Spanish Night at the Wine Vaults

Albert Road’s Wine Vaults this Friday will be launching their new weekend Tapas menu, served with full table service, Spanish music and an authentic Spanish dancer! Check the menu, looks amazing:

COR & The Floor

A quick reminder that Civilisation of the Rough’s third party with Bill Brewster is tomorrow night, although it is now sold out. Some interesting news concerning the Wine Vaults, due to the heavy duty dancing of the last two parties the upstairs floor was officially deemed sketchy by a structural engineer so COR (with some help from Strong Island) sorted out a brand new dance floor (see below). It turns out that the damage from the previous parties (literally) bringing the house down was worse than expected so in a unique, one off event the COR party will be held downstairs in the Wine Vaults on Saturday night with the usual pub regulars going upstairs…it’s going to be special. See you there.

P.S. For a warm up COR and Mick Hood have put together a mixtape named ‘Cloak Room Cutz’, download it here and get the tracklisting and artwork here.

Ha, Paul literally got there just before me on this post. I rode past The Vaults on my way to work this morning to take a photo of the Strong Island X James P X COR window art. Really came out a treat. Check it out during the day at The Wine Vaults on Albert Road.

A3 Tunnel

Now not strictly Southsea or Portsmouth specific but I’m sure everyone is familiar with the Hindhead bottleneck of Doom and the new tunnel they are building for the A3 to weave under the hill. Local photographer Paul Thurlow has been updating a blog dedicated to the tunnel’s progress with lots of photos of the construction process and well worth a look, as is Paul’s photography blog, Flickr and his own website www.paulthurlow.com.

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The Arc Award 2009

ARC (Aspex Gallery’s Artist Resource Centre) is now accepting submissions for their Artist Award 2009. Two Arc awards of £1500 each are given to one designer/maker and one fine artist to develop new work to be presented in a solo exhibition at Aspex, with ongoing support from the Arc team.

Applicants for the awards must have completed an undergraduate programme of study and be resident in the South East region, if you wish to apply visit ARC website, get in contact via email or phone 02392 778080.

A new installation by Karen Ryan, the current Arc Award recipient, can be seen at Aspex from 3 February – 15 March.

Southsea Fest 2009

Kind of jumping ahead a bit on this, but last years Southsea Fest was such a success we thought we would give you a heads up to get it in your diary. Naturally we’ll post again closer to the date as a reminder too.

Join up to the Facebook Group for updates on venues and bands the get your tickets here.

Little Johnny Russell’s Indoor Market

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

Gather round ladies and gents, after great success, Little Johnny Russells is hosting its third Indoor Market. There is a wide range of products such as CDs, Records, Vintage Clothing, Prints, Jewellery on sale from Edgeworld Records, Bored of Southsea, Dress Code, Mia Mai, Style In The City, top fashion queen Beau Franklin Savage, Parmiters Antiques, artwork by Ramsey Sheriff and more.

Can’t wait for this as I keep on missing them and I’ve seen some great things that people have picked up. See you all there for a pint or two afterwards too. 12-5pm

Breakneck X Sumo

The boys from Breakneck and Sumo are putting on a pretty heavy night next Tuesday. Remember, don’t set your Facebook status to hung over the next day if you have a job.

Check out the Facebook Group for all the ticket info.

COR3: Bill Brewster Update

The third Civilisation of the Rough party is ready to land this Saturday, so make sure you grab your tickets and get ready for a seriously heavy night. To get you in the mood the COR boys sent us a link to a Greg Wilson Essential Mix. Check it out and get down.

I’ve also been doing some artwork and secret jobs for the 3rd COR party. See you all there. Click read more for all the info.

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We Supply Movement – The Little Johnny Russells

Little Johnny Russells is starting up a new club night every Saturday, starting on the 14th of February with Lovefoxxx from CSS. Yet more great things from the LJR boys and a great line up to boot. Put your dirtiest vans on and expect to get filthy, it’s gonna go off…

Great Lovefoxxx flyer too. Click read more for the line ups.

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Haunts at Havana

Bored manager Tom gave us the heads up on this. Check it out this Friday if you’re in town.

PRIMARY – A Phoneography Exhibition by Strong Island – Call for entries

This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.

With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.

The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.

Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.

PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.

The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.

Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.

We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER

Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage