Lost & Found 35mm of Southsea

Unlike Paul, I’m terrible at getting any 35mm film developed. Sometimes many months after finishing a roll. I just got a few hundred shots back from good old ASDA and, of course, there were plenty of Southsea photos. Check a few here and then head over to my Flickr to view the full Lost & Found set comprising of photos from all sorts of random events and places.

Tags: Tristan Savage 35mm

Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth

The Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth website is a collection of every plaque, memorial, monument, etc in Portsmouth. The website itself is quite a fascinating resource in to local history, events and famous residents and well worth looking through the interesting background stories and old photographs. Always good to discover the history of the places you walk by every day.

Tags: Memorials, Monuments

A Storm in a Tea Cup. An Open House Exhibition

Jane Shepherd recently got in contact about an up coming exhibition in Southsea. The weekend 14 & 15th November sees four Portsmouth-based artists, Katayoun Dowlatshahi, Patti Gaal-Holmes, Liz Bick and Jane Shepherd hold an open house exhibition ‘Storm in a Tea Cup.’ Exhibiting photographs, prints, drawings, artist’s books and screenings of experimental film this sounds really interesting and definitely worth a look see.

There will be work for sale, plus tea and loads of cakes on offer at 1 Balcarres Mansion, 5 Eastern Villas Road, Southsea, PO4 0SU. Check the map HERE and invite HERE.

Janes website is also worth checking out. A talented local artist with a strong illustrative style. www.janeshepherd.com

Tags: Jane Shepherd, Storm In A Tea Cup

Girls Who Ride – Monthly Social

The Girls Who Ride crew are having another social event tomorrow night at LJRs from 7pm, if you like riding your bike and some liquid refreshment, do pop along (boys are allowed too ‘if they behave’). Some of the Strong Island Fixed Gear girls will be there with their bikes as well, incase you have any fixed gear related questions.

Tags: Girls Who Ride, Little Johnny Russells

Baby SUMO is back every Monday @ LJRs

The students are back in full effect so expect plenty of mid week events and drink promotions to hit town. The very popular Baby SUMO is back at LJRs as are the very popular drinks prices. Sign up HERE for updates.

Tonight is Tom Alex, Trubass (UP.dnb), Barry Bun Roi b2b DJ Maars and The Turk. Involved?

Tags: baby SUMO

FREE Jazz Club @ The Edge Of The Wedge

This is a nice little offering for a chilled out Saturday afternoon. Pop along to The Edge Of The Wedge from 3-7pm every Saturday to hang with some cool cats and listen to some smooth Jazz grooves courtesy of The Santos Jazz Collective. Nice.

Oh, and it’s totally FREE. Keep up to date on future Jazz gigs HERE.

Tags: Jazz Club, The Edge of the Wedge

PunchFunk Proudly Presents Zane Lowe

Radio 1′s Zane Lowe will be DJing at PunchFunk’s halloween warmup on Friday 30th at Tiger Tiger as part of the DJ Hero Tour. The line up for the evening is as follows:

Main Room
ZANE LOWE
ALEX METRIC
MATT BERRY

Lightbox arena: PunchFunk
CHRIS VAUX
SIMON BLANN
MATT HORROCKS
& special guest : ROB WILDER

The Boutique
PURE SEX REUNION!!
STEVE CONWAY & STU RISING

Tickets are £10 in advance and fancy dress is recommended!

For more information check the the Facebook event.

Tags: PunchFunk, Zane Lowe

DVMission 48 Hour Film Challenge

A quick reminder that the network of independent, professional and amateur film makers, Mission Network are premiering The DVMission 48 Hour Film Challenge at The New Theatre Royal Portsmouth, Sunday 1st November 2009 from 8pm till Midnight.

The culmination of 48-hours of guerrilla filmmaking from professional, independent and amateur teams. This glizty nominations / award ceremony is the showcase for all the films entered this year. Your ticket will also give you ‘exclusive’ access to the DVMISSION 2009 after party.

For more information and updates check out dvmission.ning.com

Dress to Impress: Posh Frocks / Black Tie.
Tickets available from the New Theatre Royal – Portsmouth.
Circle £4.00 advanced tickets / £5.00 on the door.
Upper Circle £3.00 advanced tickets / £4.00 on the door.

10Ton skeleTON: DIGITAL MYSTIKZ at the ONE EYED DOG

The Dog is killing it right now. In the past month alone Graham has left me battered and bruised on numerous occasions. Signs of a good night out? Well this Halloween prepare to get battered and bruised before you even get there. Dress as a Skeleton, loosen up them bones and get breakin’…

£7 all night

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We Supply MOVEMENT Halloween Party @ LJRs

Last years Good VS Evil Halloween party at The Russell’s saw people really pull out the stops and rock up in some awesome costumes. Don’t let them down this year. Dress literally to kill. Expect to get smashed.

Halloween CHAOS

Voted the best club night by The NEWS, CHAOS is Portsmouth longest running night. We’ve all been, and we’ll all go again. Just the name CHAOS evokes memories of dancing like a loon and drinking Newcastle Brown Ale till 2am with all the skaters back in the 90′s. Carnage. Well nothing has changed really. A great vibe and good people. Dress like a George A Romero wet dream and get your groan on.

Purchase tickets HERE and follow Facebook HERE

Wolfman Vs Dracula Halloween Special

Once a year a band arise from the dead to rock the night of all Hallows eve. This band of tortured souls are beyond mortal and have walked a dark and twisted path encountering werewolves, vampires, zombies and devils along the way. Their songs tell of their journey of damnation and lament for lost loves, murdered wives and salvation. The band are ‘Wolfman vs. Dracula’ and for one night only they are here to rock you all the way to the gates of hell!

