The Wedgewood Rooms (Portsmouth)

The Wedgewood Rooms, also known locally as 'The Wedge', is a small music and comedy venue located in Portsmouth. The venue is excellent in the fact that it is really small (capacity 400), but still manages to attract big name bands due to its reputation. A ridiculous amount of quality musicians from the world of Rock, Indie, Punk and Metal have all performed at the Wedge - with the likes of Oasis, Travis, Kasabian and Bloc Party just to name a few. Due to the small scale of the place, you can get up close and personal with the stars, and it's a photographers dream. Often you'll find the performers milling around in the audience at the end of a ...  Read the complete review

The Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth is one of the few small venues on the south coast that actually makes the bands you see there sound good. The acoustics are excellent as is the venue in general. I first visited the Wedgewood Rooms when I was a student in Portsmouth to see an average Led Zeppelin tribute band. Back then the walls were adorned with the then small bands that had first played at the Wedge when those bands were just starting out - Oasis, Radiohead and Ocean Colour Scene. All thos bands cut their teeth on the small stage at the Wedge. Its quite an intimate venue, holding just a few hundred people or so. Theres a (expensive) bar as well ...  Read the complete review

Anyone native to Portsmouth will know the Wedgewood rooms well. It's a small venue on Albert Road in Southsea which plays host to local and smaller bands and the gigs are very reasonably priced. Occaisionally it's also a venue for those who were booked to play before they made it big and those looking to hold smaller, more intimate gigs. Placebo recently played there. Inside, the wedgewood rooms are basic, compact and black and for this reason when the more well known bands play here the atmosphere is great and the band-crowd relationship pretty fab too. The only real downside is that due to the size of the wedgewood rooms, it gets REALLY hot inside, so make ...  Read the complete review