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2012 Live Return!

Posted by Nick on 19th October 2011, 10:19pm
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We’re thrilled to be able to announce that our return to the live stage will be at the fantastic O2 Academy2 Islington on January 20th 2012. Head over to the Shows page for more info, tickets are £7 on the door but we’re working on some brilliant ticket and travel deals for local fans, including [read full article...]

New Drummer

Posted by Tom on 10th October 2011, 10:06pm
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The recent auditions went better than we could have imagined, and it gives us great pleasure to announce Nick Pack as our new drummer. Nick’s bio will be up on the website soon for you all to have a butchers at. The band have already started writing with Nick and the new songs are sounding [read full article...]

Tomorrow Live At The Ship

Posted by Tom on 27th August 2011, 10:38pm
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Evening all! Just a reminder that we’re playing at The Ship in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex tomorrow evening as part of the all-day music event in support of Southend Against The Cuts. We’ll be hitting the stage at 9.45pm and will be playing our latest EP ‘Anyone’ in full. Joining us on drums for the evening will [read full article...]

Chinnerys Tomorrow, Dan’s Last Show

Posted by Tom on 19th August 2011, 12:21am
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Good evening/morning all, just to remind you that we’re playing Chinnerys (Southend-on-Sea) tomorrow evening with three other great bands. Doors open around 8pm, entry will cost you a measly £3 and we’re tearing up the stage at 10pm. It will also be Dan’s last show with us, as he’s leaving the country for the sunny [read full article...]

What A Night!

Posted by Tom on 4th July 2011, 8:38pm
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Thank you to everyone who came out to our EP launch on Saturday, the place was packed out and we could see lots of heads banging! Big shout out to our boys in Storm Of Ashes and Herida who played incredible sets, and a big thank you to DJ Pure Hatred for keeping the music [read full article...]

EP Launch Tonight!

Posted by Tom on 2nd July 2011, 3:53pm
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It’s finally here! We’re releasing our brand new EP ‘Anyone’ tonight at The Royal Hotel in Southend-on-Sea, Essex and we want to see you all there! Supporting us are our good friends in Storm Of Ashes and Herida, plus we’ve got music throughout the night courtesy of the mighty DJ Pure Hatred! Doors open at [read full article...]

Surface Festival Semi-Finals!

Posted by Tom on 29th May 2011, 6:33pm
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A big thank you to everyone who came out to support us for the second round of Surface Festival on Thursday. We’re thrilled to get through to the semi-finals which will be held at the O2 Islington Academy in July – an exact date will be announced soon! Remember you can still keep voting for [read full article...]

Walk In Coma Present

Posted by Tom on 23rd May 2011, 8:03pm
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…the title track of our upcoming EP ‘Anyone’! This track was recorded at our recent session with Rob Elliott at The Dirty South in Lewisham, and we’re very happy to be able to let you hear it so soon! Remember, our EP launch is happening at The Royal Hotel in Southend-on-Sea, Essex on the 2nd [read full article...]

Exciting And Busy Times, Big Update!

Posted by Tom on 17th May 2011, 2:58pm
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Hi all! First of all, apologies for the lack of recent updates – we’ve all been incredibly busy recently! These are exciting times for the band, and it’ll be hard to do everything justice in this blog but I’ll give it a go! In April, we played the Barfly in Camden with our good buddies [read full article...]

Tonight! Barfly, Camden

Posted by Tom on 2nd April 2011, 6:58pm
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Ladies and gentleman, we’re playing at the Barfly in Camden, London tonight in support of our good friends Storm Of Ashes. Doors open at 7.30pm and entry will cost you £7. Make sure you’re there, it’s going to be an amazing night!

Tonight 8 to 9pm; Phoenix FM Creative Sessions

Posted by Tom on 3rd March 2011, 6:09pm
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We recently recorded a 3-song session and was interviewed for Brentwood’s Phoenix FM as part of their Creative Sessions; 24 hours of bands recording live at the Essex Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre in Bedfords Park, Havering-atte-Bower, along with other bands and artists including the incredible Imogen Heap. We’re happy to say that our set and [read full article...]

Surface Festival Announcement

Posted by Tom on 1st February 2011, 9:10pm
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Walk In Coma are very fucking thrilled to announce we will be competing in Surface Festival 2011! For those don’t know, Surface Festival is an international event of new music held throughout Europe to discover and promote new talent. We will be blasting our music through our first stage at 229 in London on 13th [read full article...]

February Shows Announced: UPDATED

Posted by Tom on 20th January 2011, 9:37pm
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Hello all, welcome back – hope you all had a good Christmas and new year, and hope you’re enjoying 2011 so far. We’ve been in the studio the past few weeks writing new material for your eager ears and are now happy to announce our first run of 2011 shows. We’ll be kicking it all [read full article...]

Merry Christmas From Walk In Coma

Posted by Tom on 21st December 2010, 11:16pm
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Good evening all, we hope you’re all well! First off, we’d like to thank everyone who came out for our final show of 2010 at Bar Lambs in Westcliff-on-Sea last Thursday. It was an amazing night, and a great close to the year that was. Second of all, we’d like to extend our best wishes [read full article...]

Movember Show!

Posted by Tom on 24th November 2010, 9:57pm
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We’re happy to say that we will be playing at our favourite local drinking establishment, The Alex, this Friday in support of Movember! If you’re not sure what Movember is, it’s a brilliant and fun way for us all to raise a bit of money to help fight prostate cancer, mainly by growing moustaches! Or [read full article...]

