Norwich Arts Centre (NAC), a much-celebrated venue which provides a platform for visual art, literature, comedy, dance, theatre and live music, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this November. Located at the 14th-century St Swithins Church, the NAC began when, in 1976, a group of young art fanatics assembled and made it their collective goal to…
Music
Review: Steve Mason — Norwich Arts Centre (4/11/19)
Steve Mason is a unique talent. His career began in 1996 with ‘The Beta Band’, now immortalised by their sonorous hit ‘Dry the Rain’, an experimental group that effortlessly fused folk, electronica, looping motifs, and downtempo jamming in their sweeping collections such as The Three E.P.s. Next came the guise of ‘King Biscuit Time’ and…
Music, Venue
Snapped Ankles – lost in an industrial forest
A slightly bemused Norwich came down with a freaky fever as what can be described as an industrial forest, took hold of the Norwich Arts Centre. The music on menu was a taste of the radical avant-garde: done with a feral appetite. Truly not for the faint-hearted. Snapped Ankles combined trees with trippy soundscapes while looking like Star Wars’ Ewoks with neon green lasers shooting out…
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Concrete’s Great Gig Guide Oct/Nov
She Drew the Gun: NAC Norwich Arts Centre will house She Drew the Gun and support act Bugeye on October 28th. The England based act describes themselves as creating “hypnotic and darkly ornate psych-pop” and are fronted by guitarist Louisa Roach. An interesting act to check out, especially if you’re yet to visit Norwich Arts…
Features, Interview
Leading the way: Norwich’s newest festival ‘eclectic and extensive’
When I finally find my way through the maze that is the former shoe factory in St Mary’s Plain, I realise there are many more plain places to conduct an interview. The former shoe factory turned social club is a grand reminder of Norwich’s industrial past as one of England’s shoe-making capitals. While its fine…
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Coming Up in Norwich
After a quiet August, hundreds of excellent bands are set to flock back to the bright lights of Norwich. In a monthly series for Concrete, we bring you the latest and most interesting gigs across Norwich. The Night Café – The Waterfront The Night Café, with all of their indie credentials, are coming to…
Arts
Review: Lights! Planets! People! at the Norwich Arts Centre
Intergalactic missions, high-tech rockets and a failed power point: writer and director Molly Naylor cleverly captures the complexities of modern space science through the lens of Maggie, an astronomer living with bipolar disorder. Emotionally moving and intellectually stimulating, this multimedia one-woman show had a unique angle on two very topical issues, and sensitively explored how…
Arts
Q&A with Molly Naylor, writer of ‘Lights! Planets! People!’
So, tell us a bit about the play… ‘Lights! Planets! People!’ is a one-woman show about Maggie Hill, who is a world-renowned astronomer. The show begins with her giving a lecture to a group of 16-18 year old women, to inspire them into the world of science. But Maggie is terrified: she’s suffering with anxiety…
Music
Black Honey
Brighton-based four-piece indie rockers Black Honey graced the Norwich Arts Centre, supported by the contemporaries PINS and Russo, as part of their expansive UK autumn tour. For a band that has not visited Norwich often, as lead singer Izzy B. Phillips remarked in her set, the venue was impressively packed. The vibe floating through the…
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