HIS LORDSHIP & SNAKEMILK

Take That at Carrow Road or garage rock ‘n’ roll from His Lordship at the Arts Centre? It’s pretty obvious where Pavlis is gonna end up.

FAT DOG & BOROUGH COUNCIL

There’s high expectations of Fat Dog but they deliver and then some.

A CERTAIN RATIO & ELLEN BETH ABDI

Post-punk/punk-funk legends prove themselves worthy of their status... and then some.

STREET SOLDIER, NEGATIVE FRAME, NO RELIEF & FINAL NAIL

Fierce, heavy, intense but Pavlis left feeling slightly disappointed.

MONDO GENERATOR, ACID THRONE & RED EYED CULT

THE HU & TAU AND THE DRONES OF PRAISE

Who would’ve thought Mongolian folk-metal and Irish psych-folk-drone would make for such a fun evening?

TERROR, GOING OFF & HOUR OF REPRISAL

"intense hardcore hits Norwich for a visceral, cathartic and most of all FUN Monday night"

CARCASS, UNTO OTHERS & CONJURER

The grindcore legends and their openers deliver the goods in feral fashion.

Dead Kennedys & Piss Bath

Maybe a bit punk-rock cabaret for the purists but damned good fun nevertheless.

OTHER HALF, SHORT FICTIONS, SPIRIT FOUNTAIN & FEASTS

Other Half, Short Fictions and Feasts take things to another level. Pavlis is blown away.

THE STEVE HILLAGE BAND & THE UTOPIA STRONG

Epic psych-prog from one of the originators.

Stiff Little Fingers - The Slim Jim Phantom Trio

..it’s March so it must be time to see Stiff Little Fingers in Norwich!

Synth East - NIK COLK VOID, FINLAY SHAKESPEARE and ROBIN “MOLTEN MODULOR” VINCENT & STEVE DAVIS

A great night of challenging, inventive electronic music. Here’s hoping Synth East 2023 wasn’t a one-off and it will be back next year. 

LUKE WRIGHT’S THE REMAINS OF LOGAN DANKWORTH

A brilliant, at times astonishing, performance from East Anglia’s very own alternative Poet Laureate.

BLACK STAR RIDERS, MICHAEL MONROE & PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS

Norwich Rock Festival Day THREE -FALSE HEADS, CHICANES, COLLARS & SUDS

Norwich Rock Festival Day TWO - CASSELS, A-TOTA-SO, FEASTS & TAKEDA

Norwich Rock Festival Day One - DITZ, EAT YOUR OWN HEAD, TRUTHTELLER & KAMENSKO

Hugh Cornwell

Pavlis isn’t digging it but the final five songs make it all make sense.

UK SUBS, L.O.A.D, HALFWITS & RAWBOTS

Another fine night from the glorious old warhorses of British Punk Rock ‘n’ Roll. 

THE UNDERTONES & THE EXTONS

On another eventful day in UK politics, The Undertones deliver just the escape our Pavlis needs.

FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS, PET NEEDS & TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON

The headliners weren’t for Pavlis but the supports were AMAZING.

MILLIE MANDERS AND THE SHUTUP – SWEET MELODY

Dat Brass

Dat Brass, not bad but it didn’t ignite for Pavlis.

DREAM WIFE, PRIMA QUEEN & SWIMSUIT COMPETITION

RICKY WARWICK AND THE FIGHTING HEATS, THE VIRGINMARYS & THE HOWLING TIDES

GREEN LUNG & TORUS

GAFFA TAPE SANDY, DAMP MATCHES, ANNA’S BONES

CATCHER – THE FAT OF A BROKEN HEART

Norwich Rock Fest Day Three - ALPHA MALE TEA PARTY, RAD PITT, TOO PISTE & RAVE ON THE DOLE

Norwich Rock Fest Day Two - ST PIERRE SNAKE INVASION, EAT YOUR OWN HEAD, JOMO TUUN & SETTLEMENTS

