CHELMSFORD ROCKS
Live music, memories & history from Chelmsford and beyond.
Established January 2006

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Baddow Road · touring venue

Odeon Theatre, Chelmsford

The surviving Chelmsford Rocks index records Odeon listings from 1963 through the 1980s. Selected tickets, posters and event pages provide more detail for some dates. This is a guide into that material, not a complete venue chronology.

Selected event and source records

Ozzy Osbourne + Budgie — 22 October 1980

A selected Odeon event record preserves the date and the archive’s current confirmation status.

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Adam & The Ants — 13 December 1980

The selected event index records this Odeon date as awaiting confirmation.

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Judas Priest

The original Where & When index separately lists January 1974 and January 1978. A surviving ticket shows Thursday 23 November but prints no year; it does not establish which January listing, if either, relates to the ticket.

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Historic Odeon photograph

Historic exterior photograph of Chelmsford Odeon on Baddow Road
Historic Odeon exterior. The photograph’s exact date is not established in the supplied archive.

Original index and additional listings

The Where & When source also records early 1960s Odeon appearances and later entries for artists including Brenda Lee, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Saxon, Shakin’ Stevens, Steve Hackett, UFO and XTC. Their source wording and date precision vary; this page does not promote each index entry to a verified performance.

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Evidence boundary: a ticket or poster records what was printed or advertised. It does not by itself prove that a performance took place. Where a date or year is missing or conflicts with another source, the archive keeps that uncertainty visible.

The venue is identified in the current archive as the historic cinema and concert venue on Baddow Road, Chelmsford.