March 2014

March 2014

Contents:

Editorial



October 2013

October 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our 10 October 2013 showcase

10-12 October
Norwich Sound & Vision 2013

DOE

Horse Party

The Mondegreens

Our next full gig –
Friday 13 December 2013

our 13th birthday and Christmas party

Drugstore

She Makes War

BUOYS



June 2013

June 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 7th June 2013

Loom

Die You Now

Darwin & the Dinosaur



April 2013

April 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 26th April 2013

violet violet

Cthru27

Arrows of Love

The Nightingales


Recommended:

April 2013 @ NAC



January 2013

January 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Wednesday 23rd January 2013

The Joy Formidable

WE//ARE//ANIMAL


Recommended:

January 2013 @ NAC

21 January 2013, Blood Red Shoes @ NAC



December 2012

December 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 14th December 2012

Cold In Berlin

Tortoise Family Connections

There's Someone In The Pond


Recommended:

December 2012 @ NAC



October 2012

September 2012

June 2012

June 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 22nd June 2012

Yeti Lane

collider

The Thinking Men


Reccommended:

Norwich Arts Centre selected June 2012 highlights




May 2012

April 2012

April 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 13th April 2012

Drugstore

Fiel Garvie

Port Isla




February 2012

February 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 24th February 2012

Electricity in our Homes

Octagon Court

Invisible Cities




December 2011

December 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 16th December 2011

Magoo

We Can't Dance

Khan

Tim Clare

John Osborne



October 2011

October 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 7th October 2011

The Victorian English Gentlemans Club

Olympians

The Shadow Project



September 2011

September 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 16th September 2011

Sarabeth Tucek

Alloy Ark

Rory McVicar


Reccomended:

BBC Music Video Festival

Norwich Sound & Vision convention



June 2011

June 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 17th June 2011

Underground Railroad

Fever Fever

The Day The Robots Came




April 2011

April 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 8th April 2011

Talons

Deers

Embarrassing Machines




February 2011

February 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 25th February 2011

Blue on Blue

C.O.L.L

Typewriter Radio




December 2010

October 2010

September 2010

August 2010

August 2010

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Sunday 1st August 2010
Waterloo Park Walkabout Our compere

Black Vox

Blue on Blue

Glory Glory

Hellhound Oconnor and the Winkles

KunK

Olympians

These Ghosts



June 2010

Digging deeper

Crikey, it's time for this year's Peel Day gig! While we're about it, don't forget to check out The John Peel Centre for Creative Arts at Stowmarket Corn Exchange.

Join us on Friday 07 October at Norwich Arts Centre for another ace selection of aural orgasm-providing raw talent and our first ever meat raffle, which is included within the entry price – you'll get your raffle ticket when you arrive. And, if you're very lucky, you'll leave with joyously ringing ears and a bag of meat, perhaps containing a pair of chicken breasts, some cured pork and similar delights. Unless you're a vegetarian, in which case you could take home a Bag of Meat in CD format. wombatwombat says "Yum, yum" to both prizes.

Uber-cool This Is Fake DIY signings The Victorian English Gentlemans Club frighten and thrill in equal measure. The Cardiff-based trio gets pleasure from building cold-hearted, bass-heavy music with hard edges and brutality with all of their drums, lungs, hearts and guitars. They also use an electric mandolin, an Indian shruti harmonium, a self-made bow-screamo (wire nailed to wood and played with a bow), sparrows and a church bell hit with a hammer. They listen to Liars, Grinderman, 154 by Wire, Deerhoof, Cardiacs and Flowers of Romance by PiL, but have an affinity with the three-minute pop song.

Here's a video for Bag of Meat, the title track of that there third LP of theirs:

At times recalling technical bands like Maps and Atlases and Youthmovies, Olympians' music is set apart thanks to their songs' underlying strength. Shifting between viscous drones and jagged hulking riffs at the drop of a hat, the Norwich boys hold it all together with three-part harmonies that soar and melt like Lurpak from a slingshot.

They also indulge in jerky guitars, tizzy rim-shots and cymbal work with blasts of trumpet and marvellous one-liners. All together now, à la Passeporte, shot at the Waterfront, Norwich on 09 July 2011, "Show me your tits and your teeth…"

We're super-excited to welcome back Felixstowe's finest, The Shadow Project , who will be playing new tunes and possibly this very oldie but goodie, Objects Appear, as performed at Norwich Arts Centre for wombatwombat on 07 April 2006:

Peeltastic! And with the mighty Huw Stephens on the case for all three bands, you couldn't ask for a better night.

Ah-ha! Not only but also, there's a typically cracking line-up from Howlback Hum in the bar with DJ Bufforium , Sam James Hill, Eden Bradfield, Winter Berries , and Olinski.

All that and our free-entry meat raffle for only £7 in advance, plus booking fee where applicable – on sale now from NAC (01603 660352), in person from Soundclash Records in St Benedict's (01603 761004), and UEA (01603 508050) or online – or £8 on the door, from 8pm.

This is deliciously unmissable.