CELEBRATING 45 YEARS IN 2025!
JAN FEB 2025
MUSIC, PERFORMANCE & COMEDY MUSIC, PERFORMANCE & COMEDY
MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS
Thursday 16 January | 8pm Langkamer + support
Bristol quartet Langkamer play buoyant pop singalongs and mournful folk balladry, propelled throughout by dexterous, infectious melodies.
Wednesday 22 January | 8pm
Tone presents Murcof + Inwards
Murcof aka Mexican electronic musician Fernando Corona’s compositions are founded on abstract, glitchy, sometimes complex electronic percussion. Harmonic and melodic influences come from classical music ambient music, drone music and free improvisation.
Thursday 23 January | 8pm
HENGE
Tuesday 4 February | 8pm
Tone presents Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble perform NESS
+ Mr. Vast + Thogdin (Long Swords)
HENGE escapes definition, but occupies a space between rave and prog rock that nobody knew existed. It is energetic, subversive and invigoratingly playful, jovially going ‘where no one has gone before’.
Hayden Thorpe returns to the stage with his beautifully singular third album Ness, made in collaboration with best-selling nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Hayden will perform Ness alongside members of Propellor Ensemble, promising to be a sonically spectacular and transformational live show.
Friday 7 February | 8pm PONY UP presents
GIRLBAND!
+ Tom A. Smith
Girlband are a formidable force for good and a dynamic group that pull on influences from the 50s to the 90s, creating a joyous, natural musical palette cleanser like no other.
Saturday 22 February | 8.30pm
Synth East Live: Seefeel | Loula Yorke
After critically acclaimed reissues of their mid-90s material, Seefeel return with their first new music since 2011.Everything Squared is a one-off 6-track mini-album which presents a contemporary evolution of their trademark sound.
Image. Seefeel
MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS
Thursday 30 January | 8pm
Sirishkumar Manji and Vibhaas + support
Tabla Maestro Sirishkumar Manji and his disciple, Vibhaas combine the organic sound and immediacy of the tabla with sampling, synthesis and sound manipulation.
Wednesday 5 February | 8pm
Tone presents Sergio Diaz
De Rojas
Peruvian pianist and composer Sergio has had over twenty million streams, concerts around Europe/South America, and collaborations with record labels such as Deutsche Grammophon. Inspired by Sufjan Stevens, Nils Frahm and Max Richter his classical training has taken transformative turn into contemporary composition.
Sunday 23 February | 8pm
Spiers & Boden at EPIC Studios
Spiers & Boden have been at the forefront of the English traditional folk scene for 25 years both as a groundbreaking duo and as founder members of folk phenomenon Bellowhead.
The much-loved folk duo take to the road again with their hi-octane fiddle and melodeon compositions.
Thursday 27 February | 8pm
Round Midnight presents Dele Sosimi + support
Nigerian-British musician Dele Sosimi blends complex funk grooves, traditional Nigerian music, African percussion, virtuoso keyboard skills and rhythmic singing making him one of the most respected Afrobeat authorities of his era.
Sosimi
PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Pay What You Can Afford
£4.50 - £12.50
Sunday 2 February | 7.30pm
Live Art Club presents Rachel Mars & Greg Wohead: Story #1
Rachel Mars and Greg Wohead take Pixar’s 22 Rules for Storytelling and How Stories Make Us Human, make them f*ck each other, kidnap the resulting baby and dance out a prophecy of its future life before its barely opened eyes.
Sunday 19 January | 7.30pm
True Stories Live:
Before Dawn
Start the year with a warm hug from the TSL community. Sometimes it’s the darkest hour before dawn but the light does come.
Sunday 16 February 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Cold Snap
Can we celebrate women’s bodies; their power and their resilience?
In Cold Snap, Clare Currie grapples with her love of sport, the strains of the ageing process and the demands of modern life.
Sunday 26 January | 7.30pm
Lightbulbs
New show from queer London-based theatre makers Woodhouse&Roderick.
