NORWICH: NO LONGER CUTTING THE MUSTARD?

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged big business, brand, Britvic, city roots, closure, Colman, colmans mustard, culture, east anglia, employees, employer, halls of residence, history, identity, Jeremiah Colman, manufacture, mill, mustard, mustard museum, norfolk, norwich, production link, production site, sick benefits, social housing, UEA, Unilever, University of East Anglia.

by James Anthony

It has been suggested that the world famous Colman’s brand may soon break with a tradition more than 200 years old, of producing mustard and other products here in Norwich. Make no mistake – this is not nearly as trivial as it sounds, and would be nothing short of a local tragedy.

This may seem exceptionally daft, but Colman’s has so much history here in Norwich, it is tough not to be upset by this news. Colman’s Mustard has been based in Norfolk since 1814 when Jeremiah Colman formally set up his mustard and flour business in Stoke Holy Cross, just outside of the current Norwich city boundary. Later, Jeremiah Colman’s great-nephew Jeremiah James Colman established the production factory in Norwich in 1858, which still exists today. With business booming, royal approval was gained in 1866 with the granting of a Special Warrant as manufacturers to ‘Her Majesty the Queen Victoria’, helping our local mustard gain a global reputation and put Norwich on the culinary world stage.Continue Reading

THE GORMLEY CASE

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged Ampleforth, Antony Gormley, Arno Breker, art, art establishment, artists, brand, Community, consultation, culture, fascism, Gloriana, Gormley, individual, installation, Lasdun, mental health, public art, Sainsbury Centre Visual Art, SCVA, snowflake, students, suicide, Trinity, UEA, UEA SU, universal, University of East Anglia, visual art.

by Tony Moore

Content warning: article mentions suicide.

World famous art comes to campus and it looks wonderful, works subtly with Lasdun’s buildings to eulogise their monumental quality whilst highlighting the interplay of light with the elements.

What’s not to like?

Then those pesky snowflake students start moaning that the figure might be perceived as about to jump and could be a ‘suicide’ trigger.

What is not to like, is that the snowflake students are fundamentally right to make their views known: they are confronting an authoritarian, elitist art work imposed on their community from ‘above’.

THE CORPORATE UNDERGROUND

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, arts, brand, capitalism, Converse, corporate, creative freedom, expression, industry, internet, mainstream, Mass Appeal, Mike Vinti, money, music, music industry, music that matters, nme, O2, pop, promotion, punk, radio 1, Red Bull, Red Bull Music Academy, Reel Big Fish, Relentless, Rubber Tracks, Rude Kid, sell out, Sprite, trend, underground, wealth.

by Mike Vinti

The lines between the underground and mainstream music worlds have been blurring for a while now. As with the majority of issues facing the music industry these days, this is largely because of the internet. While it’s been an undeniably positive force on music itself, allowing fans and artists to connect more easily as well as opening whole new worlds of music to potential fans, it’s also made underground music more marketable.

This may not sound like a bad thing, and to a large extent it isn’t. While it would be great if musicians could live off credibility alone, in the ruthless world of capitalism in which we live, you need to be stacking that P if you want to survive. Where this increased marketability becomes less positive however is when corporations start getting involved.Continue Reading

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