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Thought of the Week with Handsome ‘Dave’ Rocker

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009. Published in Strong Island by

Well here we are again, with an idea I’ve been thinking about for a while. So bare with me.

Right as I’m sure by know you all know that I run this town, never mind what any other mother fucker tells you, which is going to make this idea do able.

I’m sure a few of you remember smokey bears picnic, which in essence could have been quite a good day, but we have all grown up, and some of you smoke the ism still and that’s fine but most of us have stopped that shit, plus at smokey bears picnic there was obviously interest from the po po. Which nobody wants especially if you’re blazing…….get me.

So this leads to the idea, as you know there are many social groups in our kingdom of southsea and we all cross over from time to time ,creating a very large group of like minded people which is fucking ace. SOUTHSEA, UNITE! So I am aiming to invite you all to a day on the common with me and everyone within our individual crews for a day of bar b q, music and a huge fucking game of rounders. My aim is Saturday the 1st of august. (Editors note, this is Matt & Lyndas Wedding so it will change. We’ll keep you posted.)

Basically I’m organising a stealth illegal festival for sound people to meet each other properly using southsea’s greatest facility, the common. Any feedback would be gratefully excepted. Stay strong and rave safe, handsome.

Dave asked for a little help with the logo design. Let me know what you think. Tristan.

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Thanks for the comments. How’s this version work for you. It’s good to get feedback as when you’re working on something you can see it for what it’s supposed to be, but an outside view can bring up the little problems.

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8 Comments to Thought of the Week with Handsome ‘Dave’ Rocker

  1. Fun times…
    The N feels too aggressive! And because of the pointy bits as well as the ‘sea’ obscuring the U the N stands out too much and it reads Southsea Nite. I reckon if you lose the pointy bits though it’ll read better.

    Phoebe on June 17th, 2009

  2. love the whole idea, once again a great chance to meet new people and make the great southsea even more united.
    LOVE IT!

    Sikes on June 17th, 2009

  3. Super smashing great.

    The Albino Assasin on June 17th, 2009

  4. Cheers Phoebe. Check the post for a different version.

    Tristan on June 17th, 2009

  5. What a fab idea and I love the logo, the Southsea bit looks very organic, jeez look at me ‘organic’ how arty.

    Lou on June 17th, 2009

  6. I’m in.

    That N is quite pointy……..

    Pudding Snack! on June 17th, 2009

  7. Perhaps some sort of vintage postcard font would be apt?……

    Pudding Snack! on June 17th, 2009

  8. Great idea! Smokey Bears picnic takes me back – I remember one Howard Marks there, being “spoken to” by the babylon…

    Tonks on June 18th, 2009

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PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

Friday, January 27th, 2012. Published in Art, Craft & Design, Features, Photography by

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

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It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Friday, October 28th, 2011. Published in Community, Features, Local Events by

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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