28 Sept 2026 • 11:50 am
How Creeper turned ‘Sanguivore’ rock opera into the metal excess of ‘Sanguivore II’
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How Creeper turned ‘Sanguivore’ rock opera into the metal excess of ‘Sanguivore II’

Creeper’s vampire albums share a taste for 80s drama, but their musical priorities change sharply between them: from Jim Steinman-scale rock opera to faster, guitar-led heavy metal spectacle.

28 Sept 2026 • 7:45 am
What do Bury Tomorrow’s ‘Villain Arc’ lyrics and video mean?
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What do Bury Tomorrow’s ‘Villain Arc’ lyrics and video mean?

Bury Tomorrow’s 2024 single uses the language of villainy to examine suppressed anger, social masks and the difficult work of confronting one’s darker impulses.

27 Sept 2026 • 12:15 pm
Windwaker have released new single and video ‘DNA’
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Windwaker have released new single and video ‘DNA’

The Australian band’s latest track arrives ahead of third album ‘smile, you’re on camera.’

24 Sept 2026 • 4:31 pm
Which songs made Caity Baser’s UK chart breakthrough?
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Which songs made Caity Baser’s UK chart breakthrough?

‘Pretty Boys’ was Caity Baser’s first UK Top 40 single. Here’s how ‘X&Y’, her Sigala and Joel Corry collaborations, and the Number 7 mixtape Still Learning fit together.

20 Sept 2026 • 12:50 pm
Why Creeper keep staging their own deaths instead of simply announcing another album
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Why Creeper keep staging their own deaths instead of simply announcing another album

Creeper’s disappearances are knowingly theatrical, but they have also made room for genuine rest, uncertainty and wholesale reinvention.

20 Sept 2026 • 10:20 am
Why Bury Tomorrow stripped back for ‘Earthbound’
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Why Bury Tomorrow stripped back for ‘Earthbound’

Ten years on, Bury Tomorrow’s fourth album remains a deliberately live-first record, shaped by relentless touring, fan feedback and a determination to make every track count.

19 Sept 2026 • 6:25 pm
Band of Skulls and Vylan Soundsystem have joined the Rock ’n’ Roll Freak Show bill
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Band of Skulls and Vylan Soundsystem have joined the Rock ’n’ Roll Freak Show bill

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15 Sept 2026 • 4:06 pm
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Found that better day 🥰☀️🌊

Oct 2026

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I Pied My Fans And They Loved It

Oct 2026

Bury Tomorrow — Thanks for all the love on Sx 🖤

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Thanks for all the love on Sx 🖤

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