Such A Long Time Without A Post

Posted by Tom on 21st November 2010, 8:17pm
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Many apologies! :) You might have assumed that not a lot has been happening over in the Walk In Coma camp, au contraire, we have been as busy as Mr Kipling, except we’ve been making exceedingly good music instead of cakes. Why haven’t we made any cakes? I’m not sure. Anyway. September and October saw [read full article...]

New Shows, London & Other Treats

Posted by Tom on 6th September 2010, 11:14pm
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Hey all! How’s everyone doing? Got some sweet treats and news for you all, so listen up! ;) We are making our (new) London debut this coming Monday at Purple Turtle in Camden. It’s a fantastic venue and we want to see the joint jumping so make sure you’re there! As well as Camden, we’ve [read full article...]

London Show Cancelled

Posted by Tom on 27th August 2010, 1:16am
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We’re very sorry to say that our London debut at The Cavendish Arms in Stockwell has had to be cancelled. This is due to the support bands falling ill, and there not being enough time to book others. We’re looking at rebooking very soon so watch this space! Don’t forget, we’re rocking up The Mill [read full article...]

New Shows And London Debut!

Posted by Tom on 17th August 2010, 7:16pm
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Hey everybody, hope all is well! Got a couple of new shows we’re ready to announce at last :) In addition to our already announced shows at The Mill in Rayleigh and The Nelson in Westcliff-on-Sea, we’re also able to confirm that we are playing The Railway Hotel in Southend-on-Sea on Saturday 4th September, Barhouse [read full article...]

Walk In Coma Featured In Local Press

Posted by Tom on 31st July 2010, 12:50am
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We were very surprised and delighted to hear that we were featured in today’s local newspaper covering the Southend area, the Evening Echo. The article details our set at The Victoria Summer Sessions a few weeks ago and features a rather flattering photo of us performing and a short interview with Alex, which we’re totally [read full article...]

Vote For Us!

Posted by Tom on 19th July 2010, 8:08pm
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Hey guys, thanks to everyone that came out to see our set at the Victoria Summer Sessions on Saturday. We had a fun time (even if for some reason we were flanked by about six police officers and security guards!). I think they expected us to cause a riot or something. But alas, we were [read full article...]

Chinnerys And New Shows

Posted by Tom on 10th July 2010, 3:34am
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A big, big, big, fucking gigantic thank you to everyone who came out to Chinnerys to see us tonight – your support was incredible and we really didn’t expect so many to be there for us, so once again, thank you so fucking much! Big thanks also to the bands that played before us; The [read full article...]

Chinnerys Tonight!

Posted by Tom on 9th July 2010, 5:38pm
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Hey guys, as I’m sure you’re aware, Walk In Coma return to the best music venue in Essex tonight; Chinnerys. Doors open at 8pm and it’ll cost you £3 to get in. We’ll be playing alongside the great bands The Scarlet Echo, The Alter Echo and The Joint Conspiracy. We’ll be there all night, handing [read full article...]

Chelmsford Tonight And Other News

Posted by Tom on 16th June 2010, 4:37pm
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In a few hours, we will be rocking the Barhouse in Chelmsford, Essex. Doors open at 8pm, and we’re onstage at 8.45pm. Entry is £3 on the door, and we’ll be playing a 30 minute set. Other bands playing are Derailed and Rorschach Test – it’s gonna be an awesome night! If you can’t make [read full article...]

Radio Appearance This Saturday!

Posted by Tom on 1st June 2010, 1:23am
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We’ll be appearing on Safe Radio this coming Saturday (5th June) between 12-3pm, performing an acoustic set and most likely geeking off like the losers we are during Ross McGrane’s Saturday Shenanigans :) For those who don’t know Safe Radio, here’s a few short words about them: “Safe Radio plays music 24 hours a day [read full article...]

RIP Paul Gray

Posted by Tom on 27th May 2010, 12:47am
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As we’re sure you’re aware, Slipknot founding member and bassist Paul Gray sadly passed away on Monday. We as a band were very shocked and saddened by this news. Paul was a fantastic musician, and really went the extra mile for his fans – people just like you and me. Our thoughts and best wishes [read full article...]

New Show Details, Tomorrow @ The Railway

Posted by Tom on 27th May 2010, 12:35am
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Hey guys, we’ve got confirmation of a new show on Friday 4th June at The Belvedere in Billericay, Essex. We haven’t any details as to other bands playing, entry prices and times, etc, as of yet but they’ll be forthcoming soon – as will a Facebook event page for you to RSVP on. Also, we’re [read full article...]

Additional July Show Confirmed

Posted by Tom on 25th May 2010, 4:12am
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We’ll be playing at The CastleMayne in Basildon on Thursday 8th July with our good friends Stratus and another band yet to be confirmed. Keep an eye on the listing entry on the Shows page for further details of times and entry prices. We’ll also have a Facebook event page set up in the next [read full article...]

July Railway Show Confirmed

Posted by Tom on 14th May 2010, 8:53pm
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We’ve just got confirmation of a new show at The Railway Hotel in Southend-on-Sea on 22nd July. This will be our second gig there by then and we’re totally psyched for it! :D Pop over to the Shows page where we’ll soon have details of other bands playing, entry prices and start times. We’ll also [read full article...]

Welcome Aboard!

Posted by Tom on 13th May 2010, 6:00pm
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Hey guys and gals, welcome to the Walk In Coma web-site, and as such, the first blog entry! Aren’t you lucky? Exciting news in the band camp at the moment, we’ve got several gigs across Essex over the next couple of months that we’d love to see you at. After several months of vigorous rehearsal [read full article...]