The Brook, 466 Portswood Road, Portswood, Southampton SO17 3SD
Box Office Hours - 1.00pm - 7.00pm Mon - Sat (023) 8055 5366
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The Brook is the best 600 Capacity live music venue hosting national and international Blues, Rock, R'n'B, Funk, Punk, DJs, Indie and many other things including Tributes. Because of the fine calibre of bands that we have, people travel from all over Hampshire, Dorset, Sussex and the Isle of Wight. People often come from Portsmouth, Winchester, Bournemouth, Salisbury, Brighton, Reading & Poole, to check-out the most friendly and very best place to see shows in the South of England. It's not just the punters that say that - it's the bands!!! "Best dressing room on the circuit!"

"This is most definitely the best gig in the South!"

Have Some Moore is a group of experienced musicians who have come together to pay tribute to the awesome musicianship and career of Gary Moore following his very sad and untimely death. As longtime fans of Gary Moore the group's ability and attention to detail generates a very tight sound that captures both Moore's powerful driving rock and mellow blues grooves.

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Gerry Hearn - Guitar & Vocals.

Gerry has been involved in the music scene for over 25 years and during this time has toured with acts from Freddie Starr to Uriah Heap. Gerry also has a successful career in teaching and has taught many Students that have gone on to play the Pub/Club Circuit and Worldwide Stage. Gerrys previous main bands have included Karma Sutra, Desperate Bicycles and Unforgiven Kingdom. Gerry currently plays in Lynchpin, who have been together for ten years and now of course...Have Some Moore!!

Martin (Cabbage Boy) Reed

Martins previous musical background includes playing for over 10 years in two bands Freeze a Crowd and up until 3 years ago Superfly. "I've had some great gigs over the years! A big thankyou to all!!"

On joining Have Some Moore....."Gerry Rick & Steve were desperate to find a one fingered keyboard player....luckily enough Gerry thought of me!!...Cheers Mate!!"

Steve Hales - Drums.

Steve started playing music at 6 years old and throughout his childhood worked through his musical grades in piano and trumpet. However it was at one of the first gigs he ever went to that he saw something that would shape his musical direction forever. The Buddy Rich Band at the Southampton Gaumont. From that moment on a fascination with the drums developed and by the time he left school the likes of Rush, Genesis, Iron Maiden and Deep Purple had kicked Chopin and Beethoven firmly into touch.The next few years were all about collecting dreadful sounding drums and hammering the life out of them in garages, churches and community centres. A typical young drummer! Local bands and private gigs soon grew into pubs and clubs and the drumkit began to grow. As a founding member of metal band Stranglehold he enjoyed some success with their debut album "Elemental" selling in Europe and the US. Stranglehold was to stay together for over 15 years, later reissuing "Elemental" through Valhalla Records complete with Derek Riggs (Iron Maiden) artwork. In 2001 he joined Steve Grimmett's Seven Deadly Sins. In Lionsheart (also with Grimmett) he recorded the "Abyss" album which was released in Europe and Japan. He recorded and toured with Lionsheart for 3 years.Following the start of his young family Steve took a break from performing. He set up a music production company that encompassed an independant record label and promotions agency. More recently he has been back on the stage performing in a diverse range of tribute and cover bands from pop to heavy metal. When not gigging Steve teaches drums in his own studio and also plays as a session musician.Steve already knew Gerry and Rick and when the call came to join them in an awesome tribute to one of his all-time favourite guitarists there was absolutely no question of saying no

Rick Hearn - Bass Guitar & Vocals

Rick has been playing for 25 years. Ricks previous bands include Looking Glass, Indecent Proposal, Unforgiven Kingdom and Perfect Alibi. Rick also currently plays in Lynchpin. As well as playing Rick has just started teaching Bass Guitar. Ricks influences include Billy Sheehan, Jason Newstead, Geddy Lee and Steve Harris.

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The Doors Alive is widely regarded as the closest and most enthralling representation to the legendary 1960's rock gods 'The Doors' in the world today. Here's what the press have to say about The Doors Alive:

"Truly AMAZING... They capture the true spirit of The Doors" Zane Lowe, BBC Radio 1
"The best tribute band I have EVER seen" Clint Boon, XFM

The band re-create the sound, look, presence and magic of a real 1960's Doors concert, perfectly and effortlessly transporting the crowd back in time with timeless hits such as 'Light My Fire', 'When The Music's Over, Riders On The Storm, The End and many, many more.

