Released 23rd of October, Millie Manders and The Shutup’s debut LP Telling Truths, Breaking Ties is a crisp and witty alternative rock album, sporting a rich variety in vocal styles, at times resembling punk, modern pop and even hip-hop. However, it is this huge variety of styles that are (mostly successfully) approached that results in…
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Nevermind the Sex Pistols, Here’s The Bollocks
The Sex Pistols’ debut was prolific. Sort of. From it came documentaries, mythologies and a caricature of punk to boot. You could write a piece on just how those guitars move so fast, but doing so would be missing it’s real importance: its effect on punk’s image. Released in 1977, the year synonymous with the…
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Return of grunge
Floral dresses are a wardrobe staple irrespective of the season, and for autumn/winter ’19, they are back and even darker than ever. Inspired by the grunge look that thrived in the 90s, it would not be your typical autumn palette without dark colours, such as lavender on navy and vermillion roses. Initially emerging from brands…
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King Nun at the LCR
King Nun, originating from London, is pretty hard to define. Their earlier stuff was pretty inarguably punk, but now they have a more complex and non-specific location within rock music, with alt-rock, indie-rock, and a few other terms being tossed around, but none nailing down the unique-ness of their personal brand of loud, lyrical, intense…
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Sssnakebite: Shikari at the LCR
I remember the first time I saw Enter Shikari like it was yesterday. It was the first time I ever felt like I could actually be injured at a gig and I loved it, coming out dripping with sweat, bruised by a thousand person strong mosh pit and having only fallen on my face three…
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Shame Review
Cheers subside, the crowd crackles electric. A single spotlight has snapped on, silhouetting through piped smoke guitarist Sean Coyle-Smith. Backlit, he lets the room hang like this a moment – then he carves into Dust on Trial, the opener to debut LP Songs of Praise. The riff builds to a crescendo, heart rates rise, the…
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Poorboys Promotions: living a loud life
We talk a lot about Norwich’s music scene here at Venue. From big to small, LCR to Gringos, it’s safe to say we’re a lucky lot. Yet there’s a small, but very important, group of people who constantly work away behind the scenes to make these venues fill with sound. Often getting overlooked, promotion companies…
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IDLES: This Snowflake is an Avalanche
Following their critically acclaimed debut album Brutalism, the Bristol-based quintet IDLES have supported big names such as the Maccabees and Foo Fighters. But it was their most recent release, Joy as an Act of Resistance, that threw them headfirst into mass popularity. What is it about this new album that has caught the attention of…
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UEA’S own: Space is Big
Grungy, punky and honest to a t, UEA rockers Space is Big have spent 2018 turning heads in the Norwich punk scene. Fronted by Minty Taylor and completed by Ed Brown, Henry Opina and Harry Surman, the band draws inspiration from hand-on-heart staples such as Green Day and Mom Jeans. Their frenetic energy is always…
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