Short and important message from the Captain. ‘Physical tickets for Southsea Fest are likely to sell out today! Kings Theatre has less than 50, same for Wine Vaults, Bonzo has less than 25 tickets…same story across the board. Tickets will be available from The Wine Vaults on the day. Looking forward to seeing you all there. Cap’n x’
We just got our new banner delivered which will be used in part at Southsea Fest later this month, stoked! A huge thank you to homie Adam Whitaker for doing an amazing quality job.
If you’re new to Southsea Fest or just keen to keep up to date as much as possible then you’ll enjoy this little snipet. We’ve been sent a great link to a little Preview of the days proceedings as well as 10 top recommendations of what to watch on the day.
“Set on just one road in Southsea, Portsmouth, Southsea Fest is probably the least demanding festival you’ll ever experience in terms of distances to travel between stages – with virtually every venue being within a stone’s throw of each other. It’s this convenience and price (tickets being only £16) that Southsea Fest scores high against other similar events such as Great Escape, Dot to Dot and Camden Crawl.”
Read the whole Preview over at Breaking Waves at www.breakingmorewaves.blogspot.com
For more info check out the Strong Island Southsea Fest post HERE and also head over to www.southseafest.com. Oh, and be sure to check out the Captains Playlist to get you in the mood.
Belongings (official) from Clock Opera on Vimeo.
With Southsea Fest just round Albert Roads corner, the Captain has compiled a Playlist to get you in the mood. Check out www.southseafest.com for all the info you’ll need to know about this fantastic day.
This year’s Southsea Fest might seem a little way off with the date now set for September 17th but people have already been busy getting in early with the bargain priced early bird tickets, for only £10. As always we’ll be keeping you up to date as the acts are announced and other details are released.
You can buy your earlybird ticket HERE and check www.southseafest.com.
Shndg is a quarterly event featuring DIY/circuit bending, noise, drone, electronic and experimental artists, DJs, VJs and live film soundtrack performances.
Curated by Jez Stevens the ethos is to create an environment for audio and video artists outside the commercial constraints of highstreet venues. The events are often held at The Artful Lodge and the Old Ground Keepers Lodge tucked away in a corner of Victoria Park, Portsmouth. You can check out the SHNDG video edits from Southsea Fest over at their Vimeo and melt your mind…
Rusty Sheriff @ SHNDG vs Southsea Fest from shndg uk on Vimeo.
Photo: SHNDG
Southsea Fest is now in it’s fifth year and is cemented in the calendar now for many people. Here is a brief look back at where it all started and how it has developed into a fantastic day of music for Southsea.
The idea of Southsea Fest was born on the train whilst going and see a Prince gig at the 02 arena, and is the proud development of organiser Josie Curtis. Hailing from Gosport, Josie has been frequenting Southsea for a few years now and especially the music scene.
Saturday 15th September saw the first ever Southsea Fest hosted at Little Johnny Russells and Havana which featured The Dawn Chorus, Fresh Legs and Multicoloured Green to name but a few. It was set as a fundraiser for Josie’s brother Beau, to raise money to record an album due to an illness he was suffering and facing a long spell in hospital. After that proceeds went to The Ellen MacArthur trust as they were the first charity to help Beau. They gave him a laptop to record music during his stay in hospital so Josie felt it necessary to make this her chosen charity for Southsea Fest.
Another one in followed in December 2007 hosted again at LJRs and Havana which saw Little Fish perform for the first time. 3rd April 2008 saw the 3rd Southsea Fest held LJRs and the Fat Fox & Atrium. Whilst this was happening plans were being made made for a 10 venue spectacle in Sept 08 which lead to the format for Southsea Fest as we now know it. The following year in 2009 saw media attention from Art Rocker, NME and a small feature in The Guardian with the festival getting some much deserved coverage and again in the latest installment this year the Southsea Fest has acheived rave reviews across the board. Sept 2010 saw the Kings Theatre added to the festival venue list becoming the showpiece venue. The Strange Death of Liberal England, The B of the Bang, Dawn Chorus and Revere were the lucky chosen ones to grace the Kings stage that day.
In it’s existence so far the festival has hosted Eliza Doolittle, Band of Skulls, James Yuill and Kid Harpoon who have all gone on to make it big nationally, as well as giving many small unsigned acts the chance to appear in front of a large audience they might not normally have the opportunity to achieve.
Southsea Fest is a not for profit organisation and donates most of it’s proceeds to the Ellen MacArthur Trust. I’m sure you’ll all agree that it is a fantastic event to have here in Southsea and hopefully one that will continue in the future. Next year is the 5th birthday with some big things in store. Well done to Josie and all her team and the people who make Southsea Fest happen year in year out!
Breaking More Waves have an in-depth review of this weekend gone’s Southsea Fest, be sure to hop over and have a read. Below is footage from The Strange Death of Liberal England’s show at the Kings Theatre filmed by Yumi and Yumi, the song is ‘Shadows’.
If you have any reviews and/or photos from Southsea Fest we would love to feature them on Strong Island this week, please email us and get involved: contact@strong-island.co.uk.
Short and sweet on this one as we have a feature post coming soon about Southsea Fest and it’s history to date. NME have just posted up a review of last weekends local festival. Read the full article HERE.
“One of the organisers of Southsea Fest, Vicky Halliday, told NME.COM: “We are a not for profit organisation and event so the money that we make goes back into Southsea Fest. For us, it’s not all about the money. That’s how we can keep prices down. Bands tend to have a good time here, it sounds cheesy but it’s almost like a family so the bands are part of the team.”
Photo of Joe from Attack!Vipers! by Tristan Savage
Continuing the Southsea Fest build up, you can now get warmed up for the day with a Spotify playlist with songs from many of the acts performing tomorrow. Simply click the link below (if you have Spotify) and away you go.
Southsea Fest Spotify Playlist
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.
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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