2nd April, 2013
Much to talk about with Anthony and Stafford from Colchester Arts Centre early on Tuesday morning. Comedy was in the Arts Centre air – and that was just the continuing obsession with male beard bragging rights. Boom boom. Once we finally overcame our beard obsessions, the conversation turned towards comedy. The countdown is well underway [...]
1st April, 2013
Colchester Borough Council is celebrating the nomination of the town’s new bus station for a prestigious RIBA Regional Award for outstanding architectural design. The Osborne Street location will be competing with four other structures in the South East regional final of the annual RIBA competition. RIBA Regional Awards and RIBA National Awards are for buildings [...]
31st March, 2013
This piece was first published in the Colchester United programme on Friday. A fortnight is a long time in football. Fast forward two weeks and the U’s should be safe following Notts County away. Best not to mention Meadow Lane back in May of last year… A fortnight is also an eternity when it comes [...]
30th March, 2013
The University of Essex has a THRIVING Ska scene. Who knew? Well, you call it a scene; we call it a collection of Ska heads that are half decent at blowing their own trumpets and promoting the mighty, mighty fine sounds. Step forward Ska2-D2 (nice) – a seven piece band based up on campus that [...]
29th March, 2013
You gotta be careful when you’re bashing out a blog post that contains the grammatical phrase of ‘Great Book Bang.’ Gosh. But we think that we have just about got away with it. Wanna be in our gang, etc? Which kinda fits the theme – the Bard always was something of a little saucy Devil. [...]
28th March, 2013
Take a look at the LOVELY picture above – they don’t call her Little Laura for nothing – [disclaimer: NOT a real life size pic. Phew.] She may only be four foot 11, but Laura Jepp is standing tall [aha!] for Sunny Colch as a superstar singer in the waiting. Think BIG, think the finals [...]
27th March, 2013
We’re quite enjoying this enforced closure of Colchester Castle here at The Chronic. Whilst the cat is away… Having invited interest / pimped out the jewel in the cultural heritage of Sunny Colch, our friends from Colchester Borough Council have had a half decent response. Booze, zombies and now the Secret Vintage Fair. Um, *shhh* [...]
26th March, 2013
OK – we confess: we have missed a quota or two in the Colchester Quarterly Economic Report. Whoops. Too busy blogging about St Botolph’s, Sir Bob and burlesque. Blimey. But yeah – the number crunchers at the Town Hall [hellooo!] have had some fun with the figures and are proud to present the condensed economic [...]
25th March, 2013
Image: Glynn Thomas And so we’ve has the launch of the 2013 Colchester Free Festival, how about something completely different? Not quite. The Roman River Festival may be at the opposite end of the musical spectrum when it comes to the content, but the ethos and community spirit is still very much the same. The [...]
24th March, 2013
To Colchester Arts Centre! …on Saturday evening for Mr Mayor’s Variety Show. Wanna see a man being swallowed whole by a balloon? A camp dancing donkey? What about Sir Bob of Sunny Colch talking about TWATS? At a mere grubby fiver for this fine entertainment, you couldn’t get better value for money if you spunked [...]
