Hands down one of my favourite food stores in Portsmouth. Having been there for as long as I can remember, Akram’s has always been THE place to go if you need your far eastern ingredients. Ranging from Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Jamaican and many other destinations, Akrams is your ticket down the spice trail. I can quite happily spend my time walking up and down the aisles buying items that I don’t recognise but I know will probably blow my head off. Alongside your obligatory pastes, sauces and spices, they also boast an in-house butchers, a veg section and frozen fish. Get yourselves down to Palmerston Road, check it out and immerse yourself in an exotic part of Southsea.
More information to follow early 2012…
You can find Angelo on a daily basis at Room 237 in Elm Grove.
iNDiGO! & SCIENCE are very excited to reveal details of their joint NYE Showcase at Drift Bar Southsea, with a line up that simply spells party. For more details or ticket info call 07792751592 or check out their Resident Advisor event page www.residentadvisor.net
A fantastic 12 months for music is almost up, I really had no idea there’d been so much good stuff until I tried in vain to repeat last year’s top 30. I couldn’t even manage it in 40 and I am ready and expecting complaints about omissions still.
My favourite albums of the year – D by White Denim, Cloud Control, Nicholas Jaar, Elbow are still killing it for me, Hearts, and the Battles album is top. There’s loads more though, some really good stuff.
Grab the Pet Sounds playlist HERE and check the past playlists HERE.
Hope you enjoy it and see you next year x
1. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
2. Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
3. Sbtrkt – Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon)
4. The Horrors – Changing The Rain
5. PJ Harvey – The Glorious Land
6. Bon Iver – Holocene
7. Jay Z & Kanye West – Welcome To The Jungle
8. Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
9. Arctic Monkeys – The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
10. Cass McCombs – County Line
11. Anna Calvi – Blackout
12. White Denim – Back At The Farm
13. Beirut – East Harlem
14. Nick Lowe – I Read A Lot
15. Wilco – Dawned On Me
16. My Morning Jacket – Holdin’ On To Black Metal
17. The Sand Band – The Secret Chord
18. Radiohead – Lotus Flower
19. Josh T. Pearson – Sweetheart I Ain’t Your Christ
20. Death In Vegas – Your Loft My Acid
21. James Blake – Limit To Your Love
22. Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi – Black (feat. Norah Jones)
23. Real Estate – It’s Real
24. Ghostpoet – Liiines
25. Battles – Ice Cream (Featuring Matias Aguayo)
26. Tune-Yards – Gangsta
27. St. Vincent – Surgeon
28. Cloud Control – There’s Nothing In The Water We Can’t Fight
29. Metronomy – The Look
30. Wild Beasts – Bed Of Nails
31. Gruff Rhys – Shark Ridden Waters
32. Feist – How Come You Never Go There
33. Lykke Li – Get Some
34. Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed
35. Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise
36. Justice – Civilization
37. The Black Lips – Family Tree
38. Yuck – Get Away
39. Girls – Honey Bunny
40. The Low Anthem – Apothecary Love
41. M83 – Midnight City
42. Oneohtrix Point Never – Andro
43. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
44. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats In The Attic
45. Björk – Crystalline
46. The War On Drugs – Come To The City
47. I Break Horses – Hearts
48. Kurt Vile – In My Time
49. WU LYF – Heavy Pop
50. Elbow – Open Arms
If your stuck for somewhere to go this new years eve, here’s a few suggestions. Click the links below for more information.
Little Johnny Russells – Silent Disco
One Eyed Dog
The Wine Vaults
The Registry – Concrete Music Presents…
The Wedgewood Rooms
The Spinnaker Tower
The Eastney Cellars
The Jolly Sailor
So the annual Strong Island Home Brew competition is drawing closer and I thought that me and the family would have some crafty fun. Whatever way your choosing to label up your liquid gold you can always get others involved in the process.
Draw/design your label.
Apply some PVA glue to the label and the bottle surface, I water mine down slightly.
Once you have applied the label tie some string around or rubber bands to help the label stay in place as it dries.
Just make sure you come up with a good name…
Myself and Paul would like to wish all our contributors, readers, supporters and friends a very Happy Christmas. Hopefully I’ll see many of you out and about in Southsea over the next week or so for a few cheeky beverages. Have a great time and if you’re off work give me a buzz.
“I’ve been performing as Hometown Show singing country-folk touring the UK and US since about 2007. The idea for Hometown Show’s Holiday Hoedown initially came around when Joel Ransom asked me to come down to the Express FM studios in Portsmouth to record a Christmas cover for his radio show.
Myself and Joshua Hibberd began knocking ideas around about a Christmas style chat show. A throw-back to the seasonal specials you used to see on TV such as Noels Christmas House Party where celebrity “guests” would show up. We thought that this would be a good platform to promote some of the wonderful musical talent that there is in Portsmouth, so we asked some of our favourite solo-artists to come down and record a Christmas song for us. Those artists were Jonny Bell, Dan Ogus and Andrew Ricks (Champ of The Day).
We shot the show over 3 days and we’re really happy with how its turned out. I hope you enjoy it.”
- Matthew Harrison (Hometown Show), www.hometownshow.co.uk and Facebook
Hometown Show’s Holiday Hoedown from Holiday Hoedown on Vimeo.
How’s the brews coming along? Just a little reminder about our 2nd Annual Strong Island Home Brew Competition for you all before you settle down to your excessive eating, drinking and all round Christmas fun! You can see the full post HERE
The judging evening will be held on Weds 1st February so if you haven’t started brewing yet then get cracking! Merry Christmas.
Local illustrator and designer Wendy Middleditch has designed these free printable paper angels. A lovely thing to sit together colour/make over the holidays. Im using some as place name settings on Christmas day, thanks Wendy!
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