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Gigs today: Retro 'Hits' from the Ancient Guitar Family at St Leonard-at-the-Hythe · Punk's Dead #2 at Three Wise Monkeys · 33RPM at The Black Buoy, Wivenhoe · Raz + Balkan Hill at Queen Street Brewhouse · Billy Fury Meets Elvis Presley at Headgate Theatre · Classical Music on Film at St Botolph's Church · Steemy Dan at Colchester Arts Centre · Barney & The Rubbles at CODA · Primal Replay - Live @ The Bull at The Bull

Today


Frederick Lau breathes new life into the music of lutes, theorbos and vihuelas
A Full Day of Punk, Hardcore and Rock Music
More pop than Fanta
Multi-genre trio based around Essex, UK
With tribute acts Alan Wilcox and Ivan Brady
It’s Saturday night at the movies! Featuring soloist Thérèse Miller on piano
Tribute band
Covers all night from this popular party band
Ferocious cover band, bringing you a wild live experience

This Week


Saxophone
Summer in Nashville has arrived in Colchester for the first time ever!
Curly + Mark Tiddy + Charlie Blackwood + Shed
Female-fronted covers band playing modern pop and some cheesy classics
Distinctive improviser and a leading voice on the saxophone on the international stage
Every Sunday from 8pm. Hosted by Rosalind Harniess
Filiprodak + Disjunction + Doll Face + Shulammite + Rhythm in Three
Open mic is every Monday night at Roots and Grooves in Colchester City centre
Open mic night is fortnightly on the first and third Tuesday of each month
Join us at the Three Wise Monkeys Open Mic Night every Tuesday night
Open mic night every 2nd, 3rd, 4th and (5th) Wednesday
The fortnightly jam sesh is on Wednesdays down in the Speakeasy gin bar at Three Wise Monkeys in Colchester
Once described as Chelmsford’s best-kept secret
Punk/new wave super group
Join the band - every Thursday from 8:30pm
Prodigy tribute
A combination almost as iconic as ketchup and mustard
Join us at Wivenhoe House for our Adele (One & Only) tribute night
We describe ourselves as like The Angry Brigade: bloody angry
Featuring The Lamplight Club + Silver Light Reaction + PORTEOUS + Monda Krimligo
Essex based covers band, playing some of the greatest rock and pop hits of all time

This Month


RATM tribute band
Anthemic heartfelt noise
Ipswich based musician who focuses on alternative pop
An all day celebration of experimental and psychedelic music curated by Colchester Arts Centre's very own legendary Mick "The Hippy" Newman
The Groovy Arts Club Band + Grace Calver + Jayden Wells + James Broomfield
Brewhouse 10th anniversary BBQ bash
Long-running, talented covers band with a hint of comedy
19 Jul 2025
Dark symphonic metal band hailing from Suffolk in the United Kingdom
Every Sunday from 8pm. Hosted by Rosalind Harniess
Open mic is every Monday night at Roots and Grooves in Colchester City centre
Join us at the Three Wise Monkeys Open Mic Night every Tuesday night
Open mic night every 2nd, 3rd, 4th and (5th) Wednesday
Join the band - every Thursday from 8:30pm
A miserable band from a miserable city
Multi-award winning Irish folk rock

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