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THE RAMJETS XMAS BASH from 7:30pm

4 BANDS + DJ ROB FROM LOUD LOVE:
SWIMMERS will be opening the show - MySpace PROFILE
THE RAMJETS - MySpace PROFILE
THE POWER OF VOODOO - MySpace PROFILE
FIVE POINT BUCK - MySpace PROFILE

Saks Underground / 23-24 Clifftown Road, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1AB

Kids Choir 2000 will be holding its normal fantastic Christmas Concert on Saturday 12th December at The Sweyne Park School, Sir Walter Raleigh Drive, Rayleigh, SS6 9BZ at 7 pm (doors open 6.30 pm). The show is the highlight of the year with all the atmosphere of Christmas as well as the usual unique blend of rock and pop songs that the choir is famous for. Tickets are now on sale at £8 for adults and £4 for concessions available from 01268 774251 or 07595 394078.

FRI 4 DEC

Open till 3am! Boog-A-Loo Crew will be playing at the Railway hotel for Ramadance night, together with resident DJs, mashing up electro, fidget and dubstep…  Ramadance BLOG

SAT 5 DEC

Punk band SWIDLE upstairs.

SUN 6 DEC

Jazz band- AVANTI / £7 including a roast dinner

SUNDAY FILM CLUB at 7.30pm:  THE DOORS - 1991 Oliver Stone’s film about the 1960’s rock band.

Update on the Oil City Confidential: Finally we know about a screening of the film closer to home. Oil City Confidential will be screened at the CINEPLEX MOVIE STARR cinema on Canvey Island - from 2-4 February.

Chris Fenwick (the Dr Feelgood manager since the early Seventies) told the Echo newspaper: ‘Anyone who has got any association with Canvey or Dr Feelgood is going to love it.’

OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL website

CINEPLEX MOVIE STARR CINEMA website

BLACK ARROWS are returning once again to the RAILWAY HOTEL with a heavy metal night with the following bands:

SAIFA - www.myspace.com/saifa09
REVOKER - www.myspace.com/revokeruk
TORN ASUNDER - www.myspace.com/tornasunderuk

Door open at 8pm, entry £5 strictly over 18.

The Railway Hotel / Clifftown Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1AJ T: 01702 343194

Cult arts organisation SUNDOWN turns six! Come down to Alex to celebrate with them! The evening will feature:
- Comedy from the highly-lauded, bundle of awesomeness that is LADY GARDEN + a stand up from Sundown’s YouTube favourite HELEN ARNEY!
- Music from the delightful RODNEY FISHER.
- Poetry from CHERRYL SCOTT, and of course the other Sundown Poets who you know and love, along with birthday treats and a RAFFLE.

7.30-10.30pm / ENTRY £5 (£4 if you have an Alex Yellow Card)
The Alex / 53 Alexandra Street, Southend

For SUNDOWN MySpace page CLICK HERE

Culture as a Dare presents a one-off evening of experimental sounds:

Temperatures / Ninni Morgia Control Unit / Lost Harbours / Sonicslice & more…

VENUE - please note that this event will not take place at TAP as originally planned but at the Railway Hotel

GAY FOR JOHNY DEPP + BLAKFISH + OUTCRY COLLECTIVE
@ CHINNERYS Doors open at 7.30pm

TRIPLE THREAT TOUR
New York Noise terrorists Gay For Johnny Depp return to the UK to take
on two of the country’s finest - Blakfish and Outcry Collective – on the
threeway rotating headline Triple Threat tour.

GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP (NYC)
Their new album ‘Manthology: A Tireless Exercise in Narcissism
featuring Gay for Johnny Depp’s Excellent Cadavers’ might very well be
this year’s 17th most anticipated record.
http://www.myspace.com/gayforjohnnydepp

BLAKFISH (Birmingham)
Their debut single, ‘Jeremy Kyle Is A Marked Man’, garnered a whirlwind
amount of press including being featured by four different Radio One
presenters - Colin Murray, Huw Stephens, Mike Davies and Daniel P Carter.
http://www.myspace.com/blakfish

OUTCRY COLLECTIVE (Surrey)
Screaming out of Surrey, OUTCRY COLLECTIVE are a four piece explosion
of British heavy rock.
http://www.myspace.com/outcrycollective

BOOK TICKETS HERE

Alison Moyet is an outstanding singer whose career has stretched from Yazoo in 1982, through the multi-million selling solo hits from Alf, to the critically-acclaimed albums of Hometime, Voice and The Turn. The breadth of her range is truly remarkable – from electropop, to soaring ballads to sumptuous jazz - she has always delivered amazing performances…

She will perform at the Cliffs Pavillion this Friday at 8pm.

Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke perform for the first time in 25 years as Yazoo.:

Book the tickets HERE.

Update on the Oil City Confidential:
The film is still being screened at film festivals and not on general release, but in case you find yourself in Brighton, Amsterdam or Stockholm in the coming months, here is the screening schedule:

21, 22 and 28 Nov- Stockholm Film Festival - www.stockholmfilmfestival.se
21, 26 and 28 Nov - IDFA Amsterdam - www.idfa.nl
22 Nov - Soundtrack Cardiff - www.soundtrackfilmfestival.com
4 Dec - Cine City Brighton - www.cine-city.co.uk

Or, while you wait for Oil City Confidential to come to Southend, listen to the original Dr Feelgood recording: