28th April, 2013
HONK! It’s time for firstsite Late VI. Or is it VII? We’ve sorta lost count on the number of times that each new season at the Golden Goose is greeted with late night frolicking around the sloping walls of the Cultural Quarter. Friday 3rd May is when firstsite will be staying up late to celebrate [...]
27th April, 2013
Mushrooms! In May! In the hallowed halls of academia! Steady the buffers, etc. Mushroom! may not be what you were expecting. We’ve hesitated to add the magic prefix, but we’re in no doubt that the outdoor play being performed on campus at the University of Essex on 26th May will be anything but bewitching. Written [...]
26th April, 2013
One of the benefits in blogging about Britain’s Oldest Recorded is that you get a rounded picture of the many artistic talents that are performing around the town. Essex + Culture DOESN’T = five pints on a Friday night, and then a singsong on the last bus back to West Bergholt. But then again… Nope [...]
25th April, 2013
This is more than half-decent – in fact it’s chuffing ACE. And so there we were at the start of the week, bashing out a blog post all about the future community use of Holy Trinity Church and how Go4 Enterprises is setting up an enterprise zone right in the centre of the town. Sounds [...]
25th April, 2013
Col U fans – it’s probably time that we brought some closure to the current season. Not by mentioning the dreaded R word, but by finishing what we started back in those balmy days of late August last year. Yep, U’s Executive Chairman Robbie Cowling is once again taking to two wheels as his preferred [...]
24th April, 2013
Yep – it’s another Chronic blog post in a long line of the Ask a Silly PMQ Question cut and paste tradition. AKA Wot Sir Bob Did Next. Doh! Anyone glued to Westminster around midday on Wednesday [um, hellooo!] must have pricked up their ears when Speaker Bercow put on his fake-Regal accent to summon [...]
24th April, 2013
Heads up above for the LOVELY Jumbo logo, so kindly created for The Chronic by the ACE design and illustration skills of @tinysketchbook. Heads down below for a video produced by @dariusglaws addressing the continued decline of Jumbo, the quite literal elephant in the room for Colchester. *sigh* We’ve blogged and blogged and blogged before [...]
23rd April, 2013
It’s all gone a little quiet on the future use of Holy Trinity Church, hasn’t it? *shhh* – something quite special is being planned for the historic Trinity Street location with a social enterprise planning how to use the space to help train and employ young folk around the town. Go4 Enterprises has managed to [...]
22nd April, 2013
Signals Media – the clue is all in the title: Meeeja, dahhhling. ACE though the extensive film output coming out of Signals Media is, it is also worth SHOUTING a little louder about some of the multi-media approaches that the Colchester based organisation has towards training. And whaddya know – a new season, and a [...]
21st April, 2013
To Colchester Arts Centre! …on Saturday evening for Lorraine Bowen’s Polyester Fiesta spectacular. Lovers of lighthearted songs and synthetic material were well catered for at this Colchester Comedy Festival event. Dress to impress was the message for the Arts Centre crowd ahead of the show. Failing that then scrimmage around the charity shops of Sunny [...]
