Cheekish Productions Theatre Competition

WIN a LIMITED EDITION hand painted skateboard by Joseph Loughborough if you buy a ticket for Cheekish Productions‘ show at the The New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, on March 2. Just buy a ticket from Bored of Southsea, where they are exhibited to enter. Come along to the show and we shall announce the winners at the end of the night (Must be present to win)! More event information on at the Cheekish Productions Facebook.

See you there and good luck.

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Photographer wanted – COR Ashley Beedle

All round nice guy Mark Persuad got in contact to ask if we could put a call out for a Photographer for this Saturdays (27th Feb) COR party with Ashley Beedle. If you fancy taking on this gig then you and a friend can get in for FREE, but they can’t pay a fee. So no negotiations. If you think this is something you’d like to do then drop mark an email asap at mark@c-o-r.co.uk

The following is another message from those crazy disco cats at Civilisation Of The Rough. Sterling.

The wraps are off, the details are out!! You knew ASHLEY BEEDLE was coming to town – Here are the details….COR will be dusting down the GETTANO banner for our first party of 2010 and we’ve invited along the pioneering DJ and producer ASHLEY BEEDLE to lead the proceedings! The man responsible for such wonderful house delights as The Black Science Orchestra and The Ballistic Brothers and of course he is one third of the mighty Xpress2.

We’re going back to the venue of the first GETTANO party for this one – The Loft, Albert Road. Get involved. If you don’t know, get to know. Big Love. More Details to follow. If you don’t know, GETTANO! Follow Facebreaker HERE

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Strong Island Kit of Parts

All ready to get printed. Paul, I’ll get the emails right this time round. Business cards, Stickers & Badges soon…

Love You Too Premiere @ No.6 Cinema

“Love You Too” is a film about infatuation, desolation and a young boy’s struggle through false hope. Ostracized from the school cliques he falls into a downward spiral triggered by his obsession over a suicide video. His father provides no help; entangled in his own web of sex, lies and addiction. The characters descend further into moral ambiguity and self-deprecation before reaching a harrowing denouement.

The film stars local young actors as well as Nick Thomas Webster (Harry Potter,Sweeney Todd.) and Fiona Ryan (Tv the tudors.) and other professional actors, it was shot all over Portsmouth during last summer and had a budget of just under a grand

The premiere its self is FREE, but we do ask for donations on the door to cover the security. There will be refreshments sold just before the premiere… including alcohol. After the premiere we will be doing a Q+A session with the cast and crew so feel free to ask any question. If you wish to attend just put your name below and how many guests you would like to bring. Hope to see you all there.

The premier screening of Love You Too will be at 18.30 at the NO.6 Cinema, in case your unaware of where that is its in the dockyards where the action stations are (look for boat house number 6).

To see more details and RSVP head over to Facebook.

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Miles Davis at the Isle of Wight Festival

Nope, he won’t be playing a posthumous show at this year’s festival, the title refers to the 1970 festival. Although not quite Portsmouth (well, maybe he came through to get the ferry) but I’ve been listening to the live recording of Miles Davis and band from this festival. Despite it being a little before my time I can’t begin to imagine how incredible it must have been to see him play in the flesh (let alone The Doors, Hendrix, etc!) with a crowd of 600,000!

Did anyone here go? Please post your memories. If you didn’t go or were too young have a watch below, the other parts of the performance are also on YouTube too.

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Honest Politician Pool Competition

The Honest Politician on Elm Grove is holding a pool competition on Monday 1st March from 8pm. Only £2 to put your name down and if you are good enough you may well get snapped up as a member of the pub’s pool team. Be warned, the staff there are training up in preparation…!

(Artwork by Emo)

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Submit Southsea Recipes

We mentioned the Southsea Food Girl blog the other day, Lou is asking for original, local recipe submissions for the blog:

“I started it to share recipes with friends, I would love some recipes from local residents! It has to be there own creation because I’d like to start an online collection of free local recipes, to celebrate our food culture.”

Recipes can be emailed to loubeerocks@gmail.com and will be featured on the site.

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Southsea up for auction

Sidetracked on eBay here’s a selection of random bits and bobs I quite liked today. Check out South Parade Pier in flames.

Vintage Photography – Sunny Southsea

Following on from photos of The bandstand and Tennis Courts the other week, here’s another scan from Khalid.

Back before East Jet in the late 1940s, early 1950s people flocked to Southsea seafront. Check the beach huts near Canoe Lake. Dozens of them and the Paddling Pool which is now occupied by the Sealife Centre. Love the little train to the right of the picture. Click for a closer look.

Tags: Photography, Seafront & The Coastline, Vintage & Historical Portsmouth

Following Toby Taylor on Bored

If like me you can’t get enough of skateboarding, but just don’t know where to dig everything out from that there world wide webby, then local top gun Toby Taylors twitter feed for Bored of Southsea will fill all your needs in the world of local and international skateboarding. Jump on Tobys feed HERE. Check Tobys Tre Flip at the underpass courtesy of Tom Timewaster.

