Tickets & Information
Monday 3 September
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· Performance ·
New Beginnings
An evening of music, poetry and socialising with refugees and asylum seekers, organised jointly by The Octagon Chapel and Amnesty International. Poetry and music by Salah el Nagar, Martin Figura, Sarah Griggs-Smith, Moussa Ibrahim, Martin McDonnell, Kathryn Simmonds, George Szirtes and Salman Toheed.
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7.30pm | Pay What You Can Afford | Bar Tuesday 4 September
· Rock/Pop ·
PowerSolo + support
Massive and mobile, revved-up and smirking wired manic relentlessness with polished precision. Danish ‘donkey-punk’ trash rock and rollers are in the UK to whip up merry hell.
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8pm | £10 adv | £8 adv concessions | £12.50 door Friday 7 September
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· Rock/Pop ·
Oddbox presents Tibetan Night Terrors + Gladboy + Badhead Hyland 8pm | £6 adv | £8 door
Saturday 8 September
· World ·
Baluji Shrivastav: Antardrishti – Inner Vision
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Consider sight and sightlessness in this very special performance bringing together musicians, storytelling and film. This event is one of just four performances, the others being Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, British Council Theatre in Delhi and at Royal Opera House Mumbai. Led by blind multi-instrumentalist Baluji Shrivastav OBE, the performance will feature Inner Vision Orchestra UK, guest Indian performers and digital artists Addictive TV, who create music you can see.
8pm | £20 | £15.50 concessions | Seated Baluji Shrivastav 8 September
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· Performance ·
Will Fergusson: The Last Trumpet
Another Geburtstagkonzert from the local composer/pianist, a micro-festival featuring a variety of hidden talents from all genres of the art and all corners of the globe.
8pm | Pay What You Can Afford | Seated
· Talk ·
Tuesday 11 September
An Evening with Earl Slick
Legendary American guitarist – best known for his seminal work with David Bowie and John Lennon – talks about his career, performs extracts from songs and takes questions from the audience. A night of incredible stories, tunes and a look behind the scenes of a life in rock n roll.
8pm | £13.50 | £11.50 concessions | Seated Wednesday 12 September
· Workshop ·
True Stories workshop
Tibetan Night Terrors fuse 70’s disco with soukous and calypso inspired rhythms and harmonies, snuggled in an indie pop cocoon.
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Sunday 9 September
We all have stories to tell but sometimes we just need a helping hand to make them flow. Come to our next True Stories Live workshop and we can offer that help as well as tea and cake.
Anteros Arts Foundation, 11-15 Fye Bridge St, NR3 1LJ 5pm -7pm | £6 | £4 concessions Wednesday 12 September
· Performance ·
A Very Queer Nazi Faust
AVQNF is a hilariously anarchic piece of experimental participatory performance, which looks at the impact on disabled people of this government’s policies. Written by artist and poet Vince Laws, the work is loosely based on the Faust legend.
8pm | £6.66 | Seated
Thursday 13 Sept - Wednesday 10 October
Common Era is an ongoing body of work by American photographer and filmmaker David Drake. The images have been created over a decade and form a catalogue of ambient observations in the UK and USA. David works primarily in the music industry, shotting album covers and videos for The 1975, Kele Okereke, Julian Casablancas, Tom Grennan, Django Django, and Glass Animals.
Opening night Wednesday 12 September See website for opening times
PONY UP presents The Islas + support
· Rock/Pop ·
Melodic riffs, a subtle baritone and song lyrics harvested from youth and the experiences of British adolescents. The anxiety, happiness and first loves - and everything in-between. “Four guys who have the ability to steal anyones heart” - This is Noise
8pm | £6 adv | £8 door
· Performance ·
Ross Sutherland: Imaginary Advice Live
Poetic polymath Ross Sutherland leaves the safety of his wardrobe recording studio to present a special live edition of his award-winning podcast (Best Fiction Podcast, The British Podcast Awards; Best Podcasts for Fiction, The Telegraph; Top Fifty Podcasts, Stylist) series Imaginary Advice. Ross is always exploring new forms of storytelling; he has recorded love monologues at drum and bass raves, made cut-up poetry out of the Today Programme, and cross-bred Jay Z’s Black Album with the Tate Modern’s audioguide.
8pm | £10 | £8 concessions | Seated Thursday 20 September
· Performance ·
John Hegley is widely known as one of the country’s most innovative comic poets with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. Family songs and stories, devised for adults but will appeal to anyone approaching double figures.