The singer captures the attitude, look and rich baritone voice of the late, great Jim Morrison with ease, and the other band members have honed the other Doors members playing style and flair note for note.

To achieve that authentic Sixties sound, the band use the very same instruments that members of the Doors originally used. These include a vintage Fender Rhodes Bass keyboard, a vintage Gibson keyboard and a vintage Gibson S.G guitar.

They have left awe struck audiences all over the world and repeatedly sold out some of the most respected venues in the business, including 02 Academies all over the U.K.

The band have played on the same bill as some of today's big names, including: The Feeling, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Supergrass, The Bluetones, Hayseed Dixie and many more.

What the people say...

"Your gig last night was honestly one of the most fantastic gigs I have ever been to! Absolutely brilliant :)"
"Dublin Fri 14th Guys Amazing have seen other doors bands But you guys are great have a brillant time. Couldn't stop dancing all night. Hope to see you back again."
"Dublin,Aug 14,my god,what a gig,the best ive ever been to,please come back to ireland asap! honestly guys-SENSATIONAL,well done"
"Hey Guys - Fantastic gig in the Crane Lane Cork. I'm a BIG Doors fan, have seen all the other Doors tribute act and you guys blow them right out of the water! Keep it Alive!"
"Thank you for an amazing show guys"

The ultimate party band featuring Jamie Moses (Queen), Spike Edney (Queen), Johnny Marter (Marrilion, SAS Band) & Steve Stroud (Cliff Richard)

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Fronted by Johnny Warman

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ALL RIGHT NOW are simply the best UK Free and Bad Company Tribute without question.

Johnny Warman was signed to Ringo's record label, fronted Humble Pie and has done numerous excellent musical things working and singing with Ringo Starr, Peter Gabriel, Harry Nilsson, Asia, Dave Gilmour, Stevie Van Zant and the E Street Band, Love Affair and not forgetting still lead vocalist in The Mods....a brilliant song writer, when he sings this material he sings like his life depends on it...I like this...this is what music should be about...not tempering yourself and becoming lax thru a beer and then doing "just another gig"... giving your utmost...living for the moment....every gig was an important occasion to FREE and this approach we uphold.

Roy plays the guitar, like Koss....not interested in total exact copies, for that is the death of true music, for music to live it has to respond to true live emotion...the plan here is to capture the feelings from the air, from the universe, that were captured and expressed by Koss himself back in the day...living music, not pointless facsimile......this takes more than just knowing the material...it takes empathy with the original........Here him scream.... and cry.....dynamic?...you could say so....Roy always has exceptionally great tone too!...just like Koss..

Jeff Rich plays the drums...no introduction needed....Jeff was drummer with Status Quo for 16 years, and has worked with Def Leopard, Judy Tzuke, Stretch, Jackie Lomax and the Climax Blues Band - Jeff's drumming style fits ALL RIGHT NOW perfectly..........He is the ultimate professional and one of the nicest guys you could ever meet in the music business.

Ant Wellman, his rock solid personality is expressed in his playing....Ant had the pleasure of working with Beki Bondage and Vice Squad ...Ant is an experienced pro who adds just the right low end funkiness to ALL RIGHT NOW...driving when we need to be driven, melodious when we need melody, funky when we need the funk....just like Andy was...

ALL RIGHT NOW rocks...not just a musicians' band but a good time outfit intent on giving the audience the best Show that they possibly can.....and some....lots of FREE, lots of BAD COMPANY....lots of laughs, lots of tears...life.....

As one punter said after a Major gig, "ALL RIGHT NOW are so much more than a tribute Band'

If you love the music of Free and Bad Company, then do not miss the opportunity of enjoying this incredible Band.

Skinny Molly was started by Mike Estes of Lynyrd Skynyrd with Dave Hlubek of Molly Hatchet, and Kurt Pietro recalling the best of Skynyrd and Mike Estes: including "Gimme Three Steps", "Call Me The Breeze", "Saturday Night Special", "Sweet Home Alabama", "That Smell", "Simple Man", "What's Your Name", "Freebird" plus Mike's own "Straight Shooter" & "She's Rockin" etc…

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SKINNY MOLLY features the former Lynyrd Skynyrd and Artimus Pyle Band guitarist Mike Estes.

