Stumbled across this site, has lots of old gig listings and tickets, good work. Lots of history of lots of old Portsmouth venues (including Mecca Locarno which I knew as The Pit, Guidhall, South Parade Pier and all sorts. Lots of gaps and slightly inconsistent though.
⬅️ Y2038 bug spotted in the wild :: Thinking about one of these again ➡️
Paulʼs blog - I live in A sleepy town in the deep South. Married + dad to two, I'm a full-stack web engineer, and I do js / node, some ruby, python, php ect ect. My hobbies are pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, telly, squirrels, pirates ☠️, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.