8pm | £14.50 | £11.50 concessions | Seated
· Funk ·
Friday 21 September
George Porter Jr (of The Meters) & The Runnin’ Pardners + Crowd Company
A master of New Orleans funk!” Bass Player magazine This is a rare UK tour by George and his red hot New Orleans band! George Porter Jr. is best known as the bassist and singer of legendary New Orleans funk band The Meters, who won the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
8pm | £18 adv | £20 door
· Rock/Pop ·
Uke East
Featuring Dead Mans Uke + Phil Doleman and Ian Emmerson + Ukulolo + The Ukulele Evangelists + Tricity Vogue
After the success of Uke East 2017, the Ukulele festival is returning to Norwich for it’s fifth year. The festival attracts visitors from all over the UK and presents some of the top Ukulele performers from around the country and beyond.
11am | Tickets available from uke-east.co.uk | Seated Sunday 23 September
True Stories Live: Miles To Go
· Folk ·
Monday 24 September
Dervish
Dervish have been bringing Irish traditional music to the world for more than 25 years. Described by the BBC as “an icon of Irish music”, the band have played at festivals from Rio to Glastonbury.
8pm | £17 | £14.50 concessions | Seated Friday 28 September
· Rock/Pop ·
Pirate Joe & the Foreign Locals + Himazas A night of Opera, Punk, and Ukuleles, this show is shrouded in much mystery and cake. Don’t believe it? Then come and see for yourself!
· Performance ·
True Stories Live is a lively, moving and unpredictable event where people tell true stories about their lives in front of a warm, supportive audience. In these uncertain times we believe more than ever in the power of community and empathy to galvanise and inspire.
Saturday 29 September
· Rock/Pop ·
Sonic Youths v5.11 Acts TBA
Join us for Sonic Youths’ showcase of talented teens: original music of all genres from the next generation. #futureOfMusic
1pm-4pm | Pay What You Can Afford | Bar
· Ska ·
Saturday 29 September
The Piratones + Feral Mouth + Maya Law
A soulful blend of dub, reggae, ska, live jungle and hip hop.
8pm | £8 adv | £10 door Tuesday 2 October
MONO + A Storm of Light + Jo Quail
· Rock/Pop ·
POST 3 October
· Performance ·
POST by Xavier De Sousa
What the fuck is a national identity? What exactly constitutes a ‘nation’? And why the hell are so many ready to die for it? With POST, Xavier de Sousa invites you to join us at the table, eat yummy Portuguese food, drink potent Cachaça, get merry, make new friends and challenge what exactly makes a ‘nation’.
8pm | Pay What You Can Afford | Seated
· Electronica ·
HARK presents Haiku Salut: Lamp Show + support
Drawing from folk, electronica, post rock, and neo-classical: see electronics come to life with a stage full of vintage lamps flickering and fading in time with the music as they explore the relationship between light and sound.
8pm | £11.50 | £9 concessions Saturday 6 October
· Rock/Pop ·
The Spitfires
Four piece from Watford taking in a wide range of influences from Reggae and Ska through to Punk and Soul – this melting pot has helped infuse the band’s own sound and style.
8pm | £15 adv
Sunday 7 October
Fresh from headlining Meltdown Festival, curated by Robert Smith of The Cure, the Tokyo based 4-piece bring us their unique blend of orchestral arrangements and shoegaze guitar noise.
8pm | £17 adv | £14.50 adv concession | £19 door
Wednesday 3 October
Thursday 4 October
+ Tundra + Emma Nuule
8pm | £8 adv | £10 door
John Hegley
Saturday 22 September · Exhibition ·
David Drake: Common Era
Friday 14 September
Wednesday 19 September
· Performance ·
Balloon: The European Question
A debate with a difference. Six Players and a Pilot are floating above Norwich in a punctured hot air balloon, which is sinking fast. By sheer wit, eloquence, and mastery of the chosen topic, they must persuade the Mob (that’s you) why they should not be ejected to re-gain height and save the remaining Players. The Question: Can we be Europeans now?
7.30pm | Pay What You Can Afford | Seated Monday 8 October
· Rock/Pop ·
PONY UP presents Bloody Knees + support TBC 8pm | £tbc
Wednesday 10 October
· Performance ·
Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks
Matt Abbott was volunteering at the Calais Jungle refugee camp when his native Wakefield voted 66% Leave. Why did so many working-class communities like his support Brexit so strongly? How can the UK ignore a humanitarian crisis just 22 miles from Dover? He channels the human side of politics to look at national identity, preconceptions, class and anti-establishment anger.
8pm | Pay What You Can Afford | Seated
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