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
5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Review | Therapy? at The Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea: "As urgent and vital as ever"

Therapy?’s latest long-player, Hard Cold Fire is their first in 25 years to crack the top 40 – nay top 30 – of the al...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Downtown Pompey look back on Joanna's, Ritzy, Martha's and more in new show about 1980s nightclub...

The seeds for Downtown Pompey’s latest show, which is about the city’s nightclub scene in the ’80s and ’90s, were sow...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Review | Smoke Fairies at The Square Tower: "A most entrancing gig"

There are some bands which you can’t help but associate with certain times of the year.

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Black Grape brings Shaun Ryder and Kermit back with an Orange Head and a new UK tour - which is c...

​As if having one legendary band to his name wasn’t enough, when The Happy Mondays initially imploded in the early ’9...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Takedown Festival 2024 at Portsmouth Guildhall announces more big names, including Kid Kapichi, C...

Award-nominated independent rock and metal festival, Takedown Festival has announced its second wave of acts.

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Music photography exhibition featuring David Bowie, Nick Cave, Blur and and more by Paul Windsor ...

Gallery No.1 has launched a pop-up exhibition featuring the work of music photographer and regular contributor to The...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Hayling Island artist St Lundi releases festive single, Alone Over Christmas, to support Trussell...

An up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Hayling Island with more than 100m streams to his name is releasing a Christm...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Proud to be PHU Awards 2023 celebrate the best in Portsmouth's NHS staff: The winners in full

Caring, compassionate and supportive were just some of the words used to describe staff, teams and volunteers from Po...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol get the jukebox musical treatment from ​​Fareham Music...

​​As Christmas has started to arrive in the shops and in our minds Fareham Musical Society are presenting a new music...

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

How a new job doing kitchen makeovers has helped Lucy Goffin get a grip on her ADHD

​By her own admission Lucy Goffin found it difficult to find a job she could stick to.

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5 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Shaun Williamson looks back on being Barry in EastEnders, Barrioke and working in Pontins on the ...

​Shaun Williamson is about to be tearing up The Kings Theatre’s stage in the title role of Hook – this year’s Pompey ...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Review | Stereo MC's at The Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea: "A formidable live act"

When Stereo MC’s were at their commercial peak in the early ’90s, I’ll admit I wasn’t really paying attention.

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