Long regarded as one of the South's very best guitarists Mike originally wrote songs for The Rossington Collins Band & Lynyrd Skynyrd before being asked to join Skynyrd. Mike was subsequently inducted into the Hollywood Hall of Fame and played on the band's legendary 1995 "Endangered Species" and "Southern Knights" CD's as well as on the "100 Minutes of Skynyrd" DVD.

In Skinny Molly he is joined by brilliant young Florida based slide guitarist Keith Whalen in a twin guitar attack that launches into classic Southern Rock and boogie set featuring the best of Lynyrd Skynyrd. The full line-up includes bass player Gary Nutt (Mike Tramp), drummer Kurt Pietro (Brave New South) and Keith Whalen on second guitar. Expect long hair, Marshall stacks, classic guitar led rock and boogie!

Back in 1973 Lynyrd Skynyrd changed the course of rock music by leading a new Classic Rock scene from the south, The debut album "Pronounced Leh nerd-skin-nerd" included the anthem "Freebird", and the band went on to sell 26 million records. Tragically a plane killed several band members and their road crew, and it was only 10 years later that Skynyrd reformed with members of their extended musical family.

By the mid 90's the South's leading guitarist Mike Estes joined Skynyrd for their first acoustic release and DVD. It was one of the most exciting later Lynyrd Skynyrd line-ups ever! Now comes Skinny Molly recalling the best of Skynyrd and Mike Estes: including "Gimme Three Steps", "Call Me The Breeze", "Saturday Night Special", "Sweet Home Alabama", "That Smell", "Simple Man", "What's Your Name", "Freebird"!!! + Mike's Straight Shooter "She's Rockin" etc…
Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Molly Hatchet/Blackfoot/The Outlaws etc…

This is Classic Southern rock 'n' boogie played by the best in the business from the Deep South!

Before he was 25, he had fame as the guitar player for the Black Crowes, fortune, a beautiful wife and home; seemingly, he had it all. But in the blink of an eye, much of it was gone. How he managed to make it through with graciousness and his sense of self-intact is examined on his new solo album, Through A Crooked Sun.

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Rich Robinson
Through A Crooked Sun
(Circle Sound/Thirty Tigers) Release date: October 11, 2011

Socrates said that a life unexamined was not worth living, but sometimes life is going so well that you could forgive one for just going with the flow. But life will catch up with you in time, as it did for Rich Robinson. Before he was 25, he had fame as the guitar player for the Black Crowes, fortune, a beautiful wife and home; seemingly, he had it all. But in the blink of an eye, much of it was gone. How he managed to make it through with graciousness and his sense of self-intact is examined on his new solo album, Through A Crooked Sun.

"The sun was a fitting metaphor to examine my life, because in many ways what was going on both nourished me and blinded me at the same time," says Rich. "I was living this life that was askew. My relationships with the people that were supposed to be my closest seemed damaged. My marriage was not a good fit for either of us and we weren't facing up to that. Though I love my brother, the fact that my working environment can be challenging has been well chronicled. Nothing was working like it should have been, but by many people's standards, it was a dream come true." It would take an unexpected (at least by Rich) band hiatus, financial difficulties and most devastating of all, a painful divorce to push him to the point of re-evaluation.

"Hey Fear," the lead single from the album, looks at fear's dual nature. "Fear can be a healthy, natural, protective response to your environment, but it can also be debilitating," says Rich. "In many ways, continuing the unhappy life that I was leading was a response to the fear of what lay beyond it." The song recognizes that, though fear will remain a part of one's everyday life ("Hey there fear/You've been there for me/A familiar voice/In a raging sea"), it cannot be dispatched by flailing away at it, but by embracing a quiet mind and a more simple life. "I wanted this song to be sparse to represent simplicity, and then add in the more frenetic production at the end to represent the onset of fear," Rich says.

