30th January, 2013
HONK! Here comes the first MUST KEEP FREE date in the Sunny Colch calendar for 2013: Saturday 20th July sees the return of the ACE Colchester Carnival down the High Street and processing into Castle Park. Hurrah! This will be the third year of the resurrected event, after a tremendous amount of work by Colchester [...]
30th January, 2013
Did you catch Jonathan Meades and The Joy of Essex on BBC4 last night, dahhhlings? No worries if you didn’t – that nice iPlayer should be your friend to see you through until the first coffee break of the morning. Do they mean us? They most certainly do, etc… The premise of the programme appeared [...]
28th January, 2013
Hyperlocal blogs – we can’t get enough of them here at The Chronic. Y’see it’s all about the sharing. Linky link over here, and then linky link bacatcha [URGH.] Before you know it and you soon find that you have an informal hyperlocal network to match the bloggosphere [GEDDIN] springing up around Britain’s Oldest Recorded. [...]
28th January, 2013
And so you’ve had the splendour of Window Shopping: How’s-a-bout the delights of Window Dressing – aka What Johnno did next… Neat, eh? Yep, Johnno Casson, the NICEST man in Colchester [tough competition] has only gone and organised a remix album of his ACE Window Shopping album from last year. It’s not as if the [...]
27th January, 2013
Did you catch Jumbo being discussed on Saturday Live this weekend on Radio 4? Judging by the number of #Colchester based tweets that were flying around shortly after 9:30am, then the five minutes or so of fame on the Sunny Colch icon certainly generated a great deal of interest. In case you missed it, HERE’s [...]
27th January, 2013
This piece was first published in the Colchester United programme yesterday. Happy New Year to all U’s fans. Welcome to any Walsall visitors as well. We hope that you like our town. We LOVE it so much that we spend any spare time bashing out blog posts about Colchester rather than actually enjoying it. When [...]
25th January, 2013
The Creative Apprenticeship Experience – nope, *not* a Sunny Colch Jimi Hendrix tribute band that plays covers addressing the division of labour in the creative sector [WOT?] – but the latest ACE event from The Minories in helping to build a creative economy in Colchester. Um, Are You Experienced, etc? The Minories will be hosting [...]
24th January, 2013
And so we’ve had the ACE news that our friends from Colchester Borough Council are going to try and kick start the Cultural Quarter with the conversion of the old Queen Street Police Station. The planning application is in, but hey! – who the chuffers is going to pay for the substantial renovation work that [...]
24th January, 2013
‘cos you can’t keep a COOL Sunny Colch cultural concept down. Or something. So yeah – the ACE Colchester Cultural Crawl is back for a second time on the afternoon of 20th February. Hurrah! “We’re doing it again! After the success of the first ever Culture Crawl in October 2012 we’re back with a new [...]
23rd January, 2013
And so you may be waking up on Wednesday to read how there has been a ‘U-turn’ on the Council Tax increase in Colchester. The planned 1.95% precept rise has now disappeared after Council Leader Cllr Anne Turrell and LibDem Group Leader Cllr Paul Smith both appeared at the Finance and Scrutiny Panel on Tuesday [...]
