SKATING ON THE EAST COAST

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged barely coping clothing, cigarette skateboards, cobholm, Community, delta four, DIY, doghead promo, drug store, eaton park, featured, gils sk8 east anglia, grassroots, local, loddon, mainstream, norwich, punk, shed, sk8, skate, skate park, street, subculture, trowse diy, uk.

by Ash

Olympics aside, it’s an interesting time for skateboarding, especially on the UK east coast. To shredder’s delight we’ve witnessed new parks crop up in Loddon and Cobholm to name a couple, and to our dismay old scene relics like the Trowse DIY spot have been levelled. New local projects such as Cigarette skateboards, Barely coping clothing, Girls sk8 east anglia, the shed and Doghead promo have been established to support the scene, whilst Norfolk’s beloved Drug store have had their iconic sign nicked shortly before closing doors and moving into a dreamy new venue.

PROPER MUSICIANS – AN INTERVIEW WITH SHAME

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged activism, Black Midi, brixton, Cash in the Attic, Charlie Forbes, Charlie Steen, Dead Oceans records, Dinosaur Jr, DIY, Eddie Green, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, featured, Goat Girl, Ice Age, IDLES, Josh Finerty, live music, music, music journalism, norwich, Ought, Parquet Courts, Pavement, post-punk, protest, protest music, Protomartyr, punk, Sean Coyle-Smith, shame, Smashing Pumpkins, Snail Mail, social commentary, Songs of Praise, Sorry, South London, Steve Lamacq, Talking Heads, television, The Fall, The Sound, Tories, U2, waterfront, Windmill.

By Rowan Gavin

Scions of the much-lauded South London guitar band scene Shame made their Norwich gig debut on Monday, captivating a packed-out Waterfront with their riotous stage presence and uniquely mesmerising sound. At times unsettling, at times brutalist, always evocative – if you’re into your post-punk, past or present, you’ll have heard something like Shame, but nothing quite like the orchestrated noise of their live show.

“I LIKE MY REVOLUTIONS TO BE FUN” – AN INTERVIEW WITH BEANS ON TOAST

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Music That Matters and tagged activism, alternative, anti-capitalism, Beans on Toast, Bobby Banjo, Brexit, capitalism, Cushty, DIY, Donald Trump, Essex, festivals, folk, Frank Turner, free party, Giant Wafer Studios, Glastonbury, Independent Venue Week, inequality, interview, Jenna Jones, jeremy corbyn, Labour, live music, london, Manchester attacks, Matt Millership, music, music venues, musicians, Naomi Klein, No Logo, Norwich Waterfront, poverty, protests, renewable energy, royal wedding, She Drew The Gun, Skinny Lister, social media, songwriting, squats, tony blair, Tristan Ivemy, Wales, Will Varley, Xtra Mile.

by Rowan Gavin

Today, Essex-born folk singer Beans On Toast releases his ninth album, ‘Cushty’. Last night, I saw Beans play live for the ninth-ish time (if I’m honest, I’ve lost count, but the symmetry is pleasing). If you’ve been to a British festival in the past decade you’ve probably run into Beans as well – he’s the kind of musician who pops up everywhere. With a new album out every year since 2009, he’s perpetually turning up in your town on tour, or supporting one of his many musical friends, or appearing at festivals you didn’t know he was on the bill for.

PUNK 4 THE HOMELESS

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged casa alianza, compass children's charity, Dandelion Florence, Dark Diversions, DIY, DIY Punk, False Advertsing, garage, gig, guatemala, homeless, Honduras, Hotwired, indie, leeway, magnificent seven, MARLA, Mexico, music, Nahaman Carmona Lopez, Nicaragua, noise, norwich, ommunity, P4TH, psychadelic, punk, punk 4 the homeless, punk bandc, Radioactive Rats, The Rezillos, Truth Equals Treason.

by Tim Forster

Punk 4 The Homeless has been busy raising money for homeless children in Central America since January 2010. They’ve been doing this through a variety of gigs throughout any given year and with a monthly Benefit Gig at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham. The monies raised are channelled through Compass Children’s Charity which started as Casa Alianza UK in February 1999 to raise funds for programmes in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Casa Alianza was founded in 1981 in response to the senseless death of one child – 13-year-old Nahamán Carmona López – a street child kicked to death in Guatemala City by four police officers who found him sniffing glue on the streets to combat his wracking hunger pains. This incident lies behind the P4TH slogan, ‘Stopping Cops Killing Kids Is Punk Rock’.Continue Reading

MUSIC THAT MATTERS – ICYMI: STÖJ SNAK INTERVIEW WITH NIELS SØRENSON

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Music That Matters and tagged Aalborg, acoustic, Billy Liar, concert, Copenhagen, danish, denmark, DIY, electronic, Frank Turner, gig, grand collapse, grindcore, Guns'n'Roses, hardcore, hip hop, icymi, interview, kollapse, Lemlæstet Fosterbræk, metal, Mighty Midgets, MTM, music, music that matters, NIELS SØRENSON, Pizza Tramp, punk, reggae, rock n roll, screamersongwriter, series, Ska, STÖJ SNAK, streaming, underground, venue, vocalist.

by Sara Harrington

Part of a series exploring great music from the DIY music scene that you may have missed.

Hi Niels, thanks so much for letting me bother you with lots of questions! How are you doing today?

No worries. My pleasure. I’m pretty good today – currently in an airport, waiting for a plane to Copenhagen where I’m going to visit an old friend and see a Guns ‘n’ Roses show. Ten year old me is stoked.

So, I’m pretty late to the game and only just stumbled across you and your musical endeavours – Can you tell me a bit about ‘Stöj Snak’ and how it started and who is involved?

