Digger Barnes is a ramblin’ troubadour. His songs are dark portrayals of outlaws, criminals and suicides. Influenced by early roots music, murderballads and gospel tunes he creates his own ghostly universe that could be described best as gothic americana or country noir.
Digger works also as a studio/touring musician and shared stages with Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Tim Barry (Avail), Tom Gabel (Against Me), Ben Nichols (Lucero), Jim Ward (At The Drive-In), Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Austin Lucas, Jon Snodgrass, Frank Turner (Kneejerk) and many more.
Together with visual artist Pencil Quincy he runs the Hamburg/Germany based label BARNES & QUINCY.
Jimmy Islip is a stalwart of the UK punk/emo scene. Having previously played in Eighty Six, Jimmy now divides his time between That Fucking Tank, Milloy and The Magnificent, whilst also playing solo acoustic shows. Check out his spilt with Chuck Ragan, Helen Chambers and Sam Russo.
Livers and Lungs are a 4 piece country outfit. They don’t play very often but are great to see when they do find the time to regale us with thoughtful and touching songs.
Monday the 23rd of January at The Edge of the Wedge, Southsea. £5
The day has finally come! Our album launch party that we’d hoped would have been in 2010 is now here and we’d like you to come and join us. This is the 1st of 3 shows over this weekend with Brighton & London on the consecutive following days.
Caves – One of the most positive punkrock bands in the UK!!! If you’re not singing along, then you need to change that! www.caves.bandcamp.com
Ravachol – this 4 piece from all over the UK have been killing it at every show! They play a powerful and interesting version of “screamo” music and we encourage you check them out!!!! www.ravachol.bandcamp.com
Southlands – Ex-’Chillerton’/'Circus Act’ & current ‘You, Me and the Atom Bomb’ playing punk rock like your Dad used to make you listen too. If your Dad was cool in the 90′s.
£1 on the door from 7:30pm and open till 1am. DJ Rusty Sheriff on afterwards @ The One Eyed Dog.
As Paul & Tristan have put up links to my blog before, I thought I’d save them the trouble. For those who have never been, it’s a fantastic city that has so much cultural relevance to Germanys history.
Some of the finest bands in Portsmouth come together to copy a concept from Nottingham – The Annual Christmas Covers Party!
The premise is simple, cram as many bands onto a stage and ask each of them to play three cover songs (not necessarily Christmas songs!). The suggestion is that they should make the original song sound plenty different, change it’s context, or just be damn memorable and funny.
It’s all about bands not taking… themselves too seriously, having a right laugh, and raising as much ca$h as we can for The Rowan’s Hospice.
Entry will be £4. You’ll get more than enough action than you should for that…
Tom Hussey will also be running a carbooty charity bargain basement, expect T-shirts, records and CD’s – all to raise ca$h for our charity Rowans Hospice.
Confirmed so far:
The epic sound that is ATTACK! VIPERS! Portsmouth’s finest hardcore, off the map act, packing all the girth other bands won’t come close to. Back wheels ‘n all. Not in the know? Don’t bother then… http://www.attackvipers.co.uk
Southsea’s perennial underachievers AEROPLANE ATTACK aim to set the record straight by playing real songs. Not theirs. Some songs might have actual words too! F**K. www.aeroplaneattack.com
BIG SQUIRREL are the original two piece. Garage rock in the key of experience. These silver surfers don’t need to rehearse, they just know. http://www.myspace.com/bigsquirrel
WATASHI CALCUTECS are not Japanese calculators, they are a 4 piece with only 3 people – fact. A class of mental calculators known as Calcutecs perform cryptography in a sealed-off portion of their brains, the results of which they are unable to access from their normal waking consciousness. http://www.myspace.com/watashicalcutecs
THE MARVELLOUS MECHANICAL BAND step into the breach to play their own brand of prog, jazz beefheart infused shenanigans. Bring your winding up keys… mechanical innit.
SMALL COWBOYS are the first act onstage. They’re virgins, but not like that. I’d like them to sound like the cerebral mix of RL Burnside and disco, but it won’t happen. Will it?
Bands will receive complimentary food noms courtesy of @Fox Chef who is returning to the previous high standard of food the fat fox is famed for. Thanks!
Hawks & Doves is Gared from Planes Mistaken For Stars solo project, this will be just him and an acoustic guitar and only one of a handful of UK dates. Now based in Chicago and a full length is due out on No Idea sometime this year, this is not too be missed, check out some jams here …
Support comes from:
The Owl Gene – First Portsmouth outing for Basingstokes The Owl Gene. Having played in Driveway Speeding and Servo, Jez is now playing beautiful acoustic tunes on his lonesome.
Kelly Kemp – One of Portsmouths/Plymouths finest! If you haven’t witness Kelly’s solo show or as part of Livers & Lungs you’ve missed out!
The Buildings, they are sleeping now – Another visitor from Basingstoke and also part of the awesome Black Heart Orchestra, self descibed as
“A boy who cant sing, cant play guitar and cant write songs but is trying. Ripping off the likes of Woods, Two Gallants, Neutral Milk Hotel and such along the way, because they are good.”
I disagree, get there early for his set.
Doors are at 8, and its £3 in, this is gonna be a great night, turn up, get boozed and spread the word!
We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:
- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.
- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.
- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!
- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.
- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
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.
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