Night Comms

15/09/2022

Stylish bassline grooves and dancing melodies from Sergio Vilas, out now on Hexagonal Music

https://nightcomms.co.uk/sergio-vilas-remixes-uzuns-memories-on-hexangonal-music

Out this week on Hexagonal Music is the 'Memories EP' by Uzun featuring a remix from Cosmology boss man, Sergio Vilas Sergio's remix is warmer with a fuller kick and an immensely satisfying bassline groove that forms the structure of the track, allowing floaty melodies to dance freely above it. Ever...

14/09/2022

Two parties to celebrate the last Bank Holiday of the summer. Daytime vibes at The Courtyard Baddow Rd and then on to Bassment Club for the afters

https://nightcomms.co.uk/wonderland-close-out-the-summer-with-a-bank-holiday-two-parter

It's been an excellent summer for the Wonderland crew. Their daytime parties at The Courtyard and night time carry ons at Bassment Club have been road block events everytime they pitch up. So, with the unexpected Bank Holiday thrown upon us to mark the sad passing of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,....

12/09/2022

New World Fest have been forced to cancel this weekends festival until a later date

https://nightcomms.co.uk/new-world-fest-2022-cancelled-until-later-date

Last week we brought you the news that New World Fest was pulling it's Sunday program and running as just a single day festival. Unfortunately, the news announced on Saturday has got even worse as New World Fest has cancelled this years festival completely. The organisers gave this statement 'Unfort...

08/09/2022

Tonight Ignite Chelmsford and Intense Records combine for a history lesson on 90s rave culture

https://nightcomms.co.uk/uncle-dugs-and-darren-emmerson-discuss-90s-rave-heritage

Tonight, Chelmsford City Council's Ignite Cultural Partnership are joining forces with Intense Records to celebrate 90s rave history and it's societal impact in Essex and beyond. The event, held at Patch will feature talks from multi award winning rave historian and DJ, Uncle Dugs and leading VR doc...

07/09/2022

The legendary DJ won't be back at Acanteen until 2023, but that's not stopping the DnB this Friday as the locals take centre stage

https://nightcomms.co.uk/acanteen-postpone-goldie-until-2023

Acanteen have postponed Goldie until 2023 with the follow announcement 'Due to unforeseen circumstances, we've sadly had to cancel our Goldie event planned for this Friday. We're absolutely gutted, but promise to bring you a 2023 Goldie date soon. In the meantime, all ticket holders will be offered....

06/09/2022

The organisers have incorporated as many of the Sunday artists as they could into the Saturday line up.

https://nightcomms.co.uk/new-world-fest-cancels-sunday-program

New World Fest have cancelled their Sunday program and shrunk the festival down to one day. The organisers made the announcement on Sunday with this statement 'Due to unforeseen circumstances and the current climate, we have had to make the tough decision not to hot our event on Sunday 18th of Septe...

23/08/2022

Fump's second Magic Forest Fest of the summer is just days away. Check out the full line up and set times

https://nightcomms.co.uk/fump-announce-line-up-and-set-times-for-the-magic-forest-bank-holiday-weekender

This bank holiday weekend sees the second return of Fump to the Magic Forest. With only 3 days till the festival gets underway, Fump have announced the line up and set times for the whole weekend. Previous Next Friday night sees the action kick off on the Stump Inn stage whilst Saturday and Sunday w...

12/08/2022

There's a couple of big parties taking place tomorrow. Firstly Chelmsford Underground are throwing an outdoor daytime party at the Bassment Club, the first time their outdoor terrace has ever been used for an event.

