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  1. Music In The City in Southampton on Saturday 12th of September 2026. As always, a huge number of venues and almost every type of music. I could only get to a few and couldn't always get a photo. #music #southampton

  2. Having found something to eat, we began making our way back down towards where the car was parked. We meandered in to the remains of Holyrood church, where the Southampton Salty Sea Dogs were singing shanties

    What was nice about this setup is that after the war, Holyrood church was dedicated as a memorial to sailors in the merchant navy. So the setting was apt.

    #Southampton #MusicInTheCity

  3. We were just about to make our way up the high street to find something to eat, when suddenly: DRUMS

    Batala Samba band from Portsmouth were banging out some splendid rhythms up in Arundel gardens, atop Southampton's walls.

    #Southampton #MusicInTheCity

  4. After that was a visit to the Castle Vault, where the New Forest Community Tango Orchestra were playing Argentine tango. They were wonderful.

    Then two women in the audience started dancing with each other, which was lovely.

    #Southampton #MusicInTheCity

  5. Next stop was the Youth Stage in King John's Palace, where a bunch of young people from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight were given a chance to perform a couple of tracks. Some were more successful than others, but all got a rousing applause.

    #Southampton #MusicInTheCity

  6. For the next stop, we were back down in the vaults for an indie/folk trio named Palookaville. I enjoyed them. Quite Turin Brakes.

    #Southampton #MusicInTheCity

  7. The fourth stop was one of excellent contrast. Outside in St Michael's square, there was a DJ dropping the Tarzan & Jane of jungle. It was, in the modern parlance, slamming, and I was loving it.

    Inside the church, the Riverside Concert Band were playing a rousing performance of 'I Will Follow Him', which you may know from Sister Act.

    #MusicInTheCity #Southampton

  8. Today in Southampton is Music in the City, where there's something like 400 bands, DJs, acts, and all manner of other things taking place across the city centre, all free to attend without a ticket. So you can come and go as you please.

    Stop one for us was seeing a band called Charmtype in one of the more remarkable spaces I've ever seen a band play: a medieval vault.

    #Southampton #MusicInTheCity

  9. Tommy Robinson calls for Southampton ‘patriots’ to march in Portsmouth

    The far-right activist posted on social media urging members of so-called Southampton Patriots, Portsmouth Patriots and Bournemouth Patriots to attend. In a post on X, he said: “All south coast patriot groups are uniting this Saturday in Portsmouth to march on the city. “If you can …
    #Southampton #SouthamptonFC #England #PremierLeague #EnglishPremierLeague #Football #southampton #SouthamptonF.C
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  10. ‘See The Sun Every Day’

    Kenta Harada/Getty Images   Southampton out-on loan defender Yukinari Sugawara has revealed that his former AZ Alkmaar team-mate Pantelis Hatzidiakos told him good things about Cagliari, where he is enjoying the Italian weather.    Saints signed Sugawara from Dutch outfit AZ Alkmaar in the summer of 2024 and he played a bit part…
    #Southampton #SouthamptonFC #England #PremierLeague #EnglishPremierLeague #Football #southampton #SouthamptonF.C
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  11. Ex Southampton teacher found guilty of sex with student

    Former Bitterne Park School PE teacher Bronwen James, 30, was today found guilty of three charges of sexual activity with a child in relation to the boy while in a position of trust. James gave no visible reaction as the jury foreperson delivered the verdicts. She was cleared of one charge of char…
    #Southampton #SouthamptonFC #England #PremierLeague #EnglishPremierLeague #Football #southampton #SouthamptonF.C
    eucup.com/1768511/


  12. Latest in our reports on the human rights situation in the UK

    September 2026

    For some months we have been reporting on the progress of rights in the UK particularly as successive governments have passed more and more legislation to try and reduce their effect. Only in the past few days have we seen groups of people, dressed in black with balaclavas or face coverings, massing by the docks in Portsmouth and Dover yet no arrests were made. This contrasts with the hundreds of arrests made of people – without face masks or behaving in a threatening manner – who have been arrested on terrorist charges. They were promoting the cause of Palestinians which was embarrassing for the government in view, until this week, of its support for the Israeli government.

    Family life

    This right, protected by Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, helps safeguard our relationships and family connections. However the Immigration and Asylum Bill, passed in the Commons and now in the committee stage, seeks to narrow how people’s family life is recognised in immigration and asylum cases, wanting to limit it to a “core cohabiting family”. Other family relationships would have to demonstrate dependency beyond normal emotional ties. Factors such as financial dependence, emotional support, or concern for a relative living in a country affected by war would not individually be enough to establish dependency.

