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New Album: Gavin Bowers' Cheap Therapy Upfront, I have to declare an interest.  I met Gavin Bowers soon after lockdowns became history and we have kept in touch ever since about any new music in town, his projects, always promising to meet soon.  We've both been busy adapting to changing circumstances, just like everybody else, so the 'soon' has been stretched a little.  We both came to Norwich with our respective plans, but Life happens and priorities get reconfigured.  However, we are both still here and keep making that 'catch-up soon' promise, whenever our crazy-paving paths cross.  So, I was delighted to hear from Gavin that he had been working on a solo project, in which he has been relaying his path into some semblance of order, or least trying to make some honest sense of it. His debut solo album Cheap Therapy is the result. It is now available on all digital platforms, as well as in a limited run of vinyl pressings. I reviewed the single release of Our...

VOTE PEDRO DANGER Interview with Pedro Danger: Bass Player; Guitarist; Singer. The live music scene in Norwich and Great Yarmouth is hotting up.  After being locked into the chrysalids of bedrooms, apartments, shared houses and student halls, a whole new generation of Norfolk musicians has emerged.  There is so much going on locally it is hard to keep track.   The Norfolk-based musicians who used lockdowns to experiment, learn new instruments and fine-tune their skills, are now out and about, playing an almost overwhelming quantity and quality of music.  Naturally some spread their wings and headed to London, but others have returned after finding the capital too expensive, not to their taste, or less collaborative than they knew Norwich to be.   For example, this past month I have been made aware of a flock of women musicians calling themselves  Murmurations  who are bringing an angelic, harmonious element to the local contemporary musi...