Hailed in the Norfolk and Norwich Festival programme as “the next Amy Winehouse” and with her work sampled by Jay-Z, Hannah Williams arrived with a weight of expectation.
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This was a show that promised to push magic in new directions: based on this evidence, I think I’d rather they took a step back.
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This special tribute show saw jazz and R&B vocalist Sarah Jane Morris exploring the songs of Scottish folk singer songwriter John Martyn.
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Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, but other than a tardy start the Renegade Brass Band were anything but sleepy for this finale of the first full Norfolk & Norwich Festival week.
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All is not what it seems in this glamorous and enchanting show, that offers a gentle and lulling mix of humour and beauty.
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Queuing up in the rain is rarely an auspicious start to a gig, but the insistent rhythms of The Turbans meant it didn’t take long to get dry once the Spiegeltent started shaking.
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The concept of Reverse is simple: walk backwards around the city, getting a new view on Norwich. The outcome is something much more profound.
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From the first tentative move of the opening piece to the concluding strut of the third and final dance, it is clear Boy Blue are an exceptionally talented company.
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This performance is certainly in a fitting venue, with the Norfolk & Norwich Festival opening the door to the normally hidden former court room in the Shirehall, the city’s centre of justice for 166 years.
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Norwich audiences are notoriously polite so to provoke half a dozen people to walk out midway through a show is a strange sort of triumph; if there had been an interval, the body count would undoubtedly have been higher.
Explore MoreThis Writers’ Centre Norwich event brought together five speakers for a diverse set of 15 minute talks on our often frustrating and surprising bodies.
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The ringing out of Cathedral bells signalled the beginning of the main segment of this latest Voice Project performance.
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The tradition of transgressive writing by women was the focus of this Writers’ Centre Norwich event.
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It wasn’t until she got the audience on their feet that Deva Mahal really came alive.
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Nuclear oblivion and Lego might not seem like natural companions but this unusual show, Nuketown, brings them crashing together.
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