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With less than two weeks to go now before May Fair weekend, you can almost hear the bells ringing from St Mary’s to signal the hangover from hell as the big day (and morning after) approaches.

You can also see how Moving Image has put together a well themed mini May Fair fest of films to coincide with the Whitsun Bank Holiday hangover in the making over at the KGV.

It would have been so easy to play to the gallery and screen any old muso or festival film - but nope, Wivenhoe’s independent community cinema has very cleverly come up with a bill to match the Essex occasion.

The Runaways will be screened at the Philip Road Centre on Saturday 28th May:

“An in-your-face look at teenage life and the rock scene in the 1970′s starring Kirsten Stewart as the original riot grrrl Joan Jett. The movie serves up a sex’n'drugs’n'rock’n'roll biopic of The Runaways and their foul-mouthed Svengali, Kim Fowley.”

OK, so The Runaways may not have Made in Essex running through the celluloid, but I like to think that it captures something of the mood around these parts.

With the final portaloo hopefully having been put in place at the KGV on Sunday afternoon (it’s a dirty job…) then there should be enough time to relax ahead of all the May Day madness with a double bill at the Phillip Road centre once again:

“The first of Sunday’s fabulous double-bill is the wild and wacky Separado, a psychedelic-Welsh-Patagonian-road-music-movie with Super Furry Animals Gruff Rhyss almost out-Booshing the Boosh in this enjoyably quirky and thoroughly engaging music experience.

It follows his South American quest in search of Rene Griffiths, an obscure 1960s pop star who sang Welsh ballads in the style of an Argentinean cowboy.”

And then keeping it Essex and concluding the mini May Fair fest, Oil City Confidential will send you to bed on Sunday evening with an Essex boy wide smile on your face ahead of the fun and frolics to come:

“Julian Temple’s film about the world’s greatest local band, Dr Feelgood, reminds you why you love music and Essex equally. Fictional archive footage, stunning photography and beautifully composed interviews.”

Moving Image is selling a bargain price £8 ticket to cover the weekend. There will also be input from the independent community cinema on May Fair day itself, with a collaboration with Transition Town Wivenhoe and the Revolutionary Pedal Powered Cinema.

Now then - I did hear a Wivenhoe whisper that keeping with the May Fair themed run of films, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence may have a secret showing ahead of the *shhh* very special guest appearance come May Fair Monday…?