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.

THE UNDERGROUND MUSIC SCENE AFTER COVID

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged arts, Brexit, covid, events industry, featured, festival, funding, grassroots, independent venues, lockdown, music, music scene, music venue trust, nightlife, norwich, pandemic, punk, small business, subculture, venues.

by Ash

Your local music scene is a hive of energy which fuses together networks of people from all walks of life. It’s as much an awkward social battleground as it is an arena where ideas can be shared and explored in confidence and solidarity; it sustains avenues of expression which promote unity and mutual aid and offers sanctuary for people from disadvantaged and marginalised backgrounds to let off some steam. So as we enter a political chapter dominated by censorship and surveillance, we should all be asking ourselves what we can do to keep it alive.

NORFOLK LOVES SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE, BUT WHERE’S THE COMMITMENT TO ANTI-RACISM?

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged 1312, ahmaud arbery, appropriation, arts, BAME, black, black lives matter, braithwaite, british history, burru, culture, dick hebdige, drum and bass, education, empire, featured, Jamaican, jungle, music, naybinghi, obeah, party, punk, race, racism, rastafarian, reggae, subculture, uk, underground, whiteness.

by Lisa Insansa Woods

Norfolk’s music, gig and free party scene is a vibrant stream of colour, with bright red, gold and green gushes moving through the illuminous pool. Reggae, dub, jungle, drum n bass and techno can easily be discovered blaring from a stack of speakers in a venue or elusive field in and around Norwich. Norfolk loves sound system culture, but many of those same people who dance to this music are quiet in the struggle against racism.

“Babylon A Fall,” they shout. But what does that actually mean? Continue Reading

REVIEW: BASQUIAT – BOOM FOR REAL

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Andy Warhol, art, artist, Basquiat, Boom For Real, exhibit, exhibition, featured, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nan Goldin, New York, paintings, politics, soho, subculture, The Barbican, video, William Burroghs.

by Carmina Masoliver

For the past few months, the Barbican has been host to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first large-scale exhibition in the UK, featuring work spanning his whole working life. His premature death at the age of 27 is tragic, yet it is astounding what he managed to achieve in such a short space of time.

Upon entering the exhibition, the first room features some of his early work from the 1981 exhibition, New York/New Wave, which also included work by Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin and William Burroughs. On first impressions, those who aren’t familiar with Basquiat’s archetypal ‘naïve’ or ‘primitive’ style could be forgiven for thinking his art is something a child produce, a criticism all to often laid upon contemporary art. However, for me, art is about both aesthetics and meaning, and art in which technical ability is more obvious, isn’t necessarily more interesting. Basquiat was known to mix supposed ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in his work, and as his career progressed, so too did its level of detail and scale.

GENTRIFICATION AND DISAPPEARING NIGHTCLUBS

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged business, city council, closure, creativity, drinking culture, gentrification, Hideout, hip hop, lgbtQ+, Lola Lo, music, night out, nightclub, noise complaint, noise complaints, norfolk, norwich, party, prince of wales road, rap, sexuality, subculture.

by James Anthony

In my first year of university, I had the pleasure to live on Prince of Wales Road in Norwich, one of the most dangerous roads in Norfolk and one of England’s worst drinking areas in terms of late-night violence. While it might not have been for everyone, I honestly loved the feeling of being at the heart of the city’s nightlife and counted myself week in week out as one of the thousands of club-goers descending onto the strip. For me, nightclubs are a way to relive stress, relax and enjoy yourself alongside scores of friends and strangers, and represent a sort of coming together of people of all different backgrounds to lose yourself in the dance.Continue Reading

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

TEENAGE KICKS: PUNK AND POLITICS

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged 70s, activism, anti-establishment, arts, Belfast, Clash, Community, economy, Ed Sheeran, film, good vibrations, IRA, Joe Strummer, Kendrick Lamar, media, music, music subculture, Northern Ireland, Owen Jones, Paloma Faith, politics, prog rock, punk, punk movement, record label, Sam Smith, social justice, society, subculture, Teenage Kicks.

by Mike Vinti

Recently I came across the 2012 film ‘Good Vibrations’. A stirring tale, based on real events, about a man, Terri Hooley (Richard Dormer), who opens a record shop on the most bombed half mile in Europe — Great Victoria Street, Belfast. Terri’s mission is to use music to bring people together as sectarianism tears the city in two. It is through this shop that Terri first encounters punk. For Terri, punk changes everything, and the community of rowdy teenagers that make up Belfast’s scene come to symbolise hope, both for him and the city.

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THE UNDERGROUND MUSIC SCENE AFTER COVID

by Ash

NORFOLK LOVES SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE, BUT WHERE’S THE COMMITMENT TO ANTI-RACISM?

REVIEW: BASQUIAT – BOOM FOR REAL

GENTRIFICATION AND DISAPPEARING NIGHTCLUBS

PUNK’S PLACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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