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  • Imagine the scene late in 2005, the Army and Navy was over three years gone, the heyday of music at the YMCA a distant memory, live music in Chelmsford was clinging on by its fingertips. The Bassment was leading strongly with the Fellowship of Funk jazz nights on a Thursday...

    A 50th Issue Retrospective

    Posted on March 23, 2011 | No Comments
    Imagine the scene late in 2005, the Army and Navy was over three years gone, the heyday of music at the YMCA a distant memory, live music in Chelmsford was clinging on by its fingertips. The Bassment was leading strongly with the Fellowship of Funk jazz nights on a Thursday...

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  • We Are Fight Apathy Founded by Danny Segeth in 2011, Fight Apathy was born in January 2011. “What the hell?” You might well ask. Fight Apathy is about just that; fighting the idea that theatre, arts and culture don’t matter and that we should ‘overlook’ those things that we see...

    Fight Apathy

    Posted on March 22, 2011 | No Comments
    We Are Fight Apathy Founded by Danny Segeth in 2011, Fight Apathy was born in January 2011. “What the hell?” You might well ask. Fight Apathy is about just that; fighting the idea that theatre, arts and culture don’t matter and that we should ‘overlook’ those things that we see...

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  • On the very last day of February some ten years ago a very special, and now very cherished, indie club was given its first outing in the salubrious setting of the Bassment. This was the day Bitterscene was born. “Pretty much the last Wednesday of the month for ten years...

    Bitterscene – Ten Years

    Posted on March 20, 2011 | No Comments
    On the very last day of February some ten years ago a very special, and now very cherished, indie club was given its first outing in the salubrious setting of the Bassment. This was the day Bitterscene was born. “Pretty much the last Wednesday of the month for ten years...

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  • On 17th of February Great Baddow High School played host to the Battle of the Bands 2011. The event was put on by head of music Miss Toni Cooper, with Mr Terry Chew and Miss Lynch doing the sound and set design respectively. The evening was hosted by students Jack...

    Great Baddow Battle of the Bands

    Posted on March 19, 2011 | No Comments
    On 17th of February Great Baddow High School played host to the Battle of the Bands 2011. The event was put on by head of music Miss Toni Cooper, with Mr Terry Chew and Miss Lynch doing the sound and set design respectively. The evening was hosted by students Jack...

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  • Andy Poole, founder member of Panic and host of the Panic Awards: In a similar fashion to the cinematic trope of black and white flashbacks, I cast my mind back to the cultural environment of Chelmsford in the early noughties and it is bleak, dreary and very much a part...

    History of Panic – In The Words of the People that Made It Possible

    Posted on March 18, 2011 | No Comments
    Andy Poole, founder member of Panic and host of the Panic Awards: In a similar fashion to the cinematic trope of black and white flashbacks, I cast my mind back to the cultural environment of Chelmsford in the early noughties and it is bleak, dreary and very much a part...

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  • In Chinese astrology, it’s the year of the rabbit but to my mind 2011 is the year of the beard. This month bearded gentleman from across the county and beyond will be gathering in Chelmsford to meet at the Queen’s Head in Lower Anchor Street on Saturday 12th February from...

    Year of the Beard

    Posted on February 14, 2011 | No Comments
    In Chinese astrology, it’s the year of the rabbit but to my mind 2011 is the year of the beard. This month bearded gentleman from across the county and beyond will be gathering in Chelmsford to meet at the Queen’s Head in Lower Anchor Street on Saturday 12th February from...

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  • What’s the first thing you think of when someone says drums to you? Animal from The Muppets? Loud noise? Jungle drums? Marching band? Drum and bass? Me? I get excited when anyone mentions drums to me, which is a good thing as a I’m a drummer in a band! I...

    Why I Love… Drums!

    Posted on February 14, 2011 | No Comments
    What’s the first thing you think of when someone says drums to you? Animal from The Muppets? Loud noise? Jungle drums? Marching band? Drum and bass? Me? I get excited when anyone mentions drums to me, which is a good thing as a I’m a drummer in a band! I...

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  • Radio 3 recently had a Mozart season; they set themselves the task of broadcasting ‘every note that Mozart wrote’, and presumably succeeded – it being the BBC. Of course I am a hopeless high culture junkie so listened to quite a lot of this output, often with a glass in...

    Musical Tribalism

    Posted on February 14, 2011 | No Comments
    Radio 3 recently had a Mozart season; they set themselves the task of broadcasting ‘every note that Mozart wrote’, and presumably succeeded – it being the BBC. Of course I am a hopeless high culture junkie so listened to quite a lot of this output, often with a glass in...

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  • Three shows so far, a fourth coming up in spring and yet I am still not bored of being involved with the Panic Awards. How could this be? I believe that it is very important that the people who give up their time to make this area a better place...

    Panic Awards 2011

    Posted on February 14, 2011 | No Comments
    Three shows so far, a fourth coming up in spring and yet I am still not bored of being involved with the Panic Awards. How could this be? I believe that it is very important that the people who give up their time to make this area a better place...

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  • As barhouse enters a new year we’d like to thank you for your support and fill you in on our new and exciting plans for the time ahead. Having taken a hefty beating over the past two and a half years with some 650 gigs and over 2000 band performances...

    Barhouse

    Posted on February 14, 2011 | No Comments
    As barhouse enters a new year we’d like to thank you for your support and fill you in on our new and exciting plans for the time ahead. Having taken a hefty beating over the past two and a half years with some 650 gigs and over 2000 band performances...

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