Just a quick post on behalf of Mike Hassanyeh at Chilli Tattoo on Albert Road. He has an approximate 20 x 7ft space on the side of his shop he is opening up to any graffiti artists to use. Any potential artists can contct Mike by email at wanderingbrush@hotmail.com or alternatively pop by and see him at the shop at 58 Albert Road to discuss ideas.
Hopefully this will be a nice new addition to some of the great art pieces that are popping up in the Albert Road area.
This weeks Pet Sounds Weekly Playlist comes in the form of Bearded Heroes. What with Charlie and Tim being big advocates of the man beard this playlist was inevitable really. Grab it from Spotify HERE and listen to all the past playlistS HERE.
01 One – Harry Nilsson
02 Strange Times – The Black Keys
03 Factory – Band Of Horses
04 Wordless Chorus – My Morning Jacket
05 Skinny Love – Bon Iver
06 If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out – Cat Stevens
07 River Song – Dennis Wilson
08 Mantra Slider – The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
09 Souljacker Part 1 – Eels
10 Drops In The River – Fleet Foxes
11 Box Of Rain – The Grateful Dead
12 Bandits – Midlake
13 Chinese Children – Devendra Banhart
14 Boy With A Coin – Iron & Wine
15 Wiser Time – The Black Crowes
16 L.A. Woman – The Doors
17 It Came From The Ground – Badly Drawn Boy
18 Do You Realize?? – The Flaming Lips
19 Solid Air – John Martyn
20 Puff, The Magic Dragon – Bonnie “Prince” Billy
This years éS Game of S.K.A.T.E will be held on the 15th August at The Red Flat like last years competition. Expect a big turn out of both on and off island locals both entering and spectating. Bored of Southsea are of course hosting this event so if you have any questions drop them a line or pop in store.
The winner of each event will be invited to compete in the UK final on 5th September, and the winner of the UK final will be flown to the European final later this year. Pictured below is last years winner Tom. Straight outta Milton fool.
The boys over at SFGFC have a small selection of their first run tees left and are offering them at the bargain price of £10 which includes free UK shipping. Ten for a tee in anyones book is tip top. Jump on them now before that kid down the road get’s one before you. Grab yours HERE.
The Royal Navy’s two newest warships are set to be dazzling double act as the newest naval technology features alongside the historic prowess of the naval fleet of the past, including HMS Victory and HMS Warrior 1860, at this summer’s Navy Days event at Portsmouth Naval Base and Historic Dockyard.
The new formidable Type 45 destroyers HMS Daring and HMS Dauntless are among the most powerful warships in the world and for the first time together they will open their hatches to the public for the three-day event, which runs Friday 30th July – Sunday 1st August.
This spectacular event ensures that there is always something going on around every corner from awe-amazing military displays of the Royal Navy Black Cats helicopter team and the Royal Marines Display Team, to displays of strength, courage and teamwork from the Field Gun Crews of HMS Sultan and HMS Collingwood, army parachute teams, motorcycle displays and of course the military band.
Over 800 years of naval history will be brought to life at every turn with historical re-enactment displays, a cast of hundreds of costumed characters and the welcoming doors of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Mary Rose Museum and HMS Warrior 1860 will open wide to guarantee a fantastic, fun-filled day out for all the family!
Tickets available from the Visitor Information Service – on Southsea Seafront and right outside the entrance to the Historic Dockyard. Adults £19.50, Child / Senior £16, Family £55.
Further information is available from the Navy Days website – www.navydaysuk.co.uk as well as online ticketing HERE.
Photo by Gillian Hoy
Now I must admit I forgot about this. Somehow. Coming soon to an area of common ground near you is the truly epic Ultrasauros. A spectacular 16 metre tall recreation of an accidental dinosaur, will graze Southsea Common. A set of giant dinosaur bones was discovered in the 1970s in the United States by Professor Jim Jensen, and was believed to be the largest dinosaur ever. However, it was later revealed that the collection of fossils came from two different dinosaur species and Ultrasauros was, in fact, a fiction. Ultrasauros is without a doubt the largest structure to of ever stood freely on the common. To my knowledge that is…
Creators Heather & Ivan Morison will also be hosting a sculptural & photographic exhibition at The Aspex Gallery. ‘An Unreachable Country. A Long Way to Go’ will explore how things may transcend their given forms to create the vehicles for humankind to journey beyond the fragile and temporal world.
There is more information on events and activities surrounding the Ultrasuros’s stay in Southsea over at www.visitportsmouth.co.uk
Image : www.visitportsmouth.co.uk
Image : Aspex
The 24th of July, the beautifully sun-soaked Saturday just gone, saw the urban culture & skate event; King Apparel King Kong 2010 take over Southsea Skatepark.
