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Strong Island X Bored Christmas Moustache & Metal Bash

To celebrate the festive season and Strong Islands 1st Birthday we’ve teamed up once again with our favourite skatestore Bored to bring you some midweek fun and entertainment. This time in the shape of a Moustache and Metal Bash at The Little Johnny Russells on Albert Road. Gentle Bren will be taking it back to his younger days with some Metal mixed with a Disco touch. Backing Brendan with DJ support will be Paul Gonella, Toby Taylor, Jay Pateman, Julian Brett & Daniel Emo. We’ve no idea what they will play and have left it totally open. Be warned…

There will be a limited supply of FREE Moustaches on the night and hopefully some Brandy & Christmas Cake too. So, get involved in the kick start to the Christmas Holidays and either grow one, shave one, draw one or stick one on to show your love with some top lip action.

Big thanks to the Johnny Russells boys for letting us have the pub. Oh yeah, book Thursday off work. What better way to use that remaining holiday than nursing a spectacular hangover.

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As always, thanks for all the support over the last year and we look forward to putting on more events and working with friends new and old in the new year.

Download the poster HERE.

8 Comments to Strong Island X Bored Christmas Moustache & Metal Bash

  1. This is going to be awesome. I’m playing monk chants for 30 minutes.

    Paul on November 16th, 2009
  2. I’ve not heard of ‘Monk Chants’, is this what the kids are into these days?

    Tristan on November 16th, 2009
  3. Gents, I think you will find the correct term is “Monk-step”………

    Pudding Snack! on November 17th, 2009
  4. ………Its basically a derivative of “Drum and bells”……

    Pudding Snack! on November 17th, 2009
  5. You might be on to something there. I’ve changed my mind anyway, I’m going for Ragga-Enya

    Paul on November 17th, 2009
  6. This theme is gonna blow the sweets outta my advent calender into beyond January!

    Jay Raynor on November 17th, 2009
  7. Welsh Bangra is making a comeback with a dub twist…

    Tristan on November 17th, 2009
  8. Best Strong Island comment ever goes to Jay “This theme is gonna blow the sweets outta my advent calender into beyond January!”.

    Tristan on November 17th, 2009

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PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

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.

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

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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