Keep Colchester Cool

Exhibition: James Cook’s Typewriter Art
2025-12-01 09:30 - 2025-12-05 05:30 (Europe/London) | Colchester Library and Community Hub, 21 Trinity Square, Colchester, CO1 1JB, GB
Exhibition News! Preparations are underway for my free exhibition of my typewriter art in celebration of the grand reopening of Colchester Library. Details below �
� Open 1st – 5th December� Colchester Library, Trinity Square, CO1 1JB, � No ticket required
I will be here on Friday 5th so if you have any prints or typewriters (yes you heard that right!) which you’d like me to sign, then bring them along!

Elvana Elvis Fronted Nirvana - Colchester - Charter Hall
2025-12-05 19:00 - 22:00 | Colchester Charter Hall, Colchester Charter Hall
👑💀 Come as you are, baby.https://tix.to/ElvanaBuyTicketsNow
The Return of the Hound Dogs!
Your favorite Elvis-fronted Nirvana tribute are hitting the road once again for a huge new UK tour through 2025 and into 2026 — and we’re bringing the same old chaos with a shiny new twist.Get ready for a night of grungy goodness, pelvis-shaking rock & roll, and all the high-voltage madness only the itty bitty King and the gang can deliver. 🎸👑💥
We’re stopping at all our fave spots across the UK with a brand spankin’ new show that’s just as loud, proud, and downright unhinged as ever. You’ve been warned. 😈
🔥 GENERAL SALE:Goes live Friday 18th April @ 12 noon sharp.Set your alarms, tell your mates, and secure your spot in the church of Cobain x Presley.
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ELVANA – THE WORLD’S FINEST ELVIS FRONTED TRIBUTE TO NIRVANA!
From the bowels of Disgraceland, Rock & Roll icons of the afterlife are raised from the dead! Rock & Roll meets Grunge as Elvis fronts Nirvana and gives the band the front man it’s been missing since ’94. Elvana tear through Nirvana’s catalogue whilst splicing in grunged up sections of the king of rock & rolls finest moments, culminating in a whopper mash up of overdrive & old school Rockabilly. It smells like cheeseburgers and teen spirit, daddy-o!
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Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Fri, 18 Apr 2025 at 12:00 PM
Presales: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 12:00 PM

ECL Crafty Drama Presents - Scrooge The Musical
2025-12-05 19:00 - 22:00 | St Botolphs Church, Colchester, GB
ECL Crafty Drama Presents – Scrooge The Musical! Watch Charles Dickens’ timeless tale A Christmas Carol come to life with toe tapping tunes, and a captivating performance perfect for the whole family.
ECL Crafty Drama is a performing arts group that aims to enhance the lives of people with learning disabilities and/or autism, helping them to gain independence, confidence, and self esteem. It gives adults with learning disabilities the chance to learn social, communication, motor, and life skills through the use of sign language, music, dance, and drama.
The popular performing arts group were awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the People’s Category of The Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards 2022, for making a difference to the lives of the customers they support.
Location: St Botolphs Church, Colchester, CO2 7EEDetails: Doors open at 6:30PM Show runs from 7:00PM to 10:00PM

Those Folk / Susannah Clegg
2025-12-05 19:30 - 22:30 | Colne Delta, Community Centre, Lower Park Road, CO7 0LG Brightlingsea, United Kingdom, Colne Delta, Community Centre, Lower Park Road, CO7 0LG Brightlingsea, United Kingdom
Those Folk
Charismatic, authentic and thoroughly entertaining, Lawrence Menard (USA) and Clare Quinn (AUS) are the transpacific-troubadours known as ‘Those Folk.’ Having met in Scotland in 2012, they have since travelled extensively and lived in the pine forest mountains of California. They now hang their travelling hats in Pomona, Queensland.
A partnership forged in the fires of folk music, Those Folk explore sounds from the 1960’s folk revival and contemporary Americana music. Breathtaking vocal harmonies are featured alongside rich instrumental work performed on guitars, mandolin, banjo and accordion. Lawrence & Clare are storytellers who make audience members feel like fast friends. As songwriters they delve into love, hope, belonging, and the human condition. As performers they enthral, enchant, and leave a lasting impression.
2024 saw the band release their ‘Life Inside a Box’ album, tour the UK, and perform headline town hall concerts across the East Coast of Australia. Recent performance highlights include the Woodford Folk Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival, Yackandandah Folk Festival, Cobargo Folk Festival, Townsville Folk Festival, and The Gympie Music Muster.
Lawrence & Clare have been compared to the likes of Simon & Garfunkel and Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings. Those Folk make not just folk music, but music for all sorts of folk.
Susannah Clegg
Susannah Clegg is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the North West of England. The Road Is Only Miles, her debut EP of original songs inspired by Americana and classic country music, alongside “spine-tingling” renditions of American roots standards, was released on 1st February 2025.
Described by The Rugged Revival as “a standout voice on the UK scene”, her recent work as a solo artist is a powerful combination of impressive vocals, thoughtful lyricism and acoustic guitar, and has been featured on BBC Introducing (Lancashire & Cumbria), Somethin’ Country UK, The British Country Show, UK Country Radio, The International Americana Music Show and Beyond Radio. Taking inspiration from the likes of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Townes van Zandt as well as contemporary artists such as Willie Watson, Sierra Ferrell and Gillian Welch, she has performed across the UK, producing a timeless sound that takes in country, blues, folk and western swing.
Susannah is also a key member of bluegrass and country string-band The Long Nights, who released their debut album in 2024 and have supported artists such as Karen Jonas, Rod Picott and Jaywalkers

The Laughter Zone Comedy Club
2025-12-05 20:00 - 23:00 | Church St, CO1 1NF Colchester, United Kingdom
Tickets £15.50/ £13.50 concessions.Doors open 8pm, show starts 8.30pm.This show is for a seated audience.
Come on in for a riotous night of laughter where the bar will be open throughout.
We get all the big names of comedy on their way up – Eddie Izzard, Billy Bailey, Jimmy Carr and Michael McIntyre have all appeared at our club when they were in the early stages of their careers.
So catch the acts causing a stir on today’s circuit, and you might even be witnessing comedy greatness of tomorrow!
The acts performing are announced on the night.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1228580922300520/?event_time_id=1228580925633853

24 Karat: Live at Coda
2025-12-05 21:00 - 2025-12-06 00:00 | Coda Colchester, Coda Colchester
Back at one of our favourite venues for some early festive celebrations! Bring your dancing shoes!