Aimed at celebrating & encouraging the creative sides of urban culture, it certainly did that. The ‘Street Art Doodle Wall’ was well and truly covered in a bit of everyone’s creative (and messy) spark, shout out to all the artists down on the day who had some great freestyle pieces going down, stuART, Mr. Kemp, Leila, Bryan & Joe. Also our arty sponsors Graphotism & Ironlak (well worth checking out if your into that kind of thing).
Plenty of fat beats boomed out across the park and common around it thanks to DJ Mos, Kenny, Random Scarves & the Durty Sound System DJs, a beastly selection of dirty dubstep, DnB, hip hop & alternative funk kept everyone’s tastes more than satisfied, sound track to the day couldn’t have been better.
Anyone unlucky enough to not make it down missed out on some hot as hell discounts on some of the freshest threads about, as the King Apparel team were down in force with a stall showcasing their selection of fine garments and not to forget the crafty locals Individual Threads.
Last but not least the key part of this year’s event; The Herbal Skateboards Mini-Ramp Jam was SICK.
Contest format was a minute each, going into a final 5 skaters with 2 minute runs. It was a heated battle and off the chain tricks were going down left, right & centre, but in the end the victors looked a little something like this:
In 1st Adam Keys, 2nd Noddy Rands & 3rd Bob Grist. All well deserving winners, with plenty of King Apparel, Herbal SBs, LovenSkate & Vans products as prizes. Again well done guys!
This was followed by a best trick contest and Casey Brown took top honours with the smith to kickflip out that he had nailed pre-contest…so sick. Some King Apparel T-shirts and a Herbal skateboard found their way into Casey’s mitts.
Thanks goes out to the Herbal crew who ran the jam, Strong Island’s Paul Gonella who kindly came down to help judge the contest, SUSO Drinks who kept everyone from going thirsty on a very hot day and everyone at Southsea Skatepark for helping making the event happen.
Writeup by Nick Stokes.
Video by Herbal Skateboards.
James Weaver has put his latest illustration up online over at www.deepsouth-illustration.com. It’s the far side view of Clarence Pier to pair up with the last illustration of the Pier & Gift Shop and is available for £19 (A4) and £39 (A3). Head over to The Deep South Shop and grab one now. I can’t get enough of these illustrations. Definitely some of my favourite works this year.
“Clarence Pier was built in 1861, channeling steamboats over to the Isle of Wight. It was heavily bombed in World War II, and reopened in its present form with amusement arcades and funfair in 1961. A decline in interest to traditional British seaside attractions led to the Pier coming close to bankruptcy in recent times, and its days are surely numbered, although Pirate Pete’s, the legendary childrens indoor playground (social leprosy would be dead cert if any self-respecting primary schooler declined to hold their birthday party there in the late 80’s – early 90’s) is still in use, as is the Skyways rollercoaster, and one of the few remaining Wimpy bars can be found there.”
Those good ‘ole boys at The Little Johhny Russells have just updated their online presence with a fancy new website. For those of you who have not heard of LJR or remain curious as what’s going on there then all your questions can be answered through one all knowing portal at littlejohnnyrussells.com where you can keep up to date, either on their Calendar, Blog, Facebook or Twitter. All bases covered there that’s for sure.
Their extremely impressive list of acts so far include: One Man Party (Steve of Soulwax), Fake Blood, Annie Mac, The XX, Friendly Fires, The Foals, Simian Mobile Disco, DJ Zinc, Scratch Perverts, Beardyman, Joe Ransom, Jaguar Skills, Sinden, Vicarious Bliss, Mickey Moonlight, DJ Format, Maximo Park, Sunshine Underground, The Futureheads, Bloc Party, Cooper Temple Clause, Belle & Sebastian, The Horrors, The Macabbees, Good Shoes, Peaches Geldof, Rob da Bank, DJ Derek, Sinden, Dirty Pretty Things, Carl Barat, Rodney P & Skitz, Mystery Jets & Cash Money. Proper…
Website Design : Mark Persuad from Devine Aesthetic
The New Theatre Royal has recently been filming many of it’s productions and has set up a new YouTube with many of the performance edits. You can watch the edits, comment and subscribe so you can keep an eye on when new edits are added.
www.youtube.com/newtheatreroyal
The following edit shows the recent Kompany Malakhi performance in Guildhall Square, Portsmouth. Edited by Lucia and Joe from Admiral Lord Nelson School.
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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