New Walls 2 – Submissions Required

The One Eyed Dog’s New Walls exhibition wall space has been running a current portrait exhibition for some months and they are now accepting submissions for their next exhibition, which has the theme of Southsea. If you have any work that relates, be it photography, painting, illustration, etc then be sure to submit them your entry by midnight Thursday 1st September 2011 by either dropping it in or emailing info@newwalls.co.uk.

The launch night of New Walls 2 will be Thursday 15th September 2011 at 6pm. Keep up with everything via Twitter at @HotWalls.

Rolla Racing at The One Eyed Dog

Think you’re faster than your mate in a head to head bike sprint. Then put yourself to the test. Push hard and pull harder, with booze, music, films & prizes to boot. Check it HERE. Backed by the good people at Solent Bike Hub. The winner of the event will be offered a place at the Rollapaluza ‘National Roller Racing Championships’ in London.

New Walls

New Walls is a new alternative art space at the One Eyed Dog in Southsea, they’re aim is to showcase local talent and give them a platform to get their work out there and seen. New Walls want to seek out those artists beavering away and get their work exhibited. The gallery space will change the work on it’s walls quarterly, so they can keep the space fresh and showcase more work by local people. Exhibitions will work on a theme basis so artists, photographers, illustrators, etc have something to work towards and think about what they want to exhibit.

New Walls are currently looking for artists, photographers, designers & illustrators to get involved with their very first exhibition, with the theme of ‘Portraits’. If it’s a self portrait, a story you need to tell or just simply someone’s face you’ve recreated, they would love to see them. You can send your submissions or any questions you may have to info@newwalls.co.uk who can give you more information on how to ensure you work looks as good as possible for exhibition and what will happen next. They can cover the print costs for all work submitted. The final date for submissions that are going to be printed by New Walls is Monday 28th February but if it’s original artwork or prints than the very latest is Monday 7th March.

The launch night for the first exhibition is Thursday 10th March at 6pm.

Beats For Bowel Cancer

Friday 12th March at the One Eyed Dog sees a fundraiser for the charity Beating Bowel Cancer featuring DJs Gentle Bren, Tom Alex, Lucky Darren and Bill Eff. Entrance is only £1 and collection tins will be circulating all night to help raise important funds for the charity, plus all money raised will be matched by a donation from Barclays too. The night’s “fundraving” is is organised by Cass Gowing:

“On 1st December 2009, I lost my father to bowel cancer, just 6months after he was diagnosed. He was 51years old. I have decided to begin fundraising, because; if I save just one family from going through this then my job is done. This is all for dad.

Thank you for your support.”

Record Fair with SDM & Gentle Bren

Two of Southsea’s top DJs are hosting a record fair to sell some of their much loved vinyl. Genre’s include Drum & Bass, Jungle, Hip-hop, Funk & Soul. The record fair will be at The One Eyed Dog on Sunday between 4pm and 6pm. If you want to find out more or ask if they have a particular record you are after check the Facebook event.

YOSHI! & DJ ZINC at The One Eyed Dog

YOSHI! returns with DJ ZINC at the One Eyed Dog on Friday 12th February. Jungle and Drum and Bass legend turned purveyor of all things house brings his own brand of bass music self titled as crack house to the One Eyed Dog. Pickles, Krywolf and the resident YOSHI! DJs will also be hard at work too. £3 before 9/£4 before 10/£5 after. Knowing how good the Yoshi! nights are, this is sure to be going off. Find out more over at the Facebook event.

For a warm up you can download DJ Zinc’s Radio 1 Essential Mix recorded last November for free, click here.

New Years Eve

Don’t know about you but I tend to leave picking what to do for NYE until the last minute, here are some options, hope every one has a good one!

Gentle Bren and Red Indie at Little Johnny Russells + free cocktails before 9:30pm (see Facebook event).

A1 BASSLINE & 16BIT – Breakneck, 10Ton & JubJub at The One Eyed Dog, The Fox, Atrium and The Duck (wristband event for entry at all venues, see Facebook event).

Let’s Spend The Night Together, with The Bog Rolling Stones and The Silver Beatles at The Wedgewood Rooms (see Facebook event and buy tickets online).

Hipshaker with The Apple Beatles at The Ryde Theatre on the IOW (see Facebook event).

Yoshi! Christmas Party with Foamo

Tonight sees Yoshi!’s Christmas party down at the One Eyed Dog in Southsea featuring Foamo and KryWolf, Pickles & George A.G. It’s £4 before 9am, £5 before 10 and £6 after. For more details check the Facebook event and to download a free Foamo mix here!

Sounds of Sumo Records & High Rankin

Sounds of Sumo Records will be having a launch night on Saturday (14th) in the One Eyed Dog. In their own words:

“Needless to say the Yoshi! launch party was massive! To follow up we have Sounds of Sumo Recordings launch party which will celebrate the first release off the label….Mucky!

This one will be bigger and sweatier than the last with High Rankin bringing his heavy clubstep style to the One Eyed Dog. If you don’t know about him, learn quick….he’s signed to Herve’s Cheap Thrills and is widely regarded (along with Fake Blood) to be the best thing on the label.
Sounds of Sumo have snapped him to remix their first release and it doesn’t disappoint!

The other remix comes from Mosca who has also got a forthcoming release on L-Vis 1990 and Bok-Bok’s label Night Slugs. His Baltimore party remix of Mucky has been getting loads of attention from dj’s on the London circuit.

Mele‘s has also been getting loads of attention for his production skills with Foamo, Sindnen, Toddla T and L-Vis 1990 all saying good things! His remix of Dibby Soun’ shows off the 17yr olds skills as one to look out for!”

8pm to 2pm, £4 before 9pm £5 before 10pm £6 after. Sure to be an amazing night.

P.S. Yoshi has supplied some links to free music:

High Rankin Mix

Mele Mix

Yello – The Race (KryWolf Remix)

Halloween Carnage

Last Saturday was yet another winner. A bunch of us went to The Cellars in Eastney for the Wolfman Vs Dracula Halloween Special with Support from Theory 77. Unfortunately we missed Mike (Theory), and were told it was his best set to date. Damn. Wolfman vs. Dracula played a gruesome set and Black Moranis played the night out with a really heavy set. Very good indeed.

True to form we carried on, crashed The One Eyed Dog and partied till the sun came up and we had to get back in our graves and slowly die some more the next day. Check out my Flickr for a few more photos of the evening.

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