Emily Priest visits her first ever Victorious festival and tells all, good and bad, in a three part series about Portsmouth’s biggest event, starting with Friday night Madness. Victorious, always on the last bank holiday of [… read more ]
In the second of a special series of articles, cultural historian Dr Dave Allen looks back at Portsmouth in the late 1960s, a heady scene of hippies, hallucinogens and high quality music. San Francisco, London [… read more ]
But did we? asks Portsmouth pop historian Dr Dave Allen in this first part of a series of articles on the impact of ’60s counterculture on our city, the legendary Birdcage venue playing a key [… read more ]
Having attracted a mammoth 120,000 people last weekend, the Victorious Festival has truly put Portsmouth on the musical map. In the run-up to the big event Maddie Wallace went behind the scenes to talk to [… read more ]
For this summer’s Portsmouth Festivities, our new Contributing Editor Dr Dave Allen was invited to give a talk on the topic ‘Portsmouth’s unique musical heritage’. His immediate response was that he didn’t think Portsmouth’s musical [… read more ]
Presented by TS Evinrude, Gorgeous Cretin and Omnimoda Music. There’s a ticket tonight that is hotter than quark-gluon plasma. It’s the only place to be. It’s the lateral earache epitome. It’s the auditory equivalent of a [… read more ]
The music industry has changed – and continues to change – beyond recognition. So how has the Cellars at Eastney, one of Portsmouth’s great independent venues, fared in the new environment? In the first of [… read more ]
Daniel Malice enjoys feeling a little out of place as he heads along to review Rae Morris at the Wedgewood Rooms. It’s 8 o’clock pm, 11th February 2015. I’m on my way to the Wedgewood [… read more ]
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