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/chelmsford-underground-02

Then as the sun goes down, all roads lead to Acanteen as Norm De Plume brings his Analogue Discogue party to town

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/analogue-discogue

Chelmsford Underground are back for our second party, taking over a brand new outdoor space in Chelmsford for a full day rave

19/07/2022

Fabio & DJ GROOVERIDER, THE ARTFUL DODGER, Kele le Roc, Richy Ahmed, Slipmatt and DJ Hype among the first names announced for New World Fest

https://nightcomms.co.uk/first-names-announced-for-new-world-fest

The last festival of the summer, New World Fest, is shaping up nicely as they've just announced the first round of acts for the two day camping festival. Huge names in the worlds of DnB, Garage, Old Skool and Minimal will be spread across the two days with the likes of Fabio & Grooverider,

15/07/2022

It's going to be a scorcher as US PEOPLE take to the rooftop tomorrow with Casey Spillman and ADMNTi. Afters at Acanteen

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/us-people-10

Us People land back in their home city for another day time open air car park rooftop party and this time with some massive headliners to add to the vibes!

08/07/2022

Celebrate summer with Smiley Culture: tomorrow night at The Garrison with two rooms of house music. Headliners in the main room, residents in room 2. Take your pick!

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/smiley-culture-presents-the-summer-soiree

Smiley Culture returns with their biggest lineup to date at the very swanky and exclusive Garrison Grand Ballrooms, raising the bar on production and headliners

07/07/2022

Colchester based radio station, OscillateLive.org, step away from the virtual airwaves for the first of a series of events at Hot Box Live Events featuring a live performance from BrokenAtoms and Social Conduct and DJ sets from Bobby Skillz and Sneakers

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/oscillate-live

The Essex collective came together as a group of unknowns to form Oscillate Live Radio during the pandemic, and have been holding it down with brand new shows ever since!

01/07/2022

Tomorrow night all roads lead to Acanteen as special guest lovebirds is ably supported by Jimpster, Rob Bishop and Outer LDN Sounds

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/lovebirds

30/06/2022

If you're looking for some Saturday daytime action this weekend then Wonderland at The Courtyard Baddow Rd have you covered.

House, tech, minimal and classics from Freddie Kemble, Georgey, Goody, Ridders, Sam Callaghan and Wilsh

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/wonderland-part-ii

Wonderland is back this time with a summer day party at the one & only, Courtyard Baddow Road! House | Tech | Minimal | Classics

27/06/2022

You maybe suffering from the post Clockstock blues, but pretend you're still there with the official after show movie!

And get planning for 2023 as the date has been set.

https://nightcomms.co.uk/clockstock-after-movie-and-date-set-for-2023

#2023

On Saturday the orange army turned out in force to the Chelmsford City Racecourse for this years edition of Clockstock. The sun was out, the tents were rammed and the beats were pumping solidly for 12 whole hours. If you missed it, or the memory is a little hazy, then here's the official after show

10/06/2022

Creamfields South is coming back to Chelmsford in 2023. Tickets on sale later this month. Register now

https://nightcomms.co.uk/creamfields-south-is-back-in-2023

The dust may have only just settled on this years' Creamfields South, but they've already announced that next year Hylands Park will welcome them back again! Held over the Bank Holiday weekend in May, it's sure to be more of the same, many stages and arenas, the biggest acts from across the world of

09/06/2022

Festival season is now in full swing. After the bright lights and big headliners of Creamfields South last weekend, it's time for a more intimate affair as Fump invite a whole host of local talent to Stuarts Wood for 3 days of wonderful underground music

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/fump-magic-forest-fest

Fump returns to the Magic Forest this June for a whole weekend of music, dancing, camping, socialising & positive energy.

27/05/2022

Your final stop of the weekend will be Bar7 Chelmsford Saturday night as Life & Soul present Groovetopia. Arron Phillips, Justin Palmer and Matt Love will be trading beats with Joe Frequency serving up everything from the world of house music from soulful to disco

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/life-soul-presents-groovetopia

27/05/2022

Then following that, there's a bit of a daytime session at The UB Chelmsford where BRDY is joined by Outer LDN Soundsystem for a mix of soulful, funky, jazzy, deep house with sprinklings of disco

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/serendipity-sessions

Join us for an afternoon and evening of chilled, soulful, funky, jazzy, deep broken beats & house music

27/05/2022

There's plenty going on this weekend for you to dance off the troubles of the week...

