Live Music Venues in Colchester, Essex*

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• OMG!!! blatently the arts centre..they do this great night called gigantic and its basically four hours full of indie music. its so so so good! went to one the other week and it totally rocked! name a band you like and they'll play it! and the best bit is tickets only cost £5! people under 18 can have bit of hassle on the door (i alwas do) but it is for over 16's....i totally recommend it! the twist is also a really cool place for live music..loadsa cool ands play there! avoid hippodrome...if you've ever seen the people leaving that place then you'll know why!!
• The Silk Road 01206-576003
• The Twist- the most terrible venue in the world. it's small, cramped, hot, and full of unsociable losers. avoid unless you're already drunk.
• The Twist is fantasitic for all kinds of bands. From Hip hop, metal and Rapping
• Hi A friend and I took over Legend Studios nearly two years ago now. See you still have the link. The name has been changed to Unit One Studios and we operate the exact same way as before. Clean space, good prices and now with a recording suite upstairs this place is a creative beast!! same number: 01206 870240 web: http://www.unitonestudios.co.uk
• There are crap bands that play at Oneils on Thurdays if you want a giggle go and see how bad it really is!!!!
• The hippodrome brings westwood to town on tour and Club D brings a few band to town

• colchester arts centre is the best in the town, we just had wednesday 13 come play here (wednesday from the murderdolls' other band). They were fantastic!
• MOLLY MALLONES the best pub eva live music from people like shameless/sevenless who are a great local band
• arts centre, soundhouse, legends!
• the soundhouse is cool and i have had many happy nights there!
• Nah, every now and then there is something going on in Castle Park.
• Colcvhester Arts centre.01206 500900
• The Soundhouse (was the twist) is really going somewhere, with lots more signed stuff comeing up on the program, instead of tribute bands. The art centre has stuff everynow and then, but, with their entry age lowered to 14, the security haul pretty quickly if you look like you might jump on someones foot (or mini mosher) by accident. Check out www.the13th.com for reviews and line ups.

• the Arts Center - generally there's one or two class acts a month there, the last one being One Minute Silence. Hell is For Heroes were there but sucked :)
• Oh the Arts Centre! Years and so many nights. Big haze but, will never forget the Twisted Melons, Blow Up, 3ft. High and Rising & the local bands, Fridge, Dennis and Mouthy. With Steve Lamaqc making many appearances and reviews, huge bands from elsewhere loved it - best has to be David Devant & his Spirit Wife!!
• The Twist and the Arts Centre are both holes. But look out for a punk all-dayer coming to a church-turned-music-venue in the next few months...
• The Art Centre. Get In, Pull, Get Out. five minutes tops...if you're any good.
• Bring back the Picolo Pardre, them wine jars came in handy when the bog was full, you could put it on a table wait for it to empty then piss in it again, seem to remember the place was full of robing hard up students who was always moaning about the wine being warm.
• arts centre. the manager is a big c**t though
• THE TWIST - Plays good music but is mostly filled with Goths and Grungers
• colchester arts centre is good
• Molly Malones used to ba a good venue but since the arrival of the 2nd and 3rd Bn the Paranormals Regt., they changed the name to Slipstream.....yet another place that normal civvies can't use now. More durr brain paras than you can shake a stick at. If you do visit, watch out for the lobotomised monkies that work the door. Definitely the place to get a serious groping if your female and a serious kicking if your a normal type male. Mainly used by the intellectually dead listening to bands of dubious backgrounds and quality. Expensive beer and all the ambience of a locked mental ward.
• Deep is now shut down, due to it starting school-based gang wars. I DJed in there for a while and it DID suck and was run by scarey christians trying subtly to convert everyone (but £40 an hour so i didnt give a shit), had to escape out of the backdoors several times to avoid GUN wealding pissed kids shooting the windows with air rifles. not becouse of anything inparticular but becouse they were wankers after a fight with anything that moved.
• A decent rock concert needs to be held in Castle park, as long as the Westlife A1 and Boyzone & their teenybopper boyz & girlz are not there. How about Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Papa Roach and some of the other hard rock/heavy metal bands breathing some life into this town?
• the twist
• Music venues are pretty good. I've seen some amazing bands in Colchester to be honest - I mean forget muddy Glastonbury. We've got the Oliver Twist, Arts Centre, University, and I remember seeing Arthur Brown once at the Hippodrome when it had creative management. Colchester is also host to allnoise.com - a talent website started by local musicians and artistes. Blur originate from Colchester (if that's anything to shout about). Also actress Joan Hickson (Miss Marple to you guys) lived in Wivenhoe until her death quite recently, and Poet/Nutter John Cooper Clark can often be seen walking about as he lives here too.
• Oliver Twist: is this still going? When I last went there 2-3 years ago it was the same old shithole: putrid pink walls, godawful landlady and uncomfortable seats. Arts Centre: lovely lovely Arts Centre!
• THE OLLIE TWIST MILLITARY ROAD
• Check out the Arts Centre on Fri. nights - alternative, indie, occassional trance nights (highly rewcommended), open 'til 2a.m. All sorts of bands, theatre etc. rest of the week.
• The Arts Centre - Past acts include One Minute Silence, Feeder, The Dandy Warhols and Placebo
• Can't believe nobody has mentioned Molly Malones and the Oliver Twist, don't you people know a good time. Perhaps it just doesn't appeal if yer too sober or are of naff taste.....yep I suppose that's most of you. Will someone please re-open the Picolo Padre.
• The Arts Centre ran all sorts of different nights each week last time I checked (about 2 years ago), like Acid Jazz (full of 'trendy' sixth formers), drum and bass (full of nutters) and Thelma's (full of gay people). They have that 'stamp your hand if you're over 18 policy though, so can feel a bit like the community centre disco. Spot the 14 year olds with the drawn on stamps. Don't know why they bother, the beers crap. However, this is sometimes the only place you'll meet people who don't have 'I'm thick as pigshit' tattoed on their foreheads.
• Colchester Arts Centre's had some top gigs recently. Ash, Placebo, Mansun, Bernard Butler The University has a few occasionally Check out the Twist for local bands on Military Road
• Arts Centre. Royal Mortar
• Colchester Arts Centre - something to please most at some time or another.

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