Chris Broom Reporter
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Chris Broom is The News's entertainments editor, who oversees our weekly what's on supplement, The Guide. He covers music, comedy, musicals, plays - if it's on a stage (and even if it's not) he'll write about it. And that includes everything from major touring acts and festival headliners, through to grassroots acts and the am-dram scene.

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840 Articles
4 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Asda staff to go on 'historic' two week strike over 'toxic' working conditions at the supermarket...

Staff at Asda’s Gosport superstore are to stage a two-week walkout in response to a working environment branded “toxi...

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4 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Review | Brave Rival at The Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea: "A well-deserved victory lap"

There are "local bands", and there are bands who just happen to be local but have had an impact far beyond their neck...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Count on the annual Christmas Covers Party at The Wedgewood Rooms to banish the post-25th blues

​If you reckon you’ll finally be ready to peel yourself off the sofa after gorging yourself on turkey, mince pies and...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Christmas walks across Hampshire and West Sussex in the South Downs National Park

As the song goes: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” – but it can also be one of the most stressful.

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Review | St Lundi at The Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea: "Seriously slick indie-pop"

I’ll admit, I like my rock’n’roll with dirt under its fingernails – this is not my usual kind of gig.

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Premier League commentator Chris Wise and partner Hannah bring premature triplets home in time fo...

​As if finding out they were having triplets wasn’t a big enough surprise, parents-to-be Hannah Gurney and Chris Wise...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Rising blues-rockers from Portsmouth Brave Rival to play biggest headline show to date at The Wed...

​It’s been a barnstorming year for Portsmouth-based Brave Rival – and they’re rounding it off with a homecoming Chris...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Review | Geddy Lee is joined by Alex Lifeson for My Effin’ Life in Conversation at Portsmouth Gui...

Usually a standing ovation comes at the end of a show. Tonight it comes at the start.

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Prog-rock legend Geddy Lee of Rush brings My Effin' Life to Portsmouth Guildhall on his spoken wo...

​As the singer/bassist of prog-rock legends Rush, Geddy Lee had always brushed aside any thoughts of writing his auto...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher announces "intimate" show for 2024 at Portsmouth Guildhall ...

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds today announce their first UK live performance for 2024 with an intimate headline ...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Review | Britpop survivors Suede at Portsmouth Guildhall: "Approaching national treasure status"

Halfway through Suede’s set frontman Bret Anderson tells us that latest album Autofiction is their best yet: “I don’t...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

We Create Christmas Market attracts thousands to Cascades Shopping Centre in Portsmouth looking f...

Some 6,000 shoppers visited the We Create Christmas Market as they looked to snap up a unique present this festive se...

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