Sumo Bank Holiday Banger

This Bank Holiday has lots to offer, just scroll down and check it all out. But what about Sunday, well why don’t you get on down to The Little Johnny Russells and get ready to dance like idiots to some classic all night bangers. You know the score. Put on your dirty vans and get involved on the dancefloor.

Residents Albino Monkey and Handsome Dave Rocker are joined by Rosko Siffredi and Balti Mark of C.O.R fame. Hopefully I’ll have enough energy to get in the mix after getting up stupid early and doing this.

SUMO Bank Holiday Bangers

The super sharp shooters back this Bank Holiday at The Little Johnny Russells. SUMO & BLOOM FESTIVAL present DJ ZINC + Baby Sumo DJ’s and much more. No doubt we’ll all be there on Friday and if you’re coming on the Strong Island Bike Ride I’m sure we will all be there throughout the evening. Possibly still dressed like idiots. Can’t wait…

Check out the Facebook Events page for further info and updates

Strong Island Bike Ride – Sunday 12th April

Many of you will know that we here at Strong Island and many of our friends are quite keen cyclists, nothing extreme, just good bike rides. Ben Mills from The Little Johnny Russells had suggested getting as many people together as possible for a Strong Island tour. Sterling idea!

After some quick route planning we come up with a short 5 mile ride. All based around Southsea and the Seafront. Starting at the Bridge Tavern opposite the Fish Market and finishing up along Albert Road. An easy, casual ride that is accessible to everyone and their various types of bikes.

This is strictly for fun and is open to anyone and everyone on any bicycle. We’re not out to make any points or be political and is by no means intended to be a Critical Mass or even a race. Just a good laugh on a Bank Holiday Sunday.

I’ve made a public Google Map of the initial route if you want to check it out and comment or suggest anything.

We’ve also added a poll button to try and ascertain interest. Who knows. If we can get big numbers we might be able to get some ‘Postive Local Cycling’ coverage.

Anyway. Stay posted and we’ll keep you updated on everything as this is still in the planning stages really. Oh, and for those who are interested ‘Fisherman Chic’ is the theme. Yep, you read that right, ‘Fisherman Chic’.

Download the A4 Poster here and join the Facebook Event Group here

Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.

PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

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.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

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.

Poster: Tristan Savage