LOVE, HONOUR AND FOREPLAY – LAUREN KAYE’S I’M ALL IN, FIVE YEARS ON

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged book review, comedy, empowerment, fantasy, featured, female pleasure, gender, Hey Arnold, I'm All In, Lauren Kaye, live poetry, love, lyrics, marriage, non-monogamy, patriarchy, performance poetry, poetry, R&B, relationships, romance, sex.

By Carmina Masoliver

August saw the five-year anniversary of Lauren Kaye’s ‘I’m All In’, a poetry collection described as a ‘seductive collection of romantic and sensual poems that speak on the inevitable episodes of love, sex and relationships’. The occasion was marked on social media – at a time where artists are forced to be more resourceful than ever when the stage is taken away. As Kaye outlines in the introduction, her poetry ‘is written much how I speak’, and it is best to have seen her live or see live videos so you can then hear her voice as you read coming through the pages.

ASHNIKKO’S CLITMAS PARTY REVIEW

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged ashnikko, clitmas, concert, DICE, event, feminism, flow, Hackney, hair, Krystal Lake, language, lyrics, music, protest, rap, review, The Glove that Fits, tiktok, vents magazine, xmas.

by Carmina Masoliver

‘Fuck you mean you need it?/ Fuck you mean you RSVPed?/ I don’t need a reason’ Ashnikko fires back at the retort women often get to be ‘asking for’ unwanted sexual advances through their choice of clothes. No holds barred, she spits out ‘his castration would be nice’, and the extremity and radical of her lyrics continues through the rest of her repertoire, creating both a humorous and empowering feel.Continue Reading

THE ONLY WAY WE KNEW HOW TO DO IT WAS THE WAY THAT WE DID IT – AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BELLRAYS

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Music That Matters and tagged Alternative Tentacles, America, Black Lightning, blues, bob dylan, Bob Vennum, country, featured, Fireballs of Freedom, Fuzzy Vox, genre, independent, jazz, LA, Lisa Kelaula, live music, lyrics, MC5, mission statement, MTM, music, music review, music that matters, music venue, norwich, Norwich Arts Centre, political music, politics, Punk Fuck Rock Soul Vol 1, Punk Fuck Rock Soul Vol 2, Riverside, rock and roll, rock n roll, self published, Staple Singers, Strokes, The 45s, The BellRays, up and coming, Upper Cut, White Stripes.

by Rowan Gavin

Since their formation in the early ‘90s, Californian Rock & Rollers The BellRays have befuddled the expectations of music media and the industry, just as much as they have thrilled audiences. They’ve taken an open-minded approach to the genre that has defined American music for the past seven decades, and they’ve been an independent outfit that whole time.

The BellRays have self-published their nine albums through a variety of independent labels, including Upper Cut and Alternative Tentacles. 2017 saw the release of EP Punk Funk Rock Soul vol 1, the long-awaited follow up to 2010’s Black Lightning, and last month gave us the album-length Punk Funk Rock Soul vol 2. I caught up with Lisa Kelaula & Bob Vennum, the band’s permanent members, before they went on stage at Norwich Arts Centre last Friday.Continue Reading

CUT THE CRAP AND STICK TOGETHER: INTERVIEW WITH KILL BITCHES TO DRESS FOXES

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Music That Matters and tagged ale, all girl, andy stanton, animal rights, band, bikini kill, capitalism, DIY, Emma Goldman, erege, female punk, feminist punk, interview, itxi, kathleen hanna, Kill Bitches to Dress Foxes, leeway, lyrics, meinhof, municipal waste, music, music that matters, norwich, plasmatics, politics, punk, resistance, riot grrrl, ROAR, sex, social justice, turko, wendy o williams, women in music, Women's Refuge, women's rights.

by Tim-F

One of the bands appearing at ROAR on April 28th in aid of Norwich’s local Women’s Refuge, Leeway, is London based all girl H/C punks Kill Bitches To Dress Foxes.

