A team of students from the University of Portsmouth recently created a short documentary about finding community through the rock music society and we are delighted to showcase it on S&C. [… read more ]
Local author and reviewer Jackie Green enjoys a high-energy musical with a live concert edge to it. Girlz is an original musical written by Daf Hughes and follows the story of a brand new girl [… read more ]
The Pretenders recently played Portsmouth Guildhall, 46 years after their first and eponymous album was released. Writer Andrew Larder was there. Dressed in a pink satin jacket and biker boots, singer and founder Chrissie Hynde [… read more ]
S&C’s classical music commentator Paul Valentine shares his experience of an evening with Weber, Prokofiev and Brahms at Portsmouth Guildhall on 30th March 2023. When I saw the size of tonight’s orchestra and reminisced about [… read more ]
Like many other art forms, classical music was forced off the stage by Covid-19. Paul Valentine was all the more thrilled to be able to get out and see the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s performances of [… read more ]
If you’re a diehard Irvine Welsh fan like S&C regular Lucy Nother, the news of a six-part TV drama from the mind of the legendary Scottish author was a much-anticipated treat. Based on Welsh’s seventh [… read more ]
Over the summer, American comedian Bo Burnham released a Netflix special that spoke to many – including University of Portsmouth student Lucy Nother – about the pandemic, mental illness and the challenges of the digital [… read more ]
Having never seen the first installation of the Luna Park dinosaur on Southsea Common, Paris Ali-Pilling set out to see what all the fuss was about, and whether local complaints on social media about the [… read more ]
S&C Community Reporter Andrew Larder heads down to a recent gig by local band, The Glorias, and speaks to bassist Andy Cornish about their lasting appeal. Photographs by Sally Cornish. American journalist Lester Bangs described [… read more ]
MysteryFest 2021 will be delivered virtually next spring because of the uncertainty surrounding the current pandemic, local S&C contributor Julia Davey reports. The event will feature renowned authors speaking openly about their own literary journeys [… read more ]
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