Lost Handbag

Liz accidently left her handbag at The Little Johnny Russells last night. For a while it was tucked next to the DJ booth besides Gentle Bren. If anyone has grabbed it or handed it in anywhere we’d greatly appreciate any help. The LJR boys are burning me the CCTV disc so hopefully that will help. It basically has everything in it. All cards, purse, house keys, car keys, phone, you name it. Thanks for reading. Tristan.

Southsea Fest’s Full Listing Feast

Josie and her band of Southsea Pirates are getting all set to shiver our timbers once again this September 18th with Southsea Fest, One Day, One City, One Street!

Southsea Fest is an independent music festival, which came about to help a young artist (The Unknown Soldiers) with lymphoma to produce and record a studio album, as well as raising treasure for the Ellen McArthur Trust, a charity dedicated to enriching the lives of children with cancer. Formed in 2007 (originally as a two venue event) Southsea Fest has transformed into a project encompassing Albert Road, showcasing unsigned and newly established musical talent (both local and regional), with poets, DJs and artists.

The good ship Southsea Fest is now sailed by a scurvy crew of enthusiastic individuals incorporating promoters from across the south coast including Josie Curtis / David Ball / Chris Whitear / Kate Griffiths / Lora Kirk / Sarah Parham / Ally Wolf / Nick Courtney / Abby Walker / Gentle Bren / Abbie Eales / Simon Pykett / El Morgan / Lara Lovatt & Vicky Halliday.

Tickets are available now from The Wedgewood Rooms Box Office, Albert Road : 02392 293301 and www.wegottickets.com at £15 adult, £8 child and under 12′s go free (entry subject to individual venue rules).

Plenty more acts are to follow so make sure you keep yourself up to date over at www.southseafest.com, Facebook and also Twitter. Click the Poster for the full size version.

Hawks & Doves (Chicago, USA) 12th of August @ The Fat Fox plus support

Joe Vipers presents and describes:

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!

Southsea Fest launch their new Website

The motley crew lead by Captain Josie have just launched their new Southsea Fest Website at www.southseafest.com. A great way to help you keep up to date on all things Fest for this coming September 18th. Also, I you have a bit of hangover on Sunday the 19th a few of us might go for a Bike Ride…interested?

Tags: Southsea Fest

Graffiti/Art Space Available

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.

Tags: Albert Road, Chilli Tattoo, Graffiti Wall

Southsea Fest Listing Updates

Josie and her band of Southsea Pirates are getting all set to shiver our timbers once again this September 18th with Southsea Fest, One Day, One City, One Street!

Southsea Fest is an independent music festival, which came about to help a young artist (The Unknown Soldiers) with lymphoma to produce and record a studio album, as well as raising treasure for the Ellen McArthur Trust, a charity dedicated to enriching the lives of children with cancer. Formed in 2007 (originally as a two venue event) Southsea Fest has transformed into a project encompassing Albert Road, showcasing unsigned and newly established musical talent (both local and regional), with poets, DJs and artists.

The good ship Southsea Fest is now sailed by a scurvy crew of enthusiastic individuals incorporating promoters from across the south coast including Josie Curtis / David Ball / Chris Whitear / Kate Griffiths / Lora Kirk / Sarah Parham / Ally Wolf / Nick Courtney / Abby Walker / Gentle Bren / Abbie Eales / Simon Pykett / El Morgan / Lara Lovatt & Vicky Halliday.

Tickets are available now from The Wedgewood Rooms Box Office, Albert Road : 02392 293301 and www.wegottickets.com at £15 adult, £8 child and under 12′s go free (entry subject to individual venue rules).

Plenty more acts are to follow so make sure you keep yourself up to date over at www.southseafest.com, Facebook and also Twitter.

Tags: Southsea Fest

Southsea Fest is gaining plenty of wind in it’s sails

Josie and her band of Southsea Pirates are getting all set to shiver our timbers once again this September 18th with Southsea Fest, One Day, One City, One Street!

Southsea Fest is an independent music festival, which came about to help a young artist (The Unknown Soldiers) with lymphoma to produce and record a studio album, as well as raising treasure for the Ellen McArthur Trust, a charity dedicated to enriching the lives of children with cancer. Formed in 2007 (originally as a two venue event) Southsea Fest has transformed into a project encompassing Albert Road, showcasing unsigned and newly established musical talent (both local and regional), with poets, DJs and artists.

The good ship Southsea Fest is now sailed by a scurvy crew of enthusiastic individuals incorporating promoters from across the south coast including Josie Curtis / David Ball / Chris Whitear / Kate Griffiths / Lora Kirk / Sarah Parham / Ally Wolf / Nick Courtney / Abby Walker / Gentle Bren / Abbie Eales / Simon Pykett / El Morgan / Lara Lovatt & Vicky Halliday.

Tickets are available now from The Wedgewood Rooms Box Office, Albert Road : 02392 293301 and www.wegottickets.com at £15 adult, £8 child and under 12′s go free (entry subject to individual venue rules).

Plenty more acts are to follow so make sure you keep yourself up to date over at www.southseafest.com, Facebook and also Twitter.

Tags: Southsea Fest

The Albert Road Ashes

We’re deep into the cricketing season and fast approaching the biggest game in the summer sporting calendar.  This Wednesday 14th July sees the Albert Road Ashes contested for the second year.

Held on the front lawn of Stansted House in Rowlands Castle, Lord Sonics XI take on the Sir Allan Stansted Allstars for the coveted urn which genuinely contain the charred remains of an Albert Road kebab.  Play starts at 6pm and spectators are more than welcome.

