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1970s Guildhall Tickets

The PompeyPop’s Blog is always full of amazing and fascinating music history about the 60s in Portsmouth but recently posted up an image containing the Guildhall tickets collection of Mark Eyles, with tickets from 72′ to 75′. Incredible. Below is a little peek, click HERE to see them all.

Would love to have a time machine and go back and see some of the shows, for me it would be Black Sabbath and The Groundhogs. What about you?

Motorhead

The Legendary Motorhead are playing at Portsmouth Guildhall tonight, looks like tickets are still available for £25. Girl School and The Damned are playing too. Tempted. Anyone going?

Motorhead

The Flaming Lips at The Guildhall

By the sounds of it The Flaming Lips lifted the Guildhall clean off its foundations the other day. Local music website mINtSouth has a review of the show and some photos too. mINtSouth is full of reviews and photos from loads of bands and shows from all over the south coast, have a good flick through.

The photo below is by Rob Ball, check Rob’s collection of photos from the Flaming Lips show (plus loads of other bands) over on his Flickr.

The Flaming Lips

Guildhall Fashion Show & RoKii

RoKii have been invited by Portsmouth City Council to take part in a fashion show outside the Guildhall on Friday 26th between 12 and 2pm. Highbury College and their Fashion Students will also be taking part. RoKii will be showcasing their clothes from both new and local designers, students, and established brands.

RoKii are also looking for Male & Female Models, if interested you need to be available on the day between, 10am-2pm. For more information check the Facebook event.

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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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