By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
Mike Skinner brought The Streets to the seafront, the GLC and the Inbetweeners.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum (press ticket)
We were Bonkers.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum (press ticket)
Sister Bliss is a DJ and we are told we are all Scissor Sisters.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: 25 April 2026, tour runs through 9 May 2026
Hackney Colliery Band (HCB) are a jazz band that fuses electronics with a double percussion outfit.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN? Friday 20 February through 3 May 2026
What better to blow away the wet cobwebs of this dingy start to the year than to experience Youth Sector?
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
congratulations (sic): a wall of Rage Against the Machine sound, with vocals from Siouxsie Sioux, production by Sparks and styled by (boilersuited) Warmduscher.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Friday 26 August 2022
This year’s Victorious Common Stage was opened by Primal Scream, who last featured in 2015’s lineup, but we arrived as the crowds were heading out post-set.
By Carron Stacey
WHERE?: Southsea Common (press ticket)
WHEN?: 23 – 25/8/19
Southsea seafront’s festival is in its seventh year and, if the weather is right, it’s unbeatable. Watching bands on the three stages, sweltering in the heat, ships sailing by… But if it rains, like last year, it’s still perfect, but different, and you get to boast for the next year, “I stayed through the rain, I made it”.
By Carron Stacey
WHERE? Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea
WHEN: 28/3/19
I have to start every review by saying what sort of fan I am of the band’s music. Well, I’m not actually. This is not my kind of music really, but I’ve gone with Mr Humdrum.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE?: Southsea Common
WHEN?: 25/8/18
We’ve been to Glastonbury for each of the last 4 years and in this fallow year we think Portsmouth has divulged a closely-guarded secret about its ability to rival pop’s greatest live event.
