SOUTHSEA FEST 2010: Porters Bar
August 25th, 2010 | Published in News
Nick Courtney brings us the Porters Bar stage this year and, as always, it’s Southsea Fest’s free entry venue… if last year is anything to go by the audience will be spilling onto the street and enjoying a mixed bag of local performers.
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? All manner of things, opening with the venue host himself backed by Drumnation and with burlesque dancers… mostly though expect the cream of the local scene.
NOT TO BE MISSED: Bemis. Labelled with a folk tag, Bemis are so much more. If you put it simply you might call them acoustic rockers, but really they’re a band built around the twin guitars and voices of Gareth Howells and Ritchie Leo. Onstage the band have an uncanny ability to take the audience on a journey and I’m yet to see them play a gig that doesn’t leave every listener grinning from ear to ear.
OUR TIP TO WATCH OUT FOR: The Boy I Used To Be. Young Edward Perry is an enigma. On the one hand he’s a young guitar strummer whose music has been heard on Skins and who was voted the best solo artist in Portsmouth. On the other hand I have seen him wear a cravat in public. What Ed does better than just about anyone else locally is channel what it’s like to be a young man who lives outside the cliques of the school yard and the college hangouts.
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