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:

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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.

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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.

a3tunnel.blogspot.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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Local Photographer – Duncan Allan

We recently mentioned local photographer Duncan Allan’s framing skills but we also want to profile Duncan’s creative photography too. With a wealth of knowledge in different cameras and experimentation in many different techniques (both with film and with Photoshop and Lightroom), Duncan has a strong collection of images from the local area and all around the world. Here are a few of our favourites but they are just the tip of the iceberg, to see more check Duncan’s Flickr.

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Skate Pub Quiz

If you like your skate trivia and your pub quizes then keep your diary free on Wednesday 4th February where Little Johnny Russells will be hosting the first Southsea Skate Pub Quiz presented by Bored and Strong Island! There will be general knowledge, photo, board graphics and video part music rounds with prizes from lovely people like Bored, Lovenskate, Pointer Footwear, Carhartt, Adidas, etc.

The quiz kicks off at 6pm and entry is £1 per person for teams of two plus all money goes to the Skatepark User Group towards the new mini ramp fund. Over 18s only.

For more info hit up the Quiz’s Facebook event, Bored, Bored Blog and here on Strong Island.

Flyer artwork by Southsea’s own LDM.

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Kiss My Bass 8

The 8th Kiss My Bass event hits Southsea on Saturday 31st in Havana. This regular Southsea favourite gets better and better, this night will feature Jung (muujun.co.uk / NSB Radio) and IITone (Standard Audio / Brighton Breaks / Dusted Breaks) along with the resident DJs.

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Southsea Skatepark Jam & Butter

Gorm came to town this weekend and hooked up a little session down the skatepark. Pullman was in town and local talent Kev Kirkham shut it down.

Check the rest of the set over at Gorms Flickr.

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Neeta Madahar Artist’s talk

Following on from our previous post about the Solstice installation at Aspex Gallery in Gunwharf, Neeta will be speaking about her technical and artistic processes. Neeta’s current exhibition at Aspex gallery, shows two high definition videos which were filmed during the summer and winter solstices in rural England, creating the appearance of stars circling around the North Star. This should be a really good opportunity to hear Neeta explain this work and her wider artistic practice.

More info at the Facebook Group here.

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Enochian Theory

Enochian Theory are a local, self financed band and with their 1st full length album officially finished and entitled, Evolution: Creatio Ex Nihilio (Release TBC), Enochian Theory are one band that have a strong work ethic and a creative vision that transcends many mere ‘rock bands’…

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Critical Mass

Critical Mass achieved its international name following the first ever ride in San Francisco back in 1992, where it was christened ‘Commute Clot’. It was then “noted that, in China both motorists and bicyclists had an understood method of negotiating intersections without signals. Traffic would “bunch up” at these intersections until the back log reached a “critical mass” at which point that mass would move through the intersection”.

last Friday of every month meet 5.30pm outside guildhall. ride for 1h and then a quick pint somewhere. Check the Facebook Group for more details.

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Peanut Bowl & Tweaker Zine

The Tweaker Zine contingent came down from London and over from Hastings to skate Southsea Skatepark’s famous Peanut Bowl this weekend and Gorm put together an edit:

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Southsea Haunts Tee

I designed this ages ago and totally forgot until I was riding past the Clarence Arcade today. A pint to the first person to guess all the ‘haunts’ involved.

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Sunny Southsea

I went for bike ride today to take advantage of the nice, albeit cold, weather and take a few photos. Check them out over on my Flickr photostream.

Tags: Bike Ride, Seafront & The Coastline