Sopranos in Palmerston Road, Southsea has a fantastic new menu, a new wine list and a brand new website www.sopranos-southsea.com. They also have a big white wall the length of their restaurant which is crying out for new art work!
Any artist/photographers etc interested in displaying their work need to contact Tommy either in the restaurant 02392 811139 or they can email info@sopranos-southsea.com. This is also based on zero commission on any work sold so its win, win all round!
Continuing the now monthly theme of readers photos of South Parade Pier we have for you Lisa Florence, Matthew Maber, Pete Blackman and Tom Dangerous . First up are Lisa’s lovely winter shots of the Pier through the Esplanade Gardens. Secondly Matthew Maber’s creative angles of this familiar sight. Pete’s tonemapped and HDR shots and Toms tide out january photos.
Have a look at last months photographs from Lauren McPeak and Phil Bennett Austen McLean, Steve Langton and James Kellam over HERE.
Got any shots of your own? Send them over to me at tristan@strong-island.co.uk and we’ll do another post next month.
Come along to Love Southsea Beach party at The Square Tower Old Portsmouth this coming Sunday 7th August from 11am till 3pm for some live music, a BBQ, and try a delicious cup of tea and a slice of cake courtesy of our vintage tea party girls all served up to you on old fashion vintage crockery.
All set in one of Southsea’s oldest and most beautiful buildings with stalls featuring small antiques, boutique businesses, not on the high street finds for your home, beautiful jewellery, bespoke furniture and so much more!!
You can even take a picture of yourself dressed in your Beachwear dancing at our Love Southsea Beach party then tag Love Southsea on Facebook and the winners will receive a free family swim at The Pyramid’s Centre. Come down and show your support to the local community, local businesses and historic sites of Portsmouth.
The Belle Isle offers some of the best food around in one of the nicest environment in town. If you still haven’t been i highly recommend it and what better way to entice than the opportunity to WIN a free meal for two. Simply head HERE and follow the Facebook instructions for your chance to enjoy a lovely free meal. Noms.
Roland is a man after my own heart, He can often be found at the Dog when I play records and is one of the few people I know who really gets Pet Sounds, you can tell this by his regular requests. These are ‘Save Me’ by Nina Simone, Anything by Duran Duran or ‘Tears’ by 80s indie band The Chameleons. I like playing songs for Ro. So it’s with great pleasure that I hand things over to him this week. He originally came to me with a YouTube mix, which was admittedly brilliant, however, not in keeping with the format. After going away and digging deep, I think he’s come back with one of the best realised playlists yet. So, take it away my man…
About Roland: That bloke at the bar, the one with the hair and the Guinness.
About this playlist: I randomly stumbled across the last track, “Polaroid Roman Photo – Ruth” on youtube and when Charlie launched Friends of Pet Sounds he suggested I make a playlist based around it. So, the criteria for being in the list became: European, late seventies to mid-eighties, mostly electronic, a bit experimental or quirky and still “fresh” sounding. The research I did revealed a set of genres I knew little about (SynthPop / Neue Deutsche Welle / NewWave / ColdWave / SynthWave / DarkWave ) which I’ve lumped together under a catch all title of Post Punk. The other thing I’ve tried to do was use examples that cover a broad emotional range; from brilliant pop silliness like Da Da Da – Trio, through to the epic moodiness of Twinkling Stars – Nine Circles. I’ve put Kraftwerk first as a sort of reference point, something most people will know. I’m so pleased Charlie asked for this because I’ve really enjoyed the challenge and completely fallen in love with these tunes.
01 The Man Machine – Kraftwerk 1978 German
02 Victim de Societe – Telex 1979 Belgian
03 Triangle – Jacno 1979 French
04 Kebab Träume – D.A.F 1980 German
05 Dilemma – Moderne 1981 French
06 Twinkling Stars – Nine Circles 1982 Dutch
07 The Devil’s Dancers – Oppenheimer Analysis 1982 English
08 Da Da Da – Trio 1982 German
09 A Gift of Tears – Jeunesse D’ Ivoire 1983 Italian
10 Felicita – Deux 1983 French
11 Mit Dir – Robert Gorl 1983 German
12 Collapsing New People – Fad Gadget / Einstürzende Neubauten 1983 British / German
13 Anyway – Oto 1984 French
14 Come Back to Sarah – End of Data 1984 French
15 Polaroid Roman Photo – Ruth 1985 French
Small budget. Small cast. Small crew. All voluntary. All Portsmouth. Here’s Fit Boy. Straight out of Somerstown and premiering at No.6 on the 4th September at 5pm. A few swears and naughty stuff so watch at will.
With the Hindhead tunnel now open the Portsmouth Waterfront City tourist programme has utilised it in it’s marketing for the city, hoping many more people will take advantage of the huge travel time savings on the A3 route and visit Portsmouth and Southsea. We’ve featured many vintage tourism posters and artwork over the years and many of them were related to train travel to allow people easier access to the city, beach and other tourist attractions, it seems the tunnel may well be the inspiration for future designs.
Everyone loves spending some time down The bandstand, so why not double your fun and join The Shutka Champions & The Elizians for some LIVE music from 1-4pm on Saturday 30th July. Playing alongside will be local DJs Dj’s Albino Monkey, Mark Persaud, Matt Berry and Tom Shanks and then there’s an after party at Little Johnny Russells. saturday, done.
The next Art on the Pier event is happening on Sunday 31st July and this time is only for the one day. It’s at the same place as usual, on South Parade Pier and the opening times are 10am -5pm and entry is of course free to the public.
They will be holding their second ‘Vote for your favourite Artist’ competition where they ask the public to vote for their favourite display, the exhibitor with the most votes at the end of the day is crowned the winner. Artist Dean Martin became the first winner at the Easter exhibition with his display of amazing paintings; he’ll be at the pier this Sunday too – winner for the second time, who knows?
There are still a few space for those wishing to exhibit on Sunday, head over to the website to register your interest at www.artonthepier.co.uk. All are welcome from the first time amateur to the more professional. Also anyone wanting to share a table is more than welcome to do so, that includes a call out to students. We only ask that the work displayed is for sale and has been created by the exhibitor.
This Monday 1st August see’s the first Eye Candy Exhibition being held at Bonzo on Albert Road. The opening event will have plenty of drinks and home made treats for everyone and your friends, plus bonus savoury home grown garden snacks.
Spread the word and head over to Facebook to arrange tickets for the opening event. Tickets are £2 and include all the tasty treats and drinks you like while enjoying the colourful, energetic exhibition and people. Alternatively, contact Kendal Mint Cake 07403477890 to arrange tickets.
The exhibition will be available at this location until the 14th August and everyone including children are welcome to enjoy the exhibition.
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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