♫ We don't really get tribute bands but Voodoo Room aren't really a tribute band, muso Derek spoke very highly of them and it would seem no stacks so perhaps not too devastatingly loud, looks good for Friday night at the Halesworth Cut.
fr 5 Oct 2018
♫ Framlingham chanteuse Polly Gibbons at the Halesworth Cut tonight.
we 8 Aug 2018
Like we said before free kid's films through out August at the Halesworth Cut, tomorrow it's the anime Ponyo.
we 13 Jun 2018
The three day festival FolkEast upcoming this August at Glemham Hall hassatellite (rip Mindy Jostyn) concerts throughout the year. Tomorrow it's Matthew Crampton and Jeff Warner performing Human Cargo at the Halesworth Cut. ♫
we 23 May 2018
Eastern Angles at the Halesworth Cut this Friday (not last Saturday as shown in the Cut's newsletter) with a play set in a Clacton B&B.
su 25 Mar 2018
Last night in the Halesworth Cut at Roughcast Theatre's Measure for Measure it took us a while to realise that Duke Vincentio's crutches weren't a theatrical device (put us in mind of the silent Petruchio). Wikipedia and the programme emphasised the play is more than a comedy but both Tim Hall and Simon Evans got good laughs whilst the rest of the convoluted narrative and large cast rolled along very nicely thank you. Roughcast are in Southwold tonight, Bungay and Diss next weekend.
tu 6 Feb 2018
JOB Six month contract for a full time Transport Administrator in Halesworth.
sa 28 Oct 2017
Do you remember Hippy Jo who sold Fairtrade clothing on Framlingham Market? Some five years ago she left to open her shop Banyan in the Thoroughfare Halesworth. We made an impromptu social visit last week to discover she wasn't there because these days she has staff ... now that is an Enterprising Hippy.
fr 20 Oct 2017 Opera-lele
♫ Yesterday afternoon at the Halesworth Cut the two personOpera-lelemelodically worked their way through mainstream opera, adverts and some musicals. Lots of jokes and the audience who were having a lovely time and had been encouraged to join in hummed the chorus' part to Nesunn Dorma ... what a knowledgeable lot.
tu 10 Oct 2017
The 16th Halesworth Arts Festival kicked off Saturday with a sold outChris Barber Big Band but shows still to come over the next two weeks include singer Stacey Kent, witty Kathy Lette, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, and silent film Chicago with live accompaniment. ♫
mo 7 Aug 2017
The closed Ipswich-Halesworth rail service should re-open today.
mo 27 Mar 2017
A nice thing about the Halesworth Cut for a photographer is you can discretely move via the back of the seating from one side to the other. Not any more though, on our last visit we discovered that the gap on the far side has gone in anticipation of new and reorganised seating this autumn. Buy a little piece of immortality by sponsoring a seat.
mo 13 Mar 2017
♫ In our uninformed way we suspected that4 Girls 4 Harps(like the Ukulele Orchestra ... odd simile we know) would be one trick ponies but last night in the Halesworth Cut (like the Ukes) they proved us completely wrong. The range of both the repertoire and the sound of the harps was way beyond the sound track to a dream sequence. Encoring with the clog dance from La Fille Mal Gardée was just so right ... next Sunday concert the 26th of this month.
th 17 Nov 2016
Tina Bradshaw eastern life coach starts by serving audience members from a teapot special tea that turns out to be white wine ... it goes on from there. Last night in the Halesworth Cut she was predominantly comic parody but affectionate and endearing parody with a little actual counselling, or perhaps rather more a group of friends talking with one of their number who had opened up a little. She is a complete one off, catch her if you can.
th 22 Sep 2016
The first silent film we saw with piano accompaniment was the German monolith (it's a good idea to take sandwiches) Metropolis and the pianist put in two rather good musical jokes. Tomorrow night's film at the Halesworth Cut is the Harold Lloyd comedySafety Lastso accompanist Tom Horton won't need to be funny in his own right.
we 30 Dec 2015 The Blacksmith Who etc
At the Halesworth Cut last night in front of a good house The Blacksmith Who Chased The Moon is based on a story by 19th century Russian author Nikolai Gogol so not your usual panto then ... but lots of physical stuff from the male actors, some spectacular effects, lots of laughs My father is the Lord Mayor of Southwold ... we are not wealthy and despite the pic a family show. Blacksmith continues at The Cut until Sunday 3rd January.
