WHEN WE STAY QUIET WE ARE ALSO MORE POWERLESS – AN INTERVIEW WITH SUNFLOWER BEAN

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged activisim, album, alternative, Anger Can Be Power, anxieties, anxiety, Cate Le Bon, collective, conviction, create, Donald Trump, Dream Wife, fat white family, featured, gun control, human ceremony, indie, jacob faber, Jay Som, julia cumming, king krule, march for our lives, MGMT, music, New York, nick kivlen, norwich open, NRA, Parquet Courts, political music, presidential election, psych, punk, Pure X, republicans, Sheer Mag, student movement, sunflower bean, Twentytwo In Blue, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, US, USA, Washington, Wolf Alice.

by Rowan Gavin

Sunflower Bean are a band who know what they’re about. Sitting down with the trio of 22 year old New Yorkers ahead of their show at Norwich Open on March 26th, it becomes immediately apparent how certain they are of their musical and political convictions. Drummer Jacob Faber, guitarist Nick Kivlen, and bassist & vocalist Julia Cumming made quite a splash with 2016’s debut Human Ceremony and its fresh-yet-eerily-familiar blend of indie, punk, psych and alternative sounds.

Having previously visited the Fine City when they supported London alt-rockers Wolf Alice, they returned to headline here for the first time at Open off the back of their entrancing second album Twentytwo In Blue, which was already making waves when I spoke to them three days after its release.

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

NEW YEAR, NEW POLITICS – AN INTERVIEW WITH LANDE OF MUNCIE GIRLS

Posted on January 31, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Music That Matters and tagged album, arts, Balloon, counterculture, Daniel P Carter, Emma Goldman, From Caplan to Belsize, frustration, Gas Mark4, indie, interview, Kerrang, Lande, Muncie Girls, music, music that matters, ONSIND, politics, Propagandhi, punk, punk rock, radio 1, Roughneck Riot, RVIVR, Tellison, Tony Benn, tour.

By Chris Jarvis

In November, Muncie Girls announced the release of their debut album From Caplan to Belsize, set for a release in March 2016. They followed up this announcement with two singles – Gas Mark 4 and Balloon, and kicked off the New Year with vocalist and bassist Lande being featured on the cover of Kerrang! Magazine as one of the ‘Stars of 2016’ as well as being interviewed and played on Daniel P Carter’s Rock Show on Radio 1. It looks as though 2016 will be the breakthrough year for Exeter based indie-punks Muncie Girls. Having been part of what is so often a political scene, The Norwich Radical spoke to Lande about the new album, the politics behind it and how she sees the role of political music our series Music That Matters.

PURGE YOUR INNER TORY!

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Music That Matters and tagged arts, class, gender, indie, music, music that matters, politics, pop punk, punk, women.

by Jennifer and Harriet Doveton of Colour Me Wednesday

People often ask us, in broad terms, what it’s like being a ‘political’ band. ‘Music’ and ‘Politics’ are treated as a volatile and unusual combination but to us it always seemed odd to try to talk about ‘political music’ as separate from ‘music’ and ‘politics’. Politics affects every part of our lives, to us, everything is political.

POP POWER

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged austerity, big weekend, conservative, ge15, general election, government, Grime, human rights, indie, left wing, media, music, music industry, norwich, politics, pop music, popular music, radio 1, radio 1 big weekend, Slaves, Taylor Swift, Tories.

by Mike Vinti

It has been three weeks now since David Cameron Inc. and things haven’t exactly started smoothly — there have been protests up and down the country, the SNP are already pissing off half of Westminster, and the new Cabinet is somehow worse than the old one.

Hanging over it all is the question of what the left is going to look like over the next five years and how best to fight the newly upgraded conservative government and their inept, yet terrifying, policies for the new parliament.

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WHEN WE STAY QUIET WE ARE ALSO MORE POWERLESS – AN INTERVIEW WITH SUNFLOWER BEAN

PUNK 4 THE HOMELESS

NEW YEAR, NEW POLITICS – AN INTERVIEW WITH LANDE OF MUNCIE GIRLS

PURGE YOUR INNER TORY!

POP POWER

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