Picture: a warm, bright, delicate cage. Inside, a tangle of electricity, sparks between two young bodies.
In our most intimate spaces, who do we trust to keep the darkness at bay? And how do we navigate the hard wires of another being? Eventually, the moth must realise his return to the flame is no longer romantic perseverance, but delusion. The bulb flickers. Giving up is an option.
Lightbulbs
COMEDY HIGHLIGHTS
Wednesday 29 January | 7.30pm
Amy Mason: Free Mason
After an unsettling encounter with a wildlife enthusiast, the Funny Women Award finalist explores what it means to be a human animal (nightmare, tbh). Expect coming out in your 30s, rinsing homophobes, and forming a coven with your kids.
Thursday 6 February | 7.30pm
Celya AB: Of All People
Following multiple sell-out tours, the Live At The Apollo star is back to tackle the big three: beauty, money and the void, in her most personal show yet.
Wednesday 12 February | 7.30pm
Rob Auton: The Eyes Open and Shut Show
Award winning writer, comedian and actor Rob Auton brings his latest show ‘The Eyes Open and Shut Show’ to Norwich. “One of my absolute favourites”
- Daniel Kitson
Amy Mason: Free Mason
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CALENDAR
JAN FEB 2025
Sunday 12 January | 7.30pm Spoke presents Poet’s Palace
Thursday 16 January | 8pm Langkamer + support
Friday 17 January | 8pm Sons of Mark + support
Saturday 18 January | 8pm
Norm’s presents Magnolia + Femme De + Yer Blooze + Mr Jason DJ
Sunday 19 January | 7.30pm True Stories Live: Before Dawn
Wednesday 22 January | 8pm Tone presents Murcof + Inwards
Thursday 23 January | 8pm HENGE + Mr. Vast + Thogdin (Long Swords)
Saturday 25 January | 8pm Fatboy Tim
Sunday 26 January | 7.30pm Woodhouse & Roderick present Lightbulbs
Wednesday 29 January | 7.30pm Amy Mason: Free Mason
Thursday 30 January | 8pm Sirishkumar Manji and Vibhaas + support
Sunday 2 February | 7.30pm Live Art Club presents Rachel Mars and Greg Wohead: Story #1
Tuesday 4 February | 8pm Tone presents Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble perform NESS
Wednesday 5 February | 8pm Tone presents Sergio Diaz De Rojas
Thursday 6 February | 7.30pm Celya AB: Of All People
Friday 7 February | 8pm PONY UP presents GIRLBAND!
+ Tom A.Smith
Saturday 8 February | 8pm Channel One Sound System
Wednesday 12 February | 7.30pm Rob Auton: The Eyes Open and Shut Show
Thursday 13 February | 7.30pm Clinton Baptiste: Roller Ghoster! at EPIC Studios
Thursday 13 February | 8pm The Rabbitts + Eliza Delf & The Wilderness + Aphra
Friday 14 February | 8pm Liv presents Trans Fundraiser
Sunday 16 February 4.30pm & 7.30pm Cold Snap
Monday 17 February | 7.30pm NSF25 presents Forensics: The Past, Present and Future
Wednesday 19 February | 7.30pm Connor Burns: 1994
Thursday 20 February | 8pm PERRL presents BILK + special guests
Friday 21 February | 6.30pm Synth East: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin | Adam Buxton | John Foxx
Saturday 22 February 10.30am-5pm Synth East Expo 2025
Saturday 22 February | 8.30pm Synth East: Seefeel | Loula Yorke
Sunday 23 February | 8pm Spiers & Boden at EPIC Studios
Tuesday 25 February | 7.30pm UEA Burlesque: Sweethearts in Stockings
Thursday 27 February | 8pm Round Midnight presents Dele Sosimi + support
Friday 28 February | 8pm PRB presents Chuck Prophet + Our Man In The Field
