Gazette | Leisure

Budding young stars wanted for festival

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:20:00 +0000

ENTRIES for this year’s Colchester Rotary Festival of Music and Dance have now been opened and organisers are expecting another bumper crop of budding young stars.

Fairport Convention's Colchester sell-out

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000

IN the world of British folk-rock Fairport Convention have earned the right to be considered royalty.

Steven’s new show at Colchester's Firstsite features controversial bricks

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000

ARTIST Steven Claydon launches two exhibitions at Colchester’s Firstsite art gallery tomorrow.

Duo’s weird, curious world at Colchester's Headgate

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:10:00 +0000

THEY are weird, wonderful and slightly whimsical to boot. That’s the Curious World of the Grymoire, a hurdy-gurdy trip into a musical world to make Lewis Carroll gulp.

A Significant band at Colchester's Bull

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000

ACOUSTIC music is on the menu for a monthly event at the Bull in Colchester.

Ola quit the law to follow music dream

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:10:00 +0000

THANKFULLY the legal profession missed out in Ola Onabule’s case.

Why the art mash-up never stops for Lee

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

PERFORMANCE artist Lee Ashcroft, from Kelvedon, likes a project. At the moment he’s got five on the go.

Comedian Tim adds afternoon show to arts centre gig

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:40:00 +0000

TIM Vine, the stand-up who fires one-line gags like bullets from a Gatling gun, is putting on an extra show at the Colchester Arts Centre.

Why it’s Germany calling for Michael and his book

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:10:58 +0000

GERMANY is perhaps not the most likely place to fall in love with.

New music on the hour at Firstsite

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:00:00 +0000

COLCHESTER’S Firstsite Art Gallery will be blowing its own trumpet this Christmas.