The Waterfront List 1993-2018
This has taken over many months to compile, it is as complete as I can make it at the moment, but if you feel there are any bands, djs, events missing or inaccurately recorded please let me know, so I can investigate. Many thanks and enjoy : Gavin Hudson Email : g.hudson@uea.ac.uk
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The Waterfront before UEA SU In the late 1980’s, live music and gigging were the best way to have a night out, however apart from UEA LCR, there were very few larger rooms for touring and local bands to play in Norwich. Local bands and music enthusiasts combined forces under the banner of “The Venue Campaign”, and with substantial support from Norwich City Council and various grants an old brewery warehouse on King Street was transformed into a multi-faceted gig venue.
The Waterfront was born Oct 1990 Opening Night from the edp ‘808 state’
24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Oct
808 State Darling Buds The Fall Desmond Dekker Nirvana Courtney Pine Baaba Maal
+ Mc Tunes + Subsonic Two + The Bardots + Republic + The Ouagadougous + L7 + Jacobs Mouse + Paradise Reggae Band + Mansour Seck + Le Dande Lenol
02 Nov 03 Nov 04 Nov 07 Nov 08 Nov 09 Nov 10 Nov 11 Nov 12 Nov 13 Nov 14 Nov 15 Nov 16 Nov 17 Nov 18 Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 22 Nov 24 Nov 25 Nov 26 Nov 27 Nov
New Fast Automatic Daffodils + The Spinning Jennys The Men They Couldn’t Hang + Rogues Gallery Lush + Faith Over Reason Misty In Roots + Danger Zone Sound System Orange: Dance Club dj evil eddie richards & mc rusty 7.30-11pm Galaxie 500 + Assasins Roy Harper Rhythms Own Dance Night: Alcohol Free 7-10.30pm Lovemore Majaivana + Dorothy Masuka + The Zulu Band Orange Dance deftex posse + against all odds + citizens arrest Basti + Hotalacio + Dj Push Orange ft Def Tex Posse Cud + Bungalow + Macbreath The Blues Band + Lee Vasey Big Band Rhythms Own Dance Night: Alcohol Free 7-10.30pm Kevin Coyne + John Agard Simon Fanshawe Comedy Orange Dance : My Jealous God + Dj Dave Haslam 7.30-11pm Ralph Mctell Rhythms Own Dance Night: Alcohol Free 7-10.30pm Swervedriver + Bleach + Milk Nils Lofgren + Major Matt Mason 2
£7 £4 £6 £5 £5 £6 £5.50 £4 £5 £5 £6 £3.50 £4 £5 £2 £5.50 £3.50 £2.50 £2.50 £4 £6 £2 £4 £4 £3.50 £6 £2 £7
29 Nov 30 Nov
Orange Club ft Electribe 101 Ocean Colour Scene + Circle Sky
07 Dec 28 Dec
Telescopes + Slowdrive + Catherine Wheel Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts
? Dec
Tom Robinson, World Of Twist, Lindisfarne, Boys Of The Lough
£4 £4
1991 01 Feb 15 Feb 22 Feb
Killing Joke Carter USM Senseless Things
+ Silverfish + The Faith Healers + The Revs
03 Mar 05 Mar 08 Mar 10 Mar 22 Mar
The Jokers Birdland Throwing Muses Uriah Heep Ocean Colour Scene
+ Catalyst + Bluesteel
05 Apr 08 Apr 25 Apr 29 Apr
Chapterhouse Lunachicks Levitation The High
+ Boo Radleys + Republic + Jacobs Mouse + Honey Smugglers + Belltower + Honey Buzzards
+ Anastasia Screamed + Ari Vais
02 May Julian Cope 03 May Julian Cope He did one show as rarities and B sides, did the other show as greatest hits 08 May The Orb 13 May Bleach 27 May Mordred 31 May New Model Army + Republic 07 Jun 14 Jun 28 Jun
Flowered Up The 5.30 Spiritualized
02 Jul 05 Jul 06 Jul 12 Jul 16 Jul 27 Jul
Mamas Boys Dr & The Medics Nils Lofgren Half Man Half Biscuit Mock Turtles Primal Scream
+Mc Breth
+ Daisy Chainsaw + Violet Hour
£6.50
+ Andy Wetherall
09 Aug Manic Street Preachers + From Their Heads Came There was some debate backstage about the set list because the band still hadn’t learned how to play the song Motorcycle Emptiness live on stage. 10 Aug 11 Aug 16 Aug 28 Aug
Steve Earle Back to the Planet Intastella Bjorn Again
18 Sep 24 Sep 27 Sep
Mordred Gary Numan Cranes
+ Will T Massie / Radical Dance Fraction
+ Moonshake 3
£7
1991 / Pestilence