Spawned from satanic waste and left to fester in Professor Deathgob’s petri dish, Black Moranis clawed its way from the sludge to become the greatest novelty Halloween rock band of all time. Witness devil music to corrupt your soul and melt your mind. Slugs and snails and puppy dogs’ tails: this is what Black Moranis are made of.

Theory 77 – Freelance Rapist/ Serial Killer.

The Cellars at Eastney, Saturday October 31ST 20.00

BUPA Great South Run this Sunday 25th October

I’ve never actually been down to watch the runners, let alone take part, but I understand it’s quite a sight to see 10,000 people running along the seafront. The Bupa Great South Run is notably labeled as Europes leading 10 mile road race and was recently awarded the coveted IAAF gold label status, becoming the first 10 miler in the world to be given the accolade for its exceptional standards of organisation and world class elite fields. Pretty impressive

If like me the thought of running makes your legs cry then you can watch it live on Channel 5 on Sunday 25th October at 10.25am.

Good luck to everyone who is taking part. Think like Linford and make sure to stretch before and after. Like I know what I’m talking about…

Tags: Great South Run

Funkt-If-Ino

Southsea’s funk institution Funkt-If-Ino will be celebrating it’s 14th birthday on Saturday 7th November. Tickets for the night are £7 and available from The Wedgewood Rooms box office and online.

I just went through my pile of old bits and pieces and found dozens of tickets and flyers from 1996-2000, this night has been rolling deep for a long, long time.

Tags: Funkt-If-Ino, The Wedgewood Rooms

Charly Coombes and The New Breed/Spitdust/Hearts of Oak

Strong Island favourites and Southsea’s own Hearts of Oak will be supporting Charly Coombes and The New Breed at the Cellars at Eastney on Saturday 24th. Charly Coombs (younger brother of Gaz Coombs and part time member of Supergrass) will be bringing his band The New Breed to the Cellars to play what is their third only gig to date. Spitdust and The Lonely Cardinals will also be supporting. Tickets are £7 advance and £8 on the door.

For more information check the Facebook event.

Tags: Eastney, Hearts of Oak, The Cellars at Eastney

Whole Lotta Led

Although some way off, got to mention that the mighty Whole Lotta Led will be playing at The Wedgewood Rooms on Friday 15th January, tickets are £9 and available online or at the box office. Whole Lotta Led are (surprisingly) a Led Zeppelin tribute band and incredible as they focus on the music, not dressing up. Famous for their shows where they perform specific albums with the songs in order (ala All Tomorrows Parties shows), they have a huge repertoire and often mix the classics with acoustic interludes. I’ve seen them five times before and every time is incredible, almost as good as the real thing. Almost.

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Rock The Gilders!

Tagged as Metal/Rock/Tropical, Belligerence are a local band that sent over a few words after talking with friends that went on the Strong Island bike ride who recommended us. Nice.

“We managed after a couple of months of risk assesment and insurance documents to convince the Council to allow us to shoot on the Civic Office roof (they were actually pretty cool about it all, if a little scared of the fact we play metal and shout). Once we had the location we met up with friend and local director Johny Thrash to discuss shooting, he somehow convinced 3 of his london based friends (who at the time were working on Wes Anderson’s “The Fantastic Mr Fox”) to come down and help us out.

In the end we managed a 3 camera shoot and we are pretty happy with the result. The whole thing was done on a beg, borrow and steal budget (£350 believe it or not , and most of that was the insurance). We would love it if we could get some publicity through your site as to be honest Rock and Metal gets a pretty hard time when it comes to promotion in Pompey, when compared to the more commercial Pompey indie scene.”

Tags: Belligerence

Is Britain Great? 2. Book launch & exhibition.

Following the success of Is Britain Great?, the catalogue from our Aspex gallery exhibition of the same name, we’ve put together another volume of Caravan Gallery photos to delight, dismay and enthral you!

Come and join us at the launch of ‘Is Britain Great? 2′ for Battenberg cake, Irn Bru and a glass of wine if you’re lucky. We’ll bung some Caravan Gallery photos on the wall and show the first cut of ‘The Other South Bank’, a short film by Pilgrim Films resulting from our ongoing collaboration.

Signed copies of the book will be available at a bargain price – stock up now for Christmas! Send them to your expatriate friends to show them what they’re missing!

Friday, November 6th, 3:00pm – 8:00pm at GASP (Gallery at Art Space Portsmouth), 27 Brougham Rd, Southsea. You can keep up to date by following their Twitter.

Tags: Is Britain Great?

Chevron

Tomorrow night sees the re-launch of Chevron, a Southsea based Drum ‘n’ Bass, Jungle, Dubstep & Grime evening, held at The Loft, above The Kings in Albert Road. It’s £2 on the door from 9pm to 2am and will feature:

DJ Charge and Sekklow (aka CK), create a legendary concoction of fast paced drum and bass combined with scratching and anthemic teases. The last time this pair was seen together was the closing night of Breakneck on South Parade Pier, now they’ll be tearing up the dance floor with a 3 deck takeover.

Plus Mass Damage and JD vs Poduwan.

Check out the Facebook event for all the details and a free mixtape by Mass Damage too.

Tags: Drum 'n' Bass, The Loft

Sumo 5th Birthday presented by Scratch Perverts

Sumo will be celebrating it’s 5th birthday this evening with Beatdown, presented by Scratch Perverts at Liquid in the city centre. The evening will feature:

Room 1:
SCRATCH PERVERTS
SKREAM
ZINC
SUB FOCUS
EXAMPLE (live)
DJ WIRE
DYNAMITE MC

Room 2:
New Music Society djs
Drum and Bass Society djs [UP.dnb]

Tickets are £10 for NUS and £12 other. For more information go to the Facebook event.

Tags: Scratch Perverts, Sumo