Saturday we went to Southend to see the Seaside Sirens bifurcate into Guns and Roses for their first intra-league bout, and first time for us man derby from Southern Discomfort and LincolnshireRolling Thunder. Blimey! Man derby is 100 mile an hour stuff with very BIG hits and a 'loose' skating style that includes lots of skating backwards and some running backwards on your toes ... but still that roller derby quirkyness.
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Scouser Alexie Sayle may have said of Milton Keynes it's like the Somme with houses but the MK Concrete Cows don't seem to have been disadvantaged beating roller derby hosts the Seaside Sirens 143 to 88 in Southend Saturday. In the support bout the debuting Kent Roller Girls also won and looked particularly good in black and gold, lots of pix on Facebook.
These looking just like a garden shed bus shelters are in Rustington on the south coast, nice to know that in some towns life isn't all security cameras and designated areas.
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Pix of the Beach Bash Bosh roller derby in Southend on Facebook.
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Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush 8pm tonight at the Harwich Electric Palace.
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Yesterday's outstanding Brawl at Sea in Southend was the first ever roller derby bout for both the Seaside Sirens and Norfolk Brawds ... we were slightly taken aback by the smallest blocker and largest jammer we've ever seen on a flat track.
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7:30 tonight Suffolk's Got More Talent at the Leiston Cinema ... no, we've never been there but it sounds a bit like the Harwich Electric Palace.
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (she did the same but backwards and wearing heels) in Top Hat tonight at the Harwich Electric Palace.