02 Oct Malevolent Creation 03 Oct Slowdive 09 Oct Deviated instinct 12 Oct The Hamsters + Basement Blues Band £5 14 Oct Meat Beat Manifesto 17 Oct Levellers The Levellers received a really poor review for this show from the NME, so one of the band gift packed a poo and posted it to their offices. 28 Oct Swervedriver 02 Nov 08 Nov 22 Nov 06 Dec 12 Dec 13 Dec
Planet Gong Crowded House Kingmaker The Colourform Kirsty Maccoll Damned
17 Jan 24 Jan 31 Jan 07 Feb 11 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 16 Feb 23 Feb 27 Feb 28 Feb
1992 The Hypnotics + Jacobs Mouse Fabulous + Nutmeg + Violet Voodoo Jon Fat Beast presented Th’ Faith Healers Cardiacs + Moonflowers Moe Tucker Band (ex Velvet Underground) Diesel Park West Young Gods Wedding Present New England 1000 Yard Stare + Frank & The Walters Half Man Half Biscuit
06 Mar 13 Mar 20 Mar 27 Mar
Mega City Four Curve Spitfire Bleach
+ Midway Still + Adorable + Drive + Mercury Rev
03 Apr
Pale Saints
+ Boo Radleys
+ Sensitize + Bardots + Sugarhouse + Forget Me Nots + Virtually Fat Freeze
£7.50
£4 £5 £4 £5 £6.50 £3.50 £4 £5
Radio 1 launched the concept of Sound City, where every night for a week they would broadcast various national and local acts from a single venue, raising the profile of that City and its local talent, Norwich was the first. A packed week included…. Dj Pete Tong ,Dj Mark Goodier 21 Apr 22 Apr 23 Apr 24 Apr 25 Apr 26 Apr
The Fall + House of Love + Jacobs Mouse Senseless Things + Kingmaker Cathy Dennis + Pasadenas + Joy Keziah Jones + Eddi Reader Bomb the Bass + Brand New Heavies + Magic Johnson Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart + Des’ree The Shamen + N-Joi + Basti the Prodigy + Orbital, The Quireboys + Taste + Mr Big L–7 + Monster Carter Unstoppable Sex Machine + The Farm + Stare Nick Cave + Catherine Wheel, The Fall
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main studio main studio main studio main studio main studio main studio
1992 30 Apr
Loud
01 May 07 May 13 May 15 May 19 May 20 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 29 May 30 May 31 May
Dig Fugazi Laibach PJ Harvey Paul Brady Des’Ree Airhead Club Frenzy Galliano Cud Club Frenzy Rock ; spring special
+ Lovejunk + Leatherface + Goober Patrol
04 Jun 05 Jun 12 Jun 19 Jun 20 Jun 21 Jun 24 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun
Pulp Sultans Of Ping The Telescopes Eat club Frenzy Paul Weller Macbreth , Colorform, Sheep on Drugs club Frenzy Joe Louis Walker
+ Splendids
01 Jul 20 Jul
The House Of Love Pavement
+ A house + Belly
01 Aug 03 Aug 10 Aug
Jacobs Mouse Lunachicks The Heartthrobs
+ Clownhouse
07 Sep 09 Sep 14 Sep 21 Sep 30 Sep
Kitchens of Distinction Atom Seed Throwing Muses Radiohead Babes in Toyland
+ Darling Buds + Creaming Jesus + Pond + The Frank & Walters + Jacobs Mouse
05 Oct 06 Oct 07 Oct 08 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 26 Oct
Daisy Chainsaw + Elephant Witch + Butterfly Child Gil Scott Heron Martin Stephenson & the Daintees Joe Ely Eek-a-Mouse Suede Lemonheads Rubicon Gallon Drunk + Breed
£5 £7 £7 £6 £5.59 £4 £5 £5 £5
04 Nov 05 Nov 09 Nov 11 Nov 12 Nov
The Bardots The Demon Boyz Doctor Phibes Rockingbirds Jah Wobble
£3 £6 £4 £4 s £6
+ Moonshake £5 £4 £4 7.30-1am + Gun 7.30-1am
£5.50 £5 £3.50
+ Bardots + Scopio Rising + Some Have Fins 7.30-1am Awesome Welles, Insane + Pig 7.30-1am + Omar & the Howlers
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s £4 £2 £6 £3.50 £4 £2 £6
1992 16 Nov 19 Nov 18 Nov 23 Nov 29 Nov 30 Nov
Chumbawamba Shonen Knife Bang Bang Machine Therapy Omar That Petrol Emotion
03 Dec 03 Dec 06 Dec 06 Dec 07 Dec 08 Dec 13 Dec
The Phantom Chords Bad Manners Boo Hewerdine Buster James Band Ozric tentacles Tabitha Zu Sundays
20 Feb
Transads
£4 £4 + Delta radio + Oil Seed Rape + Indust
£4
+ Yoghurt Belly
£5
+ the Earls of Suave + Another Man’s Poison + Skunk + Liberty Horses + Sacred + Vagrant + Eat Static + Senser
£4 s £6.50 £3 s £4 £7.50
+ Butterfly Child 1993
However, after just over 2 years trading it ran into huge financial difficulties and closed. Everyone was shocked and disappointed.
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