Call Upon The Author

The Boy I Used To Be, or Ed as he’s more commonly known, is one of the South Coast’s most exciting young songwriters. With a knack for blending everday teenage life and it’s many twists and turns into some of the loveliest music we’ve had the pleasure of listening to…

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 [...]

As I wander to The Wine Vaults to get myself and a few friends our tickets, I’m already aware that it’s going to be a long day, I thought I’d made a reasonably early effort by arriving at midday, the already intoxicated seemed to disagree. I’m queuing to receive my band and hear a familiar [...]

Presumably, one has been here before. A year ago to the day (funny, being that it has become an annual thing) I was stood here, looking just as bemused as I did today. But a year has proven itself to be a long time in terms of social arrangement and within seconds I have met [...]