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Live Review: Ghosts of Men, Shooty and the Bang Bang, Killatrix – Independent Venue Week – Three Wise Monkeys, 1/2/2020
We’ve lost so many excellent venues across the UK in the last decade or so, mostly because people keep buying new built flats with thin walls and then crying about the sound from already established venues. Independent Venue Week was set up as a celebration of everything great about small, independently ran, venues across the…
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Live Review: Sleep Token, Poisonous Birds – Colchester Arts Centre, 24/01/2020
I’m pleasantly surprised by how busy things are when I arrive at the Arts Center – it’s hard to judge just how popular bands are locally but certainly there’s no shortage of Sleep Token fans in the local area. Their logo seems to a be a popular presence on people’s arms too, with more than…
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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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Jeffrey Lewis, Horse Party, Superglu, PollyPreacher The Lakeside Theatre, 04/12/2015
I appear to be a Jeffrey Lewis convert. I’ve never really given his music the attention it apparently deserves, despite him being popular amongst many friends I share tastes with and clearly that was an oversight. Along with his band, Los Bolts, Jeffrey took the audience on a ride through his mind over the space…
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Colchester Free Festival 2015 – Sunday
Walking down to the park on Sunday morning, there’s a lovely sound ringing off in the distance, a more traditional folk sound coming from the main stage. As I arrive in the lower park one song in I’m engrossed in the sound coming from Fishclaw. They describe their sound as progressive-folk, which I was a…
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