New Walls – Best representations of Southsea

The latest exhibition from New Walls is all about the’best representations of Southsea’. The exhibition opens tonight – Thursday 6th October 2011 from 6pm at the One Eyed Dog. If you made it down to the last opening night, you’ll know how packed out it was so get there early to see local art and design showcased.

The original artwork for their new flyer is an A3 hand-drawn image, completed with a classic bic (a whole one!) by local Illustrator Ashley John.

It will be available as a limited run print after the opening night of New Walls. If you are interested in purchasing “Biro’s Are Shit Hot, But Southsea’s Better” as a print check out his blog or drop him an email – ashjohn99@hotmail.com

www.ashleyjohnillustration.blogspot.com

Christmas Eve Power Ballads at the One Eyed Dog

What better way to get ready to nurse an epic hangover on Christmas Day than to get involved down The One Eyed Dog for Portsmouth’s first ever fancy dress power ballad night. Free entry, air guitars, mince pie’s and Christmas tipple. Set to be the funniest night of the year- what better way to celebrate all things festive by going nuts to the cream of the crop of power ballads and the best songs ever written?! Expect snow and Christmas trees hanging around everywhere and the entirety of Bat Out Of Hell at least once (maybe even more if we can get away with it!) We’re putting in early measurements for our sexy Santa costumes, so it’d be amazing if all you guys got into the spirit and did the same too!

Check Facebook all the details HERE.

Meatpie Promotions @ Southsea Fest

Message that follows is from Mr Paul Meatpie

“As well as having some awesome bands like Tubelord, Tellison, The Xcerts and Sam Isaac (who are some of the most exciting up and coming bands in the UK at the moment) I have some great dj friends coming down to play like Ctr Alt Del of This Is Not Revolution Rock fame from Kingston and also The Discontent Discoteque who I went to University with in Falmouth. As well as some great underground artists from across the UK like Kay Stanley from Birmingham who does Cut-Out, Faridah Newman who makes jewellery under Sugar Mouse and Alex Curtis (Thr33 Designs) who made the poster.

Here is the Facebook Event for it with all the information and links and here is the LINK to the video we made a while ago but it includes loads of stuff filmed from around Southsea.

Frank Costa @ The One Eyed Dog

Under new Management the One Eyed Dog has been killing it lately and the Frank Costa night will be no exception. Free entry and good times. Enjoy.

Poster design by Little Dave.

Monday Club at The One Eyed Dog

Under new management from the one and lets hope only Graham Gaskell, The One Eyed Dog is heading up lots of new nights. Stay posted for more future developments, but in the mean time get on down for The Monday Club.

Flyer design by Southsea’s own Dave Millard.

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