Noir et Blanc’s new website NeBula has just gone live. Featuring both magazine and web only content if you liked the free magazine, get over to the website to see more and get involved. If you haven’t picked up the magazine, you can download it from the website as a PDF for free too. Not bad at all.
Black Cat Comedy Club at the Fat Fox brings the Edinburgh Fringe to Portsmouth with Exclusive Previews from the Hottest New Stand-Ups around…and if you’re wondering why a couple of their faces look familiar it could well be because two of the comics, Joey Page and Luke McQueen, appeared on the latest series of Channel 4′s ‘Coach Trip’ (the new Come Dine With Me).
Sunday 5th July sees Joey Page, Pat Burtscher & Luke McQueen at The Fat Fox with compére Richard Brophy, tickets are £5 in advance. For more information see the Facebook event for the evening.
Jim Barber’s Quiz Night is back every Tuesday at The One Eyed Dog. You know the deal here people. Brush up on your drinking skills and maybe you’ll get a question right somewhere along the line.
Anyone that went down to see the theatre and fireworks display at Castle Field on Sunday night witnessed something I don’t think anyone expected. After a dramatic story telling of the ships fate, a parade of flags, full costume dance routine on the steps and a Parkour rigging reenactment they burned the whole thing down. Quite something to watch. They walked a huge burning anchor past the ship and then a burning cannon let off blasts in the direction of the ship which reacted with a full scale fireworks display and then promptly burned to the ground.
So convinced was I that they would not burn the ship due to it’s size and insane health and safety risks that I bet Ben Mills £5 it wouldn’t happen. More the fool me, but it was actually well worth the fiver to watch a ship burn on Castle Field. Well done to Portsmouth Council for letting this free event happen. It was a great family event and everyone really enjoyed it.
Ghost Ship from Tristan on Vimeo.
The additional photograph below is by Andrew Yardley who I met last night and kindly asked if he could send some of his photos to us. Thanks Andy, great photo.
Albert Road is now home to On The Rocks, a new accessories boutique open at number 227 with welcoming décor, friendly atmosphere and that relaxed community spirit Albert Road is famous for. On The Rocks will be hosting an opening party on the 1st July from 7pm with Matt Seeney DJing plus drinks and nibbles, be sure to pass by and show some support.
For more information check the Facebook event.
Bored have posted up the footage from the new Fareham bowl up on their blog. Footage is filmed and edited by Tom and features shop team members Jak Tonge, Adam Keys and Ellis Gordon plus friends (including the Southsea legend that is Matt O).
Well fuck, if I didn’t make this one hell of a fucking tribute to Michael Jackson I shouldn’t be aloud a computer.
No matter what you might think of the man himself ,I’m pretty sure he’s been a part of all of our lives, from trying to moonwalk and doing all the dance moves to dressing up like thriller at the school disco.
BASICALLY if you don’t like jacko you don’t like music.
But this doe’s make us realise that life is short, so lets have some fucking fun, YEAH.
Southsea Unite, is definitely happening and its going to be on the 8th of august and its going to be great, I want to be impressed by the picnics, fancy dress and pretty much anything goes. We are going to have a massive game of rounders and an after party with me and the other guys from we supply movement at the little jonny Russell, I’m sure a few of you know it. Keep checking this site for more info and soon to be facebook group. If you can help by sticking up a poster or dishing out some flyers, please contact me. Thanks for tuning in again…..
Micheal Jackson R.I.P.
You may well have picked up a copy of Southsea’s newest magazine Noir et Blanc recently (if not, it’s available in a few different places for free), well some of the guys behind that are also behind a new radio show:
“For the first time ever, you can listen to your radio in black-and-white! That’s right; it’s the voice of the NeBula. Imagine letting your ears sink into a lovely warm bath full of really interesting, amusing water. It’s just like that, but without the bath and without the water. Alright, so maybe that wasn’t the best description, but the point remains the same – NeB Air is definitely worth tuning in to. It’s an hour-long radio show packed with interviews, musings and banter. All that, and there’re tunes as well. We’ve got a pair of fantastic people called Tom and Joel to host the show. We’re sure you’ll all get on like a house on fire.
Mr Tom Walters is your host for the evening.
Mr Joel Ransom the prat that interupts him.
There is a voice from above that likes to interject.
Higgy plays guitar.
And it’s all recorded in some lucky bugger’s house.We have games, BRILLIANT music, random (very random) chats about love, chocolate, holidays, festivals.
We have interviews, soundbites from famous friends and other things we’re just going to make up.”
The first show is on Monday June 29th from 7 til 8pm on 93.7 FM if you’re in Portsmouth, or listen online at www.expressfm.com if you’re not.
f you want to get involved and communicate while they’re on air hit them up over Facebook, but mainly via Twitter if you want to play the game, phone in, text or whatever: twitter is the only way of finding out the number to call.
A perfect new bowl has just been finished up the M27 just outside Fareham (a village called Knowle). Although rumours are the little park might be extended it currently contains a 3 foot bowl linked to a 4 foot bowl plus a hard to get at driveway. A couple of evening sessions with a few car loads of skaters from Portsmouth have gone down already and Bored will be putting up some footage soon.
Pretty sketchy on this one as it’s the first I’ve heard of it and I can’t find much supporting info bar the photo below. Check out the Facebook page for more information on all the bands playing. The Wedgewood Rooms website has listed, but no further info.
*Update – The Wedgewood Rooms have put up all the info on their Facebook*
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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