THE RICH NOTHING AT UGLY DUCK

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, artivism, arts, Code of Ethics for Art Museums, drugs, exhibition, featured, Guerrilla Girls, Joe Holbrook, nostalgia, performance, poem, poetry, politics, reading, review, Sophie Fenella, The Garage, The Rich Nothing, Valerie Savchits.

by Carmina Masoliver

On a rainy Friday, people in-the-know gathered to listen to poetry in Ugly Duck for the launch of Sophie Fenella’s debut poetry collection The Rich Nothing. Ugly Duck is actually a series of different event spaces, with this particular one being located at 47/49 Tanner Street in Bermondsey. Inside this old Victorian tannery (where leather skins are processed), therein lies ‘The Garage’. On the ground floor, the space is described as having ‘a grungy urban warehouse feel’, and without much natural light at the back, it has an underground vibe in more than one sense of the word. With genuine caution signs for wet floors from leaks, it feels like an abandoned building that has been turned into an exhibition space – but in a cool way.

REVIEW – ANNA CATHENKA, THEY ARE REALLY MOLLUSCS

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Anna Cathenka, biology, C.P. Snow, featured, humanities, imagery, metaphor, nostalgia, Observer's Books, ocean life, poetry, review, Salò Press, science, they are really molluscs.

By Laura Potts

A real literary personality runs through the poems Anna Cathenka has cleverly curated and carefully linked in her new book they are really molluscs, recently published by Salò Press. In producing this collection, Cathenka notes that she drew on three Observer’s Pocket Books, and as a result each poem stands as if it could belong to a passage from a textbook, with references to strange organisms and a scientific rigidity of structure. We are offered an insight into the world of the Anna Cathenka, and a number of other strange worlds, through the unfamiliar and occasionally confusing lens of biological ocean life.

REVIEW: TWO LITTLE DUCKS EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged anti-establishment, bbc, Birds of Hell, border control, Brexit, Calais, child abuse, Edinburgh Fringe, environment, EU referendum, future generations, government, guilt, history, individualism, internationalism, Leave Campaign, Lewis Buxton, Matt Abbott, Michelle Fisher, norwich, Norwich Arts Centre, nostalgia, older people, performance, performance poetry, Pete Murdoch, poetry, politics, Radio 1xtra, refugee crisis, refugees, review, spoken word, The Roundhouse, tradition, TS Eliot, Two Little Ducks, violence, volunteering, Words First.

by Laura Potts

CW: Mentions violence against children

More than any other art form, spoken word performance art allows an audience to directly interact with the thoughts of the artist. This kind of interaction can often change minds more effectively than argument or statistic, making spoken word art a very progressive medium. As a spoken word enthusiast and an artist on a student budget, I was therefore excited to attend Matt Abbott’s pay-what-you-can preview of his Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Two Little Ducks’ at the Norwich Arts Centre recently. And my excitement was certainly justified – Two Little Ducks is a powerfully thought-provoking, politically driven work.

PUNK’S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged anniversary, anti-establishment, celebration, Converse, fad, fashion, Grime, JME, John Corre, Malcolm McClaren, Mayor of London, music, nostalgia, Novelist, politic, punk, Punk London, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Skepta, sponsorship, subculture, Vans, Vivienne Westwood.

by Mike Vinti

This year, as I’m sure you’ll be hearing a lot of as we move closer to summer, marks 40 years(ish) of punk. As such there’s a plethora of punk-themed exhibitions, celebrations and, inevitably, memorabilia knocking around with the aim of inducing some punk-nostalgia in the generation that came of age during the mid to late 70s and early 80s. However, while there’s much to celebrate about punk’s legacy, and the modern punk scene itself, a lot of the ‘official’ anniversary celebrations are somewhat missing the point.Continue Reading

