Friday 1 May - Saturday 23 May
Tickets & Information
· Exhibition ·
My Champion Heartache: Artworks about people and their pets by Odd Comic
Find Us St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4PG
An interpretation of the familiar yet absurd world of pets, pet lovers and pet lover-haters. Devised by Dot Howard and Holly Bodmer Monday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 10am-6pm
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Friday 1 May
· Reggae ·
Zion Train A dub phenomenon and a legendary live experience with pounding bass, heavy rhythms and positive energy. 8pm : £12.00 adv : £14.00 door
Saturday 2 May
· Performance ·
TADA! A Costume Art Ball
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Part of the Norwich Dandies Dandifest! 2015 Mixing fancy dress, costume competition crowning King and Queen of the ball, live art, live music, magicians, Paul Daniels and Debbie Mcgee (a spectacular tribute act in a mobile home), drag queens, DJs and more, TADA! is a wild masquerade ball packed with entertainment and dandy jollity. 7pm : £5.00
Sunday 3 May
· Rock/Pop ·
Wooden Arms + Ajimal + True Adventures Local heroes of the classical/contemporary scene featuring rich orchestral timbre exemplified by cello, violin and brass with percussive beats and ambient samples. 8pm : £8.00 adv : £10.00 door
Monday 4 May
Friday 15 May
Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival. “A show so profoundly moving you want to stay in its depths as long as you can.” Scotsman One of the biggest talking points at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival this deeply moving, thought-provoking piece of comedy chronicles one man’s attempts at connection, friendship and employment at B&Q. The BAFTA nominated Perrier Award-winner Kim Noble presents an intimate glimpse into the mind of an eccentric genius. 8pm : £15.00 : £12.50 concs : seated : 18+
Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival “The funniest of the comedy poets” Time Out Decadent boozehound Luke Wright would love to spend his life flouncing around looking fabulous, but back in rural Suffolk he’s got the school run to do. Funny, poignant and political, this stay-at-home dandy celebrates ordinary people having extraordinary moments. 8pm : £8.00 : £6.00 concs : seated
Sunday 10 May Sunday Night Beat Club presents Polar Bear + Leafcutter John
· Jazz ·
Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival “One of the great brilliant jazz bands of our time… Totally redefines the way we think about jazz” Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2. Mercury nominated experimental jazz band led by drummer Seb Rochford with elements of dub, hip-hop, rock and electronica. Sunday Night Beat Club will continue until late with outstanding spoken word in the bar with Ralph Dartford + Tom Chivers. 8pm : £15.00 : £12.50 concs James Yorkston/Jon Thorne/Suhail Yusuf Khan 21 May
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· Rock/Pop ·
Pasco-Q Kevlin, Director, NAC
FVK cordially invite you into their dystopian fictional world where monsters and crazed revolutionaries are taking over the city of Grandomina. “Blending goth theatrics with anthemic melodies and curious rock twists. Meet the new band of our dreams” Kerrang! 8pm : £9.00 adv : £11 door
Tuesday 5 May
Paper Aeroplanes + Brooke Sharkey
Wednesday 6 May
· Rock/Pop ·
The Pop Group + Zun Zun Egui Regarded as one of the pioneering acts of the post-punk era The Pop Group are still going strong with the release of their new album Citizen Zombie. 8pm : £17.50 adv : £20.00 door
· Live Art · Friday 15 May & Saturday 16 May [Live] Art Club presents Richard DeDomenici: The
Redux Project
Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival A new kind of blockbuster is hitting Norwich with an on-going series of no-budget cinematic appropriations that hilariously subvert Hollywood conventions. DeDomenici collaborates with local volunteers to recreate sections of popular films, shot for shot, in the original locations, with budget props, costumes and effects. The two scenes will be from Avengers: Age of Ultron and The BBC’s ‘Allo ‘Allo!, both filmed locally. To participate or for further information please email redux@norwichartscentre.co.uk 9.30pm : £8.00 : £6.00 concs : seated · Live Art ·
Saturday 16 May [Live] Art Club presents Odd Comic: My Champion
Heartache
· Jazz · Sunday 17 May Sunday Night Beat Club presents Mammal Hands + Fishclaw + Horo Quartet
· Rock/Pop ·
An intoxicating brand of alt folk with Welsh duo Sarah Howells and Richard Llewellyn. Heartfelt lyrics and gorgeous melodies are guaranteed to sooth your troubled soul. 8pm : £12.50 adv : £15.00 door
Luke Wright: Stay-at-Home Dandy
Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival “Intriguing, intelligent and frequently laugh-out-loud funny” The Independent In this non-linear, cross-disciplined, mongrel performance, Odd Comic interpret the familiar yet absurd commitment between a pet, its owner and sometimes the neighbour in a grotesque, nostalgic, humorous and frank interaction. 8pm : £8.00 : £6.00 concs : seated
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· Poetry ·
· Live Art · Saturday 9 May [Live] Art Club presents Kim Noble: You’re Not Alone
Tuesday 12 May & Thursday 14 May [Live] Art Club presents Deborah Pearson:
· Live Art ·
The Wonder Striker (a work in progress)
Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival TITLE SEQUENCE: Loud upbeat music and credits in Hungarian. A once famous football star flickers across celluloid, a speedy ghost in black and white. An announcer anxiously sputters the fate of the game while the angry crowd shout ‘Go For It!’ over and over. They burn placards, flags and photographs. A 1950s Hollywoodstyle comedy you’ve probably never seen and a 1950s revolution you’ve probably never heard of. Deborah Pearson translates both, as best as she possibly can. 9.30pm : £7.00 : £5.00 concs : seated
Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival A trio of like-minded musicians drawing on influences from Steve Reich to Bonobo, Pharoah Sanders to Cinematic Orchestra. Saxophones, piano and percussion produce beautiful, inimitable music – at times wistful and melancholic and others raucous and catchy. Sunday Night Beat Club will continue until late with outstanding spoken word artists in the bar. 8pm : £10.00 : £8.00 concs · Rock/Pop · Monday 18 May Pony Up presents God Damn + Bad Grammar + Claws
Dropped like a pipe-bomb into the British rock scene, Wolverhampton band are a dizzying blend of barbed wire guitars, lung-shredding vocals and drums that run away like wild horses. It’s all the more effective when you learn they are a stripped-down two-piece. 8pm : £5.00 adv : £7.00 door
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1 May - 23 May
My Champion Heartache
1 May
Zion Train
2 May
TADA! A Costume Art Ball
3 May
Wooden Arms + Ajimal + True Adventures
4 May
Fearless Vampire Killers + ANNISOKAY + Myth City
5 May
Paper Aeroplanes + Brooke Sharkey
6 May
The Pop Group + Zun Zun Egui
9 May
[Live] Art Club presents Kim Noble
10 May
Polar Bear + Leafcutter John
12 & 14 May
15 May 15 & 16 May
[Live] Art Club presents Deborah Pearson Luke Wright: Stay-at-Home Dandy [Live] Art Club presents Richard DeDomenici
16 May
[Live] Art Club presents Odd Comic
17 May
Mammal Hands + Fishclaw + Horo Quartet
18 May
Pony Up presents God Damn + Bad Grammar + Claws
21 May
James Yorkston/Jon Thorne/Suhail Yusuf Khan
22 May
The Neutrinos: Live and Loud with Sal Pittman
25 May
Spectro presents East India Youth + support
26 May
Swervedriver + support
28 May
Holly Lerski + Tom Hartley Booth + Don Mescall
29 May - 22 Jun
Konstrukt by Nina Falk and Adam Robertson
29 May
Pony Up presents TBC
30 May
Dead Rat Orchestra: TYBURNIA
1 Jun
Michael Chapman & Bridget St John
2 Jun
Eddie Argos Tells You How to Form A Band...
