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Tinie Tempah Shows Up at Voodoo Daddy's Tinie Tempah at Voodoo Daddy’s Showroom London Street, Norwich 27th June 2026 “How are you doing Norwich?” “How are you doing Voodoo Daddy’s?” Tinie hitting the heights in the Voodoo basement Norwich, or at least one hundred and fifty fine people were doing very well, thank you. As for Voodoo Daddy’s, this Everywhere At Once National Lottery funded festival event was a very welcome boost to the finest dive bar in the land.   No Glastonbury Festival this year meant that musicians have had to seek alternative venues to play and with small venues suffering from commercial pressures, jeopardising the very existence of specialist live music venues, someone came up with the truly excellent idea of distributing the names around the country to keep music live.  Tinie Tempah was one BIG name who was only to happy to take part.  “If there were no places like this when I was coming up, I wouldn’t have made it.” he explained to the pac...

Zero BPM (Beats Per Minute) Drone Festival The Church Piano Bar, Redwell Street, Norwich NR1 This was less festival, more celebration.  There was the popping of corks for the ‘soft opening’ of Norwich’s latest live music venue, converting St Michael at Plea, smack in the heart of the city, from an evangelical tea, cake and event venue into a dedicated ‘quality’ jazz and blues venue.  There was also champagne metaphorically cracked open on the hull of Zero BPM (Zero Beats Per Minute) to launch an enthralling drone music mini-festival, which I hope can be expanded to be run over a couple of days in the not too distant future, whether in St Michael at Plea, or any other setting. The Zero BPM concept is excellent.  Stimulating, challenging, provocative and food for thought and subsequent conversation.  It would be fun to have more time to talk with performers, organisers and other audience members about what has been played and heard.  The i...

Kiefer Sutherland Live at The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich Wednesday 13 th  May 2026 Kiefer Sutherland sets The Adrian Flux Waterfront a Quiver    This crowd loved Kiefer and his band.  As the set progressed, country turned to rock and songs, expressing sincere concern for East Coast neighbours, family-owned, small-scale farmers, turned to celebrating raunchy Friday night feelings that love is crayoned in the diary, despite this being Wednesday.  The crowd, many of whom would most likely have attended Sutherland’s previous visit to Norwich in this role in July 2023, lapped it up.   Sutherland was close to selling out this gig at one of the country’s legendary regional music venues, in a city famous for its love of all things musical.  Is the country facing a cost-of-living squeeze, when a man rich beyond his wildest dreams, is able to ride into town and charge £42.00 a ticket for 90 minutes work?  To be fair, Norwich City s...

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. ...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Martin Phillipps of The Chills in 2023. Sadly, Martin died the following summer. This interview was first published on the Grapevine Live! website in 23rd June 2023 by Chris Perry | Jun 15, 2023 | Music, Interview I was excited to be introduced to Martin Phillipps when  The Chills  came to play at Norwich Arts Centre. This was the chance to sit down with a writer of an unimaginable number of songs, (many more than the 500 oft- suggested), while he was passing through Norwich. We sat in the beer garden of The Plough, soaking up the late-afternoon heat and talked about song writing, playing in a band, the history and geography of New Zealand, where Martin, founder and leader of The Chills, resides. Spin a globe round until you find South Island. To locate Dunedin, look pretty much as far south as you can go on the east coast. It’s a fair way. Dunedin’s remoteness, (or is it we who are remote?), seems such that people have to make their own ente...