The South Coasts premier Motown & Soul Revue, GRAPEVINE, returns to The Loft (above The Kings) on Saturday 12th March. The night will again feature sensational music with that snap crackle and pop of the original 45s. Not only great records, but gorgeous decor, and a wonderful atmosphere, plus the fantastic Durty Sound System.
Visit the Facebook Event and the Grapevine website for more info.
(Photo by Linda)
If you were wondering about the absence of the ever awesome HKGC nights in Southsea, well after a brief spot of down time they are back. On Saturday 20th March at The Loft HKGC present a night of SUB POP covers from some of Portsmouth’s best bands in aid of charity. The acts confirmed to appear include:
YOU’RE SMILING NOW BUT WE’LL ALL TURN IN TO DEMONS
THE B OF THE BANG
BIG SQUIRREL
CHARLI REMY LEBEAU
MATTHEW CLARKE
The acts will be playing covers from the massive back catalogue of Sub Pop Records, including music by Nirvana, The Shins, Mudhoney, L7, Death Cab for Cutie and many many more. If you’re not familiar with Sub Pop you can check out the artist roster here. There will also be a Sub Pop themed raffle with loads of Sub Pop related prizes, only a pound to enter.
The event will be helping to raise money for Keef Hick’s London to Paris bike ride later this year. You can find out more details here.
Check the Facebook event for full details. Tickets only £3.
On Saturday 6th March Science continues its current series of parties exploring all aspects of the underground palette. This month they welcome back the very talented Simon Young who impressed at the first Science Party. Simon is well known on the London and international circuit with regular slots at Fabric and the infamous Panorama Bar, spinning with the likes of Jesse Rose, Terry Francis and Derrick Carter! Also lined up for an appearance, Squared party resident Laurence Reed an avid vinyl junkie who will joining Science residents Stu Bryan and Rich Archaic. This month will also see a slight twist to the usual decor, with some psychedelic projections.
8pm to 1am, £4.
Tomorrow night sees the re-launch of Chevron, a Southsea based Drum ‘n’ Bass, Jungle, Dubstep & Grime evening, held at The Loft, above The Kings in Albert Road. It’s £2 on the door from 9pm to 2am and will feature:
DJ Charge and Sekklow (aka CK), create a legendary concoction of fast paced drum and bass combined with scratching and anthemic teases. The last time this pair was seen together was the closing night of Breakneck on South Parade Pier, now they’ll be tearing up the dance floor with a 3 deck takeover.
Plus Mass Damage and JD vs Poduwan.
Check out the Facebook event for all the details and a free mixtape by Mass Damage too.
Saturday 22nd August sees The Fishtank hosting for one night only a fundraiser for this year’s Love Albert Road day. Expect the usual great music & decor & generally a top night out. The evening will be at The Loft (Above The Kings pub) and tickets are £5 and available from Head, at 53 Albert Road. Numbers are limited & this event is already getting a great deal of interest.
Gattano is the ‘balearic bastard love child’ of the Civilisation of the Rough crew, their first evening will be on Saturday 23rd May at The Loft on Albert Road and will feature DIESEL. Tickets as usual will be £5 and available from Head (also on Albert Road) so be sure to grab them early as this will no doubt sell out quick. Be sure to keep an eye on the Facebook group and on the event too.
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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