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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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