Tickets and dates

Blow Up.

2 upcoming dates, from 13 November 2026 to 27 November 2026, in Colchester and Southend-on-Sea.

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Upcoming dates.

Fri 13 NovDoors 20:00

Blow Up

Three Wise Monkeys · Colchester

Blow Up returns to Colchester at Three Wise Monkeys Paul Tunkin (DJ) plus The Forty Fours (live) Colchester was the first town to hold a Blow Up event outside of the weekly London events in the nineties. After a successful return to Colchester in Jan 2025 and January 2026. We look forward to returning to Three Wise Monkeys in November 2026. Blow Up, a bona-fide legendary club night at the centre of the mid-Nineties Brit Pop explosion, cited as the catalyst and birth place of the BritPop scene, influencing the style and sound of a generation. Blow Up was voted No.4 in Time Out’s Top Ten Clubs of the 90s, described as one of ‘5 Classic Clubs of Our Time‘ by Vox Magazine (alongside The Blitz Club, Shoom, The Roxy) and as ‘The club that changed the world’ by Melody Maker. Describing Blow Up in Time Out’s London Calling book as “the breeding ground of the Brit Pop sound” and in NME’s Original’s Blow Up was listed as a Top Ten Britpop Moment. In July 2022 Time Out once again listed Blow Up as one of the greatest London clubs of the past 40 years. Blow Up has also hosted events around the UK and internationally over the years, including across Europe, USA, Russia and J...

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Fri 27 NovDoors 20:00

Blow Up

The Fickle Pickle · Southend-on-Sea

Blow Up returns to Southend at The Fickle Pickle , Southend-on-Sea, DJ Paul Tunkin. Southend has always played an important part of Blow Up's story, as Blow Up founder Paul Tunkin had been a regular DJ, promoter and musician in the area from his time as an art student at Southend College. After moving to London in the early 90s it was at Paul's club night The Periphery in Southend where he sketched out the initial concept for what was to become Blow Up. This was around the same time that he DJ'd at several key London concerts for Suede, Blur and My Life Story. He brought elements of his sets at these concerts together with the new sounds trailed at The Periphery into what became fully realised as Blow Up in London. The original Blow Up flyer and poster appropriated The Periphery's modish image of a target and arrow which was designed by another former Southend local who had moved to London Jake Shillingford (My Life Story). Whilst many of the original Blow Up club regulars came from the local scene around Paul's clubs, these included members of Menswear who met and came together at Blow Up after coming up from Southend and longtime Blow Up resident DJ's The Karminsky Experience wer...

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