Saturday Bandstand

Tomorrow is meant to be sunny and warm, perfect for hitting up the bandstand and seeing the following:

The Charlie Massiah & The MightyZ Allstars – Portsmouth’s longest running reggae band, reformed with a new frontman.
The Monitors – Curly and his band playing some of the best new original reggae around.
The Shutka Champions – Psycadellic rock from some familiar faces making a loud comeback.
The Insatiable Loverats – Staking their claim as one of Portsmouth’s favourite party bands, playing a mix of funk and ska classics.

Saturday Bandstand

This Saturday’s Bandstand will be hosting the following:

BRUISED BEAUTIES
Punky 5-piece Bruised Beauties are two VERY pretty girls and 3 pretty boys rocking and rolling to the rise and fall of beloved Britain.
Sounding like a ‘Libertines/Long Blondes mash set in the 70s’ Bruised Beauties and fronted by brother and sister duo James and Jasmine and have had regular support and airplay from BBC Introducing, playing on this years’ BBC Introducing stage at Sellindge Festival headlined by Supergrass, Thomas Tantrum and the Holloways.

JACK PALMER
Young Jack came to Portsmouth to uni and was introduced to us by the man above.
We’re glad he was as he’s another one that leaves you scratching your head in wonder.
Jack is the king of the loop pedal and writes songs that transcend the borders of deep, dark and dirty with sheer beautiful brilliance.

SPIRE CRAINES
If Aphex Twin and Roni Size got into bed with Badly Drawn Boy and Bright Eyes this would be the baby they produced. It’s clever, well crafted, relaxing and mindblowing.

WILL MCNICOL
Everyone knows Will and what he can do with a guitar. If you haven’t, check him out on myspace or youtube then run to the bandstand and save yourself a place close to the stage so you don’t miss a trick.

CHARLI VERONICA
Pompey newling Charlie Wilson has raised more than one or two eyebrows since her name cropped up a few weeks ago. We think big things are ahead and have tagged Charlie ‘Pompey’s one to watch’ over the next couple of years as her sound evolves.

The day will also feature HUW OLESKER too.

Saturday Bandstand

This Bank Holiday weekend’s Saturday Bandstand is looking really good, it will feature Cherbourg (who have just signed to Rough Trade), Ryan O’Reilly (who currently has a residency at Ronnie Scott’s in London), Southampton’s Haunted Stereo, Le Plat Du Jour and The Boy I Used To Be.

For loads more information on the event and the bands hit up the Facebook event.

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