Bored Sale

Bored are having a heavy duty January sale with many items 25-50% off, including tees, shoes, etc. Pop your head in for a bargain.

EDIT: Sale is on all through January, get in there.

Kev Kirkham Interview

Long time Southsea skateboarder and Bored team member Kevin Kirkham has an interview over at the Bored blog. Click on the image below to read it and watch the edit below to see Kev ripping at Southsea Skatepark (warning: some swearing in the intro).

Tweaker Zine X Carhartt X Bored

In part of a collaboration with Tweaker Zine, Carhartt and some of the best skater owned skateshops in the UK (including 50-50 in Bristol, Slam City Skates in London, SS20 in Oxford & Switch in Southend) Bored have worked together on a run of five limited edition t-shirts with artist Rob Mathieson. The five t-shirts were hand screened by Lovenskate and all feature different bird illustrations for each of the shops and are now available to buy.

You can see the Bored t-shirt below and click the link to visit Tweaker Zine and read the article on the project, see the other designs and read an interview with the artist.

www.tweakerzine.com/carhartt-tshirts

Bored Fall Lookbook Part 1

Bored just uploaded part one of their new season lookbock with film photography by Tom McCaughan. Click below to have a proper look through.

www.boredofsouthsea.co.uk/fall2010lookbook.php

Print Here Photo Competition

Bored has organised ‘Print Here’, a photography competition in collaboration with Blueprint Skateboards and Quiet Corners (myself), in celebration of the release of the Quiet Corners series of Blueprint decks. The best submitted photos will win some Blueprint product and a signed A4 Quiet Corners print too.

The competition has a blog website which has all of the info and how to submit and also has all of the currently submitted photos on view too. The comp has only been up for 24 hours and there are a load of great photos up there already, very stoked! Get snapping and get involved.

P.S. The decks are available to buy in Bored and are on display on the back wall.

www.printherecompetition.blogspot.com

Sunny Southsea Bronx

Jubru / Bruce Jamieson designed the original Southsea Bronx logo for Bored some time back, now it’s become pretty much the coat of arms for Southsea. Bruce posted up this animated sun on FFFFOUND! which is sure to put a smile on anyone’s face.

Check Bruce’s Flickr and FFFFOUND! for more.

New Jak Tonge Footage

Bored‘s skate team member Jak Tonge has been busy on tour with the rest of the Drawing Boards team (be warned, there is some swearing in there, as well as loads of amazing skating at some Portsmouth spots).

Check the recent photo too, killing it.

Strong Island Charity Raffle Prize Update

Excuse the really long picture post again. It’s another little update to keep you up to speed with our 2nd Birthday Party at The Belle Isle this Thursday 30th September and I thought you would like to know what’s on offer as the date gets closer.

The tickets will be £1 each or £8 for 10 and will be available on the door on the night only, so grab a strip with your FREE Strong Island Ice Tea (limited drinks so get there early). Pet Sounds will provide the background music with a Strong Island VS Pet Sounds Playlist to accompany this relaxed social.

We will call the winning numbers sometime around 10pm. Listen for the bell…

All the donations to the Raffle will be available to win on the night and all of the proceeds are going to The Portsmouth Autism Support Network and The Portsmouth Lifeboat Station.

We look forward to seeing you.

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Strong Island 2nd Birthday & Charity Raffle

We hope you can all make it along to our 2nd Birthday Party at The Belle Isle next Thursday 30th. It’s shaping up to be quite a nice evening with a few friends new & old, accompanied with some drinks and a cheeky Raffle.

All the donations to the Raffle will be available to win on the night and all the proceeds are going to The Portsmouth Autism Support Network and The Portsmouth Lifeboat Station.

Raffle tickets will be available on the door on the night only, so grab a strip with your FREE Strong Island Ice Tea (limited drinks so get there early). Pet Sounds will provide the background music with a Strong Island VS Pet Sounds Playlist to accompany this relaxed social.

Prizes have kindly been donated from the following people: The Belle Isle / Bored / Portsmouth University / Paul Gonella / Claire Sambrook / Desperados Beer / Ian Parmiter / Rob Trigg / Wallspace gallery / Head Hairdressing / FarkFK / Southsea Fixed Gear / James Weaver / Mikee Ayling / Matt O’Neill / Diana Goss / Caleigh Illburn / Cat Vaughan / Steve Bomford / Owain Harris / Miki Organic / Louise Bush / Nick Hicking / Candice @ Inksquatch / MyDogSighs / Paul Thurlow and more to come. Prizes include tee shirts, drinks, hair cuts, photo shoots, art, prints, meals, photography and more besides. Check the photos below for just a taster of what’s on offer.

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NikeSB Planet Caravan Tour x Bored x I Love Dust

The NikeSB Planet Caravan Tour in association with Bored of Southsea comes to Southsea this coming Tuesday 28th September at 4pm till 7pm to throw down a jam session. Guaranteed bangers from the UK team. I Love Dust did the poster artwork and they will be available as giveaways on the day. First come, first served! Scrambles….

Photo: Paul Gonella

The 2nd Strong Island Ale – Dry Dock No. 1

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.

The Isle Of Wight Randonnee 2012 – Team Strong Island

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.