Mabel - High Expectations

The Joy Formidable

Slaves

Miles Kane

Black Honey

Bloxx

Alt J - Reduxer

Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises

The Regrettes / Anti Despair Machine

Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

Walk The Moon

Friendly Fires

Sunflower Bean

The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life

J Hus

Jaws

Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life

The Horrors - V

Cubfest

The Hoosiers

The Amazons

The Libertines

Vant

Arcade Fire - Everything Now

Milk Teeth

Jaztec - Broads

UNKLE - The Road: Part 1

Cherry Glazerr

Yonaka

Rat Boy

Tibetan Night Terrors

Circa Waves

Holy Holy

Laura Marling

The VO5 NME Tour

Blaenavon - That's Your Lot

White Lies

Pinegrove

Ryan Adams - Prisoner

White Lies

Hidden Charms

Declan McKenna

The Japanese House

The Big Moon

Hooton Tennis Club

Norwich Sound & Vision 2016

Beach Baby

Slaves - Take Control

Blossoms

The Big Moon

SWMRS @ The Owl Sanctuary

A night of beer, sweat and madness

The Hunna - 100

4/10

Blossoms

Wild Beasts - Boy King

8/10

We review Latitude 2016

Braids @ Norwich Arts Centre

An amazing night of music

Metronomy - Summer 08

8/10

Shura - Nothing's Real

9/10

Avec Sans @ the Waterfront Studio

Polished and professional, but ten years behind the curve.

Let's Eat Grandma @ Open

A truly special evening.

Let's Eat Grandma - I, Gemini

9/10

Lisbon @ Waterfront Studio

Indiscernible pop nonsense

Oscar - Cut and Paste

7/10

The Joy Formidable @ Open

The Joy Formidable are back, and they’re here to stay

The James Plays @ Theatre Royal

I left wishing it could go on longer.

The Cut IV @ Open

A fantastic night by all accounts

Rat Boy @ the Waterfront

Don’t expect the hype to die down any time soon

Mystery Jets @ the Waterfront

Experienced and slick performers

Beach Baby @ Norwich Arts Centre

The beginning of a bright future

Modern Baseball @ The Owl Sanctuary

One long rock-out session

The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect

7/10

Nothing But Thieves @ UEA

Perhaps the non-stop touring has taken its toll.

Eliza Shaddad @ The Bicycle Shop

A night of bewitching musical storytelling

Misty Miller @ NAC

A delicious 45 minutes of semi-organised chaos

PVRIS @ UEA

Powerful electro-punk bangers

White Denim - Stiff

7/10

Tigercub @ NAC

Tigercub have the skills.

Man Made - TV Broke My Brain

6/10

Eagulls @ Norwich Arts Centre

Tonight demonstrates that Eagulls definitely aren’t for everyone

Toast @ Theatre Royal

It’s the committed cast who really sell this show.

Declan McKenna @ NAC

A young talent with a bright future ahead of him

Fickle Friends @ Waterfront Studio

An authentically fun live show

Little Comets @ Open

It’s all a little dull.

Hinds @ Norwich Arts Centre

Mediterranean megastars in the making

DMA's - Hills End

6/10

Public Service Broadcasting @ OPEN

Educational, informative and indisputably entertaining

Little Simz @ the Waterfront Studio

Clearly has a stellar future ahead of her

The Sherlocks @ the Waterfront Studio

Don’t bother

Katherine Ryan @ Norwich Playhouse

Infectiously funny and impressively smooth

Animals Collective - Painting With

7/10

Money – Suicide Songs

7/10

Mystery Jets - Curve of the Earth

9/10

The Maccabees @ UEA

One of the most enjoyable shows I’ve ever been to

Grimes - Art Angels

9/10

The Fratellis @ UEA

Something’s up in Camp Fratelli

Dinosaur Pile Up @ Waterfront Studio

Dinosaur Pile Up ripped apart Norwich’s Waterfront Studio

Coasts @ the Waterfront

They sure know how to put on a show.

Nothing But Thieves @ Waterfront Studio

This energetic five piece are well on the way to global stardom

The Maccabees

"The new songs feel like both the best and most challenging songs to play."

Kagoule

"Fugazi forever though, right?"

The Hoosiers - The Secret Service

7/10

Nothing But Thieves - Nothing But Thieves

8/10

Lucy Rose @ the Waterfront

Memorable and fun, for new fans and for old.

Blossoms @ NAC

Absolutely one to be keeping a close eye on over the coming months

Years & Years @ UEA

An occasional drunk arm wave was the closest attempt at a mosh pit.

Frankie and the Heartstrings @ NAC

A quirky Sunderland based five-piece

The Bohicas @ Norwich Arts Centre

Zingy rock and roll glamour

The Strypes @ the Waterfront

Would not recommend.

The Wombats @ UEA

An apocalyptic school night in September.

Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit

7/10

Chvrches - Every Open Eye

9/10

Eagles of Death Metal - Zipper Down

4/10

Coasts - Coasts

3/10

Foals - What Went Down

9/10

Georgia - Georgia

8/10

Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf

7/10

Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern

8/10

Holy Holy @ Norwich Arts Centre

A bloody good show

East India Youth @ NAC, Norwich

It’s the quieter, more intimate spots that stick in the mind.

Big Weekend Preview

Alex! What should we catch at the Big Weekend?

Interview with God Damn

I normally have to say that if I told them the name of my band, they probably wouldn’t employ me!

