South Coast gets some Monorex love

A new style bar in the heart of Bedford Place, Southampton is getting the Monorex treatment. Hicks and the rest of the 54 Crew are working on a Japanese themed bar called Tokyo!!

It's on a huge scale as you can see, so if you're around the area, make sure you swing by and say hi.

Tokyo opens on Thursday 1st July, which means the outside paint work, should almost be finished. We'll have updated pics + a nice little time lapse to show you all very soon

DISCO TECK COMMISSION @ SU BAR, SOLENT UNIVERSITY, SOUTHAMPTON

Monorex commissioned Discoteck to paint a small wall at the SU bar in Southampton, in usual Discoteck style - he rocked up with no plan and just free-styled it to perfection...

Thoughts people?

Southampton draw and dates confirmed

The draw has taken place and the dates are booked and set in stone. Make sure you get them locked into your memory, your diary, your Abi Titmus calendar, your swish iphone, your annoying blackberry, whatever your date recording device is, get these dates in there -

1st Round - Thursday 25th September
Gustav Vs VoN

2nd Round -Thursday 6th November
Gustoh Vs Rikki Finn

3rd Round - Thursday 27th November
Pykee Vs Mecha One

4th Round - Thursday 29th January
Rem1 DNK Vs

1st Semi - Final - Thursday 26th February
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2nd Semi - Final - Thursday 26th March
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Final - Thursday 30th April
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We've got a batch of fresh artists, new to secret wars, but not to the illustrating game, all eager to draw blood from defending champion Gustav, who last year blitzed his way to the top spot. Trust me when I say, from looking at each individuals submissions, the bar has been raised. These artists are guaranteed to titillate your artistic taste buds...mmmmm tasty!

See you there, bring a bib!

Southampton Secret Wars Battle Royale

Like the opening event for the World Cup or Olympics, we decided to try something different. Sadly both Charlotte Church and Reeps were fully booked, so we had to make do without the national anthem.

There were two teams on the night. Team A and Team B. On Team A, led by defending Champion Gustav, we had Vents and Mr RoRo. On team B captained by Dirty 30, we had SU 1 and E.T.

Music wise, Mr Muffle and R-Kid decided to play a really filthy set. When I say filthy I mean bacteria infested, virus spreading filthy!!! I had to have 6 showers and a skin peel, down to my bones before I felt clean again. The crowd were feeling the tunes and the art work as both teams worked hard to out do eachother and after 90 min the first battle came to an end.

We decided to leave the judges out for this and left the decision down to the crowd. The calpometer, came out from its long slumber to help pin-point who had won....the winners were....TEAM B. Well done Dirty 30, SU1 and E.T.

One last note...because Southampton is a town dependant on the student community, we've decided to push the first battle back to Thursday 25th September. Despite being the most original night to hit Southampton, there just doesn't seem to be enough people around. So put the date in the diary. Artists and battle dates will be announced soon.