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Move Over Memphis, TN

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Norwich is a City of Music Too Catch 21 Records:  Independent Record Label and Norwich Recording Studio I have spent a lot of time listening to local bands since moving to Norwich in August 2020.  The breadth and quality of music being produced here is nothing short of phenomenal.  Like another often overlooked music generator, The Isle of Wight, Norwich is a little remote and as such the citizens have to make their own entertainment.  Consequently, you will be able to find every music genre you care to mention, with excellent venues to suit. The Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant English church and non-conformists can take credit for their legacy of many acoustically sweet buildings that have been re-purposed as contemporary music venues, but Norwich has some more recently developed performance spaces of sonic quality too. The cathedral and old churches provide the most beautiful acoustic spaces, as was their design in the time before electric amplifica...
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Something Else: Television Overdose /TVOD

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TVOD / Painkiller / MIYO at Voodoo's Voodoo Daddy’s Showroom,  Norwich   26th August 2026 Sadly, there was a lot of space down in the dive bar on Wednesday.  Voodoo Daddy’s had to resort to putting an A-frame out on the street to promote the gig and other methods to draw people in. The last week of August, with a Bank Holiday in the offing, may have just been a gig too far. Maybe the prospect of Kneecap at The Waterfront on Thursday was a factor, with the city’s music followers saving themselves for 45 minutes of the balaclava’d boys from the Emerald Isle.  All Wright on the night As Tyler Wright acknowledged, while his band, Television Overdose TVOD is walking a financial tightrope during their European tour, the Norwich audiences may well be too.  Whatever the reasons for the thin turnout, it can only be surmised that the missing had non-musical reasons for omitting TVOD and Painkiller from their diaries. I get to see a lot of music performances, more tha...
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If You Enjoy Doing It, Why Stop?

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The Undertones: Still Playing for Kicks 50th Anniversary Tour: Why Not Indeed? Interview with  Billy Doherty : Drummer William (Billy) Doherty is a founding member of The Undertones. The band burst onto the music scene in 1978, on the final crest of the Punk / New Wave wave in the late 1970s.  Billy is the band's drummer and in the middle of August of this stiflingly hot summer,  I had the pleasure of chatting to him about life with his friends in the band, in advance of The Undertones' 50th Anniversary Tour which continues its British leg on 15th October, 2026 at Epic Studios in Norwich .  You can get tickets to this show and any of the others (where not sold out!) from the link at the end of this article. The Undertones, still   good mates doing their thing in Blackpool, 2026. Photo: Seán Cummiskey Radio show host, John Peel , had received a copy of The Undertones debut EP ' Teenage Kicks ' on Belfast's  Good Vibrations indie label from Belfast an...
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