Starting tonight, Acanteen give you Our House. Some quality house from BRDY and Cronelli

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/our-house

Our House is presenting another great line up of BRDY and Cronelli. Providing great tunes from funky house, house and nudisco. Dining, drinking and dancing is the what we are offering for this evening and it's going to be great

20/05/2022

Tonight all roads lead to Hot Box Live Events as COSMOLOGY are back for more free party madness. Sergio Vilas is joined by Andrew Wright and Paul Byrne. Doors open at 7pm

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/cosmology-200522

Cosmology returns to Hot Box wIth Sergio Vilas at the helm. Expect house, minimal techno, some chilled Ibiza mixed with the odd Jazzy track. The sole function is to make you dance and enjoy yourselves

11/05/2022

Saturday night sees Barista Chelmsford host Deep Culture as the residents are joined by Max Isaac from Centreforce Radio

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/deep-culture

11/05/2022

Coming at the end of this month is the fourth release on Chelmsford based label, Low End Music. A three tracker of heady dubstep from Croatian artist, proove.

https://nightcomms.co.uk/proove-lem004-low-end-music

Coming at the end of this month is the fourth release on Chelmsford based label, Low End Music. A three tracker of heady dubstep from Croatian artist, Proove. Kicking off the EP is 'Holder'. The heaviest of the three tracks, a sub line that evokes a serious bass face, punchy kicks and floaty melodie...

10/05/2022

The Sundown Sunday Sessions are coming to Chelmsford care of Dirty Velvet Events

https://nightcomms.co.uk/dirty-velvet-events-announce-dates-of-the-sundown-sunday-sessions

After the huge success of their Lovebytes Valentines event, Dirty Velvet Events have announced that their next moves will be a string on Sundown Sunday Sessions. Eddie Boxshall will be joined by a host of guest DJs and a live saxophonist. The venue is yet to be confirmed, but mark these dates in you...

06/05/2022

Tomorrow night VOYD Records return for their 6th party

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/voyd-006

Our music policy is simple, take the audience on a journey. We want people to come in as customers but leave as voyagers.

05/05/2022

Today we made our donation of £1023 to UNICEF to help the essential work they are doing to protect the children of Ukraine. The money was raised at, and around, our Dance For Ukraine event a few weeks ago.

We said our thanks many times to everyone involved for their hard work and generosity of time, and money, and everyone who turned up, donated, danced and created a fabulous atmosphere at Bar 7. It was amazing to see the whole clubbing community of Chelmsford come together for such an important cause.

30/04/2022

In October Smiley Culture: and Slipmatt sold out Barista. Tomorrow night they're joining forces again at The Garrison, with Room 2 hosted by Inspirado Records and NJoy Music

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/smiley-culture-presents-slipmatt

Tickets Line Up: Room 1 (Old Skool): Slipmatt Steve Wayback When Darren Poore Mat Format Knuck Justin Palmer B-Style Dan Bateman Nedlar Dan Green Room 2 (Underground House & Techno) - Inspirado Records & NJoy Music: Alan Burton Jaded Soul Sergio Vilas Mickey Bubble Dave S Peter Pistol Johnston Paul....

29/04/2022

It's a massive weekend in Chelmsford as Chelmsford Underground bring legend of the Romanian scene, caLLy, to town for a mega night at Bassment Club

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/chelmsford-underground-presents-cally

After launching at Street Eats n Beats festival last September, its time to step away from the green fields and make our way underground to the dark sweaty basements where the party really comes alive

28/04/2022

Darksiight is giving his remix of Hot Since 82's 'Buggin' away for free

https://nightcomms.co.uk/darksiight-offering-a-free-download-of-his-hot-since-82-remix

Darksiight has remixed Hot Since 82's 2019 hit, 'Buggin', and is giving it away for free.

26/04/2022

Today we launched our Mixes section on the website. Here you find DJ mixes from the very best talent Chelmsford has to offer. Whether it be a livestream, podcast or uploaded to Soundcloud or Mixcloud, you'll find it, and be able to watch it / listen to it here.

