Hearts of Oak

Last Saturday Hearts of Oak played their debut showcase with a 10-piece outfit fronted by ex-members of Bluesky Research at the Wedgewood Rooms. Short and sweet, it was truly awesome. There was a really good turn out considering a lot of people were away at Dave’s stag do and the rest were at the COR Gettano event at The Loft. Keep your eyes and ears on Hearts of Oak. Hats off to Charlie and John and we all look forward to more.

Tags: Hearts of Oak, The Wedgewood Rooms

The Acoustic Politician

The Honest Politician are proud to present, for the very first (and hopefully not last) time, an evening of Acoustic Entertainment on the 4th June with:

Le Plat Du Jour
‘Cat Power meets Devendra Banhart’ The Guide

Animal Magic Tricks
A delicate fushion of Coco-Rosie esque keyboard and intelligent lyrics

Jack Palmer
Acoustic loveliness which uses loop pedals to new levels…

Plus Ollie Collins and The Die-Life Project. For more details see the Facebook event.

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Jonathan Larson’s ‘Rent’

Award winning local theatre company CCADS are proud to present the area premiere of the ‘Seasons Of Love’ musical, RENT at The New Theatre Royal from 3rd to the 6th of June.

This Pulitzer Prize winning update of ‘La Boheme’ is set against the gritty background of New York’s East Village and follows a group of struggling bohemians as they strive for success and acceptance whilst enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and AIDS. It is warm but poignant, tragic but incredibly uplifting and energizing…a piece that speaks to all who see it and features one of modern theatre’s most stunning musical scores.

Tickets are £5-£10 and £5 for concessions. For more information check the Facebook event and the New Theatre Royal, where you can also buy tickets online.

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Cycle Hampshire Photo Competition

Are you a budding photographer who would like a chance to win a bike? If so, then this is the competition for you.

As part of Cycle Hampshire 09, Summer of Cycling, Hampshire County Council are looking for photo’s under the theme ‘Cycling is fun’. You could submit a photo of your favourite cycle ride or fun cycling moments, or why not get arty with your bike at a Hampshire hotspot or take a photo at one of the Cycle Hampshire 09 events.

This is a really good competition that will hopefully encourage more people to get out and about this Summer. If you have a Flickr account you can upload you photos to their Flickr Group.

The top 5 winners will receive a new bike upto the value of £500, kindly donated from the good folk over at wiggle.com, bargain.

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Semiconductor: Artists Film Screening & Talk 28th May

Since 1999 Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have worked with digital animation to reveal our physical world in flux. In this informal presentation of their work, they will discuss their practice and screen some of their innovative moving image works. Transcending the constraints of time, scale and natural forces they explore the world beyond human experience questioning our very existence. Take a look at some of their work on www.semiconductorfilms.com

Places are limited, so be sure to reserve your place today! Check out the Facebook events page.

Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Tags: ARC, Semiconductor

On Yer Bike! Portsmouth D-Day Cycle Ride – 6th June

Get on yer bike for the D-Day 65th Anniversary charity bike ride in aid of the Royal British Legion.

Start and finish at Southsea Skatepark, opposite castle fields on the seafront at Southsea on Saturday 6th June. The ride is free to enter and open to all! Families and individuals. The fit and the not so fit. A fantastic opportunity to see the sights of portsmouth by bike. Ride on the extensive city cycle network. A choice of three routes. Start anywhere on a route and go any distance from 1 mile to 15 miles.

To register and qualify for a free t-shirt visit www.dday65.org.uk

Click on this link to open up the full size poster to download and print off.

Tags: D-Day Cycle Ride, On Yer Bike

Hearts of Oak this Saturday @ The Wedge (including DJ sets)

Local band and Albert Road regulars Hearts of Oak will be debuting at The Wedgewood Rooms this Saturday. This gig is sure to attract a lot of support so get your tickets as soon as you can.

With Big beats, Flutes, Swirling Organs, Horn section, Conviction, Chest beating Maraca shaking mad men and much more this will be a good night to say the least. Sign up to their Facebook Group for more details and listen to Hearts of Oak on their MySpace. Motown especially. Great people that make great music.

Also now confirmed on the listing are some of Southsea’s well known DJ’s and scene celebrities in the main room as well as next door in the Edge.

Lord Lukas Dharma 77 (Playing Reggae bangers from Ska to Dancehall)

Keef ‘Hicksy’ Hicks (Pet Sounds Superhero – Funk and Garage a speciality)

Red Indie (Indie Electro Party from the boys from We Supply Movement)

Handsome Dave Rocker (Sumo regular supplying some massive melon breakers)

*B*E*V*I*S* Beatboxer extraordinaire……..mad skills.

This will be a really good night out with a lot of good people and familiar faces.

Doors 9pm – 2.30am
Tickets £8 adv (more on the door)
available from wedge, withit, dead mans glory
also online at www.ticketshack.co.uk

Tags: Charlie Waddington, Hearts of Oak, John Hicks

Thought of the Week with Handsome ‘Dave’ Rocker

Yo, welcome to the first of Handsome “Dave” Rockers thought of the week, as this is the first instalment I thought it better be a good one, so here we go.

You know when you’re out and about in our beautiful post code and you often see some familiar faces, but you don’t know them to “talk to” WELL yes you do. They’re also thinking the same thing and I want to bring this to a stop! More so now than ever all of our social groups are entwined, could be the pubs we hang in, the bands we’re into or where we spend our spare time. But here it is, this is what I want you to do to make this a even better place to be…

Say hello to two people you’ve never spoke to, but you recognize, and if it gets awkward explain that I put you up to it…

Its easy and on the whole, people are nice. Catch you laters party people, all my love Handsome “Dave” Rocker.