Tags: Albert Road Ashes, Cricket, Stansted House

Simon Whitcomb paints Albert Road

Back during Love Your Bike SImon Whitcomb set up his easle outside of Wallspace and set to work painting Albert Road in his very distinct style. Simons work can be found for sale in Wallspace. Really awesome stuff as always.

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Lights Out by Pete Thorne

Following on from Tristan’s post about pics from early Saturday morning during the power outage.

Very impressive series of photographs taken on Albert Road during the black-out by Portsmouth photographer Pete Thorne.

See more on his Flickr Stream.

Tags: Black Out, Pete Thorne, Photography, Portsmouth, Power Cut

Albert Road Southsea

I found this little Albert Road video edit by Kimberley Barber through Ian Parmiter. Guest appearances from Tom Hussey and Stu Barker outside of Porters was a nice touch, albeit interesting to see them with soft drinks! Hopefully we’ll see Ian Parmiter on the comedic acting circuit soon too!

Tags: Albert Road, Kimberley Barber

Love Your Bike Portsmouth – This Sunday

Southsea Skatepark is the venue for the main Love Your Bike Portsmouth event from 10am-5pm. Limited quantities of goodie bags so to avoid being left out get there early.

It’s going to be an action packed day with Ben Wilson showcasing his bikes and welding on site. Death Spray Custom will be airbrushing bikes, Tokyo Fixed Gear have a mini shop, Gocycle will be offering demos of their bike and showcasing special custom editions, RAW Bamboo will be bringing a few of their bikes and the new Fixei range will also be unveiled.

There will be loads of workshops and offers of help with customisation from various people including Portsmouth Creative Movement, Stu Rodda, Ian and Adam Macpherson. Badger Press will be bringing a screen printing set-up so that you can design your own bags etc, The Caravan Gallery will be bringing their own eclectic mix of cycling photographs and Southsea Gallery will be selling artwork including some of the spoke card designs.

Bike Polo and BMX Demos and the winner of the Schools Competition will be announced.

To check out the full list visit – http://www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/contributors

From 4pm head to Albert Road where Ian Parmiter will have an exhibition of Vintage Bikes with DJ Set and have your photograph taken on a penny farthing, ROKii Clothes will be announcing the winner of their bike and then head to Little Johnny Russell’s for free food at 6pm.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

Tags: Bicycles, custom, Design, event, Love Your Bike Portsmouth, Skatepark

Simon Whitcomb at Wallspace

This Friday & Sunday Simon Whitcomb will be painting LIVE at Wallspace on Albert Road. If anyone wants to come along and check out how he works or ask him any questions about working as an artist, his work or life in general etc then feel free. Wallspace is at 2C Albert Road.

Tags: Simon Whitcomb, Wallspace Gallery

Love Albert Road Day 2010 Cancelled

You may have read in The News on Monday that this years Love Albert Road street festival won’t be going ahead.  Rising police costs are one of the main reasons and organisers say it has become too much for them to do on their own.  Hopes of a major sponsor or aid from the City Council haven’t seemed to arise this year so the event will not happen in late September as it has done for the past three years.  It’s a sad turn of events as it has been a hugely popular and enjoyable day for the people of Southsea in recent times however organisers say that they will be concentrating on smaller events throughout 2010 including involvement with Love Your Bike on May 30th before hopefully staging another Love Albert Road Day in 2011.

You can read Fran Duckett-Pike’s full story in The News by clicking here

Tags: Love Albert Road Day, Love Your Bike Portsmouth, The News

He’s coming…

How often do you look up as you walk down the street. Think about it. There is a fair bit of second story art and information all along Albert Road. Just keep ‘em peeled because he’s coming. So be nice….

Tags: Albert Road

More Love Albert Road Day

I finally got a roll of film developed from Love Albert Road Day and the Slammers and Hammers game of Skate, such good times. See them all over at Forever Circling.

Tags: LARD, Love Albert Road Day, Slammers and Hammers

Love Albert Road Day – 2008

We should have posted up this video from last year’s Love Albert Road Day (filmed and edited by Lisa Gomer) before this year’s but didn’t manage to get round to it, sorry Lisa! It’s well worth a watch.

Tags: Compulsive Productions, Love Albert Road Day

Love Albert Road Day

I’m sure this won’t be the last post from myself or Paul covering this years Love Albert Road Day. No doubt Paul will have some cracking photographs and hopefully we’ll be able to show a few other peoples images and footage as well. Me and Liz were lucky enough to get a view of everything from Ian Parmiters rooftop.

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Wallspace Gallery

I was lucky enough to be asked by Matt Sills and James Porter to help design a new sign for The Wallspace Gallery on Albert Road. After working through various designs and meetings with everyone the sign evolved into something I think none of us expected. Based on James’s original 3D idea the sign morphed into multiple angles and finishes. The outcome looks amazing I’m sure you’ll agree, but don’t let the images fool you. It has to be seen in person to really appreciate all the angles, curves and reflections.

Thanks to Matt for the opportunity and to James and his Crew for building and installing the next level of Albert Road signage. Those boys really know what their doing when it comes to bespoke design.

Wallspace Gallery can be found at 2C Albert Road, Southsea.

Tags: Matt Sills, Wallspace Gallery

Slammes and Hammers Game of Skate

Love Albert Road Day as awesome and we’ll have a bunch of photos and links and things from the day this week, for now here is the footage from the Slammers and Hammers Game of Skate, good work Jon!

Tags: Slammers and Hammers