Friends of Strong Island Pet Sounds would like to give their seal of approval to 2.54. On 9th Feb fresh from tours with Wild Beasts, Yuck and Warpaint, the London based sisters arrive at the Wedgewood Rooms supporting The Big Pink to promote their EP release ‘Scarlet’. You can get tickets here.
It’s always good to see a band before they really take off, and the Wedgewood Rooms has seen its fair share of support bands go massive after that charmed slot.
The Big Pink are good too so all round a pretty hot ticket. Local support from the top Kassassin Street also. All in all a pretty sweet night…
Check out what the Guardian had to say on 2:54 and the Big Pink.
The Revival Tour is an acoustic collaboration including Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Dave Hause (The Loved Ones), Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio) and Brian Fallon (Gaslight Anthem).
I’ve been to many gigs at the Wedgewood Rooms over the years and this one has got to be my favourite. What made the show special for me was the non stop music. There were no breaks between sets, just the artists taking turns and guesting on each other songs.
When being in a crowd at any gig I like to know the band are enjoying themselves too. All the artists and musicians involved were obviously having lots of fun. There was an obvious sense of friendship between them and the crowd shared the love for them and the performances. Brian Fallon even treated the crowd to some new songs from his new project The Horrible Crowes.
Here are some photos taken by Joe Watson and a video taken my myself. You can see more of Joe’s photo’s from the gig at rocksound.tv and more of his work on www.visionincision.co.uk
NME are running a competition to find Britain’s best small venue, the grass-roots pubs and clubs that are the beating heart of this country’s music scene. Right here in Portsmouth we have in my opinion one of the best, The Wedgewood Rooms.
I spent a few years touring the country as crew for a band and have seen many small venues, some of which are very unique and full of character in their own right. But putting my Portsmouth bias aside, the Wedge truly is one of the best. Always known on the circuit for many years as being one of the best too by artists and crew alike.
Take yourself back to 1984….When the world was full of rock n roll animal’s…Who wanted nothin’ but a good time …Whilst Tommy and Gina were still back home livin’ on a prayer in panama…
HAIRFORCE-5 were born…Stevie Viper, Rikki Thunder, Tracii Van-Wylde and Gene Stirrz…Were all cruising down the highway to hell with all those girls, girls, girls …They didn’t stop rockin’ their crotches off…And they are still rockin’ them today…And rockin’ them hard…
HAIRFORCE-5 are Europe’s Premier Tribute Band…A Tribute to all those great songs, those great bands…And all that was great with Rock music in the 1980’s….When the vocals were SCREAMING, and so were the groupies…When the guitars were BIG, and so was the hair…When the bass lines were TIGHT, and so were the trousers…When the drums were POUNDING, and so were our hearts…These guys will rock you like a hurricane…So what are you waiting for, walk this way…Jump onboard the crazy train…And join the fun…This is the final countdown to rock and roll all night with HAIRFORCE-5…Get you tickets HERE.
If you listen closely enough, always with a comparison in those thousands of combinations of twenty six letters, a billion stories can be heard… The Rubicon encapsulate the original meaning of the word “a line once exceeded brings irrevocable commitment”…
Born and raised amongst strangers, The Rubicon first gathered momentum in a garage with pictures of icons on walls and handed-down guitars, armed with their own stories and sound, the journey began…This is us – where we’re coming, hoping and heading. We are our friends, our family, our lovers and strangers. We wish your clear heads as full as your wildest threats and may your white lies and schemes be hand in hand with The Rubicon. Grab your tickets HERE.
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.
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