    These changes could have serious consequences for people seeking asylum, migrants and their families including those already resident in the UK. They also raise a wider concern for all of us, since human rights protections are universal safeguards. They do not become conditional when issues are complex or politically contested.

    Privacy

    The government is reportedly again seeking access to highly encrypted personal data belonging to British users of Apple, having backed down last year in the face of political pressure from the US. Liberty and Privacy International are challenging the government’s power to use secretive ‘technical capability notices’ (TCNs) to unlock encrypted data of individuals.

    The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has confirmed it will hear Liberty, Privacy International and two individuals’ challenge to the legality of the Home Secretary’s decision to use her powers to secretly force Apple to allegedly give the UK Government access to users’ secured data stored on iCloud. The challenge will also cover the legality of the Government issuing these types of notices at all.

    Palantir

    On the subject of privacy and the security of our information, there is growing concern at the inroads another American company. Palantir, is making into our political and social life. They have contracts with the NHS, the military and the police and the concerns are about how safe is the data they are collecting.

    There will be an International Day of Action on October 1st and locally, will take place between 12:00 and 14:00 in Southampton at Frobisher House which is right by the station. Participants will include NHS workers and patients, in protest against the wide ranging contracts Palantir has succeeded in obtaining in the health services as well as the military. The resistance is planned across the Americas, Europe and Britain. The software company is connected to Trumps’s discredited ICE and to Israeli surveillance and aggression in Gaza and is considered an unsafe repository for UK citizens data and government information. (See June report.)

    It is part of a general increase in concern about more and more American companies controlling nearly all aspects of our social life with almost no controls over their activities.

    Privacy and racial bias

    The tragic case of the Cambridge professor Jason Arday, whose suicide followed prolonged harassment by the press and fellow academics about his academic credentials, is being cited as evidence that black public figures are subject to greater scrutiny than their white peers. An enquiry is being called for.

    As we have mentioned above, a convergence last weekend (3rd, 4th) of 400 far right anti-immigration protesters in balaclavas in Dover followed the next day by 200 in Portsmouth, who gridlocked roads, used violence against police officers and threats against volunteers of the RNLI who had just escorted a boat full of illegal immigrants. It has raised questions about police unpreparedness for organised protest, about the level of anti-immigrant violence but also about the wearing of face masks.

    The controversial Crime and Policing Bill of 2026 criminalises the act of wearing or otherwise using an item (for instance a face covering) that conceals a person’s identity when in an area that the police have designated. “A ‘designation’ can only be made in relation to an area when the police reasonably believe that a protest may or is taking place in that area, the protest is likely to involve or has involved the commission of offences and that a designation would prevent or control the commission of offences.”

    Charities such as Amnesty and Liberty have previously argued that the measure in the Crime and Policing Bill would prejudice those who need to mask for justifiable health, religious or political safety reasons while engaging in peaceful protest. Masking in order to conceal criminal identity is clearly a different motive but it is possible that these deliberately intimidating demonstrations may make it harder for police to apply discrimination in cases of peaceful and legitimate masked protesters.

    Responding to the road block and disruption at the Port of Dover by the group ‘Patriot Platform‘, Kerry Moscogiuri, CEO at Amnesty International UK said:

    The images from the port of Dover today are truly shocking. We are seeing a sickening increase in racist violence, threats and intimidation targeting communities and stopping families going about their day to day lives. The overwhelming majority of us detest violence and racism, and we need to see political leaders show clear moral leadership, challenge racist narratives and stand firmly alongside those who are being targeted.”

    Today (10th) a group of men assembled outside a hotel in Southampton (Cosham) having seen a coach arrive thinking (it is thought) they were asylum seekers. They were in fact members of the Pakistan cricket team. The tone of the reporting was that there was no problem and the police made no arrests. But it demonstrated that rumours spread by social media led to an assembly of mostly men at least one of whom entered the hotel. What if they had been asylum seekers … ? [Source: BBC]

    Authoritarianism

    Whether the recent and very welcome reset of the Labour government’s attitude to Israel’s illegal settlements will have any mitigating effect on the thousands of protesters awaiting trial on terrorism charges remains to be seen.

    The determination of a terrorist connection has been made recently and solely in Palestine Action cases where for instance Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion protesters were simply charged with criminal damage. The Counter-Terrorism Act, extended in 2021, allows a judge alone to decide the nature of the sentence with no consideration by the jury during the trial. Even Rajiv Menon KC, the defence barrister of one of the Filton Four, was charged with contempt of court for reminding the jury that they had the right to acquit on conscience, making him the first defence attorney in Britain to be prosecuted over statements in a closing speech.

