Welcome to the Pompey Music Scene.

These pages feature the best, most exciting and interesting bands to come from the south coast of England.

Portsmouth (or Pompey as it is more affectionately known) is right in the middle of the south coast of England. It is far enough away from the well known music business centres like London to be totally ignored by the major record companies. However it does have a very thriving population of bands, many of whom are better known outside the UK than they are in Portsmouth. These pages are an attempt to raise the profile of the best of Portsmouth and the South Coast.

This page is always under construction so check back every few weeks to keep up with what's happening.

The Pompey Band Directory.

I'll be the first to admit that it isn't complete but here is a directory of some of the bands to come out of Pompey over the last few years.

Bananafish Mixing Ska and Reggae with energy!
The Official Cranes Page
The Original Unofficial Cranes Page
More Unofficial Cranes
Yet more Cranes - Dedicated Records Site
Dr. Brown Portsmouth's own psychedelic bluesmen.
Dragontree - The band with the tallest singer in Pompey.
Eardrum - Mark Francombe's other band.
The Green Hornets - New single out on Mouthy - Cat No 007 would you believe!
Lizard Lie Glamorously dark pop.
The Lovelies - All the info you need on this legendary band.
Murmurs of Irma - Psychedelic tinged pop. Coloured Ice EP out on Broken Dolly records.
Muskoka - An indie band with a single coming out on Moki in May.
Thee Passion Killers - Brilliant but sadly now defunct. Their sound lives on with a very limited edition CD.
Psyracuse Pyramid
Red Letter Day The official 'Day page is here.
Rhythm Collision - Funk and Jazz fuses with Reggae. New album now out. (formerly The Undecided.)
Screeper Stars of SFX TV with a new album in the making.
Sugarproof They call themselves power poppers so read about the start of the power pop revival and the new album here.
Tony - Erratic Genius - Anthony send me the info you promised!
Vex - Their new album was awarded album of the Month in a recent issue of Mojo.

Other highlights of Pompey life include:

New Releases

Watch out for Elastic Fiction and Elastic Fiction - The Caustic Lexicon, two tapes that have been put together by the Pugwash magazine team at Portsmouth University. They will be available at Pompey gigs and from the bands featured on them. They are a pretty good introduction to the current Pompey scene. The launch party for Elastic Fiction with Vex, Murmurs Of Irma and Dragontree on the 23rd of May at The Garage, Portsmouth University has been cancelled.

Tony Rollinson has brought out a book called "Twenty Missed Beats - The Portsmouth Music Scene 1977-1996. You can order a copy through Mainmast Books, 251 Copnor Road, Portsmouth, Hants, PO3 5EE, UK.

Also check out "Twenty Framed Beats" - a video history of the best of the Pompey Music scene over the last 20 years and "Fourteen Missed Beats" - a vinyl companion to the book and the video available from Vendetta Records.

This page has been put together by James at

jrp@soc.soton.ac.uk

. Let me know if I've missed you out or if you have any info you would like to share on these pages.

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