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We’re back with another Southsea fest update and we’re headed to The Wine Vaults again. We’ve already previewed the downstairs stage, but head up the wooden staircase to find the volume turned right up and the vocalists competing to obliterate your face. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? Much heavier than the stages we’ve looked at previously,  [ Read More ]

The Wine Vaults is such an integral Southsea Fest venue that it has two stages! Today we’re focusing on the downstairs stage WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? A smorgasbord of styles that pretty much covers every base. NOT TO BE MISSED: Head Full Of Yoko. The editor caught these boys a week or so ago and  [ Read More ]

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  [ Read More ]

So, the time is almost upon us once again… Our favourite one day festival returns on 18th September and once again grizzled Cap’n Josie Curtis and her scurvy ridden crew of expert promoters have booked their favourite acts to entertain at venues up and down Albert Road in Southsea. Who can you expect to see?  [ Read More ]

Outside, in Bournemouth, the sun was shining brightly, almost without mercy as the market packed up for the day. Amidst the clang of metal against metal and plastic against the pavement was the excited chatter of those queuing outside the O2 Academy, waiting for the doors to open.
But who cares about what was outside? Who could care when in the depths of the cavernous academy one of the behemoths of music resided alongside one of Britain’s most exciting bands. Although diminutive in size and in name, Little Fish pack a surprising punch.

Awesome Noise… the title says it all. This is the place to go at Southsea Fest for those of us who like our music loud! This won’t all be straight up shouty metal though, we’ve got everything from Dragon Eye Morrison’s visceral rock to the math rock of Shapes, by way of the complex but  [ Read More ]

We at Call Upon The Author love The B Of The Bang… there’s no two ways about it, we are unashamedly huge fans of Wit and his merry minstrels, so when we discovered they were curating a Southsea Fest stage we were very excited indeed!   WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? Anarchy! Well, perhaps not, but expect  [ Read More ]

Hong Kong Gardeners Club has gained a reputation for putting on new, exciting and unique bills featuring acts that exist a little outside the road most of us walk in life, but close enough that if we make the effort we can really relate to what they play for us. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? A  [ Read More ]

Where better to start with our previews than the flagship stage, captained by the admiral of the fleet? WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? Some of the biggest names at the festival, and indeed on the independent scene, with the likes of Little Fish, Doll and the Kicks (still on a high from their European tour alongside  [ Read More ]

Southsea Fest, an annual one day event taking in venues along the iconic Albert Road in the titular Portsmouth district, is back on the 19th September 2009 for a day packed full of some of the most exciting independent music. The brainchild of Josie Curtis, Southsea Fest started as a two venue event in 2007, raising  [ Read More ]