    Amnesty’s Human Rights in the Collective (August Snapshot) looks at the inconsistency of charges of a ‘terrorism connection’ in several instances of protest where damage to property has occurred. It concludes that it is not hard to relate the UK government’s prosecution of Palestine Action (July 2025) to personal pressure from Trump on Starmer following the damage done by protesters spraying ‘Gaza is not for sale’ across his Scottish golf course (March 2025). The group is now designated as global terrorists by the US Government.

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    #CrimeAndPolicingBill #DayOfAction #HRA #JasonArday #Labour #Palantir #Portsmouth #Southampton

  13. Latest in our reports on the human rights situation in the UK

    September 2026

    For some months we have been reporting on the progress of rights in the UK particularly as successive governments have passed more and more legislation to try and reduce their effect. Only in the past few days have we seen groups of people, dressed in black with balaclavas or face coverings, massing by the docks in Portsmouth and Dover yet no arrests were made. This contrasts with the hundreds of arrests made of people – without face masks or behaving in a threatening manner – who have been arrested on terrorist charges. They were promoting the cause of Palestinians which was embarrassing for the government in view, until this week, of its support for the Israeli government.

    Family life

    This right, protected by Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, helps safeguard our relationships and family connections. However the Immigration and Asylum Bill, passed in the Commons and now in the committee stage, seeks to narrow how people’s family life is recognised in immigration and asylum cases, wanting to limit it to a “core cohabiting family”. Other family relationships would have to demonstrate dependency beyond normal emotional ties. Factors such as financial dependence, emotional support, or concern for a relative living in a country affected by war would not individually be enough to establish dependency.

    These changes could have serious consequences for people seeking asylum, migrants and their families including those already resident in the UK. They also raise a wider concern for all of us, since human rights protections are universal safeguards. They do not become conditional when issues are complex or politically contested.

    Privacy

    The government is reportedly again seeking access to highly encrypted personal data belonging to British users of Apple, having backed down last year in the face of political pressure from the US. Liberty and Privacy International are challenging the government’s power to use secretive ‘technical capability notices’ (TCNs) to unlock encrypted data of individuals.

    The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has confirmed it will hear Liberty, Privacy International and two individuals’ challenge to the legality of the Home Secretary’s decision to use her powers to secretly force Apple to allegedly give the UK Government access to users’ secured data stored on iCloud. The challenge will also cover the legality of the Government issuing these types of notices at all.

    Palantir

    On the subject of privacy and the security of our information, there is growing concern at the inroads another American company. Palantir, is making into our political and social life. They have contracts with the NHS, the military and the police and the concerns are about how safe is the data they are collecting.

    There will be an International Day of Action on October 1st and locally, will take place between 12:00 and 14:00 in Southampton at Frobisher House which is right by the station. Participants will include NHS workers and patients, in protest against the wide ranging contracts Palantir has succeeded in obtaining in the health services as well as the military. The resistance is planned across the Americas, Europe and Britain. The software company is connected to Trumps’s discredited ICE and to Israeli surveillance and aggression in Gaza and is considered an unsafe repository for UK citizens data and government information. (See June report.)

    It is part of a general increase in concern about more and more American companies controlling nearly all aspects of our social life with almost no controls over their activities.

    Privacy and racial bias

    The tragic case of the Cambridge professor Jason Arday, whose suicide followed prolonged harassment by the press and fellow academics about his academic credentials, is being cited as evidence that black public figures are subject to greater scrutiny than their white peers. An enquiry is being called for.

    As we have mentioned above, a convergence last weekend (3rd, 4th) of 400 far right anti-immigration protesters in balaclavas in Dover followed the next day by 200 in Portsmouth, who gridlocked roads, used violence against police officers and threats against volunteers of the RNLI who had just escorted a boat full of illegal immigrants. It has raised questions about police unpreparedness for organised protest, about the level of anti-immigrant violence but also about the wearing of face masks.

    The controversial Crime and Policing Bill of 2026 criminalises the act of wearing or otherwise using an item (for instance a face covering) that conceals a person’s identity when in an area that the police have designated. “A ‘designation’ can only be made in relation to an area when the police reasonably believe that a protest may or is taking place in that area, the protest is likely to involve or has involved the commission of offences and that a designation would prevent or control the commission of offences.”

    Charities such as Amnesty and Liberty have previously argued that the measure in the Crime and Policing Bill would prejudice those who need to mask for justifiable health, religious or political safety reasons while engaging in peaceful protest. Masking in order to conceal criminal identity is clearly a different motive but it is possible that these deliberately intimidating demonstrations may make it harder for police to apply discrimination in cases of peaceful and legitimate masked protesters.