Life Skills6: When did you last make a call from a pay phone box? (Yes, they do still exist, this one's near Halesworth station.) We think our last time was ten years ago in Epping High Street and we put a pound coin in to be safe, nowadays it's a bit more complicated.
The Tramps in the the Halesworth Cut last night has moved on since we last saw it in the Eye bank, it now includes a running joke about Ed Sheeranwith his lovely red hair and his lovely blue eyes.
fr 10 Apr 2015
♫ Mark Olson played the first Maverick Festival in Easton, if memory serves he played Saturday night in the barn. Maverick present him again tonight at the Halesworth Cut.
fr 27 Mar 2015
Halesworth Area Community Transport have received funding from the Department of Transport for a 16 seat coach with disabled access. It will be available for hire to schools and community groups and can be driven on an ordinary Group B car license.
su 18 Jan 2015
Halesworthrailway station is to get a ticket machine and CCTV on the Lowestoft bound platform. The station is just a few minutes from The Cut, venue for the HighTide festival. This year the festival relocates to Aldeburgh ... thanks to Dr Beeching the Aldeburgh station closed in 1966 ...
tu 2 Dec 2014
Saturday we went to Halesworth to see Daddy Christmas arrive but had time to visit Hippy Jo in her shop of two years now. Daddy C arrived by the simple process of walking out of the library and then processing along the Thoroughfare led by the very excellent Southwold and Reydon Drum Corp which as well as festive lighting had some real tinys. Before all that there was a great moment when the two mascots spotted each other and embraced.
tu 17 Jun 2014
Halesworth early last week and telephone fraudsters bold enough to call on a house to collect bank and credit cards.
tu 15 Apr 2014 Hackney Colliery Brass Band
It has to be said that in the Halesworth Cut Friday night the Hackney Colliery Brass Band were LOUD but at least half of the full house had seen them at last year's High Tide festival so knew what they were getting and had come back for more. Hard to categorise the band, they are thunderously driving, band leader Steve Pretty hot on the witty verbals and stage business, and snare drummer Luke Christie's expressive enthusiasm endearing and visually rewarding. Last day of the festival this Saturday.
we 9 Apr 2014 HighTide
When we posted this pic of Juliet Stevenson at the 2012 High Tide festival in Halesworth on our Facebook page an Italian fan commented thought she was murdered in a Miss Marple. This year's festival starts tomorrow and runs until Saturday 19th and we particularly fancy the Hackney Colliery Band this Friday and the conversation with actor Michael Gambon on the 19th.
su 9 Mar 2014
There's an area bounded by Wickham Market, Debenham and Halesworth known near the coast as the Wickden Triangle within which either something in the water or incipient dementia prompts bizarre council behaviour such as this sign in the Stackton Tressel Crack Street car park.
su 29 Dec 2013
This is Chrismasy, a Halesworth scout hut burnt to the ground on Christmas morning.
mo 14 Oct 2013
♫ The Halesworth Arts Festival started Saturday and runs until Sunday 27th when it closes with Swinging at the Cotton Club at £19.50 a ticket. Alex Horne and the Horne Section (we rather like their diffident slightly cack handed wit on Radio 4 ... not so sure about the beard though, they're everywhere in a large town near Chelmsford) this Wednesday at a slightly cheaper £17.50
sa 14 Sep 2013
To make your catalytic convertor less attractive to thieves you can get it security coded for free 10am-2pm at Halesworth police station today.