We start off with last night's Chelmsford Underground show on Culture Radio. Resident Andrew Wright was joined by Jack Grosvenor for 2 hours of first class underground house, techno and minimal, warming up for their Bank Holiday Sunday party, Chelmsford Underground presents: caLLy at Bassment Club

Check it out on our website here
https://nightcomms.co.uk/mixes

DJ mixes from the very best local talent Chelmsford has to offer. Whether it be livestreams, podcasts or uploaded to Soundcloud or Mixcloud, you'll find it here

22/04/2022

Tomorrow night Jimpster invites the UK legend of deep / soulful / afro house, Atjazz, to Acanteen

Expect a night of serious grooves!

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/atjazz-jimpster

We’ve invited one of the UK’s most revered deep/soulful/Afro producer, DJ and record label bosses ATJAZZ to spin alongside JIMPSTER. Expect a night of quality house music to groove too.

20/04/2022

Friday night sees the next installment of Acid Under The Arches at Hot Box Live Events. Don Quong live with DJ support from Matt Love and Disorda

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/acid-under-the-arches-2

Tickets Line Up: Don Quong (Live) Matt Love (Live) Disorda Matt Love returns for another Acid Under The Arches night at Hot Box. The mighty Don Quong return to entertain us with a live set built from the ground up, their last show at the venue was incredible and had people dancing all the way

15/04/2022

Last night was a special one. Thank you to everyone who came, danced and donated. We couldn't have done it without the support of every one of you. There's still time to donate if you haven't already with our GoFundMe page https://gofund.me/2fd2e30c

We're less than £43 short of clearing the £1000 mark. The work is not over yet!

https://nightcomms.co.uk/almost-1000-raised-for-unicef-at-dance-for-ukraine

It's good Friday, we've had a few hours of broken sleep and we've just initiated the big countup. And the numbers are in. With the support of the whole dance music community of Chelmsford we raised a whopping £957.46 for the UNICEF appeal in Ukraine. It really goes to show the power that we

11/04/2022

The poster is up in the window at Bar7 Chelmsford. We can't tell you how excited we are to have such a great selection of local DJs and Chelmsford promoters all in the same place and raising money for such a worthwhile cause.

We'll see you on Thursday!

11/04/2022

Win yourself one of five pairs of weekend camping tickets to Creamfields South with Chelmsford Community Radio 104.4FM

https://nightcomms.co.uk/win-tickets-to-creamfields-south-with-chelmsford-community-radio

There's less than two months until the biggest dance music festival Chelmsford has ever seen, Creamfields South, takes place at Hylands Park. And, with the help of Chelmsford Community Radio, you could be going to it for free. Listen in to the station anytime between 8am and 10pm up until this Frida...

08/04/2022

Tomorrow night at Acanteen Raving Frog Events present to you the Local Legends Of House. A stacked line up featuring Danny Clockwork, Paul Hutchinson DJ, Dave Valentine, Mat Format, Paul B, Outer LDN Soundsystem, Chris Powell, GLDY, Jay Stammers & Stu H, danny bounce, Ben Collinson and DJ Saph

Just a few tickets left for this one. Going to be a road block

https://nightcomms.co.uk/event/local-legends-of-house

Tickets Line Up: Main Room: Danny Clockwork Paul Hutchinson Dave Valentine Mat Format Paul B Outer London Soundsystem Old Skool Room: Chris Powell GLDY Jay Stammers & Stu H Cronelli Danny Bounce Future Legends: DJ Saph Ben Collinson Join the Raving Frog crew and their very special guests for a night...

07/04/2022

Two rolling, minimal deep house cuts from daveJ on HOT GROOVERS heading your way next month

https://nightcomms.co.uk/davej-droid-disco-ep-hot-groovers

DaveJ returns to Hot Groovers for his 4th release on the label. Two tracks of rolling deep house that will find their way into many a DJs playlist this year.

06/04/2022

Streamed on the Resonance takeover on Culture Radio last month, Kontort showcased his new modular setup for live improvised techno

https://nightcomms.co.uk/kontort-launches-new-improvised-modular-live-set

On Saturday 19th March, as part of the Resonance livestream on Culture Radio, Chelmsford based techno artist Kontort launched his new live improvised techno set