Freelance writer and S&C contributor Phoebe Hedges reviews the first of two Pompey quarter-finals in the Isle of Wight New Blood competition. As someone who spent their formative years in bars and basements, with her [… read more ]
At 7pm tomorrow, Tuesday 5th March, four bands will compete for the chance of a lifetime. Teaming up with the Hot Vox agency, the Isle of Wight Festival is on the hunt for the best [… read more ]
Portsmouth’s DVMISSION is in its twelth year and is the longest running 48-hour film challenge in the UK. But this is no ordinary film festival… DVMISSION is an annual, not for profit and independent film [… read more ]
University of Portsmouth student Paul Beresford imagines a grim future for Portsmouth’s music venues, as he shows how the city’s independent and smaller venues are struggling to survive in an increasingly competitive commercial landscape. The year [… read more ]
Emily Priest reviews and reports on the 11th Southsea Food Festival, which ran on the weekend of 15th July, where she finds plenty to talk about as well as to eat. It was my first [… 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 ]
How big does a band have to be to give away their drumsticks? From Pie & Vinyl to the Wedge, Will Sutton goes on the trail of Pompey music heroes Kassassin St. Castle Road Festival, [… 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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