The Brandeston Queen's wants you to know they are on Twitter, you can buy their chutneys in Leo's Deli Framlingham, Grange Farm Shop Hasketon and Procter's Sausages in The Walk Ipswich, and they are looking for a sous chef or chef de partie.

Hip-hop, jazz, musical theatre and Town coaches in Ipswich next week.

More or less the Hank Wangford band+ as Los Pistoleros at the Ipswich Manor Ballroom tonight, wish we could go, ♥ pedal steel.

Today Peppery Prods are supplying two FREE stages of world and roots in Christchurch Park Ipswich; tonight Walkway (highly regarded by Duncan) are playing the Fressingfield fete, the charity launch of Geraldine Rose's new book at Cretingham golf club and it's the Rendham field dance ... phew!

We arrived at Suffolk Pride in Christchurch Park, Ipswich early this afternoon and it wasn't that well attended, long silences from the stage ... the crowd started to grow and drag acts Miss Leslie Lush (the divine one that is) and the Killer Queens (they're from Norfolk ... where else?) raised a good time atmosphere, and the very pink Sugar Plump Fairies and the naval gentlemen in a bath created surreal interactions in the crowd, very jolly!  Immaculately clean portaloos but no hand basin, antiseptic hand foam instead and bloody smoothflow the only draught on offer but a very child friendly and FREE day out.  We'll be going next year.  More pix here and more here where you can order prints.

Easton today and the only gay in the village is already trying out for Suffolk Pride in Ipswich this Sunday.

Local weather (there's nothing for you here) on Ipswich ... Leiston, Lowestoft, Orford, Southwold ... and Lotus.

Today Halesworth in Transition are giving away in the Thoroughfare recycled shopping bags made by volunteers and Brampton Primary School; around midnight the ladies of the St Elizabeth Hospice’s Midnight Walk will be departing from Ipswich Town Football Club.

The Ipswich Film Theatre reopened yesterday at the Corn Exchange with Colin Firth in A Single Man.

Tomorrow will be the fourth anniversary of the then teenager Luke Durbin's disappearance in Ipswich while on a night out.  Police are keen to trace a silver car seen on CCTV in the early hours of that night, more info here.

Richard Vass New Party candidate for Central Suffolk held a public meeting Monday night in the magnificent and perhaps a teensy bit intimidatingly posh setting of Kesgrave Hall, Ipswich.  We arrived before the meeting start and it has to be said it was bit thin on the ground.  Richard (who lives in Bury St Edmunds but works in Ipswich) has an attractive boyish enthusiasm and it's disappointing that the mainstream media have shown no interest at all in him or his party.

We asked about the party's name as it's 1930s association with the fascist Oswald Mosley is unfortunate; No, not an error of judgement but it is a working title and the party is likely to be renamed The Progressive Party after the elections.

It's the Baghdaddies back again at Peppery tonight in Ipswich.

Suffolk College will be loaning the drum kit for tomorrow's Peppery gig.

Cracking not for profit gig organisers Peppery Productions need a drum kit for Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara this Friday at the Ipswich Caribbean Association.  Two tickets in return for the loan of a kit, contact them on info@peppery.co.uk

Veterans of two Maverick Festivals Two Fingers of Firewater are in Ipswich tonight.

Sports activities at Framlingham College this coming half term are badminton, cricket, swimming and coached by Kevin Horlock (ex-Ipswich Town and Northern Ireland) football.

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