Norwich Rock Fest Day One - CLT DRP, SLEEMO, DR CLYDE & JØRA THE FØRTUNETELLER

DUB PISTOLS & SPACEHOPPER

COLLAPSE THE SKY – WHITE FLAGS

DAWN OF SOLACE – FLAMES OF PERDITION

OUR SUBVERSIVE VOICE PRESENTS STEVE IGNORANT’S SLICE OF LIFE

CAROL HODGE – THE CRIPPLING SPACE BETWEEN

NINE BELOW ZERO & DAVE THOMAS

BORED! – FEED THE DOG

OTHER HALF, KULK & SLEEMO

GLITTER SHOP, LAMBRINI GIRLS, BUG TEETH, BLUE SUNDAY & FUZE

THE SECRET HELICOPTERS – AN IMAGINARY SOUNDTRACK FOR AN IMAGINARY FILM

WEEDPECKER – IV: THE STREAM OF FORGOTTEN THOUGHTS

ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS – RAISE THE ROOF

COCKNEY REJECTS - JACK THE LAD

SLEEMO - FLEAS - SWING AND A MISS

WONK UNIT - YUR MUM - I SAID GOODBYE

PORRIDGE RADIO - DANA GAVANSKI

SELF ESTEEM - KELLI BLANCHET - SOFT LAD

PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS - KULK

Washing Machine 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

DEAD MEN WALKING – FREEDOM, IT AIN’T ON THE RISE

Kulk - We Spare Nothing

CLOWN SMASH EVERYTHING, SETTLEMENTS, GLITCHERS & VAST SLUG

I’ve said before that Clown Smash Everything combine the very best elements of hardcore, metal and desert rock.

Nubiyan Twist

Tonight’s show is a mix of what I expected - superb musicianship from a group that is tight as hell, jaw dropping solos, complex rhythms, warm and rich vocals

EAT YOUR OWN HEAD, OTHER HALF & DR CLYDE

All three bands enjoy themselves and the audience were well up for it too. The dancing and moshing was non-stop and I’m pretty certain everyone left with a smile on their face.

SLEEMO - DEGRADATION EP

Indigo Raven - Looking for Transcendence

A thoroughly listenable, contemporary take on doom, fans of dark, heavy music should give this a spin.

The Primitives

If the world were fair, The Primitives would be selling out the LCR, like some of their near contemporaries.

Cock Sparrer & Crashed Out / Hung Like Hanratty & Jack The Lad

What a night......

The Wildhearts & Those Damn Crows 10/9/21

Kaves, Black Rose & Escaping Today

A Great evening from three local bands that deserve your attention

THE LOVELY EGGS - I AM MORON

Just great

THE QUIREBOYS & BLIND TIGER

The Quireboys do nowt new. They aren’t pushing the boundaries of music. What they do is play good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll with tinges of country and blues and they do it bloody well. For a rocking night out, go see the Quireboys. They will not disappoint.

SHE MAKES WAR - AND PEACE

HAEST - ANOMIE

GAFFA TAPE SANDY, HEX FRIENDS & SLEEMO

Tonight has been exhausting, in a good way. Three great bands playing to a young ... and passionate crowd. How could it get any better?

Beak> & The Hysterical Injury

THE HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN

You know you have witnessed a great gig at the Arts Centre when the security have been clappin’ and hollerin’ with as much, if not more, enthusiasm as anyone opinion the audience!

THE BLOODSHAKE CHORUS & THE MEN THAT WON’T BE BLAMED FOR NOTHING

What a night.

CLOWN SMASH EVERYTHING, I SAID GOODBYE & SUCKING GRUNTS

Musically, Clown Smash Everything are hard, fast, heavy and intense, combining the best elements of hardcore, metal and desert rock.

Wild Paths Festival

What a weekend see Pavlis' journey, suffice to say ...his closing words "Here’s hoping there is more of the same next year (and that I manage to get my bike fixed between now and then). Kudos to Ben and the team for putting it together."

Matt Watson - Alive, Alive Oh

Well he convinced me, initially I sceptical

IGGY POP - FREE

See what Pavlis made of Free

New Model Army - From Here

The music is the classic NMA mix of punk, post-punk, folk, metal and soul but is also thoroughly contemporary and timeless

Part Chimp + Other Lady + Lady Di

Sisters of Silents - Featuring VanityFair, Big Teeth, & Milly Hurst

.. this has been a cracking evening showcasing three great local performers and some interesting, amusing and unusual film making

BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH & THE REVOLUTIONARY MINDS AND PIERS HARRISON-REID

The words are, of course, powerful and thought-provoking but this is more about having fun than preaching Will also definitely make a point of seeing local acts Piers-Harrion Reid

The Undertones

With a 25 song main set and five song encore, picking highlights is next to impossible

THE UNTHANKS

The Unthanks take folk music, even in its apparently most traditional of forms, and take it to places new and exciting to deliver a captivating show

The Wildhearts - Massive Wagons - Towers of London

Picking standout tracks is nigh impossible but I have to go for Everlone, the mighty Caffeine Bomb and My Baby Is A Headfuck.

