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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
As you may know each year we run a home brew competition in February where the winning brew has the opportunity to be brewed by Irving & Co Brewing Co. and sold around the city in the summer. Last year’s brew, the Strong Island Hopper Ale, was hugely successful being one of Inving’s best selling ales and selling out so quickly it went through a second brew run. This year’s winning ale is Dry Dock No. 1, originally brewed by Lee Immins, went on sale in some of Portsmouth and Southsea’s pubs over the weekend.
We spoke to The Hole in The Wall in Southsea who said the new ale went down a storm with it being their best seller on Sunday and with almost two barrels empty by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend. Those guys at the Hole in The Wall and their regular ale drinkers know their stuff so for us this was amazing early news with the ale.
To officially launch Dry Dock No. 1 we are having a launch party with the lovely souls at The Belle Isle on Thursday evening. The ale will be on full flow, come down and try a pint or two. As well as being on sale all around the city the ale will also be available in Chichester’s Belle Isle too, so you can drink it away from home for the first time too.
Just over a year ago, a group of Strong Islanders were sat on the Isle of Wight ferry on our way to the yearly Randonnee cycling event; 60 miles around the island spread across 5 checkpoints. Whilst on the crossing we couldn’t help but admire various enthusiasts and their custom team jerseys. Fast forward a year and it is my great pleasure to unveil the Strong Island cycling jersey. Made as a one off for the event, the jersey is our way of representing this city and all the values that come with it. Thanks to the combined designing efforts of Chris Ballingall and Tristan Savage, we were able to produce this clean, retro looking jersey that 11 of Southsea’s finest could wear to conquer the island’s endless hills. Well done chaps.
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