Lt Smash Photo Diary

My favorite Southsea blogger Tom always has a great 35mm insight in to what’s up with him right now. Or at least the week before. Subscribe today and keep you eye out for the new Bored tees coming soon.

Neko Case

The wonderful Neko Case is yet another high profile booking for Southsea’s very own Wedgewood Rooms. Hailing from Virginia via Vancouver (and also part of the Vancouver group The New Pornographers) Neko Case sings and performs beautiful alt-country songs and is unmissable, will see you there on Wednesday 16th September. Tickets are available online for £12.50.

Art Space Portsmouth Summer Garden Party

Got some free time this Saturday? Then why not pop along and have drinks, nibbles and catch up with all the great things that have been happening with the Four Seasons Urban Garden Project. Free refreshments and children’s activities. More info HERE

GETTANO present Hearts of Oak LIVE

Gettano presents Hearts Of Oak, live at the Waverley Bowls Club, supported by DJs Den Tugget direct from Saigon and Matt Seeney (AWOL)….. plus reggae support! Come join us from sundown 7pm till 1am, beers, barbecue refreshments and a family unit pushing the love forward. Sign up!

This will be another cracking gig from the Hearts of Oak boys and with support from the COR Gettano crew it will be one to remember for sure. Good times as always.

Tickets £5 from Southsea Gallery and Head on Albert Road. All profit goes to Love Albert Day. Join the Facebook Group and increase the peace.

10Ton: BENGA at the ONE EYED DOG

10Ton present BENGA at The One Eyed Dog with SDM - Breakneck / BLOC Control, SEKKLOW & good ole LUCKY DARREN.

Ollie the Gap

The first UK skate video Ollie The Gap is being remastered ready to be released on DVD in August. Originally filmed back in 87 and 88 the video features loads of skating from the tours and demos of the time, in particular the Powell tour with Cab and a young Mike Vallely and the Holeshot visit with Jason Jessee, Hosoi, etc. As well as that though is a wealth of vintage footage of some of the UKs early innovators such as Sean Goff, Wurzel, Lucian Hendrix, Crispin, Rob Dukes, Ged Wells, etc, etc – of particular interest is the first modern street skating footage filmed around London and the south coast, in particular lots of footage from Southsea.

For more info check www.nangskateboards.com.

Check in the titles footage of the Isle of Wight’s Ged Wells rock ‘n’ rolling the Law Courts over 20 years ago, that would be legit now. Also keep an eye out for the famous old Southsea snake flat bar.

Independents Day Fundraiser

Concluding a weekend of fundraisers with all proceeds going to the Love Albert Road Day festival, Gentle Bren plays his usual lazy Sunday blend of Funk, Soul and Hip Hop at the LJR Fundraiser.

Love Albert Road Development is dedicating it’s time & efforts to raising money to support this year’s Love Albert Road Day on September 27th through gigs & dance events in and around Albert Road. The event costs a lot of money to put on, so every donation will be gratefully received!! £2 Donation on the door, 6pm onwards

Wise Children, Alex Denham, Tom Fossum, Hometown Show and Champ of the Day

Once again, HKGC presents live music in The Fat Fox this Thursday night. This week they provide some lullabies and sea shanties from some stunning musicians. This event will have tables and chairs so you can properly appreciate the musicianship.

Wise Children
Wise Children is Charlie Richards, Jamie Wilson and Robin Warren-Adamson. They are currently unsigned, but if we branched out into recording music, this would be the act that made us do it. Heart-breakingly beautiful music played by true musicians, with lyrics that would make the best poets jealous. The live line up varies from just Robin and his guitar to a much bigger sound with drums, cello and more…
“Astonishingly beautiful” – Phil Jackson (BBC South:Live)
“Really excellent stuff” – Huw Stephens (Radio 1)
“Fresh, engaging and beautiful… Poetically articulate lyrics …Wise Children have everything they need to achieve very big things” – Dave Jones (SouthScene)

Hometown Show
Southsea-ites Hometown Show produce a take on bluegrass which is reminiscent of the best camp fire singalongs, singing songs about late nights drinking whiskey, women, touring, running out of petrol and playing in bars, basements and backgardens…

Alex Denham
Alex Denham is a musician/songwriter, living in Southsea. He writes and plays dynamic, original acoustic songs in the vein of artists such as Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens and Damien Rice.

Tom Fossum
Keef from The Dawn Chorus solo side project, He will be joined onstage by Wit from The B of the Bang

Plus Champ of the Day will be playing an acoustic set. That is five acts for £3!

Noir et Blanc - NeBula Goes Live

Noir et Blanc’s new website NeBula has just gone live. Featuring both magazine and web only content if you liked the free magazine, get over to the website to see more and get involved. If you haven’t picked up the magazine, you can download it from the website as a PDF for free too. Not bad at all.

Edinburgh Fringe in Portsmouth

Black Cat Comedy Club at the Fat Fox brings the Edinburgh Fringe to Portsmouth with Exclusive Previews from the Hottest New Stand-Ups around…and if you’re wondering why a couple of their faces look familiar it could well be because two of the comics, Joey Page and Luke McQueen, appeared on the latest series of Channel 4’s ‘Coach Trip’ (the new Come Dine With Me).

Sunday 5th July sees Joey Page, Pat Burtscher & Luke McQueen at The Fat Fox with compére Richard Brophy, tickets are £5 in advance. For more information see the Facebook event for the evening.

Jim Barbers Tuesday Night Pub Quiz

Jim Barber’s Quiz Night is back every Tuesday at The One Eyed Dog. You know the deal here people. Brush up on your drinking skills and maybe you’ll get a question right somewhere along the line.

