THE only way is Essex this Friday, when Southend’s finest, The Horrors, return to town for a pre-Halloween show to sooth our tortured souls.

The show follows the release of the former-Mercury-nominated shoe-gazing garage-punk-rockers’ third album Skying.

It will see Faris Badwan, and his bunch of schlock-horror obsessed Thames Estuary geezers, rocking Oxford’s O2 Academy with classics like Sheena is a Parasite, Gloves and Still Life and the kind of new tunes which have won over crowds everywhere from Glastonbury to Reading.

Doors open at 6.30pm. Tickets are £12.00 from wegottickets.com

WIN!

The Guide has two pairs of tickets to give away to this week's Horros gig.

For a chance to win, just tell us about your most 'horrible' gig-experience.

Our favourites win the tickets. Easy!

Email answers by 5pm on Thursday to tim.hughes@nqo.com. Usual rules apply and the Editor's decision is final. Good luck.