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Forty years on, Mike and the Mechanics are still going strong
The early indicator at Mike and the Mechanics’ concert at the Ipswich Regent Theatre was not positive: the band’s founder, Mike Rutherford, shuffled on stage with a crutch before gingerly…
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Wet Wet Wet Kick-off Tour In Norwich
Even with a new lead singer, the love is – still – all around for Wet Wet Wet Finding a replacement lead singer cannot be easy for any band, but…
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Our Halloween Playlist – It’s Ghoulishly Good!
🎃 A Spook-tacular Playlist to Boogie to at Halloween! 👻 Get ready to raise your spirits, because this Halloween season, we’re introducing our hallowed Halloween playlist, full of fang-tastic spooky tunes!…
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Kershaw’s Finely Crafted Songs Get A Warm Reception In Norwich
Compared to many solo artists, Nik Kershaw may seem to be a slightly unlikely pop star. Relatively undemonstrative, his stage manner is poles away from the attention-grabbing flamboyance that serves…
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Barenaked, Exchanging Corn In Flight
Ok, so are you intrigued? Now that we have your attention, we’ll divulge, and hopefully you’ll it’ll be worth your while clicking on this titillating title. First things first. There’s…
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The Early 1990s Local Music Scene
You Are Now Entering A Time Machine… Throughout the 1990s my high school friends and I would frequent the local Norwich music scene, checking out big bands as they came…
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Level 42 Please The Crowd With A String Of Hits
Amid flashing white lights, Level 42 arrived on stage at the Cambridge Corn Exchange and launched into To Be With You Again, an upbeat track from their 1980s heyday. For…
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Norwich Gets Busted
Back in the early 2000s, Busted were topping the UK charts with a brand of punk pop that appealed to a mostly young audience. So, more than 15 years on…
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Did Thriller Thrill?
It is now almost a decade since Michael Jackson’s death and while his personal legacy will always be an ambiguous one, as a performer he remains without peer. A musical…
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James Morrison concert @ UEA LCR
Although a later generation of guitar-playing singer-songwriters, notably Ed Sheeran and George Ezra, are now taking much of the limelight, James Morrison showed with the opening show of his 2019…
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Club Tropicana The Musical
The eighties are now rightly celebrated for the countless memorable pop hits that they left the world to enjoy, and these songs are just what the new touring production Club…
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Add Some Music To Your Day
From time to time, we write an article that isn’t entirely Norfolk-related, but we hope they are still of interest. This is one of those articles. As a big music…