Southend

Ten Things We Learned At The Village Green Festival.

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 11, 2017 • ( 8 )

It’s in Essex, it’s about the size of the kid’s field at Glastonbury, and it only costs £15 to get in (take that, austerity Britain!) but this weekend 16,500 festival goers experienced a mellow, friendly atmosphere and saw some great… Read More ›

Breaking News: It Will Be Sunny on Saturday. The Village Green Music Festival Awaits!

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 5, 2017 • ( 3 )

Ah, the British summer. As elusive as a politician’s answer. In days of yore, at the slightest sniff of a sunny weekend, the Great British Public would, in a futile attempt to keep the kids quiet for five minutes, hop… Read More ›

Brian Wilson Brings Pet Sounds To Southend

By Every Record Tells A Story on September 5, 2016 • ( 4 )

It is fifty years since Brian Wilson famously set the young Paul McCartney’s hair on end with the release of Pet Sounds. It was a remarkable, almost impossible achievement – the musical equivalent of you or me writing a maths… Read More ›

How Asylums and South Record Shop Are Making Southend Rock

By Every Record Tells A Story on August 5, 2016 • ( 3 )

On a day when that august (and indeed August) celebration of the best albums of the year, the Mercury Prize nominations list, was released, a small part of Southend-on-Sea was showing what a bit of DIY spirit and grit and… Read More ›

Operation: Mindcrime – live at Chinnerys, Southend on Sea

By Every Record Tells A Story on December 12, 2015 • ( 5 )

The best concept album ever? There’s no contest. *plays the theme tune to Hong Kong Phooey* Is it “The Wall”? No. is it “Tommy”? No. Is it “Operation: Mindcrime” by the mild mannered Queensryche? “….Could be…” I realise that… Read More ›

Here Comes Johnny Marr – With A Lust For Life, Live at Southend – Review

By Every Record Tells A Story on October 15, 2014 • ( 3 )

It has been quite a year so far for Johnny Marr. Just as he was getting over racking up a half century of birthdays, in April Marr found himself in a New York post office performing his new soundtrack to… Read More ›

See Beth Orton, The Hosts and Scroobius Pip for £10 At Essex Festival The Village Green

By Every Record Tells A Story on May 9, 2014 • ( 1 )

As summer approaches, thoughts turn to the summer season. Whilst for the landed gentry this means the quiet civility of Ascot, Henley and The Hurlingham Club, for the rest of us it can only mean the sheer joy of mud,… Read More ›

Alison Moyet – Live At Southend Cliff’s Pavillion

By Every Record Tells A Story on October 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

It was something of a homecoming for Alison Moyet last night as the Billericay-born and Basildon-schooled vocalist played nearby Southend to promote her 2013 album The Minutes. The last time I saw Moyet she briefly joined another Essex dweller Wilko… Read More ›

Elvis Costello and The Imposters – Live at Southend

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 20, 2013 • ( 12 )

What a show! Go-Go dancers, angry anti-establishment songs and a ton of energy coming from the stage. No, it’s not The Beastie Boys‘ first tour again, it’s…Elvis Costello and The Imposters. Believe it: Elvis Costello brought his Spectacular Spinning Songbook… Read More ›

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