More Bank Holiday weekend goodness to keep you busy, Little Johnny Russells is hosting another indoor market on the Monday 31st. So far the stalls involved are Edgeworld Records (Brighton), Dress Code, Dead Mans Glory, ZoZo vintage clothes, Parmiters Antiques and Southsea Gallery plus there will be a load more. The market will be open from 12pm to 5pm and entry is free.
Portsmouth’s independent cinema No. 6 will be showing the critically acclaimed Swedish vampire horror Let The Right One In tonight at 6:30pm and tomorrow at 8:30pm. The film is a 15 certificate classification. Tickets are £6 and £4.50 for concessions. For more information see www.no6cinema.co.uk.
This Bank Holiday weekend’s Saturday Bandstand is looking really good, it will feature Cherbourg (who have just signed to Rough Trade), Ryan O’Reilly (who currently has a residency at Ronnie Scott’s in London), Southampton’s Haunted Stereo, Le Plat Du Jour and The Boy I Used To Be.
For loads more information on the event and the bands hit up the Facebook event.
Here are some more photos from the other weekend’s eS Game of Skate held by Bored at the Red Flat down on the seafront. You can see more on Forever Circling and from the link after the first two.
Tipped for greatness by bloggers and national press alike, London’s The Big Pink are playing at the Wedgewood Rooms on Thursday 8th October to promote the launch of their debut album ‘A Brief History of Love’. Tickets are only £8 online at the Wedgewood Rooms. Will see you there.
Each month COR will be putting up tunes that are rocking it for them in that particular month, with links to listen to all the tunes and to buy them when available. Where this differs from other charts is it’ll be a mixture of new AND oldies! The monthly chart for August is now up on the COR website (www.c-o-r.co.uk) and be sure to subscribe to their RSS feed to keep track of their event news and the new charts right when they are posted up.
Speaking of COR events, they’ll be doing their usual Friday evening residency in Cafe Citrus on Albert Road this week as a warm up for Sunday’s big Bank Holiday Weekend COR with Greg Wilson, which is unmissable. Will see you there.
The Hong Kong Gardeners Club are hosting Portsmouth’s own You’re Smiling Now but we’ll all Turn Into Demons‘ album launch as part of their Thursday residency at the Fat Fox. As well as the band playing the evening will also feature the following:
‘Oxford’s Elapse-O tap into a world before language. Elapse-O live is like a time-warp back to your childhood, back when you were attempting to make sense of all the sonic clutter around you, except that there is nothing immature about this band. It’s exhilarating – big bright lights exciting.’ – Drowned In Sound
Two girls and a guy, Invasion are metal, but not as we know it. “Invasion are pretty much the most exciting thing happening in UK metal right now” NME
Some of the band members will also be DJing during the evening too. More details over at the Facebook event.
P.S. Just want to say that the poster artwork by Chaos vs Cosmos is incredible. Not often you see poster/flyer artwork you want to keep and frame.
A little last minute and tickets might be almost sold out but wanted to give a heads up for Headshaker at the Isle of Wight Scooter Rally on this weekend from Friday to the Sunday. The line up as follows:
Friday
Hipshaker Room: Hipshaker DJs + special guest DJs Paul Hallam, Jim Watson, Warren Bright & Kev Jay
In the Lounge: Southampton Soul Club with Resident DJs Alfie & Chilli + special guests John Hurbet [Groove Junkies] & Tony Castle [Shake Your Mini]
£7
Saturday
Hipshaker Room: Hipshaker DJs + special guest DJs Eddie Piller, Smiler & Paul Welsby
In the Lounge: Talk of the South Soul Club with Resident DJs Pete Tebbutt & Sean Chapman + special guests tbc
£8
Sunday
Hipshaker Room: Hipshaker DJs + special guest DJs Eddie Piller, Dave Edwards & Mickee Edwards
In the Lounge: Walls of Heartache with Resident DJs Dave Duplock, Tim Fuller & Richard Anker + special guest Magoo [Kent Soul Club]
£7
Weekend ticket available @ £20 adv. Tickets were available via the Wedgewood Rooms but hit up the Facebook event and the Hipshaker group to find out about ticket availability now and on the door.
Brknk & 10Ton have organised a £1 on the door event at the One Eyed Dog on Sunday 30th. Dubstep, Fidget and Mashup will be served up by Charge, SDM, Triple M and Vortechtral. Knowing the nights in The Dog, this will be going off.
Claire Sambrook kindly gave us a heads up on the new Southsea Deck Your Chairs website where you can find out all the details about the project and see the artwork for all 25 chairs plus loads of photos of the chairs being made, etc.
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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