"Bye Bye Baby" addresses what Rich refers to as his life lived backwards. "I had everything people work hard for at age 20, and now in my early 40's, in a lot of ways, I'm starting over, like someone in their early 20's." The song features evocative imagery as metaphor for the past experiences of his life. A falling curtain and two birds falling from the sky are juxtaposed with the very direct question, "Is this world done with me?" "I didn't mean for that question to be negative, but really more of a question of whether the life that I've led is over and wondering if that's all there is to it. More of a question and a gentle letting go than anything," says Rich.

The Black Crowes are still a vibrant, relevant entity, an experience he shares with his longtime bandmates, including his brother Chris. To refresh their individual energies, the band has gone on more frequent hiatuses, which has allowed Rich to explore musical ideas that might not fit the band dynamic, and also continue to hone his skills as a terrific visual artist (www.richrobinsonart.com). "The most exciting thing for me in doing my own album is that a lot of the things that I want to express lyrically, which are very personal, may not have space to be expressed in the band format," says Rich.

"It's All Gone" uses a hooky call and response between Rich and his psyche to chronicle his own burgeoning spirituality in light of changing circumstances ("I fell the distance of the deepest canyon drop/ That's how you bleed, sir/It took me years to climb back to the top/ That's what you need, sir"). His sense of spirituality has made him more aware of a growing collective consciousness that has come out of the recent difficult times that rejects the shallow, and Rich sees that as a very positive thing ("I feel it coming to take us to a new world"). The production on the song features twinned guitar parts to match the dual vocals, and the result is a joyous welcoming of new ways.

The subject of consumerism is addressed on "It's Not Easy," a song about how the pursuit of material things can desensitize us, how we often use it to fill in emptiness in our lives, so that we feel something, however temporary that sensation is. "I'm not judging; I've been there, but I think it is something that we need to be more aware of" he says. This consciousness about the limitations of materialism and a growing political awareness have led him to participate in interesting projects with those that he has found common cause with, most prominently contributing music to The People Speak, the Howard Zinn film project.

Finally, family is very much at the center of Rich's worldview. He has recently remarried and they have welcomed a new son to the family (with another on the way). "She has been very good for me, and we really do think very similarly about things. Thinking about my three, soon to be four children really does make me think about the kind of world that I want to create around myself, what kinds of values I want to raise them around. And I'm more aware than ever that we create our own entrapments as well as our own bliss." Thinking about family has also caused Rich to look the other way down his family tree toward his father in particular, who has been struggling to maintain good health. "Follow Your Forever" is a song to him. "Things look better than they did a few months ago, and this song came from starting the grieving process," Rich says.

Through A Crooked Sun finds the musical gifts that have propelled a major career fully intact, but joined this time by a more sentient, holistic outlook: that of a father, a son, a husband, a spiritual being, a musician, fully integrated and more comfortable than ever in his body, mind and soul.

Two floors - two bars - great sound - great stage - disabled facilities. Limited seating around the balcony bar. Extended floor space and larger stage downstairs. New larger balcony bar is now on several levels. Creating an intimate atmosphere to experience the music.

Opening times and showtimes vary, depending on the day, the artist, and whether there is a support or not. The times shown below are given as a rough guide and may be subject to change. Please check the times when you book your tickets. To avoid disappointment buy your tickets in advance and get here early.

Box Office Hours are 1pm-7pm Monday to Saturday 023 8055 5366

Monday - Wednesday Shows - Doors @ 8pm - Main Act on @ 9pm Close @ 11pm

Thursday Shows- Doors @ 8pm - Main Act on @ 9pm Close between 11pm & 12am

Friday - Saturday Shows - Doors @ 8pm - Main Act on @ 9:15 Close @12am (Unless Stated)

Sunday Shows - Doors @ 7:30pm - Main Act on @ 8:30 Close @ 10:30pm

The Brook is an eighteen plus venue, (unless otherwise stated) although children of fourteen and upwards can come to shows if accompanied by an adult over the age of twenty one. Anyone under sixteen MUST be out of the building by midnight. This is the law.

No more than two fourteen plus per adult.

Please note that on the advice of Southampton Police - we only accept Passports or Photo Driving Licences as acceptable proof of age to buy alcohol. We do NOT accept any other form of age identification. We do NOT accept any national proof of age scheme cards. If you are lucky enough to look young - you will need I.D. If you are bringing under 18's with you, we accept any form of I.D.