Mama Oh No - Live - oh yes!

By -

Mama Oh No at Voodoo Daddy's Showroom, Norwich, 23rd Jan 2026

Rock and roll history is studded with family bands, married couples, partners making sweet music together, you can insert the name of your favourite examples yourself easily enough.  Norfolk's own four-piece family band, Mama Oh No, purveyors of swampy guitar, clanging bass, fuzz and spring reverb have pulled together a show for Friday, 23rd January 2026 at Voodoo Daddy's Showroom, London Street, Norwich.

The band is Jack Gascoigne (vocals and guitar), with siblings Issy Gascoigne (bass) and Tordy Gascoigne (vocals, keys and omnichord) and Rhi Swift (drums). Mama Oh No's original line up produced a very listenable and atmospheric album 'Mamasaurus' which I have been playing a lot in the post-festive season.  It is an album that catches you unawares, gets you humming along while doing the washing up or driving through interminable, slow traffic. The latest configuration of musicians have been busy putting together a new album of material, and a single 'I Will Stop at Nothing' has been sprung, spring-like into the musicosphere. You can find the single on your favourite music streaming service.

Mama Oh No + Yer Blooze + Decent Wrestlers
Photo copyright: Mette Posselt.

The band survived the shooting of their video 'The Mutant' off their latest album 'Fuzz-U-Later' in late-2025 and have plenty of other new material to delight you in their forthcoming show.  The cast list for the video, shot by Thomas Beaney is:

Jose Beaney as "the Mutant"
Jack Gascoigne As Jack Gascoigne Rhianna Swift As Rhianna Swift Issy Blair As Issy Blair Tordi Blair As Tordi Blair Bob log III's Dingy as Bob log III's Dingy

The band classify this tasty little number under the genre 'Blues', which gives you an understanding of how this imaginative group play around within classic rock forms to spin out their unique take on contemporary sounds.
   

The forthcoming show features multi-instrumentalist and undefinable musician yer blooze and the enticing prospect of 'noise-pop' (it says on their blurb) duo Decent Wrestlers at Voodoo Daddy's Showroom, London Street, Norwich. Last tickets are available here. 

I will let you know how it all goes down with the finest's music aficionados as soon after 23rd January as humanly possible.

Spencer Ide
15th January, 2026 

Comments

Post a Comment

Thank you for reading Spidewriter. Please get in touch with your observations or any questions you have. I look forward to hearing from you.

Popular posts from this blog

The Gleaves Issue Quite Possibly (Country) Album of The Year 2025

By -
Image
Quite Possibly (Country) Album of the Year Like an Echo  -  The Gleaves   Every now and then, perhaps once every five to ten years, you discover an album that completely knocks you over.   Buena Vista Social Club ,  Definitely Maybe , and  Seventeen Seconds  are good examples.  The genre is unimportant, but the overall impact of the album, which is a record studded with jewels, makes you want to listen to it time after time.  While each track has its own appeal, it is the complete package that makes it special.  I have played The Gleaves debut album,  Like An Echo  so many times today   that I have lost count of how many plays it's had.  It is a quite beautiful, complete album of Country & Western songs that, even if you were into Metallica, you could proudly hold in your music library, justifying your ownership of it to sceptical friends with a phrase like, “So what if its country, it’s a clas...
Read the full article here »

Floral Image - Home Coming Gig 2025

By -
Image
Indelibly Stamped Images Floral Image at Norwich Arts Centre Saturday, 31st May, 2025    The boys are home! Floral Image have landed.   I’m so excited about tonight!  said Nancy.  As was everyone who bundled into Norwich to see the city’s finest band come home.  There has not been such a wildly anticipated home town gig for any Norwich band for many months.  There was even a ticket scammer out there for this one, fleecing the ticketless, so keen was everyone to be at Norwich Arts Centre to attend the final gig of Floral Image’s 2025 European tour.   By all accounts the dates in Nantes, Agens, Tours and Eindhoven were very good nights for the band, but then the Green Door Store, Brighton proved exceptional. My god, all those nights would have had to be out of body experiences to better the transcendental power of the Norwich show.  What a night this turned out to be.   The city’s music lovers were out in force for this...
Read the full article here »
By -
Image
Oh Yes, Mama! Mama Oh No / Grandbaby / Robin Evans Norwich Arts Centre, Saturday, 22nd June 2024 Surprising as it was, summer arrived in St Benedict’s Street like a man struggling to explain why he was late for a date because he was so into a spreadsheet at work.  Well, stuff you summer!  All the enthusiastic attention and beautiful flowers aren’t just good enough.  I digress. It was a beautiful evening and the old church that is Norwich Arts Centre , with its delightful back garden, was a joy to be at on Saturday.  In fact, the Fine City was an overall delight.  Music, live or otherwise, filled the old streets, lanes and alleys.  Even the occasional poser in a loud motor, had the bass thumping through the side panels, adding an authentic urban boom to Britain’s Biggest Village.  The warm still air was perfect acoustically.   The backyard at The Plough , one of the very best summer drinking locations in town, was...
Read the full article here »