Music man’s mission to nurture new talent
	3:51am Wed 7 May 08
	CREATING new and un-heard sounds from the circuit board of an old toy is as unusual as it is inventive.

	The battle is won
	11:44pm Wed 30 Apr 08
	DESPITE a four whole days to get used to it, Essex Battle of the Bands victors Caleb are still reeling from their win.

	Oz boys kick off big tour
	11:39pm Wed 30 Apr 08
	AUSTRALIAN four-piece City Riots will kick off their European tour at the Ship in Leigh next Friday.

	Hot Rod revival
	1:52pm Wed 30 Apr 08
	EDDIE and the Hot Rods are undergoing an internet revival on the other side of the pond.
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	A night to remember for the many old Crocs
	3:55am Tue 29 Apr 08
	STEVE Strange should be a national treasure. One of the great music industry icons, the flamboyant pioneer of the Eighties New Romantic scene - dubbed the Peacock Prince - rose to fame running the legendary Blitz club, in London, and fronting his own band Visage.

	Old school pals sign four-year record deal
	11:31am Mon 28 Apr 08
	TWO Southend lads have taken their unique brand of hip-hop and RnB from the playground to the recording studio.
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Let battle commence

4:21am Thursday 24th April 2008

THE judgment day is almost upon us.

Fundraising gig tribute to heart victim

10:30am Tuesday 22nd April 2008

GET ready to rock with Essex band Glasshouse who, for the third year running, are staging a charity gig to raise money for the Cardiomyopathy Association.

Return to psychedelia

4:05am Thursday 17th April 2008

HE spearheaded the eighties psychedelic renaissance with legendary Southend band, Le Mat, now guitarist Pete Helmer is back in Essex with his new outfit self procliamed quintissentialy English' Reilly Peacock.

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	Hungry to be a star in his own right
	2:02am Thu 17 Apr 08
	ERIC Clapton and Roger Waters, two of the biggest rock stars in the musical universe, are considered to be his friends.

Fundraising gig tribute to heart victim

11:54pm Wednesday 16th April 2008

GET ready to rock out with Essex band Glasshouse who, for the third year running, are staging a charity gig to raise money for the Cardiomyopathy Association.

	Power-ful taste of Deep Scouse
	11:52am Wed 9 Apr 08
	BLUES conjured up on the banks of the Mersey, performed in a Southend shoebox, is about as far removed from Memphis as you can get.

Futureheads are coming

4:52pm Friday 4th April 2008

CHINNERY'S have pulled out all the stops again to book the Futureheads for a live show.

	Southend gets the Power
	12:57pm Wed 2 Apr 08
	SOUTHEND'S Railway Hotel is the unlikely setting for one of Liverpool's greatest singer/song writers of the last two decades to kick off an intimate acoustic tour.

	Double treat for rock fans
	11:55pm Wed 26 Mar 08
	THERE's a treat in store this weekend for rock fans with an ear for a well-crafted song and guitar-playing of the very highest order.

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