The NikeSB Planet Caravan Tour in association with Bored of Southsea comes to Southsea this coming Tuesday 28th September at 4pm till 7pm to throw down a jam session. Guaranteed bangers from the UK team. I Love Dust did the poster artwork and they will be available as giveaways on the day. First come, first served! Scrambles….
Photo: Paul Gonella
Le Cafe Parisien in Lord Montgomery Way will be home to an art and photography exhibition entitled ‘Moment’ from Friday 1st of October. The exhibition features work by Agniesgka Micbalaska, Maria Bailey, Matt O’Neill and Owen Bowles and the show opens at 6pm. Going to be good.
Find out more by contacting Maria Bailey at mariabailey@hotmail.com.
Southsea Fest is now in it’s fifth year and is cemented in the calendar now for many people. Here is a brief look back at where it all started and how it has developed into a fantastic day of music for Southsea.
The idea of Southsea Fest was born on the train whilst going and see a Prince gig at the 02 arena, and is the proud development of organiser Josie Curtis. Hailing from Gosport, Josie has been frequenting Southsea for a few years now and especially the music scene.
Saturday 15th September saw the first ever Southsea Fest hosted at Little Johnny Russells and Havana which featured The Dawn Chorus, Fresh Legs and Multicoloured Green to name but a few. It was set as a fundraiser for Josie’s brother Beau, to raise money to record an album due to an illness he was suffering and facing a long spell in hospital. After that proceeds went to The Ellen MacArthur trust as they were the first charity to help Beau. They gave him a laptop to record music during his stay in hospital so Josie felt it necessary to make this her chosen charity for Southsea Fest.
Another one in followed in December 2007 hosted again at LJRs and Havana which saw Little Fish perform for the first time. 3rd April 2008 saw the 3rd Southsea Fest held LJRs and the Fat Fox & Atrium. Whilst this was happening plans were being made made for a 10 venue spectacle in Sept 08 which lead to the format for Southsea Fest as we now know it. The following year in 2009 saw media attention from Art Rocker, NME and a small feature in The Guardian with the festival getting some much deserved coverage and again in the latest installment this year the Southsea Fest has acheived rave reviews across the board. Sept 2010 saw the Kings Theatre added to the festival venue list becoming the showpiece venue. The Strange Death of Liberal England, The B of the Bang, Dawn Chorus and Revere were the lucky chosen ones to grace the Kings stage that day.
In it’s existence so far the festival has hosted Eliza Doolittle, Band of Skulls, James Yuill and Kid Harpoon who have all gone on to make it big nationally, as well as giving many small unsigned acts the chance to appear in front of a large audience they might not normally have the opportunity to achieve.
Southsea Fest is a not for profit organisation and donates most of it’s proceeds to the Ellen MacArthur Trust. I’m sure you’ll all agree that it is a fantastic event to have here in Southsea and hopefully one that will continue in the future. Next year is the 5th birthday with some big things in store. Well done to Josie and all her team and the people who make Southsea Fest happen year in year out!
Back by dope demand from the Pet Sounds boys, the second installment of songs sans vox. Grab it HERE from Spotify and check all the past Playlists HERE.
01 Organ Donor – DJ Shadow
02 Rumble – Link Wray & His Raymen
03 Billy’s Bag – Billy Preston
04 Relaxin’ With Chery – Kid Loco
05 Roads Must Roll – Boom Bip
06 Dancing Drums – Ananda Shankar
07 The Man Part One – Peace Orchestra
08 Soul Finger – The Bar-Kays
09 Oscillate Wildly – The Smiths
10 My Elastic Eye – The Chemical Brothers
11 Rockit – Herbie Hancock
12 [A] Touch Sensitive – Super Furry Animals
13 Exchange – Massive Attack
14 Chocolat – Cornershop
15 Long Singing – Fridge
If you happened to have missed the BBC Radio Solent interview about Strong Island the other week you can now have a listen below. A big thanks to Bob for setting everything up.
One early riser sent us this foggy morning capture of the Ultrasauras on The Common. Thanks to Charley Whitmore, Southsea.
Sign up to the The Belle Isle or Little Johnny Russells mailing lists by clicking the links and you get a voucher to eat for a mere £1 at The Belle Isle. Just buy a single meal at the regular price and your quids in. Bloody lovely.
Futurators are here! – On 24th September Aspex will be hosting a recruitment event for The Futurators, a project which will be inviting local young people to conceive, curate, market, organise and budget for an exhibition to be shown at venues around the city throughout April 2011. The recruitment event will present opportunities to meet artists and practitioners as well as registering an interest in the project.
Any young people who are interested in taking part, but unable to attend on 24th September, should forward their contact details to amy@aspex.org.uk prior to that date.
To keep in touch with the project as it develops join The Futurators page on Facebook.
This Friday 24th September, in association with Portsmouth Film Society, The Kings Theatre are showing Quadrophenia, the classic Mod film featuring Sting, Ray Winstone, Phil Daniels, Lesley Ash and Toyah Wilcox. In 1960s London Jimmy, loathing his dead-end job and dead-end parents, lives for his scooter and his Mod mates. August Bank Holiday in Brighton looks like it will be great, with a chance to see his Vespa-riding hero, Ace, do battle with the Rockers, and maybe get lucky with Steph.
Also on the day will be pecial guest Gary Shail & Scooters in the street bewtween 4pm & 7pm. The film starts at 7.30pm and is hosted by Gary Shail, Ricky Tick, Djs and Mark Ballard Mod Ska Soul. All welcome. Love Albert Road. And if all goes to plan you will be able to pre-order tee shirts from Parmiters with the design showed below.
Tickets: Adults: £4, Concs: £3, Box Office 02392 828282, www.kings-southsea.com
Scooter Club Design: Tristan Savage
Does it need words? If you don’t know local rider Mark Webb then check this nice edit by Matty Lambert and see for yourself. Proper stuff. I can’t even get my head round some of it.
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.
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.
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