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Hipshaker This Saturday

Hipshaker is back this Saturday (11th February) at The Wedgewood Rooms and will feature a live performance by Janice Graham Band who recently signed to Acid Jazz.

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Free Hipshaker Night

On Friday night party monsters IT’S A SIN have teamed up with the mighty HIPSHAKER for a free 2-room party at the Wedgewood Rooms – Yup, Hipshaker, and Sin, together, for nothing. What’s more, IT’S A SIN in the main room has a very special guest in the shape of GEUSHKY / KAMIGATA POP’s DAVE SAUNDERS going back to back with DJ LEMON (CHAOS/DELIGHT) so expect an extra helping of madchester and 90s brit goodness alongside the usual mish-mashup of anything and everything pre-2000, from 50s rock’n'roll to 80s electro and 90s pop and rave, while in the Edge the HIPSHAKER DJs mix up the northern soul and 60s r’n'b mod and beat they’re famous for.

More info here. Got to be good.

Hipshaker – The Tiddly Kinks

Southsea legendary night Hipshaker plays host to The Tiddly Kinks on Saturday night at the Wedgewood Rooms. The Tiddly Kinks are a local Kinks tribute band and as as they say themselves, keep an ear out for ‘Waterlooville Sunset’, got to be good.

Tickets are £5 adv/£6 before 11/£7 after and available online.

New Years Eve

Don’t know about you but I tend to leave picking what to do for NYE until the last minute, here are some options, hope every one has a good one!

Gentle Bren and Red Indie at Little Johnny Russells + free cocktails before 9:30pm (see Facebook event).

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A1 BASSLINE & 16BIT – Breakneck, 10Ton & JubJub at The One Eyed Dog, The Fox, Atrium and The Duck (wristband event for entry at all venues, see Facebook event).

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Let’s Spend The Night Together, with The Bog Rolling Stones and The Silver Beatles at The Wedgewood Rooms (see Facebook event and buy tickets online).

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Hipshaker with The Apple Beatles at The Ryde Theatre on the IOW (see Facebook event).

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Hipshaker at Southsea Fest

Quick reminder that it’s Southsea Fest this weekend plus the Hipshaker DJs will be playing at the Wine Vaults from 8pm, be sure to include them in you day/evening’s must watches.

More info and links over at the Facebook event.

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Hipshaker at the IOW Scooter Rally

A little last minute and tickets might be almost sold out but wanted to give a heads up for Headshaker at the Isle of Wight Scooter Rally on this weekend from Friday to the Sunday. The line up as follows:

Friday
Hipshaker Room: Hipshaker DJs + special guest DJs Paul Hallam, Jim Watson, Warren Bright & Kev Jay
In the Lounge: Southampton Soul Club with Resident DJs Alfie & Chilli + special guests John Hurbet [Groove Junkies] & Tony Castle [Shake Your Mini]
£7

Saturday
Hipshaker Room: Hipshaker DJs + special guest DJs Eddie Piller, Smiler & Paul Welsby
In the Lounge: Talk of the South Soul Club with Resident DJs Pete Tebbutt & Sean Chapman + special guests tbc
£8

Sunday
Hipshaker Room: Hipshaker DJs + special guest DJs Eddie Piller, Dave Edwards & Mickee Edwards
In the Lounge: Walls of Heartache with Resident DJs Dave Duplock, Tim Fuller & Richard Anker + special guest Magoo [Kent Soul Club]
£7

Weekend ticket available @ £20 adv. Tickets were available via the Wedgewood Rooms but hit up the Facebook event and the Hipshaker group to find out about ticket availability now and on the door.

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Hipshaker 11th Birthday Party

11 years certainly solidifies Hipshaker as a local institution. Pretty much everyone has been at least once and many will remember the old days. Get involved.

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Hipshaker – Ready Steady Go!

As one of Southsea’s longest running and most loved events, Hipshaker kicks off another year with Ready Steady Go! The night’s heavy 60s feel has had people moving for over 10 years and has become a local institution, be sure to make it down for Saturday 24th at the Wedgewood Rooms.

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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

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