The Keep Colchester Cool guide to drinking out in Colchester, these venues regularly host live music or specialist music events and/or offer something unique to Colchester and therefore worth a visit.

Bricklayers Arms, 27 Bergholt Road, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5AA
Dirty Penguin, 51 St. Johns Street, Colchester, CO2 7AD
Fat Cat, 65 Butt Road, Colchester, CO3 3BZ
Foresters Arms, 2 Castle Road, CO1 1UW
Greenlands Vodka Bar, 33 Osborne Street, Colchester, CO2 7DA
Hole In The Wall, Balkerne Hill, Colchester, CO3 3AA
Hospital Arms, 123-125, Crouch St, Colchester, CO3 3HA
Kings Arms, 61-63 Crouch Street, Colchester, CO3 3EY
Pat Molloy’s, 66 North Hill, Colchester, CO1 1PX
River Lodge, 20-21 Middleborough, Colchester, CO1 1QX
Roberto’s, 67 Crouch Street, Colchester, CO3 3EY
Roberts Live Music Bar, 18 Vineyard Street Colchester, CO2 7DG
Silk Road, 4 St Botolphs Street, Colchester, CO2 7DX
Smith’s, 2 Church Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1NF
Sub Zero, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park,  Colchester, CO4 3SQ
The Abbey Arms, St. Johns Green, Colchester, CO2 7HA
The Britannia, 42 Meyrick Crescent, Colchester, CO2 7QY
The Bull 2-4 Crouch Street, Colchester, CO3 3ES
The Fox and Fiddler, St. Johns Street, Colchester, CO2 7AA
The Judge & Jury, 4 Saint Botolph’s Circus Colchester, CO2 7EF
The Lexden Crown, 235 Lexden Road, Colchester, CO3 4DA
The Marquis, 25 North Hill, Colchester, CO1 1EG
The New Inn, 36 Chapel Street South, Colchester, CO2 7AX
The Odd One Out, 28 Mersea Road, Colchester, CO2 7ET
The Purple Dog, 42 Eld Lane, Colchester, CO1 1LS
Tin Pan Alley, 7 Queen Street, Colchester, CO1 2PJ
Trotters Bar, 22 Middleborough, Colchester, CO1 1QX
Twisters, 45 North Hill, Colchester, CO1 1PY
Vallies Lounge (Gay Venue), St Helens Lane, Colchester, CO1 1TY
V Bar, 105 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1TH
Victoria Inn, 10 North Station Road, Colchester, CO1 1RB

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