I first came across KBTDF on one of those meandering journeys through the internet.. Previously known as Medication Time, this London based three piece is comprised of Ale on bass, Itxi on drums and Turko on guitar. With a variety of musical backgrounds and citing influences as wide as Municipal Waste, Emma Goldman and Andy Stanton, they kindly agreed to an interview about punk, politics and other stuff.Continue Reading

AT THE END OF THE LONG PAUSE: A MOANA REVIEW

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged ancestors, anthropology, barbie, boats, characters of colour, Christopher Jackson, Community, culture, Disney, fatphobia, Fiji, fim review, heroine, linguists, lyrics, Maui, melanesia, micronesia, Mo'orea, moana, Motunui, ocea, Oceanic Story Trust, oral traditions, Pacific, reef, review, Samoa, Samoan, SEA, settlement, song, Tahiti, Taumako, te fiti, the long pause, Tokelauan, Tonga, tradition, vogaying, voyage, western polynesia, white heroine, white women, women of colour.

by Paige Selby-Green

Moana is a traditional quest narrative complete with a special object that has to be taken on a journey. It’s a story we’ve all seen before – but we’ve never seen it in this setting, or with a hero quite like this one. Moana is driven, brave, and lacks the improbable Barbie-doll proportions of her predecessors. Though this film is billed as being about her extraordinary journey to return the heart of the goddess Te Fiti, its main focus is actually Moana herself. There is, after all, a reason why the film is named Moana rather than Voyage.Continue Reading

REVIEW: THE HOLLOW OF THE HAND

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged abortion, Afghanistan, air strike, book, book launch, celebrity, collaboration, critique, feminism, festival, Grimes, inequality, lady gaga, literature, lyrics, music, musician, photography, PJ Harvey, poetry, report, review, Seamus Murphy, song, travel, war, women writers.

by Carmina Masoliver

On 9th and 10th October, the Royal Festival Hall played host to the premier of ‘The Hollow of the Hand’ – a collaboration between musician PJ Harvey and photographer-filmographer Seamus Murphy. It was essentially a book launch, but it will also be a project that includes a film to be released next year. It’s a relatively new breed of art, with politics at its heart, where reportage and art combine to create a particular type of documentary where the genre is combined with artistic photography/videography, poetry, and music.

The project saw Harvey and Murphy travel to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington DC. Murphy stated that they went to these countries without any agenda, without a particular message they wished to convey. It appeared Murphy enjoyed going down the road less travelled, and cited a chicken coop in Kosovo as an example of the kinds of places he liked to visit, and was glad Harvey felt the same way.Continue Reading

SILVANA IMAM, HIP-HOP, AND THE SWEDISH ELECTIONS

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged activism, arts, elections, equal rights, Europe, F!, feminism, government, grassroot, hip hop, lyrics, movement, music, patriarchy, politics, Silvana Imam, society, Sweden.

by Hannah Jerming-Havill

Sunday morning, 14.09.2014, there’s a slight overcast dulling Bristol’s sky, the tea is brewing and on the other side of the North Sea history might be written.

Recently however, the utopian illusion has been dissolving in accordance with the suffocating right-wing wave that’s been ablaze throughout Europe. In 2010 the far right, anti-immigration party Sverigedemokraterna (SD) gained seats in the Swedish government for the first time, which made the past elections dismally historical. Due to the coalition based structure of the Swedish government, SD gained quite a significant position of power, because neither the left-wing nor the right-wing coalition secured sole majority; SD had the power to swing the vote left or right with their 5.7% of government seats. As the left was outraged the coalitions broke down and Miljöpartiet (MP – Sweden’s equivalent of the Green Party) announced that they would rather shift their position and collaborate with the right-wing coalition than give SD such a power privilege.Continue Reading

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LOVE, HONOUR AND FOREPLAY – LAUREN KAYE’S I’M ALL IN, FIVE YEARS ON

By Carmina Masoliver

ASHNIKKO’S CLITMAS PARTY REVIEW

THE ONLY WAY WE KNEW HOW TO DO IT WAS THE WAY THAT WE DID IT – AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BELLRAYS

AT THE END OF THE LONG PAUSE: A MOANA REVIEW

REVIEW: THE HOLLOW OF THE HAND

SILVANA IMAM, HIP-HOP, AND THE SWEDISH ELECTIONS

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