“FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH” – WILD PATHS FESTIVAL 2021

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged Artel, Ben Street, Biig Piig, covid 19, Cultural Recovery Funding, Do Nothing, epic studios, featured, Franc Moody, Gonzo's Tea Room, green energy, Jerome Thomas, live music, music, NiNE8, norwich, Norwich Arts Centre, Palace, pandemic, Pip Millet, Pom Poko, Shoe Factory Social Club, Sports Team, St Laurence Church, sustainability, The Wallow, up-cycling, War of Words, Wild Paths Festival.

By Rowan Gavin

Since its foundation in 2019, Wild Paths festival has quickly become Norwich’s premier multi-venue live music event. The hotly anticipated 2021 edition of the festival will take place over four days from October 14th-17th, with headliners including Sports Team, Biig Piig and Palace as well as dozens of other acts playing at over 20 venues across the city. With just over a week to go until the festival began, I spoke to Ben Street, festival founder and director, about his experiences of organising the event.

THE FUTURE OF NORWICH MUSIC

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged bands, campaigning, community organising, Ei Group, epic studios, featured, Gibraltar Gardens, gigs, Jon Fennell, live music, Megan Thrift, musicians, norwich, norwich music, promoters, The Brickmakers, the future of norwich music forum, The Garden House, The Woodman, The York Tavern, venues.

By Tom McGhie

It’s about half past six as we pull up outside the Brickmakers, the once great bastion of free music and celebrated Norwich venue. In the fading evening light, I can still make out the instantly recognisable logo of the guitar which adorns the pub’s entrance – a beacon of sorts for music lovers and punters all over East Anglia. The ‘Brickies’ is large enough to accommodate 300 people and on most Fridays and Saturdays it does so, playing host to many raucous rock gigs and performances. However, as with all local music venues, on non-gig nights the atmosphere in these places is far less febrile and only dedicated drinkers and regulars frequent the venue.

NEIL HILBORN, SABRINA BENAIM AND RUDY FRANCISCO AT EPIC STUDIOS – VIRAL SLAM POETICS – 6TH NOVEMBER, 7PM

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged button poetry, eli lambe, epic studios, explaining my depression to my mother, featured, my honest poem, neil hilborn, ocd, performance, poetry, rudy francisco, sabrina benaim, slam poetry, spoken word, the heart and the fist.

By Eli Lambe

There are individual, form-based and contextual reasons the performance of Slam Poetry often goes viral – as a form it is rooted not in the appearance of words on a page, but in the exchange between poet and audience, the intense and intentional circulation of emotion between the two. Originally conceived as a way of getting out from stuffy academic interactions with poetry, the form has grown since the first slams in the 1980’s and has, over the last decade, been reaching wider and wider audiences through YouTube and social media.

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THE FUTURE OF NORWICH MUSIC

NEIL HILBORN, SABRINA BENAIM AND RUDY FRANCISCO AT EPIC STUDIOS – VIRAL SLAM POETICS – 6TH NOVEMBER, 7PM

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