After Covid 19 caused it to adapt last year to an outside venue fittingly titled Wild Fields, Wild Paths is back and it’s safe to say, better than ever. The festival hosted over 200 artists in 20 venues ranging from the main stage of Waterfront to the intimate Rumsey Wells where only 30 odd people…
Books, Venue
Noirwich Crime-Writing Festival: Killer Debuts
TW: fear, violence, animal abuse, trauma, lynching The shadow of Noirwich, the annual crime-writing festival, descended upon the city of stories. From this darkness emerged three writers: Catriona Ward, Femi Kayode, and Greg Buchanan, connected by their shared experience as alumni of UEA’s writing programme. I caught their 11th September conversation with host Lee Randall….
UEA Live
UEA Live: Writers celebrate 50 years of Creative Writing with Future and Form
As UEA continues to celebrate 50 years of its acclaimed Creative Writing programme, five of the six writers involved in the ambitious Future and Form project joined Henry Sutton (Director of Creative Writing at UEA) and Tim Wright, executive producer, to discuss creativity, process, and results amidst the pandemic. With the Future and Form project…
Music, Venue
Wild Fields 2020: Highlights from Sunday 13th of September
Full of jazz, funk, and fun, the second day of the Wild Fields festival got attendees singing, smiling, dancing and up on their feet. The main stage was full of energetic and beautiful performances including, Gali performing some earthy melodies with lots of beautiful harmonising, Maya Law’s performance that was full of powerful lyrics and…
Music, Venue
Wild Fields 2020: Highlights from Saturday 12th of September
The first day of Wild Fields, Norfolk’s first socially distanced festival, had an excellent variety of talented artists. Attendees were assigned a 3m by 3m pod for their group of up to six people. These worked very well in terms of social distancing, with similar measures being in place for the second stage and for…
Music, Venue
Preview: Wild Fields, Norfolk’s first socially distanced festival
This weekend, the Norfolk Showground will be hosting Wild Fields, this year’s incarnation of 2019’s Wild Paths. It’s described as the region’s first ‘socially distanced’ festival, with help from Summertime Social, the Showground, and Norwich City Council to ensure safety. Guests are assigned a 3m by 3m ‘pod’ for the festival which can contain a…
Music
Wild Paths 2019 review: a festival putting Norwich on the right path
Norwich had been calling for a music festival for a long time Wild Paths certainly stepped up and answered the call. An inner-city festival that was to celebrate the city as much as its music output, Wild Paths managed to do both, giving Norwich a little bit of sign postage on the current bustling music…
Music
Watch This Space! – The state of Norwich’s Venues
Norwich is considered to be a ‘fine’ city, but a relatively small one. However, one way in which it leads the pack in East Anglia is through its music venues. The city is known for having a large variety of small capacity, and fairly niche, music venues available to all musicians, but quite frankly, they…
Editor's column
Snakebites, socialists, and getting over Freshers flu
So, Freshers Week and its slightly shabbier sibling ‘Welcome Week 2’ are finished. Some people are battling Freshers flu, others are recovering from it, and I’m sure some are using it as an excuse to miss their 9ams. I’m afraid I won’t be revealing which category I fall into… From the Societies’ Fayre to Big…
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