3 Jun
Menagerie Theatre presents bloominauschwitz
4 Jun
FolkEast presents Peter Knight’s Gigspanner
5 Jun
Young Fathers + support
6 Jun
Sonic Youths v2.2
6 Jun
The Tilting Sky presents The Big Alabama
7 Jun
Mapped Out presents Rozi Plain + support
8 Jun
Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat
10 Jun
GlassHouse presents Love Dance
11 Jun
Fairport Convention
12 Jun
Gossamer Thread presents Kubla Khan Cabaret
16 Jun
Show Off by Figs in Wigs
17 Jun
Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey with Glenn Gregory
18 Jun
Mark Grist and MC Mixy: Dead Poets’ Death Match
26 Jun
Bootleg Swing
· World ·
Thursday 21 May
James Yorkston/Jon Thorne/Suhail Yusuf Khan Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival “Think Fife vs Manchester vs Delhi and you may be somewhere close” Fence Records. On tour together for the first time, the trio is performing a semiimprovised mix of traditional music from India and the UK/Ireland alongside their own compositions. Project supported by the British Council. 8pm : £14.00 : £12.00 concs : seated
Friday 22 May
Saturday 30 May
· Rock/Pop ·
Dead Rat Orchestra: TYBURNIA DRO have collaborated up with analogue film maker James Holcombe to craft a unique live soundtrack to TYBURNIA, a film that draws on the histories of London’s infamous execution ground: the Tyburn Gallows. Acutely haunting, occasionally brutal and raucously joyous. 8pm : Pay What You Can
Part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival “It’s very loud, very addictive and impossible not to move” The Guardian Noise-art-rock collaborators The Neutrinos and Sal Pittman take a break from their all-conquering, award-winning, genre-blending KlangHaus experiments to deliver a full-on set of “throbbing art-punk noise and sexy urgent energy” Time Out New York 8pm : £10.00 : £8.00 concs
Over the last year, London-based East India Youth has combined strikingly original music with euphoric live performances and has quickly become recognised as one of the most experimental and captivating artists around. 8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 door
Tuesday 26 May
· Rock/Pop ·
Swervedriver + support Warm, spacey psychedelia and classic pop hooks, 1990’s London indierockers tour with their new album I Wasn’t Born To Lose You. 8pm : £15.00 adv : £17.50 door
Thursday 28 May Holly Lerski + Tom Hartley Booth + special guest Don Mescall
· Rock/Pop ·
“Quietly brilliant folk-pop with a gorgeous voice” Sunday Times Holly Lerski launches her long-awaited fourth album. 8pm : £8.00 adv : £10.00 door
Friday 29 May - Monday 22 June Konstrukt by Nina Falk and Adam Robertson
· Exhibition ·
A series of work where cultural fragments are fused to create narratives that challenge our collective assumptions. Monday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 10am-6pm Closed Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June
Friday 29 May
Pony Up presents TBC
· Rock/Pop ·
“Another milestone in folk’s rebirth of cool” Songlines Magazine. Led by Steeleye Span’s legendary fiddle player and possessing a reputation for mesmerising audiences with their virtuoso playing. 8pm : £12.50 adv : £10.50 adv concs : £15.00 door : seated
Friday 5 June
· Hip Hop ·
· Performance · Friday 12 June Gossamer Thread presents Kubla Khan Cabaret
Gossamer Thread’s Vaudeville Co. return with otherworldly cabaret and circus inspired by Coleridge’s opium-induced poem Kubla Khan. 7.30pm : £12.50 adv : £15.00 door : seated Figs in Wigs: Show Off 16 Jun
“Theirs is music of uniqueness, flow and emotion, mining the darker end of the hip-hop spectrum” The Guardian The Mercury Prize 2014 award winners make a welcome return to NAC. 8pm : £10.00 adv : £12.00 door
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· Electro ·
· Folk ·
Young Fathers + support
· Rock/Pop ·
The Neutrinos: Live and Loud with Sal Pittman
Monday 25 May Spectro presents East India Youth + support
Thursday 4 June FolkEast presents Peter Knight’s Gigspanner
Saturday 6 June
· Rock/Pop ·
A sneak peek of tomorrow’s stars at our showcase of musicians aged 14-19. 1pm : Free