BoredRuffCuts2008-2009 from tommccaughan on Vimeo.

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The Pipettes

The wonderful Pipettes will be performing at the Wedgewood Rooms on Sunday 25th April, tickets are only £8 and available online or at the box office. These ladies really are really rather special, will see you there.

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New Issue of YEAH!

The new issue of YEAH Magazine is now available and can be picked up in Bored in Albert Road. This locally produced magazine showcases loads of local and national photographic and writing talent and is only £2.25. Find out more at the YEAH website (where you can also buy the magazine online) and blog.

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Bored Store Nike Competition – Fluff

Bored currently have a competition to win the new Nike SB Fluff book. It’s a freakin whooper, believe me. Enter HERE.

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Southsea Skatepark Mini Ramp

Well, my informant might have been a little ahead of schedule at the weekend. Which is a real shame, but by no means a downer. This mini is looking sick already. 30 foot wide and 4 foot high. Perfect for beginners and old dogs alike. Would benefit from a goofy and regular tombstone maybe, or even a channel. Hey, I can’t complain though, this is very exciting.

Sorry Borneo, it looks like the session will have to literally take a rain check, but believe me, the back lip to back smith reverts are coming soon. Photo courtesy of Claire Sambrooks early morning dog walk.

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Blueprint Skateboards Film Premier

We all know Bored runs things on the Southcoast and to mark the release of Blueprints “Make Friends with the Colour Blue” skate film, the whole team will be touring across the UK and will make their regional stop in Portsmouth on the 6th of April.

They will be hitting up Emsworth skatepark at 1pm for a demo session, then head over Bored for a 5pm signing and finish things off at 7.30pm in Little Jonny Russells for the regional premiere of “Make Friends with the Colour Blue”

For more information about this event please contact Bored at www.boredofsouthsea.co.uk or head over to the Facebook page for updates. Make sure to put this one in your diary. A very unique opportunity to see the Blueprint Team in Southsea. Hats off to the Bored team. Nice one.

Tags: Blueprint Skateboards, Bored, Make Friends with the Colour Blue

Galleons of Light

Galleons of Light will be performing tomorrow night at LJRs as part of a free music evening. Galleons of Light includes one of Southsea’s busiest bees Louise Bush and Samuel Carter and his very impressive effects pedals. Should be good. The night also sees The Marvellous Mechanical Band playing too who are meant to have a Captain Beefheart feel.

Tags: Galleons of Light, Little Johnny Russells, The Marvellous Mechanical Band

FREE Drum & Bass with Breakneck & UP.dnb

As a payback to all the regulars who have attended nights over the past few months, UP.dnb will be teaming up with the legendary Breakneck team to put on a FREE 100% Drum and Bass night. More info over at the Facebook event page.

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MICKEY MOONLIGHT at little Johhny Russells

If you don’t know Ed banger Records then shame, shame, we know your name. Leading on from his Soulwax tour Ed Bangers Mickey Moonlight will be shutting the dancefloor down at LJRs this Saturday 27th. Come prepared as it’s gonna be rammed.

Time Bomb at The Wedgewood Rooms

“Just to let you all know that my band ‘Time-Bomb‘ are playing at the Wedgewood Rooms on Friday 26th February. We are supporting the fantastic 8 piece Portsmouth Ska Band ‘Orange Street’ who play a fantastic set of Ska Covers (Madness, Bad Manners etc).

We will be providing our hard hitting Mod/Ska set with numbers from the likes of The Jam, The Who, The Small Faces, The Specials, (and any other band with ‘the’ in the title!), and our own material. The night will then be finished off into the early hours with Dj’s playing similar music.

This all for the tidy sum of just £6 in advance. Tickets can be bought from the venue ticket office (across the road from Wedgewood Rooms) in Southsea or through their website wedgewood-rooms.co.uk

This is our first time playing at the Wedgewood rooms so your support would be welcomed and I am confident if you like Mod or Ska Music or just a night out with live bands you will not be dissapointed. Cheers, Guy Cowmeadow.

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Coming soon to Palmerston Road, Southsea

As sad as the loss of a once national retail treasure is it really good to see that the empty Woolworths on Palmerston Road in Southsea has a new owner. Portsmouth City Council has agreed a lease on the property for an exciting new state-of-the-art library, contact centre and café is coming to the heart of Southsea’s shopping centre.

The building will be re-developed to create a library, IT learning zone, community space for local groups, contact centre for council services and café. We hope that the new library, contact centre and café could attract almost 80,000 visitors a year. This is an increase of 16,000 on the number of visitors to Elm Grove library which will be closed as part of the scheme.

Councillor Lee Hunt, Member for Culture and Leisure said: “This is a once in the lifetime opportunity to relocate a library into the heart of Southsea. The IT learning zone, community space and café will also broaden the range of services available to all members of the community who live in or visit the area.”

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