    Responding to the road block and disruption at the Port of Dover by the group ‘Patriot Platform‘, Kerry Moscogiuri, CEO at Amnesty International UK said:

    The images from the port of Dover today are truly shocking. We are seeing a sickening increase in racist violence, threats and intimidation targeting communities and stopping families going about their day to day lives. The overwhelming majority of us detest violence and racism, and we need to see political leaders show clear moral leadership, challenge racist narratives and stand firmly alongside those who are being targeted.”

    Today (10th) a group of men assembled outside a hotel in Southampton (Cosham) having seen a coach arrive thinking (it is thought) they were asylum seekers. They were in fact members of the Pakistan cricket team. The tone of the reporting was that there was no problem and the police made no arrests. But it demonstrated that rumours spread by social media led to an assembly of mostly men at least one of whom entered the hotel. What if they had been asylum seekers … ? [Source: BBC]

    Authoritarianism

    Whether the recent and very welcome reset of the Labour government’s attitude to Israel’s illegal settlements will have any mitigating effect on the thousands of protesters awaiting trial on terrorism charges remains to be seen.

    The determination of a terrorist connection has been made recently and solely in Palestine Action cases where for instance Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion protesters were simply charged with criminal damage. The Counter-Terrorism Act, extended in 2021, allows a judge alone to decide the nature of the sentence with no consideration by the jury during the trial. Even Rajiv Menon KC, the defence barrister of one of the Filton Four, was charged with contempt of court for reminding the jury that they had the right to acquit on conscience, making him the first defence attorney in Britain to be prosecuted over statements in a closing speech.

    Amnesty’s Human Rights in the Collective (August Snapshot) looks at the inconsistency of charges of a ‘terrorism connection’ in several instances of protest where damage to property has occurred. It concludes that it is not hard to relate the UK government’s prosecution of Palestine Action (July 2025) to personal pressure from Trump on Starmer following the damage done by protesters spraying ‘Gaza is not for sale’ across his Scottish golf course (March 2025). The group is now designated as global terrorists by the US Government.

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    #CrimeAndPolicingBill #DayOfAction #HRA #JasonArday #Labour #Palantir #Portsmouth #Southampton
  14. PSA Prime Marine to Unveil Enhanced Marine Support Offering at Southampton International Boat Show

    The Solent-based boat maintenance specialist, PSA Prime Marine will unveil its new enhanced marine support offering, Prime Concierge, at Southampton International Boat Show from 18-27 September, exhibiting at Stand H162 in the New Wave Hall. With more tha…
    #Southampton #SouthamptonFC #England #PremierLeague #EnglishPremierLeague #Football #southampton #SouthamptonF.C
    eucup.com/1768406/

  15. SINE WAVES ON SUNDAY
    Sunday 16 August 2026, 1500 BST, Voice FM Radio

    @elifyalvac brings the noise, the late Patrick Gleeson brings the jollity, Portion Control bring a never-before-heard demo, Colleen brings love and pathos, and Daily Mail Comments Section brings a new genre of music she calls ‘smear test’.

    voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/show

    #SineWavesOnSunday #electronicmusic #radio #music #fedimusic #indiemusic #improvisation #electronic #southampton #musicians

  16. SINE WAVES ON SUNDAY

    Sunday 2 August 2026, 1500 BST, Voice FM Radio

    We’re off down the pub this week - but a pub sound-tracked by the electronic music of Sophie Sirota, Eleanor Verrier and GM.NX. Three live sets, all recorded in the last few weeks by Bournemouth EMOM…

    voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/show

    #SineWavesOnSunday #electronicmusic #bournemouth #southampton #music #electronic #live #radio #musicians

  17. SINE WAVES ON SUNDAY
    Sunday 26 July 2026, 1500 BST, Voice FM

    Another chance to hear an in-depth interview with the German duo Sun Electric, recorded back in February as the pair released their latest album 'Episodes'. We also discuss past episodes in their career, such as parties on the Berlin Wall, and groundbreaking live performances...

    voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/show

    #electronicmusic #SineWavesOnSunday #sunelectric #ambient #music #musicians #berlin #southampton #theorb

  18. 📍 Solent.social is growing! 🌊
    We are a self-hosted, anti-AI, pro-privacy social space dedicated to the Solent & South Coast (UK) area, full of gamers, video creators, and tech nerds.

    To keep our community safe and high-quality, we are Invite-Only. However, our members get fresh invite codes every 24 hours! Allowing them to invite friends and family regularly.