Tags: Handsome Dave Rocker, Morgan, Thought of the Week

KISS MY BASS 1st Birthday Party with FOAMO

Its been a wild year for Kiss My Bass which in the short space of a year has grown from a small party to a monthly crowd-pulling night showcasing local breakbeat and electro djs and most recently has seen some class international djs taking to the stage, the latest being the legendary Meat Katie.

Read the full story over at the Kiss My Bass Facebook page.

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Live at the Bandstand starts 31st May

When the Bandstand gets fired up you know it’s the official start of the Summer in Southsea. It’s always nice to pop along on a Sunday after the Carboot sale and relax for a bit.

With a fantastic line up for this summer the place to be on Sundays is the Bandstand. This is still one of the most popular events and enjoyed by all the family. So pack a picnic, blanket, chair and your sun cream and head down to Southsea. Not forgetting those all important dancing shoes for those of you who want to show off your best moves! Every Sunday from 1pm.

For the full line up of events at the Bandstand check visitportsmouth.co.uk

Photo courtesy of local art aficionado My Dog Sighs

Tags: Bandstand, Southsea Seafront

I Remember Tapes, Our Lost Infantry & TSDOLE DJ set

Another last minute heads up, as mentioned previously, The Hong Kong Gardeners Club have a residency at the Fat Fox in Albert Road and tonight they will be hosting I Remember Tapes and Our Lost Infantry (both playing live) plus plus DJ skillz from The Strange Death of Liberal England DJing all night. Only £3 entry, can’t be bad. For more information on the evening and the bands check out Facebook.

Tags: Fat Fox, The Hong Kong Gardeners Club

Local Band – Loz Bridge & The Box Social

Portsmouth based band Loz Bridge And The Box Social have got a gig coming up next week on the 26th May at the Cellars in Eastney supporting the legendary blues piano player Jon Cleary. There’s still a few tickets left so if you want to check them out get in contact with Loz on their MySpace.

Tags: Loz Bridge & The Box Social, The Cellars at Eastney

DVMISSION In Portsmouth

The DVMISSION 48-Hour Film Challenge 2009 is now open for applications. What is DVMISSION? Teams are given a film title, genre and one line of script at 7:00pm Friday night. Each team then have 48 hours to get their 2 minute film back for 7:00pm Sunday night. The Premier is at 8:30pm and the winners are announced at 10:00pm. Places are limited to 25 teams this year and places will be given on a first come, first served basis.

If the idea of writing, storyboarding, filming, editing, adding sound and rendering a whole movie in 48-hours sounds crazy, then you’re right. This is an endurance test of both human and machine. You have been warned!

DVMISSION will be taking place between 30th Oct – 1st Nov but register now to get your place ASAP. Go to dvmission.ning.com for more information and to register your team.

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Fresh Legs, Tonight

A quick last minute reminder that Fresh Legs are playing tonight at The Cellars at Eastney. The doors open at 8pm and £6 a ticket. In support will be Southampton band Venice Ahoy plus Tigre Bite Tigre and Repollo.

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Yeah Magazine Issue #2

The second issue of Yeah Magazine is now available direct from their website and contains work from over 20 different contributors, with some really interesting articles, illustration and photography. Yeah are also offering a mini subscription of three issues for only £5 (+P&P). The third issue will have retro as it’s theme so if you want to contribute contact Yeah contact@yeah-magazine.com.

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DRINK TEA, GET RAD

You know where to pick these up. I’m sure they’re pretty limited too. Been there, got the tee shirt, get the mug. In store only.

Tags: Bored, RAD, Tea

Example & DJ Wire + Albino Monkey/Red Indie @ LJR

You know the score people. Good beats and good times guaranteed on a Saturday night at The Little Johnny Russells. We Supply Movement are putting on yet another night of mayhem with Example & DJ Wire (LIVE).

Tags: DJ Wire, Example, Little Johnny Russells

Indoor Record Fayre @ LJR Bank Holiday Monday

Head over to Johnny Russells and spend the last of your Bank Holiday pennies on some records. Brightons Edgeworld is a tiny, fiercely independent record store specialising in alternative, emergent,interesting music that just happens to be predominantly VINYL and they will have plenty Rock/Rap/Jazz/Punk/Hip Hop/Indie/Metal/Dance/Soul and more to fulfill your junkie needs.

Free Entry, Monday 25th, Midday til 5pm. To see more details and RSVP head over to the Facebook Event Page.

Tags: Little Johnny Russells, Record Fayre

COR’s MATT SEENEY at the GO BANG Festival

COR superstar and disco ambassador, MATT SEENEY, has been invited by the GO BANG boys to play at the fantastic month long GO BANG disco festival that takes place each year at our South coast neighbour. Matt will be tearing up GO BANG Sunday 24th May at the Sidewinder.

Check out the Facebook listing for full details and links to the GO BANG festival.

Tags: Civilisation of the Rough, Go Bang, Matt Seeney

Gettano…

Gattano is the ‘balearic bastard love child’ of the Civilisation of the Rough crew, their first evening will be on Saturday 23rd May at The Loft on Albert Road and will feature DIESEL. Tickets as usual will be £5 and available from Head (also on Albert Road) so be sure to grab them early as this will no doubt sell out quick. Be sure to keep an eye on the Facebook group and on the event too.

Tags: Civilisation of the Rough, The Loft