Dead Rat Orchestra 30 May
Michael Chapman and Bridget St John
This Norfolk based two-piece delight audiences with their riffs & beards, the release of their debut opus is much anticipated. 8pm : £6.50 adv : £8.00 door
Guitar-based folk, ragtime, jazz and blues. Chapman performs with British folk-rock singer/songwriter Bridget St John. 8pm : £14.00 : £12.00 concs : seated
Sunday 7 June Mapped Out presents Rozi Plain + support
Monday 1 June
Tuesday 2 June
· Folk ·
· Live Art ·
Eddie Argos Tells You How to Form A Band And Become Famous How did Art Brut become the world beating pop behemoth they are today? Eddie grew up fantasising about being the singer in a band that would tour the world, despite the fact he can’t really sing. Somehow he managed it and now he is going to tell you how. Heart-warming story or cautionary tale? You be the judge. 8pm : £7.00 : £6.00 concs : seated · Theatre · Wednesday 3 June Menagerie Theatre presents bloominauschwitz
“Brilliantly conceived and executed” The Observer Meet Leopold Bloom. Kidney-loving man of Dublin, hero of James Joyce’s great novel Ulysses and worldwide phenomenon. Escaping the bounds of his book, Bloom embarks on a quest to discover his Jewish heritage and plunges head first into the dark heart of European history. A flamboyant, playful investigation of identity and belonging: powerful, emotive and thought-provoking. 8pm : £9.00 : £7.00 concs : seated
· Rock/Pop ·
Bewitching mix of electro, folk and pop. Infectious and gloriously melodic. 8pm : £5.00 adv : £6.00 door
Monday 8 June
· World ·
Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat The rich, sinuous voices of Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat effortlessly transport us to the heart of the Middle East, with sensual and exotic melodies inspired by traditional folk music of their native Iran. 8pm : £12.00 : £10.00 concs : seated
Wednesday 10 June GlassHouse presents Love Dance
· Americana ·
Fundraiser for GlassHouse. A fun evening of all things dance-related with a special one-off social dance workshop followed by The Vagaband and DJs. 7pm : £6.50 adv £8.00 door
Thursday 11 June
· Folk ·
Norwich Arts Centre
www.norwichartscentre.co.uk 01603 660352
Sonic Youths v2.2
· Rock/Pop · Saturday 6 June The Tilting Sky presents The Big Alabama: Album Launch Party + Eva Black + Black Shuk + Neil Dennis
Music I Comedy I Live Art I Theatre I Dance Literature I Education I Exhibitions I Family
Tuesday 16 June
May June 2015
· Live Art ·
Figs in Wigs: Show Off You’re so vain you probably think this show is about you. But it’s actually about Figs in Wigs the lowbrow answer to avant-garde. Masquerading as a variety show this desperately glitzy number continually reinvents itself to satisfy even the most depleted of attention spans. “Figs in Wigs prove that silly and whiplash smart go hand in hand. Terrific fun.” Lyn Gardner 8pm : Pay What You Can : seated
Wednesday 17 June
· Rock/Pop ·
Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey with Glenn Gregory Performing David Bowie’s seminal The Man Who Sold the World album and a new set of other classic Bowie songs from 1969-73. 8pm : £20.00
Thursday 18 June
· Poetry ·
Mark Grist and MC Mixy: Dead Poets’ Death Match Let the wordy bloodbath begin! Mark Grist and MC Mixy battle an assortment of famous (and very dead) poets. Fancy seeing Sylvia Plath take on Ted Hughes? How about Rabbie Burns up against Byron? You’ll choose the competitors and you’ll be the ones who’ll crown the winner. 8pm : £12.50 : £11.00 concs : seated
East India Youth 25 May
· Swing ·
Fairport Convention
Friday 26 June
The originators of British folk-rock music showcase brand new songs and tunes from their new album Myths And Heroes with a few favourites from their extensive back catalogue. 8pm : £20.00 : £18.00 concs : seated
1920s speakeasy swing night with the intoxicating sounds of the Moonshine Swing Seven plus special guests, charleston lessons and burlesque. 8pm : £10.00 adv : £8.00 adv concs : £13.00 door
Bootleg Swing
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