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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...

The Garage Goes Goo-Goo for Gaga Joyous REWORK Norwich Show picks the meat off Lady Gaga's tunes Words by Spencer Ide , Photographs by Gordon Woolcock   It’s bloody difficult!  and  It’s hard, really effing hard!  and it’s  Scary!   But it’s a lot of fun too.  Last night’s show at The Garage was the twentieth appearance of  REWORK Norwich  in the past two years.  Twenty shows of local bands and musicians being tasked with stamping their mark on the work of the biggest names in the music biz.    The latest focus was the songbook of Lady Gaga .  Three groups of Norwich-based musicians were invited to rework her songs for as diverse an audience as she would have hoped for herself.  Posters around the city these past few weeks attracted the curious, the self-questioning, embryonic-confident and some of Lady Gaga’s  Little Monsters  keen to hear some of  Mother Monster’s  songs live,...