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🚀 Armageddon Outta Here – a darkly hilarious comedy sketch show – is coming to Southend! ☄️ An asteroid is hurtling towa...
01/04/2026

🚀 Armageddon Outta Here – a darkly hilarious comedy sketch show – is coming to Southend! ☄️

An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. Humanity’s last hope? Two astronauts. But absolutely nothing is simple. Ego, faith, panic, and petty squabbles ripple through a world teetering on the edge, where the end is imminent and the absurdity never stops.

Dark, loud, childish, and gloriously anarchic, this sketch-comedy hour is the apocalypse we deserve.

Written by Tom Johnson (Verbal Diary, Chortle’s Top 10 recommended theatre show for comedy fans, EdFringe 2024) and Chris Roberts, it grew from their Short & Sweet award-winning ten-minute piece Sacrifice, expanding into a full collection of surreal, end-of-the-world sketches. Starring Tom Johnson and Rob Glenister.

In the end, we all show our true colours… either on the floor or in our pants.

📅 Thursday 28th May📍 The Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre, Southend 🎟️ Tickets: https://trafalgartickets.com/palace-theatre-southend/en-GB/event/play/armageddon-outta-here-tickets

Join us for an electrifying evening of poetry, politics and punk energy as Attila the Stockbroker brings his fiery words...
20/01/2026

Join us for an electrifying evening of poetry, politics and punk energy as Attila the Stockbroker brings his fiery words and music to Up The Road Road. His first time back in Southend for 30 years!

Exploding onto the scene in the early 1980s with John Peel sessions and a Melody Maker front cover, Attila has spent more than four decades performing his unique fusion of punk poetry, dub verse, acoustic song and early music rebellion. With over 4,000 gigs in 24 countries, 20 albums and eight books to his name, he remains one of the UK’s most outspoken and original live performers.

Attila’s latest album, 40 Years in Rhyme (endorsed by the late Benjamin Zephaniah) blends dub rhythms from Kingsley Salmon and What’s Left Dub with his sharp, politically charged verse. His previous record, Restoration Tragedy, combined early music and punk to tell the story of the English Revolution – a lifelong ambition realised with his band, Barnstormer 1649.

Also newly published is A Lifetime of Football Writing (Poems, Songs & Stories), inspired by Attila’s connection to Finnish fan-owned club Tampere United, whose founding story mirrors Brighton fans’ own fight to save their club – a campaign in which Attila played a key role.

Expect an unfiltered performance that’s satirical, political, personal and deeply human – a career-spanning celebration of 44 years of words, wit and defiance from one of the country’s great alternative voices.

Attila's Facebook presence is https://www.facebook.com/attilathestockbroker

’40 Years In Rhyme’, my new dub poetry album, ‘Heart On My Sleeve’, my Collected Works poetry book and loads more books/CDS/vinyl - https://attilathestockbroker.bandcamp.com/merch

Listen on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MpFXOAwEfGuJFB4xa9Dl5?si=mE25nvLlSReEQeknfksQ0Q

Also Instagram and Twitter

£10 (+booking fee) £12 OTD

https://wegottickets.com/event/683577

🎸 Folk Roots Blues Sessions – January 2026 🎶The Folk Roots Blues Sessions return to Ironworks at Leigh Community Centre ...
20/01/2026

🎸 Folk Roots Blues Sessions – January 2026 🎶

The Folk Roots Blues Sessions return to Ironworks at Leigh Community Centre for an evening of live acoustic music featuring Darren Jones & Dom Jones.

✨ First guest of 2026: Dom James
Dom James is a talented young singer-songwriter whose songs resonate and inspire. His distinctive guitar style, incorporating open tunings, brings a fresh and captivating sound to the session.

📍 Ironworks, Leigh Community Centre, Leigh-on-Sea�📅 Thursday 22 January 2026�⏰ 7:30pm start�💷 £5 entry (CASH)�🍺 Bar and seating available�🚗 Parking available at the rear
A relaxed, intimate night of folk, roots and blues — all are welcome.

🎶 An Hour of Music & Poetry 📖Join John Smith & Adrian Green for a rich and varied lunchtime recital at The Jazz Centre U...
15/01/2026

🎶 An Hour of Music & Poetry 📖

Join John Smith & Adrian Green for a rich and varied lunchtime recital at The Jazz Centre UK.
�An hour of beautiful music — from jazz standards and folk melodies to original piano suites — interwoven with poetry drawn from Adrian Green’s acclaimed collections.

📍 The Jazz Centre UK, Beecroft Art Gallery�🗓 Wednesday 4th February�⏰ 1pm–2pm
🎟 Retiring collection in aid of Jewish Care, Southend & Westcliff Jewish Community Centre.

A perfect midweek cultural escape, all welcome.

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