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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

The 2nd Strong Island Ale – Dry Dock No. 1

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.

The Isle Of Wight Randonnee 2012 – Team Strong Island

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.