Southend's biggest free arts and music festival takes place on Saturday (26th) as Village Green
returns to Chalkwell Park.
The 11-hour event, run by Metal, features a huge number of groups, artists and exhibitors
all displaying the diverse range of talent in the borough.
It starts at 11am and Longpier.
Definitely check out this week's episode of Sound Opinions, as Greg and Jim go through their
favorite songs about work. For once they don't try to out-obscure each other and just talk about a
handful of great tunes (Career Opportunities, Smithers-Jones(!), Working Class Hero, We Gotta Get
Out Of This Place).
Last weekend was the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival. Anybody reading this site
should already know why this is significant, so I'm not going to repeat it. But NPR was there and
their coverage was complete. Go to their special page for the festival which will take you to full,
archived performances of generations of folk and folk-based musicians who played over the weekend,
including WFW faves Neko Case, Josh Ritter, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie, and Joan Baez (who became a
star at the very first festival in 1959).
Public testimony to the task force charged with examining the effort to bring MLS to Portland.
Music by Billy Bragg.
We were out and about in the Southend area this year, filming lots of big events for
Longpier.com. From the airshow to charity events, we provided unrivalled coverage
via this site, Youtube and Twitter. We also featured live blogging - a first for a Southend site.
So in descending numerical order here are the top 10 videos, by views of 2009.
Public testimony to the task force charged with examining the effort to bring MLS to Portland.
Music by Billy Bragg.
