Love Albert Road Day Fundraiser – Love Rock ‘n’ Roll

The Wedgewood Rooms are hosting a cheap Friday night gig this August 14th and with door donations going towards the Love Albert Road Day fund and at only £3 entrance you can’t go wrong. There are 5 bands on the bill followed by IT’S A SIN Rock’n'Roll Indie Disco: poorly mixed cheesy choons from the 50s to the 90s with DJs Lemon and Mikey Sparks.

LITTLE LONDON, Southsea hard rock monsters fresh from supporting Metallica.

THE GOODTIME CHARLIES, Classic Surfin’ Rock’n'Roll veterans.

THE LEVELS, Stomping Led-Zep-infused South Coast rockers.

THE ROBERTS, Brand new garage outfit feat members of Green Hornets.

BIG SQUIRREL, Big riffing nut-loving carnage-creating 2-piece.

Independents Day Fundraiser

Concluding a weekend of fundraisers with all proceeds going to the Love Albert Road Day festival, Gentle Bren plays his usual lazy Sunday blend of Funk, Soul and Hip Hop at the LJR Fundraiser.

Love Albert Road Development is dedicating it’s time & efforts to raising money to support this year’s Love Albert Road Day on September 27th through gigs & dance events in and around Albert Road. The event costs a lot of money to put on, so every donation will be gratefully received!! £2 Donation on the door, 6pm onwards

Wallspace Gallery

Matt Sills just sent me over the latest updates from The Wallspace Gallery.

A lot of you may have seen the paintings Simon did at last years Love Albert Road Day (LARD). Well you’re in luck. Matt has produced a limited edition poster showing all 4 of Simons paintings. The posters are on sale to help raise money for this years LARD. This is as I’m sure you’re aware a very worthy cause. Not just for the city it’s self, but for the community.

LARD – (Love Albert Road Development)

Love Albert Road Development is dedicating it’s time & efforts to raising money to support this year’s Love Albert Road Day on September 27th through gigs & dance events in & around Albert Road. We will be posting news of bands & dates as we get them, but be assured there will be some fantastic entertainment coming your way… Keep checking back for more info & please pass onto friends… SPREAD THE LARD!!

Although Love Albert Road Day will only be in it’s 3rd year and it already feels like an integral part of the Southsea scene. It’s such a good day and such a strong community vibe that we must make every effort to ensure it’s survival. Get involved.

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