su 9 Jun 2013
Two brooches (perhaps lockets?) have been held at Halesworth cop shop since earlier in the year and the cops suspect of sentimental value as they contain photographs.
fr 17 May 2013
Grand (is there any other kind?) Opening with bicycle fancy dress compy in Halesworth of the Millennium Green all weather track tomorrow.
su 30 Dec 2012
The conceit of Where's Elvis? is rock stars (mostly from the 50/60s) who died before their time arrive in heaven and then feel the need to sing one of their hits (♫There are three steps to heaven♫) accompanied by the multi instrument four piece house band with Roger Eno on keyboards including accordion. Being Mouth to Mouth Theatre Otis Redding is white, Janis Joplin is black and Richie Valens is splendidyly Latino and looks a lot like Polly Gibbons. We might have got all the rockers if the visual clues hadn't been projected onto the knicker blinds that make up the set and notable that author Gordon Thorburn didn't just cross out Jimmy Savile and write in Kenny Everett. Last night at the Halesworth Cut tonight and you might be able to get a ticket.
we 12 Dec 2012
The Halesworth teen shelter damaged by an optimistic arsonist earlier this week.
we 17 Oct 2012
The Halesworth Cut's Christmas musical this year is Where's Elvis ... they've just re-written the Jimmy Saville character as Kenny Everett and while we're on the subject it's the annual Child Safeguarding Conference in Kesgrave Friday.
th 10 May 2012
While we were getting in the way Saturday at Bluebird Vintage in Halesworth a browser said to his wife It's like the Tardis. There may be only three rooms but they do seem to go on forever and absolutely crammed with the past charmingly displayed. What's more the building was once The Hawk Inn, part of the Yarmouth brewery Lacons estate and reportedly a pub with a bit of a rep ... but then the great and the good often think that of all pubs.
sa 5 May 2012 Hippy Jo
Banyan is Hippy Jo's new shop in the middle of the Halesworth Thoroughfare and though it doesn't have a sign yet and the credit card machine hadn't arrived when it opened today it does have loads of customers, two roomy well lit changing rooms, a toilet and a teensy kitchenette with an even smaller (if only just) fridge. The ethically sourced clothing, jewellery and smellies are more mainstream than Jo's stock when on Framlingham, Saxmundham and Woodbridge markets .... but there's still whimsy, gotta be a winner.
th 29 Mar 2012
We couldn't have read it properly the first time because we're surprised to find topping at this year's Halesworth Gig In The Park are Fun Loving Criminals, Katrina (isn't she Canadian?) and the Waves (Walking on Sunshine may be nearly 30 years old but it is genuinely feel good) and Doctor Feelgood's inheritors Nine Below Zero.♫
sa 14 Jan 2012
The conceit of The Flint Street Nativity is that seven year olds are played by adults leading to the virgin Mary (copying her mother) declaiming Me? You want me to dress like tart?! Circle 67's production last night in the Halesworth Cut had a good house who were fulsomely enjoying themselves and frequently applauding. There's a matinee today so two chances to see the play on it last day.
we 21 Dec 2011
A white van (is there any other colour?) leaving Halesworth yesterday failed to stop after side swiping a burgundy Vauxhall Corsa.
fr 8 Apr 2011
Theatre company The Keeper's Daughter who toured a tight and creative Draculalast year are rehearsing what will certainly be an original Hamlet around the libraries (mostly) of ntc later this month (while we've still got the libraries) including Halesworth, Stradbroke and Saxmundham.
fr 21 Jan 2011
4:31pm: Neville Staple's been in a car crash so tomorrow night CANCELLED. ♫
th 20 Jan 2011
♫ We'll be snapping Neville Staple of The Specials at the Halesworth Cut Saturday, do say Hello ... or even better Can I buy you drink?
mo 17 Jan 2011
We like allotments, they always seem such calm, safe places but sadly vulnerable, last week an allotment shed in Halesworth was burgled.