“Thanks to all those that came along. It was a great day filled with some amazing designs, sun and beautiful bikes. From the harp bike to bikes made from scrap and turned into low riders, trikes and a homage to Dennis Hopper.” Claire Sambrook
See the Flickr group for more images. Further images will follow later in the week and please add/send your pics of the day to Flickr or via the website.
Southsea Skatepark is the venue for the main Love Your Bike Portsmouth event from 10am-5pm. Limited quantities of goodie bags so to avoid being left out get there early.
It’s going to be an action packed day with Ben Wilson showcasing his bikes and welding on site. Death Spray Custom will be airbrushing bikes, Tokyo Fixed Gear have a mini shop, Gocycle will be offering demos of their bike and showcasing special custom editions, RAW Bamboo will be bringing a few of their bikes and the new Fixei range will also be unveiled.
There will be loads of workshops and offers of help with customisation from various people including Portsmouth Creative Movement, Stu Rodda, Ian and Adam Macpherson. Badger Press will be bringing a screen printing set-up so that you can design your own bags etc, The Caravan Gallery will be bringing their own eclectic mix of cycling photographs and Southsea Gallery will be selling artwork including some of the spoke card designs.
Bike Polo and BMX Demos and the winner of the Schools Competition will be announced.
To check out the full list visit – http://www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/contributors
From 4pm head to Albert Road where Ian Parmiter will have an exhibition of Vintage Bikes with DJ Set and have your photograph taken on a penny farthing, ROKii Clothes will be announcing the winner of their bike and then head to Little Johnny Russell’s for free food at 6pm.
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Your Twenty Four is a new regular feature for Strong Island and each instalment will contain up to 24 photographs taken over a 24 hour period within Portsmouth by different people. You can shoot one roll of film or take out your digital camera and just document what you got up to. I’m going to start off with a sunny Saturday morning’s beachcombing in Langstone Harbour followed by a bike ride along the seafront to Bored, including a look around the Marine Museum grounds, one of the forts, the pier, etc. All shot on one roll of film in an Olympus Pen half-frame camera.
We are looking for contributions for future Y24 posts so if you are up for documenting your day please get in contact.
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This week’s new playlist is now up and can be listened to here (if you have signed up to Spotify). All the songs are film based.
A quick reminder that the HoA guys will be part of the Pet Sounds night at Kraken Wakes on Saturday night, more info can be found on Facebook. See you there.
01. Miserlou – Dick Dale (Pulp Fiction)
02. Watermelon Man – Mongo Santamaria (Out Of Sight)
03. Freddie’s Dead – Curtis Mayfield (Super Fly)… See more
04. Lowrider – War (Up In Smoke)
05. Slow Ride – Foghat (Dazed & Confused)
06. Sweetness – Yes (Buffalo 66)
07. Gimme Shelter – Rolling Stones (Goodfellas)
08. Woo Hoo – The 5, 6, 7, 8’s (Kill Bill pt 1)
09. Little Green Bag – George Baker Selection (Reservoir Dogs)
10. Just Dropped In – Kenny Rogers (The Big Lebowski)
11. Frankenstein – Edgar Winter (Artie Lange’s Beer League)
12. Partyman – Prince (Batman)
13. Machine Gun – Commodores (Boogie Nights)
14. Leave Home – Chemical Bros (Clubbed to Death (Lola))
15. Sweet Home Alabama – Lynryd Skynyrd (Con Air)
16. Everybody’s Talkin – Harry Nilsson (Midnight Cowboy)
Don B is a legendary skateboarder from the south coast and one of the true innovators in British skateboarding. Southampton skateshop Reskue recently posted a blog all about him and it included some photos from the 80s of Don B skating Southsea Skatepark. Below are a couple and click here to see more and read up on the one and only Don B.
A quick reminder that Bored of Southsea in partnership with Strong Island and The Little Johnny Russells present their Summer T-Shirt Launch Party, featuring LIVE music from The Colourmasks and plenty of earful treats from some of your favourite local DJ’s. In other words a great excuse for a party. Come one, come all. FREE entry tonight.
This Friday & Sunday Simon Whitcomb will be painting LIVE at Wallspace on Albert Road. If anyone wants to come along and check out how he works or ask him any questions about working as an artist, his work or life in general etc then feel free. Wallspace is at 2C Albert Road.
Jon Lasenby just sent me this update on a brand new 2 day event being held this July 10/11th at The RMA Tavern in Eastney. A grass roots and true DIY mini festival with Punk, folk, hip hop and all the good stuff. Sounds awesome for sure.
War and Wine Festival takes place on the 10th and 11th of July, at the RMA Tavern on Cromwell Road in Southsea, Portsmouth. Day tickets cost £7 for Saturday, £5 for Sunday, weekend tickets are available for just £10, with profits from this years ticket sales going to charity. Tickets now on sale at www.warandwine.org contact ian@warandwine.org
You can check out the full line up HERE and follow them on Facebook HERE. Really liking the poster design too. Good work all round guys.
“As a young teenager growing up in Auckland, New Zealand I would visit Real Groovy records every Saturday.’ War and Wine’s Jon explains. ‘I’d spend a good 2 to 3 hours searching through the endless racks for my next major discovery. I found treasures like Black Flag, Minor Threat, the Circle Jerks, Bad Brains, DRI, 7 Seconds, MC5, Iggy and the Stooges and many more. They shaped my life and gave me friendships that are still in place to this day.’
‘What inspired me was how so many of these bands didn’t rely on record labels or major financial funding. They just did it themselves. The War and Wine Festival has come from the same philosophy. When I met Ian, a man who shared the same thoughts and beliefs, I knew I’d found a kindred spirit. We didn’t want these hard working musicians to go unheard, we wanted to see them play in Portsmouth. We didn’t want to get ripped off by some faceless promoter, we wanted to organise it ourselves.”
Some absolute classic skate footage from Southsea Skatepark from 1992. The edit features skating by Greg Nowik and Mike Manzoori plus locals Chris Moore, Ian Collenette, Ian Harper, Barry Abrook and Mark Matthews.
Keep your Friday bubbling this Bank Holiday at 10Ton vs JubJub at The Wedgewood Rooms, and the pre-party at The One Eyed Dog.
MAIN EVENT/// 11.30pm-3am The Wedgewood Rooms
MISTAJAM (Radio 1/1Xtra), DJ ZINC (House Set), SDM & SEKKLOW (4 decks b2b)
PRE-PARTY/// 8pm-1am The One Eyed Dog
ASH C & SIDEKICK, TWICENIGHTLY , MAARS, SDM
£6 earlybirds exclusively from ticketshack.co.uk £10 normal. More on the door if available. This event will sell out!! Buy/Arrive early to avoid disappointment. Outlets: Wedgewood Rooms Box Office. The One Eyed Dog. Withit. Dress Code.
This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
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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