Features | Homepage - Chelmsford Weekly News

Singing for Southend shoppers

10:30pm Friday 30th July 2010

MUSICIANS bidding for the big time will be entertaining Saturday shoppers in Southend’s Victoria shopping centre for the next five weeks.

• Have your say

Seventies folk treasure lured back out of retirement for Southend gig

8:00am Friday 30th July 2010

AN almost-forgotten folk rocker is making a rare appearance in Southend tonight.

• Have your say

Why Paul Weller's musical protegee Tracie is playing it again

11:10pm Friday 23rd July 2010

HAVING cut her teeth in the music industry with the “modfather” himself, Paul Weller, musician Tracie Young had a taste of the high life at an early age.

• Have your say

Tourists and magicians flock to Leigh man's shop in London

11:00pm Friday 23rd July 2010

TOURISTS from around the world are beating a path in ever-increasing numbers to a small corner of unchanged Dickensian London, thanks to a Leigh man.

• Have your say

Cultured Griff Rhys Jones is an Essex man through and through

1:00pm Friday 23rd July 2010

F Essex County Council is still eager to rid the county of its “chav-like” reputation it couldn’t pick a better person than Griff Rhys Jones as a model for the archetypal Essex man.

• Have your say

Will Young is star attraction at open air concert in Billericay

8:30pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

WILL Young is something of a trailblazer. After winning the first ever Pop Idol in 2002 he cleared the path for talented and unknown singers across the world to follow his dream.

• Have your say

Stage is set for an opera about... Thurrock

11:30pm Friday 16th July 2010

THINK grand opera settings – like Valhalla, Venice, Thurrock, the Russian Steppes, imperial Rome.

• Have your say

Barn conjures up two nights of great magic

8:00pm Friday 16th July 2010

Rochford's Magic at the Barn is back, and this year there are two chances to be dazzled by it.