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You know you're in for a great show when you thought the first 3 songs played were his biggest hits, then over the next 90 minutes you are reminded exactly who's on stage. A great night and a slick performance, which only dipped with a 15minute long version of Its good to be king, and one of his new tracks... which could have made way for one of many of his greatest hits.

Not too keen on the pink-floyds-esque support act, as someone more lively could have whipped the crowd up, also I reckon Tom could have exercised his considerable clout to give us an opening act of some stature.

The funny thing is, I left the venue singing the Traveling Wilburys, so not sure what happened there!

The first time I'd ever heard of scroobius pip was on friday morning, and by 11pm I'd seen him perform live, and he was awesome. A very entertaining performer, funny, charming and his lyrics are superb. Thoroughly recommend that you go see him live.

The bands first show at Boscombe's Cellar Bar, in the basement of Chaplins. If you haven't been to the venue before this is a good time to check it out in all it's glory. Entry is free ad Streebeck are giving away Free albums to Musicosity members... just use your Rewards points.

See you at the show.

The Syd Lawrence Orchestra are featuring on BBC's The One Show on Friday 27th April... keep an eye out and you can also get a free album download on www.hookedonlive.com now. Enjoy.

Following the release of their album ‘The Peacock’ in January, Streebeck support The Rifles on tour

South coast favourites Streebeck have been confirmed to support The Rifles and will play live in Bournemouth on Sunday 25th March at The Old Firestation.

Streebeck released their third album, The Peacock in January and were asked to support The Rifles having recently shared the stage with other acclaimed artists including Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Xavier Rudd, Acoustic Ladyland and Carus Thompson.

Streebeck have released two other albums, been play-listed and performed in session on national radio, alongside numerous gigs and festivals, including a 50 date tour of theatres with their debut album Without A Baedeker.

The band have been signed to the independent label NSMA Records since 2006, and The Peacock is the bands first release since 2009s Catch As Catch Can and details of festivals and shows in 2012 will be announce soon.

Tickets for The Rifles’ show are £12.50, but members of the Streebeck fan club can get tickets for just £6 in advance.

It’s free to join the Streebeck fan club and the band are giving away a signed copy of the latest album to one lucky new member that joins before the The Rifles gig, visit www.Streebeck.com for details.

With 3 months to go we've had to release more seats for the first Hooked On Classics concert, celebrating 30 years of the multi-million selling album series. Thanks for everyone who has got their tickets early... you will be rewarded with your free album at the show in December.

If you haven't listened to Hooked On Classics recently (or ever!) make sure you do... you'll be hooked in no time at all!

The ibar will be missed by the local music promoters and fans who frequented the place. I hope everyone gave it a good send-off at the weekend.

However, the the show(s) must go on, so I'm pleased to see all the other venues helping out and stepping up to fill the void left by the venue that was 'just right' for smaller shows. Upstairs at The Old Firestation for one will be dusted down ready for the first weekend in September.

The Future Heroes Tour embarks on it's first ever outing in the UK. Featuring electro pop-rock acts We Start Partys & Checking Pulse it's sure be full of Pop hooks, floor-filling drops, and screaming guitars, backed by pure energy and passion every single night.

Electro rock outfit We Start Partys recently toured the UK in May supporting US pop-rock heavyweights The Summer Set on the Ourzone Magazine tour playing sold out shows every single night. We Start Partys most recently released their video for their latest single Seasons.

The female fronted electro pop quartet that is Checking Pulse have burst out the bournemouth music scene supporting Amy Can Flyy on shows all over the UK and most recently released their debut single & video for 'Aimee' which has been getting airplay on channels such as Lava TV & Scuzz. Make sure you catch both bands on the Future Heroes tour so you can say you were there at the start!

Hopefully it'll be just like riding a bike... looking forward to getting back into the Studio for the first time in what feels like too long, or not long enough, depending on who you speak too.

After our brief foray into playing live again at Christmas after a 7 year holiday, the 4 of us enter the studio this weekend in Brighton and having just booking the hotel, I'm sure it's going to be a fun.

A great show from the Safari guys tonight in Bournemouth... only their second ever live performance and yet they are very much at home on stage. I recommend their song about Satellites and that you go and see them live at their next gig. Very entertaining and extremely catchy tunes.