Ghost Ship: A Pageant for Portsmouth

Anyone that went down to see the theatre and fireworks display at Castle Field on Sunday night witnessed something I don’t think anyone expected. After a dramatic story telling of the ships fate, a parade of flags, full costume dance routine on the steps and a Parkour rigging reenactment they burned the whole thing down. Quite something to watch. They walked a huge burning anchor past the ship and then a burning cannon let off blasts in the direction of the ship which reacted with a full scale fireworks display and then promptly burned to the ground.

So convinced was I that they would not burn the ship due to it’s size and insane health and safety risks that I bet Ben Mills £5 it wouldn’t happen. More the fool me, but it was actually well worth the fiver to watch a ship burn on Castle Field. Well done to Portsmouth Council for letting this free event happen. It was a great family event and everyone really enjoyed it.

Ghost Ship from Tristan on Vimeo.

The additional photograph below is by Andrew Yardley who I met last night and kindly asked if he could send some of his photos to us. Thanks Andy, great photo.

On The Rocks

Albert Road is now home to On The Rocks, a new accessories boutique open at number 227 with welcoming décor, friendly atmosphere and that relaxed community spirit Albert Road is famous for. On The Rocks will be hosting an opening party on the 1st July from 7pm with Matt Seeney DJing plus drinks and nibbles, be sure to pass by and show some support.

For more information check the Facebook event.

Bored Fareham Bowl Edit

Bored have posted up the footage from the new Fareham bowl up on their blog. Footage is filmed and edited by Tom and features shop team members Jak Tonge, Adam Keys and Ellis Gordon plus friends (including the Southsea legend that is Matt O).

Strong Island Summer Bike Ride - 20th Sept

Okay then. Following the HUGE success of the last Strong Island Bike Ride on the April Bank Holiday, and all the amazing feedback I’ve had, I think it’s time to start thinking about the next one. I’ve initally gone for Sunday 20th September. This falls the weekend after Bestival, the day after Southsea Fest and the weekend before Love Albert Road Day. I had a short chat with Ian Parmiter and friends this week and all feel that a date near LARD all goes towards increasing that sense of community.

Initial thoughts are to ride pretty much the same route as before, but have a stop off point on Eastney Beach and have a picnic, games, music etc. The Fisherman Chic theme went down well so I think we should all dress up again, but what should the theme be?

Original photo by Tiger Noah

Thought of the Week with Handsome ‘Dave’ Rocker

Well fuck, if I didn’t make this one hell of a fucking tribute to Michael Jackson I shouldn’t be aloud a computer.

No matter what you might think of the man himself ,I’m pretty sure he’s been a part of all of our lives, from trying to moonwalk and doing all the dance moves to dressing up like thriller at the school disco.

BASICALLY if you don’t like jacko you don’t like music.

But this doe’s make us realise that life is short, so lets have some fucking fun, YEAH.

Southsea Unite, is definitely happening and its going to be on the 8th of august and its going to be great, I want to be impressed by the picnics, fancy dress and pretty much anything goes. We are going to have a massive game of rounders and an after party with me and the other guys from we supply movement at the little jonny Russell, I’m sure a few of you know it. Keep checking this site for more info and soon to be facebook group. If you can help by sticking up a poster or dishing out some flyers, please contact me. Thanks for tuning in again…..

Micheal Jackson R.I.P.

NeBAir

You may well have picked up a copy of Southsea’s newest magazine Noir et Blanc recently (if not, it’s available in a few different places for free), well some of the guys behind that are also behind a new radio show:

“For the first time ever, you can listen to your radio in black-and-white! That’s right; it’s the voice of the NeBula. Imagine letting your ears sink into a lovely warm bath full of really interesting, amusing water. It’s just like that, but without the bath and without the water. Alright, so maybe that wasn’t the best description, but the point remains the same - NeB Air is definitely worth tuning in to. It’s an hour-long radio show packed with interviews, musings and banter. All that, and there’re tunes as well. We’ve got a pair of fantastic people called Tom and Joel to host the show. We’re sure you’ll all get on like a house on fire.

Mr Tom Walters is your host for the evening.
Mr Joel Ransom the prat that interupts him.
There is a voice from above that likes to interject.
Higgy plays guitar.
And it’s all recorded in some lucky bugger’s house.

We have games, BRILLIANT music, random (very random) chats about love, chocolate, holidays, festivals.
We have interviews, soundbites from famous friends and other things we’re just going to make up.”

The first show is on Monday June 29th from 7 til 8pm on 93.7 FM if you’re in Portsmouth, or listen online at www.expressfm.com if you’re not.

f you want to get involved and communicate while they’re on air hit them up over Facebook, but mainly via Twitter if you want to play the game, phone in, text or whatever: twitter is the only way of finding out the number to call.

New Bowl

A perfect new bowl has just been finished up the M27 just outside Fareham (a village called Knowle). Although rumours are the little park might be extended it currently contains a 3 foot bowl linked to a 4 foot bowl plus a hard to get at driveway. A couple of evening sessions with a few car loads of skaters from Portsmouth have gone down already and Bored will be putting up some footage soon.

Free Festival @ The Wedgewood Rooms this Friday

Pretty sketchy on this one as it’s the first I’ve heard of it and I can’t find much supporting info bar the photo below. Check out the Facebook page for more information on all the bands playing. The Wedgewood Rooms website has listed, but no further info.

*Update - The Wedgewood Rooms have put up all the info on their Facebook*

We Supply Movement - New Website Launch

The good people over at We Supply Movement have just launched their new website. WSM is a relatively new night at Little Johnny Russells on Albert Road in Southsea. Specialising in electro, fidget, dance, indie, rave and much, much more the guys at Movement really do throw a good party.