For the past three years the monthly Acoustic and Eclectic night at Olives at the bottom Elm Hill have hosted a fantastically diverse array of artists, from some well known musicians persuaded to play this intimate venue to upcoming local talent.
Years of sleeping on friends’ sofas while he honed his talents finally paid off for Suffolk singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran tonight, with a double success at the Brit Awards.
In November 2008 Ed Sheeran won the Next Big Thing at the University of East Anglia and was making a name for himself on the Norwich music circuit.
Stationed between grand sets of speakers, lights and lasers stands a man armed with just one Apple laptop — the man who was the first person to reveal dubstep to the US.
It says something for the rapid rise of Brighton-based hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks that the queue for Sunday’s sold out gig at the UEA began forming at lunchtime. By the time the doors opened at 7pm, the line of young fans stretched up to the car park.