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Vieira and The Silvers Headline Show at The Waterfront Studio, Norwich   Rock'n'Roll Brothers and Sisters, Rock'n'Roll! Friday 12 th  June 2026 It’s been a while since I saw Diogo Vieira take on a crowd, toss and hurl them around a venue, wipe the floor with them, then put them all through the rock’n’roll mangle to complete the job.     That was when Vieira and The Silvers blew away the Red Rooster Festival from the main stage in June 2024.     Sadly, Red Rooster has had to pack up the big tent for good, but a lot further down the A11, Vieira and his band have continued to blaze a trail on stages round London and south, reinforcing their reputation as one of the most exciting live bands in the land.   The Silvers have always existed with a fluid line up, with Vieira working with various combinations, adding, then taking out, then adding a saxophone, a duo of backing singers, then a trio, then none, more guitars, fewer guitars and a changing cast. ...

Front Seat Drivers The Holloway, Norwich, Friday 24th April 2026 It is not good form to post twice in a day, but this is an emergency.     I have just got home from The Holloway , a small grass roots venue that barely lets a night go by without something different going on.   It’s always worth a visit.     Tonight, not really thinking much more than it’s Friday, don’t stay in, go somewhere, I grabbed a couple of tickets and met Sean The Cyclist of Sean Cycles (at your home bicycle repairs and servicing) at the top of St Lawrence Steps, for a trip to the increasingly popular basement music hotspot. Upstairs, there is really cool bar, (bottles and cans only), bookshop and magazine display and retail area.  The books are on the fascinating end of the interesting spectrum.  On display, available for immediate purchase are tomes on music, politics, folklore, witchcraft, various belief systems.  I don’t think the stock has been assembled...

Spend Time with Fast Money Music Having made it to The Shacklewell Arms in Hackney in good time for the gig, I was glad of the opportunity to have a brief chat with Nick Hinman , the driving force of Fast Money Music .  It is Hinman’s catalogue of songs which have just been released on the album  Fast Money Music, but he has got a powerful band together to put the meat on the rock and roll skeletons of his lyrics, featuring "gratuitous saxaphone" balanced by really clean, sharp guitar playing laid over some stonking rock.  Fast Money Music getting set up at The Shacklewell Arms, London E8   A gentle-natured man, Hinman strikes me as the sort of songwriter, singer, frontman who needs the occasional gentle reminder that he has written some great tunes and can put on a rocking show.  Only he and his nearest and dearest will know whether I am in the right about this.  Never mind, how he gets to the stage and the studio is his challenge, but I am...

Fast Money Music goes Round and Round Nevermind: The latest single from Fast Money Music's Debut LP   When you punch  Fast Money Music  into your music streaming app, the NYC electro-punks  Suicide   pops up. I love their work, a band who were truly punk, who could spark a punch up in  CBGBs  within a couple of songs.    What they did with their instruments and their lyrics displayed an artistic courage that defined the punk attitude. Suicide were iconoclastic, innovative, left-field.    Not afraid to face off, shake up and incite radical thinking, even the duo name chosen by  Martin Rev  and  Alan Vega  was (and remains) a shocking piece of punk branding.   The song Fast Money Music opens their second and final studio LP.  Electronic keyboard jitters, moving things  up a tech level from the jangling guitars heard in Velvet Underground 's I'm Waiting For My Man, Suicide laid down a track that is, ...

  IST IST and The Youth Play at The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich 9th April, 2026 IST IST all about having a good time, all the time (Pic: Creative Arts Photography)   The IST IST band is back from their extensive European tour and their first UK stop was at The Adrian Flux Waterfront (a UEA Student Union managed venue, sponsored by a locally based specialist vehicle insurance broker) in Norwich.  Ironically, the IST IST journey into the vibrant heart of East Anglia, required them to get a replacement van after a challenge about its suitability for English roads from some uniformed bureaucrats.  The headline act only made the gig with 45 minutes to spare.  This did not unduly phase them, nor the audience, who were all pretty relaxed about things, as is mostly the way in Norfolk. I have mentioned before how supportive the locals are of opening acts, so it was no surprise to see so many people listening attentively to The Youth Play play. ...