THE CULTURE INDUSTRY AND THE DEATH OF CULTURE

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Adorno, Arcadia Group, art, capitalism, comfort, communication, cosumerism, counter culture, creativity, culture, culture industry, entertainment, generation, Horkheimer, justin bieber, Kraft, market, mass media, media, MSM, music, nostalgia, produce, product, Sony, superificiality, talent, Western culture.

by Liam Hawkes

As a 20-year-old young man today, I find myself surrounded by a society and culture which seem to lack substance in a lot of ways. I have had a lot of enlightening conversations with friends about this, and one of the conclusions we reached is that we are the generation of nostalgia, imitation, and regurgitation. We think back to the golden filters of 60s or 70s music as the paradigm our experiences now should imitate. We idolise the past because of the lack of originality in the present.

I feel part of a reflective generation which instead of projecting creativity into the future, we simply project it into the past to achieve a nostalgic warmness to keep us comfortable. This doesn’t surprise me when I look at the advent of pop culture and what is considered ‘talent’, or the celebrities of today. This is all a downward slope from the crossing the threshold of the millennium and feeling more culturally empty than ever before.Continue Reading

THE HOURGLASS

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, absence, age, arts, biology, candy floss, Carmina Masoliver, Craig David, creative writing, domesticity, fireworks, heart, hourglass, love, lover, melancholy, memory, missing, nostalgia, poem, poet, poetry, sand, sense, senses, Sky Plus, smell, sofa, tea, time, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

grains of sand pass like biology
my body ticking like a heart
my love straining like teaContinue Reading

PRINCE OF WALES ROAD – THERE AND BACK AGAIN

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged City, community hisory, corporate, explore, george plunkett, history, local history, norfolk, norwich, nostalgia, past, photography, Prince of Wales, prince of wales road, revisit, there and back again.

by Micha Horgan

Stumbling across George Plunkett’s photo collection, my immediate thought was: ‘looked cool back then, what happened?’ The photos, which were taken on the dates listed, have a Tardis-like capacity to take the viewer back to a Norwich long since gone. It was a time of quaint cars, hand-painted signs, curiously shaped buildings, stylish hats, trench coats and inherent glamour – most of us can’t help but love it.

This habit of romanticising the aesthetic of times past begs the question: ‘Why is it that we find the past so appealing?’Continue Reading

DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged 2016, adele, Amy Winehouse, arts, At The Drive In, Black Sabbath, Bloc Party, Blur, BRIT, charts, comeback, Ed Sheeran, Grime, Guns'n'Roses, James Bay, Jay Z, kanye west, LCD, music, music industry, nostalgia, NWA, pop music, popular music, radio, Sam Smith, Stormzy, Take That, teenage.

by Mike Vinti

We’re barely a month into 2016 yet it’s becoming plain to see the musical trend that’s going to dominate the next twelve months: comebacks.

For as a long as there’s been a history of popular music there have been comebacks, it’s a natural part of the scene. The bands and musicians you idolise as a child and throughout your teenage years hold a special place in your heart and that’s always going to translate into a desire for more music and more shows form those artists; nostalgia is a powerful force.

Of, course, where there’s nostalgia, there’s money. Artists that have been around for longer can charge more for tickets, command larger production budgets and utilise the demand from fans to open doors not available to their more contemporary peers. This is doubly true for those than have been away and come back again. From Blur to Black Sabbath, Take That to Jay-Z, the combination of die-hard fans and risk averse record label execs sets the stage perfectly for a comeback if you’ve been officially out the scene for more than five years. Money and nostalgia, it seems as simple as that, right?Continue Reading

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THE RICH NOTHING AT UGLY DUCK

REVIEW – ANNA CATHENKA, THEY ARE REALLY MOLLUSCS

REVIEW: TWO LITTLE DUCKS EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW

PUNK’S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

THE CULTURE INDUSTRY AND THE DEATH OF CULTURE

THE HOURGLASS

PRINCE OF WALES ROAD – THERE AND BACK AGAIN

DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK

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