MEMBRANES - WHAT NATURE GIVES… NATURE TAKES AWAY

This is a thoroughly original, utterly enthralling album that deserves a place in your collection.

Casual Nausea - Demons

A month and dozens of plays after I first heard it, it just keeps getting better.

CAROL HODGE, DAMSEL & LILY-ANN REEVE

SLEEPER - THE MODERN AGE

I’d rather listen to something unutterably awful - so bad that it makes me want to rip my ears off - than something that is merely okay. For better or worse, Sleeper’s first album in 21 years is, well, okay.

PIZZATRAMP - GRAND RELAPSE

On first impressions, Pizzatramp are one of those bands that play at a billion miles an hour with no finesse or sense of melody. That impression is wrong.

A CERTAIN RATIO  - ACR : BOX

At times difficult but, also, at times, utterly brilliant.

SARAH DARLING, LIV AUSTEN & VIC ALLEN

Whether with the band or solo, Darling has this audience spellbound and eating out of her hand

SKINNY LISTER, WOOD BURNING SAVAGES & TRAPPER SCHOEPP

Skinny Lister Almost as soon as they start their set, I stop taking notes, I am too busy bouncing around. The Wood Burning Savages …..bordering on the brilliant Trapper Schoepp ...is simply high quality Americana for the most part

THE OCCASIONAL CEILIDH BAND - ALL OUR OWN WORK

The fifteen - mostly instrumental - songs have their roots in old school English folk

Carol Hodge - Hold On To That Flame

Sometimes, something comes along out of blue that is just so damned good that it just has to be shared

LAU

Lau are, to paraphrase a Guardian review, one of the most musically adventurous bands exploring the outer edges of folk

Earth Messiah - Ouroboros

They do what they do with some style and their songwriting is a notch or two above most metal bands

DE STAAT & 45ACIDBABIES

To say that De Staat have a diverse sound taking in a wide range of genres is, if anything, understating it.

LUCIA, THE LANES, HEX FRIENDS, HONEY & CURRENT BOND

I first saw Lucia support Sleeper at this very venue. I was blown away then. If anything, they have come back stronger....

Incisions Incisions

is there really room for punk in 2019?  Yes, punk has a place. And this is a bloody fine example of modern punk.

Hen Ogledd - Mogic

Ah man, this is a difficult review to do

The Sonic Dawn - Eclipse

The songs are well structured and pleasant, in a bucolic, verging on cosmic Americana, kinda way.

Algiers & Sink Ya Teeth

Algiers - 2019 has started with an absolute bang with tonight’s show… Sink Ya Teeth Tonight, the sound isstill the 80s inflected, hard electropop that I have fallen ...

FAINTEST IDEA, NOSEBLEED & CASUAL NAUSEA

Casual Nausea their sound takes in early Crass, Paranoid Visions and Subhumans, with maybe a touch of Half Man Half Biscuit in some of the guitar lines Nosebleeds The live show is, if anything, even better than that LP. On record, to me at least, the band come across as old school Rock ‘n’ Roll colliding with maximum R ‘n’ B Fanitest Idea Faintest Idea do deliver a cracker of a set,,

Quireboys & Bad Touch

DUCKING PUNCHES, SPANISH LOVE SONGS & WE BLESS THIS MESS

From the off, the crowd are putty in Allen’s (Ducking Punches) hands and the band can do no wrong

UK Subs & Members

The Subs are still one of the best - and certainly one of the most reliable - live bands to come out of punk.

MAARJA NUUT & RUUM, ARHAI

It all gels incredibly well and it is clear that the duo are enjoying playing together.

Theatre Of Hate

So what did I think? Well, it was good but not excellent and I can’t really put my finger on why I did not enjoy it more.