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Blackfoot Circle

Going back to ten years ago I remember working with lead singer Jake in Fareham. He introduced me to his band the Elements, they had a strong and loyal following within Fareham and Gosport. Since those days there are a few new faces and they go by the name of Blackfoot Circle.

Fresh off the back of winning Hard Rock Cafe’s UK Battle of The Bands competition, where they received glowing reviews from judges James Curran (Absolute Radio), Jemma Downey (Live Nation) and James Walsh (Starsailor), The band’s belief and reputation is growing fast. This and their recent appearance at Bestival being covered by ITV’s Meridian News has created a real buzz in and around their local area.

The band are starting to gain a strong following in London and have gigs there on the 2nd and 9th Feb. You can see the band playing around Hampshire on…
Fri 27 Jan @ 147 Club, Gosport
Sat 18 Feb @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Sat 24 March @ Unit, Southampton (supporting Sound Of Guns)

The band love their social networking and you can keep up to date with them via their YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Soundcloud pages. To sign up to their mailing list click here.

If you like the video below you can buy four tracks on iTunes.


(L-R) Barrie Hardman (Guitar), Jake Bezzina (Vocals), Jack Greenfield (Drums), Grant Melin (Bass) and James Hill (Guitar)

Keep the pound in Pompey – Room 237

Room 237 is located at 76 Elm Grove. It’s Southsea’s premier destination for graphic novels, comics and books on everything from cult TV, cinema, illustration and even skateboarding. If you find something online the guys can often get it ordered in for you, just ask.

Follow them on Facebook, Twitter and their future website at www.room237.co.uk or drop them a line at 02392 862 136 and redrum@room237.co.uk

Man Attacked By Exhibition opens tonight at Bonzo

Anyone venturing into Albert Road tonight should pop into Bonzo to see Paul Tinker’s Man Attacked By exhibition. I’ve been looking forward to this myself since Paul got in touch with us at Strong Island.

The exhibition will run from 18th November – 2nd December and features some of your favourite animals fighting back against humans.

If you get there before 9pm tonight you can get your picture taken with the 8ft tall bear and there might even be some alcohol or eyes balls left?


You can follow Man Attacked By on Twitter.


Man Attacked By Exhibition

From 18th November – 2nd December Paul Tinker will be exhibiting his Man Attacked By series at Bonzo in Albert Road. If you’d like to attend the opening night of the exhibition this friday you can find the details on Facebook.

I’m personally looking forward to it!

You can follow Man Attacked By on Twitter.


Man Attacked By Exhibition

I noticed from Twitter last night that everyone loved the penguins on BBC’s Frozen Planet. These penguins aren’t so sweet though!

From 18th November – 2nd December Paul Tinker will be exhibiting his Man Attacked By series at Bonzo in Albert Road. If you’d like to attend the opening night of the exhibition you can find the details on Facebook.

If you’d like to see some more of the less violent work check out Paul’s portfolio.


You can follow Man Attacked By on Twitter.

Man Attacked By Exhibition

From 18th November – 2nd December Paul Tinker will be exhibiting his Man Attacked By series at Bonzo in Albert Road. I personally love his work and how brutal the animals are. My personal favourite is the Stag with Garotte Wire.

You can follow Man Attacked By on Twitter.

Following Toby Taylor on Bored

If like me you can’t get enough of skateboarding, but just don’t know where to dig everything out from that there world wide webby, then local top gun Toby Taylors twitter feed for Bored of Southsea will fill all your needs in the world of local and international skateboarding. Jump on Tobys feed HERE. Check Tobys Tre Flip at the underpass courtesy of Tom Timewaster. › Continue reading

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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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