Yes, we are back!!!

Yes, yes we are and at a new home The Southwestern in St Denys, THE BEST PUB IN SOUTHAMPTON! No probably, no perhaps not even a maybe The Southwestern in St Denys IS the best pub in Southampton, we are very lucky to be there and I couldn't be happier about it.

So on this Thursday the 17th of June, just after some football match malarky in South Africa, I shall kick off the first in a series of regular Pure Acoustica shows at The SouthWestern and what a line up!

I have the imortal Real Raj, the sublime Steve Lowis, the freshly shaved Jim Chorley and the Pure Acoustica virgin  Lewis "no mics or amps, right?" MacLean as well as my good self playing a few songs, sampling the fine ales at the bar and running the Pure Acoustica raffle (unless I can rope Carly into it again...) For those new to the raffle all you need to o to enter is write your email address on the back of your ticket. No money changes hand. The performers all donate something as the prize. The winner will be as happy as the guy who last won the raffle, see his handsome face in the post below!

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Hope to see you for what will be a great night at THE BEST PUB IN SOUTHAMPTON!


The Southwestern is at 38-40 Adelaide Road, Southampton SO17 2HW it is about 2 minutes walk from St Denys Station.


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Pure Acoustica at the Dolphin on the 19th November

Possibly one of the best if not the best nights so far. Jim Chorley kicked us off with a cracking set, Raj as entertaining as ever despite breaking a string. The amazing Keeley Filgo made her Pure Acoustica debut and fitted right in and managed not to beat me to a pulp as I continued to get her name wrong. I'll blame the ale....
Myself and Dave Miles, who managed to drag himself down from Bristol for the night, played a few old Drunk On Logic tunes then it was straight in to The Shimmering Bees who with bazooki, hurdy-gurdy and a selection of drums, managed to keep us spellbound for the duration.
Then, in true Pure Acoustica fashion, we all played again! By this time the pub was heaving and the beautiful and marvelous Carly passed amongst the crowd exchanging raffle tickets for e-mail addresses, the prize being a selection of cds from the performers and a jar of honey from The Shimmering Bees. How happy does the winner look? He was made up!
Thanks to all involved and here's hoping that the Xmas special will be just as good or even better!

Thursday at The Dolphin

What jolly fun we had!

Kicked of with Jo and Botyov 1791 who was off to a festival the very next day and gave a great show.

Next came Tom Caulfield and his mate Barney on the cajone (it was Ben wasn't it?) who blew everyone away, just amazing.

Steve Picken bought along his guitar excellence and mesmerized us all with his skills

Then it was down to me to sew up the first half.

As you may or may not know, all artists play two sets the length dependent on how many artists are playing eg 4 artists - 2 hours - each artists plays 2 x 15 min sets.
I think it works well at the Dolphin, it keeps everyone interested plus we don't get that awful situation where fans of an artists disappear after their act has finished, you know what I mean?
I was very pleased with the whole night. We managed to fill our corner of the pub and had folk actually change their seats so they could hear our noise.

THIS IS WHAT WE WANT.

Chris (the landlord) did have the ambient mic on and that worked pretty well except that I think it would be better to have it higher so that people don't just stand in front of it and let it be more....ambient.
Considering this is a slow time of year with many people on holidays, at festivals  ect I reckon we did bloody well and estimate there was about 40-50 people there which for a Thursday night was pretty damn good.
So onwards and upwards, the next show is the 17th September.
Who's up for it?