Towards the end of January, I had the chance to head down to one of my favourite venues, Norwich Arts Centre, to see some of the most exciting names in post punk right now including Grandmas House and Panic Shack. The show was part of the National Lottery’s Revive Tour in partnership with Music Venue…
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Rag’n’Bone Man LCR Concert Review, 1 November 2021
With the release of his 2016 hit-single Human, and the record-breaking launch of his 4x Platinum debut studio album of the same title, the multi-Brit award-winning artist Rag’n’Bone Man has established himself as one of Britain’s most successful contemporary Pop artists of the decade. On Monday 1 November, Rag’n’Bone Man’s Life by Misadventure 2021 UK…
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Newton Faulkner at The Waterfront, 29/10/2021, with Support Acts Nati Dreddd and Sam Brookes
Nati Dreddd played lively, strummed pop songs and two covers. She seemed nervous but belted rowdily in her own Scottish accent, which is a welcome thing in a world of bland transatlantic voices. Her best-performed song was her last, an old Gaelic-language stomper. She said, “It’s really fast, I cannae breathe when I sing it…
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Interview with Newton Faulkner
Newton Faulkner, English singer, guitarist, and songwriter, and I are talking about the song ‘Killing Time’ from his new album. It’s a cathartic, hopeful anthem about the difficulty of last year’s lockdowns. “I think I take the responsibility of putting things out into the world quite seriously,” he says. “It definitely intensified when I had…
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Something Else: Wet Leg/Inhaler at the Waterfront, 7th October
7:30pm, The Adrian Flux Waterfront… You suspect most of the big British bands had their start in places like this. With the space too tight to fit this many people, where the lights – blue then purple – hang heavy in the air and mix with the smoke haze coating the room. In a seven-song…
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Wildpaths 2021 Review: A Festival Like No Other
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…
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Festivals: our perfect chaos
After so many disappointments, I’ve started to not let myself get excited for a social event until it’s literally happening in front of me. The same rule applied last week. While I was packing my bag, getting on the train, changing over to the tube, and even knocking on my best friend’s front door, I…
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What does the cancelling of festivals mean for the future of live music?
2020 brought hardship to all live music venues. Music festivals however, were particularly hard hit, with all scheduled events last year having to be cancelled. Despite promises that festivals would be able to see their stages filled by summer 2021, many organisations feel they have, once again, been left in the dark. Recent cancellations by…
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Squid bring incredible energy to The Halls with help from Bath Days
Squid are easily one of the most exciting bands in the UK – probably the world – so the chance to see them in such an intimate setting as The Halls is one that has to be leapt on. To make things even more interesting, their performance was for their Fieldworks Tour, a tour in…
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