Strong Island

born from a simple conversion between paul gonella & tristan savage over some drinks on albert road, the idea for strong island came from our passion about where we live and the fact that we would often miss certain events, gigs, exhibitions etc and had no real source to find out about them in one place… we launched 8 days later on the 27th september 2008 with some of our own photos and videos alongside scans of flyers we picked up and articles we dug out about the city. strong island has really taken off since this humble beginning, with both of us operating, maintaining, updating and writing posts in our free time outside of ‘normal’ working hours. unfunded and independent we’ve managed to keep the original ethos of quite simply being a site designed to promote, showcase and inform people about portsmouth and southsea’s scene. be it past, present or future we’ll do our best to keep you up to date with photos, interviews and articles about the city. however, we really couldn’t have ma