    If you live in the local area (Hampshire, Isle of Wight, etc.) or fit our vibe and want a cozy home feed, reply to this post or DM me for an invite code.
    📥

    (Boosts appreciated to help your local neighbors find us!)
    #Solent #UKFedi #SelfHosted #Gaming #SouthCoast #iow #IsleOfWight #Portsmouth #Winchester #Southampton #NewForest #AntiAI #VideoCreation

  19. Der GEZ-Goliath wankt: Wenn Faktenfinder auf Musks Portemonnaie treffen

    Medienpleite fürs ZDF? Elon Musk droht nach Falschberichten über X mit Verleumdungsklage. Die Abrechnung mit dem ÖRR-Haltungsjournalismus auf Schattenboxer.

    schattenboxerblog.wordpress.co

  20. SINE WAVES ON SUNDAY
    Sunday 14 June 2026, 1500 BST, Voice FM

    "Hey, honey, look over there at this week's Sine Waves Playlist! 3 tracks by OMD, new music by @Ursinewave and a collab between Vince Clarke, Benge and Blancmange! Looks pretty cool!"

    "Yeah, sure. Hey, did you want anything down the drive thru...?"

    voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/show

    #electronicmusic #SineWavesOnSunday #southampton #orchestralmanoeuvresinthedark

  21. SINE WAVES ON SUNDAY
    Sunday 31 May 2026, 1500 BST, Voice FM

    Featuring live music from Kraftwerk, and new electronic tunes by @boardsofcanada, @CCirco, @thisoccasionalsociety...

    www.voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/shows/sine-waves-on-sunday-with-max-williams/

    #electronicmusic #SineWavesOnSunday #kraftwerk #boardsofcanada #southampton #bournemouth

  22. SINE WAVES ON SUNDAY
    Sunday 17 May 2026, 1500 BST
    voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/show

    Previews of live and not-so-live electronic music from Kraftwerk, Heaven 17, @ordosmarkzero , @loulayorke.bsky.social and others... plus local music from around Southampton, by PiNG and Simon Aulman.

    #electronicmusic #SineWavesOnSunday #southampton #bournemouth #portsmouth

  23. For anyone interested in #population change, #globalhealth, and #statistics – the Department of Social #Statistics and #Demography at the University of #Southampton is currently recruiting for their #MSc programmes. These programmes focus on developing strong #analyticalskills for real-world #research and #policy.

    More info and QR code links in the flyers ⬇️

    #Demography #SocialResearch #AppliedStatistics #DataScience #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #QuantitativeResearch

  24. „Queen Mary 2“ sagt geplanten Stopp ab

    Technischer Defekt „Queen Mary 2“ schafft es nicht nach Hamburg Aktualisiert am 11.11.2025 – 00:50 UhrLesedauer: 2 Min.…
    #Hamburg #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #100137924 #100151112 #Antriebsschaden #Bremerhaven #Ersatzhafen #Germany #hamburg #norwegen #QueenMary2 #Reederei #Schiff #Southampton
    europesays.com/de/566652/

  25. 📑 JOB VACANCY

    #ResearchFellow post within the Economic and Social Research Council-funded Connecting Generations programme.

    Examining fuller #workinglives and #care provision for individuals in later life in the UK and internationally.

    📨 Apply by 11 April: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?

    #carers #socialcare #ageing #gerontology #southampton #JobVacancy #JobOpportunity

  26. Happy #GlobalSwitchDay Everyone.

    I created two more little graphics for everyone to possibly come across. Obviously these are meant to for my two instances I run BikersGo.Social and App.Southampton.Social

    If you know anyone in the Southampton Area or a Biker that is wanting to get into the Fediverse, feel free to share to them the instances.

    Hope everyone's had a good day.

    #Bikers #Motorbikes #Motorcycles #Southampton #Fediverse #FediverseInstances #FediverseServers #Fedi #BikerChick #Soton #SouthamptonBiker #SouthamptonQueers

  27. Really itching to get more people using both Bikersgo.social and App.Southampton.Social

    Hoping that I can somehow advertise it.

    #Bikers #Motorbikes #Southampton #Fediverse #FediverseInstances #Instances

  28. Am 14. April 1912, heute vor 111 Jahren, rammte die Titanic einen Eisberg und sank.

    Der in Belfast gebaute Luxusdampfer befand sich auf seiner Jungfernfahrt von Southampton nach New York City, als er im Nordatlantik mit einem Eisberg kollidierte.

    Von den über 2200 Personen an Bord starben rund 1500, unter anderem wegen der zu geringen Zahl an Rettungsbooten.

    #geschichte #historisch #heutevor #geschichtetoday #titanic #rmstitanic #atlantik #eisberg #schifffahrt #southampton #belfast