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.
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
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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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