Category: Previews
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Preview: Brighten The Corners, Ipswich, June 9th/10th
Brighten The Corners is the evolution of Ipswich Sound City, a multi-venue event spread across Ipswich town centre on a Friday and Saturday afternoon/night with music and talks. I went to one of the previous Sound City festivals and was a big fan – it’s a bit like The Great Escape but on a slightly…
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ArcTanGent 2022 – 10 to look out for
Sugar Horse – Wednesday, Elephant in the Bar RoomOne of the bands I discovered at a previous ArcTanGent, Sugar Horse are a loud mix of riffs and delay-laden post-rock moments. They’ve released a lot of music since then so will no doubt be bringing plenty of new material to play at the festival. Wear ear…
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Glastonbury announce first 2022 lineup
After two years absence it’s great to see a lineup announced for this year’s Glastonbury Festival. The summer just hasn’t been the same without it – while it was great to see some festivals coming back last year there really wasn’t the diversity in the acts that you’re treated to at Glastonbury. First things first…
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Preview: Keg – Three Wise Monkeys, 19/01/2022
After the success of last year’s Music Venue Trust’s Revive Live tours, they’re back with another series of live events to see in the the new year. We get two dates in Colchester, the first of which is Brighton seven piece Keg, playing Three Wise Monkeys on Wednesday. Creating interesting but fun post-punk inspired tracks,…
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Preview: Musicians Supporting The Homeless present Monster Florence – Three Wise Monkeys, 19/11/2021
Musicians Supporting The Homeless are back with another great lineup, this time over at Three Wise Monkeys, raising money for various causes such as Colchester Emergency Night Shelter and Beacon House. They’ll be collecting food/beauty/hygine products for those causes on the night too. There are three great acts playing on the evening: Monster Florence are…
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Preview: Pave The Jungle – Three Wise Monkeys, 11/11/2021
Since everything got going again it’s been good to see Three Wise Monkeys bringing more and more live music from further afield into town. Tonight they welcome Newcastle’s Pave The Jungle who, on record at least, sound energetic and punky. There’s something interesting about their sound; the lead guitar parts are a lot of fun…
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Preview: Loxley’s Corner Live Takeover – Multiple Venues, 6/11/2021
Split over three venues on Colchester High Street, this one day festival, organised by Abbas Lokat, pays homage to Loxley’s Corner, a radio host and radio show that has really stood up for the local music scene over the years, giving local musicians an outlet to have their records played (as well as acoustic sets…
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Live Preview: Coffin Shaker at Colchester Arts Centre, 30/10/2021
If you’re going to pick a location in Colchester to hold a Halloween gig there can’t be many better places than the deconsecrated church of Colchester Arts Centre! The location, mixed with some admittedly more out-there artists, is perfect for the evening. I had no idea what to expect when giving Meemo Comma a listen…
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Preview: Cosmic Puffindoors 2 – November 2nd – Coda, Colchester
It’s an impressive feat, booking like 75% of the Colchester music scene onto one lineup, but a feat that the folk at Cosmic Puffin clearly aimed for when booking this, their second all dayer and their first at Coda. With music running from midday until 1AM and two stages to choose from, there seems to…
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A Recap of 2015
Okay, so it’s February and admittedly a bit odd to be recapping last year now but late last year we went and spoke to some of the prominent people in the local scene to ask them about their year and try and put together a picture of what went on. We didn’t hear back from…
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