Stöj Snak is a ScreamerSongwriter band from Denmark. I started Stöj Snak as an acoustic solo act around 4 years ago – basically just me recording songs in my apartment as a hobby project. It was never meant for anyone to hear.

Since then the band has grown to a four piece with drums, washboard, upright bass and other trash instruments but the attitude towards the music is still very much the same – we do everything ourselves and because it’s fun. It’s basically the antithesis to Guns ‘n’ Roses.Continue Reading

MAKE PUNK VENUES PERIOD ACCESSIBLE

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged #WomeninMusic, arts, bathroom, creative criticism, cycle, diary, DIY, female bodies, gender inclusive, genders, gig, Hard Times, knickers, menstrual cup, menstruation, music, period, personal, pub, punk, satire, share, Ska, toilet, tour, travel, underwear, venue, womb, women.

by Sara Harrington

CW: graphic imagery, menstruation

Wads of tissue swaddle the gushed gusset of my soon to be late underwear. DIY panty-lining for a DIY punk show. Tissue becomes currency as it is discovered that none of the loos in the entire venue have any – my stash acquired from the Wetherspoons further down the road. No cubicle provides the menstrual cup removing privacy of an old fashioned door. Instead, makeshift curtains swathe the space between yourself and a sorry stranger as the feat of dealing with your period in a space that assumes you do not have one trickles down your hand in all its bloody glory.

Do not have your period at a punk gig.

BLOOD, SWEAT, AND FEARS – EFFICIENT PACKING FOR TOUR

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #WomeninMusic, Allison Crutchfield, arts, creative criticism, cycle, diary, DIY, female bodies, gig, knickers, menstruation, music, packing, period, personal, PS Eliot, punk, share, Ska, tour, travel, underwear, Waxahatchee, women.

by Sara Harrington

CW: In-depth descriptions of experiences of the menstrual cycle.

Writer’s note: For further reading I highly recommend this article by Allison Crutchfield of ‘Waxahatchee’ and ‘PS Eliot’ fame – reading it helped dispel my fears that being a woman in a band and having different needs are totally legit.

How To Pack For Tour:

Bring knickers for at least every day, have spares just in case of period mishaps. Outfits need to be nice but functional for sweating through on stage. Nothing too girly, you don’t want to draw attention to yourself. Socks – same rule as the knickers, no spares. Have pyjama bottoms, you cannot sleep in pants, it’s too weird for girls to do. De-pot all your toiletries so as to not take up too much space in your bag. Do not take up too much space. Face wash, toner, moisturiser, deodorant bar, tiny shower gel, toothpaste, dry shampoo. Do not be high maintenance. A flannel is needed for the face wash – it cannot be taken off with anything else and face wipes break you out. Flannels will get wet so hang these on a DIY clothes line erected in the van. Bring the pill. Continue Reading

DON’T FUCKING TOUCH ME – THE APOLOGY

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged alcohol, apology, art, band, behaviour, consent, creative criticism, design, DIY, faintest idea, follow, gig, groping, hug, hugs, lgbtQ+, microaggression, misogyny, music, performance, personal account, personal space, physical contact, punk, queer, response, safe space, Sara Harrington, series, sexual assault, Ska, touring, women in music.

by Sara Harrington

A series exploring women and genderqueer identities within the DIY Punk and Arts scenes. In this installment Sara Harrington depicts scenes from her own experience playing in a touring ska punk band.

CRAFTING FOR THE REVOLUTION

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged anti-authority, artivism, arts, bee friendly, bees, Calendar Girls, campaigning, Community, craft, creafts, democracy, Denmore College, DIY, Edith Rigby, Equal Work for Equal Pay, feminism, Golder Triangle, Madge Watt, norfolk, norwich, Norwich Fierce Babe Network, protest, punk, queer, queer punk, radical, revolution, safe space, Suffragette, support, women, Women's Institute.

by Sara Harrington

Recently, I was asked to host a workshop for branch of the Norwich division of the Women’s Institute, ‘The Golden Triangle Girls’. Expecting jam, Jerusalem and jingoism, I was impressed by the diverse array of women that listened intently as I bumbled my way through a workshop about ‘Bee Friendly’ practices.

The group of women who swarmed around tables of craft materials and collected household items were varying in age, occupation and class. But most notably, these women were engaged in the activity. To some extent I had an inkling that the women I would meet at this monthly event would not be the conservative face that over 100 years of country fêtes and the 2003 blockbuster hit that was Calendar Girls had led me to believe. However, I did not realise just how radical a space the WI really was until I attended a meeting for myself.Continue Reading

DON’T FUCKING TOUCH ME

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged alcohol, arts, band, consent, creative criticism, DIY, faintest idea, gig, groping, microaggression, misogyny, music, performance, personal account, punk, Sara Harrington, series, sexual assault, Ska, touring, women in music.

by Sara Harrington

CW: verbal and sexual assault

Part of a series exploring women and genderqueer identities within the DIY Punk and Arts scenes. In this installment, Sara Harrington depicts scenes from her own experience playing in a touring ska punk band.

‘Ticket please.’
Trumpet case in hand, I try to enter the venue as my bandmates breeze on by.
‘I’m playing actually.’
This is uttered with an embarrassed air, the knock to my ego glances across my face. Fair enough, I’ve not been in the band long.
‘Oh, who are you with? There’s no guest list.’
‘Sorry, I play trumpet in the band.’
Lifting my trumpet case, I point at it awkwardly. A nod as it’s decided that I pass all requirements necessary to gain free entry to a show I’m playing. I go to join my bandmates as we pile our gear into the backroom and start setting up for sound check.Continue Reading

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