Gogol Bordello // UEA - 08.12.13

My, oh my, do they deliver that by the bucket-load. Of sweat, that is.

Ghostpoet // NS&V - NAC, 11.10.13

The crowd’s ensemble chant of “I heard it in a TV programme” on ‘Run, Run, Run’ was unexpected, but raw,

Interview with Mount Kimbie

I thought ‘you can't be playing to the people who make the most noise all the time’, you know.

God Damn // NS&V - Artrocker Stage @ Hog in Armour - 11/10/13

What to say of the gig? Well, first of all, it was loud, very, very, loud.

Dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip // Repent, Replenish, Repeat

Efforts to spice things up with the addition of Flux Pavilion works especially well on the swashbuckling ménage a trois of Gold Teeth

Moby // Innocents

Innocents is an incredibly accessible album, most likely because of the subtle but frequent comments on the nature of being human.

Temples // Norwich Arts Centre - 04.10.13

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, as are rose tinted glasses, and the combination of the two amounts to the common perception that the sixties was a halcyon age for the whole cultural gamut.

Fuck Buttons // The Waterfront -15th September 2013

"Sonically, Fuck Buttons are an absolute tour de force..." - Alex reviews Fuck Buttons at The Waterfront

Hjaltalin // Enter 4

Perhaps mental illness had taken its toll on Hjaltalin more than I thought, as it was a schizophrenic start, and it didn’t promise to get any more cogent.

Foals // Holyfire

Enough hidden charm to warrant the multiple listens it might need.

Tropical Popsicle // Dawn Of Delight

With a name like Tropical Popsicle, I really wanted to like this band.

Phoenix // Bankrupt

It's always difficult for a band to live up to the word revolutionary.

Oliver Coates (Cellist) // NNF2013, Norwich Playhouse – 10.05.13

Coates’ recital seemed a great reflection on the local art scene; upholding traditional values, but simultaneously forging something new.

Interview with Savages

"There’s never a soft show, every single performance is so emotional for us, because we give everything." - Outline interview Savages ahead of their NAC date.

Foals // UEA LCR - 08.03.13

Foals are polished, sharp, and dangerous; fast becoming one of the UK’s finest exponents.

Daughter // Norwich Arts Centre, 14.01.13

"'Youth' brings an inevitable sing-along, most recent release 'Smother' smoulders, and the shoe-gazey direction on some newer songs is especially inspired"

Crystal Castles // UEA, 23.11.12

"Alice led the masses, swaying, raving, sweating, while Ethan flooded the room with searing beats and the lightshow left strobes burned into my eyes."

Benjamin Francis Leftwich // The Waterfront - 19.10.12

They say variety is the spice of life; I’d have to say Benjamin Francis Leftwich was more like cumin than saffron.

Candidate // Psychic Dissonance From The Unself

"Eventually to be consigned to a wooden chest labelled ‘Derivatives’, they share their fleeting success with plenty of other bands..."

Interview with Alt-J

"Our album is nominated for the Mercury, but almost every daily newspaper has declined to even review it. Not that I'm bitter [laughs]" - Gus from Alt-J talks to Outline's Alex...

The Blind Hearts // Crying Shame

"It’s mainstream Ameriana at its best; the type of record that gets stuck in your head without you even realising it."

Interview with Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

Greco-Roman’s mantra, “We make colourful music because we dance in the dark”, remains incredibly apt.

Yeasayer // Fragrant World

Over their three studio releases Yeasayer have definitely travelled on an exponentially poppier path, with ‘Fragrant World’ not only being their most recent, but also their most accessible work.

Infants // Giant Leg

On first listen the totally bat shit sonics on the record provide a pleasant regression to the simple world of underage drinking and poppers.

Ceremony // Safranin Sounds

"What sounds like The Jesus And The Mary Chain playing out of the right-hand speaker and Kraftwerk out of the left just becomes too much..."

Interview with Daughter

"The whole feeling of playing in front of people is amazing, but I get a bit scared, I don’t even know if that answered your question, I’m just blabbering, sorry." - Elena Tonra's charmingly self-deprecating attitude towards performing...

Interview with Craig Hill (TTSF)

“The perception is, and I think it’s correct to a point, that the scene in Norwich is good. I’ve bumped into bands on tour who are eager to come here as it’s ‘one of the places to play.’” - Craig Hill on the local music scene...

Interview with Yeasayer

"We’ve kind of witnessed the birth of this really ugly underbelly in America" - Chris talks about the influence of capitalist politics on Yeasayer's new album Fragrant World...

What’s Done is Dunn…

Outline went galavanting into the Suffolk countryside for the Latitude press day, and Alex gives us the latest news from the camp...

Skinny Lister // Forge & Flagon

"By being recorded in a studio somewhere the nuanced vocals and the gutsy feeling of the whole thing is compromised."

Evans The Death // Evans The Death

"The combination of the hazy instrumentation over the poppy rhythms is great, and with Katherine Whitaker’s intriguing vocals topping it off they’ve certainly found their place..."

Interview with The School

"I think I can be quite bossy in the right places, but then I’m also open to everyone… I mean, there’s eight of us so you have to be bossy on some level otherwise you don’t get anywhere!" - Liz Hunt on the band's work dynamic...

Interview with Dillinja

"Yeah, they were going crazy! It was brilliant in there. I can remember how we set it up in there and everything. Looking back you think, ‘bloody hell!’" - Dillinja talking about his Fabric set back in 2001...